Childhood Memories

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Childhood Memories
Topic Started: Monday, 16. February 2009, 19:26 (478 Views)
Derekap	Monday, 30. March 2009, 15:05 Post #16
Posts: 3,408 Group: Members Member #14 Joined: September 26, 2006	Clare asked: "Anyone remember Pacers?" The only Pacers I know are a very unpopular type of train which is a conversion of a Leyland National bus. They rattle as noisily as the noisy engine and have draughty doors.
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Mairtin	Monday, 30. March 2009, 17:55 Post #17
Posts: 1,130 Group: Members Member #206 Joined: August 16, 2008	Rose of York Monday, 30. March 2009, 14:19 Drawing cricket stumps on the front garden wall, with a stone. We played cricket in the entry between our house and the one next door; a normal catch counted okay but you had to be caught 3 times 'off the wall' to be out. We used a tennis ball, by the way, not a real cricket ball. Along with cricket stumps on the wall have to go jumpers or coats on the ground for football goalposts with great arguments about whether a ball was over or under the crossbar.
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Mairtin	Monday, 30. March 2009, 18:00 Post #18
Posts: 1,130 Group: Members Member #206 Joined: August 16, 2008	pat Sunday, 29. March 2009, 23:20 Being scared of the outside toilet with its spiders. Cutting newspapers into squares and stringing them to hang from a nail inside the door of that outdoor toilet. BTW, having been literally 'caught out' a couple of years ago, I can inform you that newspaper nowadays is much harder and less absorbent than it used to be when I was young
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Clare	Monday, 30. March 2009, 20:29 Post #19
Wacko Schismatic Traditionalist Woman Posts: 3,083 Group: Members Member #70 Joined: March 27, 2007	Those funny little things - were they called jacks? - which you'd rest on the back of your hand, and then you'd flip them in the air and tried to catch as many as you turn your hand over.
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KatyA	Monday, 30. March 2009, 20:31 Post #20
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Clare	Monday, 30. March 2009, 20:35 Post #21
Wacko Schismatic Traditionalist Woman Posts: 3,083 Group: Members Member #70 Joined: March 27, 2007	Clare Monday, 30. March 2009, 20:29 Those funny little things - were they called jacks? - which you'd rest on the back of your hand, and then you'd flip them in the air and tried to catch as many as you turn your hand over. I might have misremembered. These were what I was thinking of: Quote: Step1 - Sit on the ground (blacktop, sidewalk or floor) unless you're playing on a table, in which case standing is usually better than sitting on a chair. Step2 - Toss the 10 jacks gently out onto the playing surface. Step3 - Toss the ball into the air with your throwing hand. Step4 - While the ball is in the air, pick up 1 jack using only your throwing hand. Step5 - Catch the ball in your throwing hand before the ball hits the ground. Step6 - Repeat steps 3, 4 and 5 until you've picked up all 10 jacks. Step7 - Toss the 10 jacks out onto the playing surface again. Step8 - Toss the ball into the air, and now pick up 2 jacks each time and catch the ball before it hits the ground. Step9 - Continue tossing the ball, picking up jacks and catching the ball - increasing the number of jacks you pick up when the ball is in the air until you pick up all 10 at one time. Step10 - It's the other player's turn when you don't pick up the correct number of jacks or you miss the ball. Step11 - Begin where you left off when it's your turn again. If you were picking up 3 jacks at a time, toss the 10 jacks onto the playing surface and pick up 3 each time. Step12 - Declare a winner if you want to when you or your friend succeeds at 'onesies' through 'tensies' (1 jack through 10 jacks).
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Emee	Monday, 30. March 2009, 21:08 Post #22
Posts: 1,278 Group: Members Member #20 Joined: September 26, 2006	We played jacks and marbles just about every school lunchtime when we were 8 or 9...



OsullivanB	Monday, 30. March 2009, 21:27 Post #23
Posts: 2,193 Group: Moderator Member #205 Joined: August 14, 2008	and flicking cigarette cards



Rose of York	Monday, 30. March 2009, 21:40 Post #24
Administrator Posts: 14,517 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: September 25, 2006	ink pellets.
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OsullivanB	Monday, 30. March 2009, 22:02 Post #25
Posts: 2,193 Group: Moderator Member #205 Joined: August 14, 2008	Rose of York Monday, 30. March 2009, 21:40 ink pellets. made using reconstituted powdered ink from the inkwells set into each desk. Cheese pie and tapioca for inedible lunches.



Rose of York	Monday, 30. March 2009, 22:13 Post #26
Administrator Posts: 14,517 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: September 25, 2006	OsullivanB Monday, 30. March 2009, 22:02 Rose of York Monday, 30. March 2009, 21:40 ink pellets. made using reconstituted powdered ink from the inkwells set into each desk. Flicked with a ruler, hidden by an open desk lid. We girls didn't do it. I know my brothers did, they told me so. They would! They went to a Jesuit place, I went to a polite school.
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Rose of York	Monday, 30. March 2009, 22:17 Post #27
Administrator Posts: 14,517 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: September 25, 2006	OsullivanB Monday, 30. March 2009, 22:02 Cheese pie and tapioca for inedible lunches. School dinners delivered in an unheated van during the winter of '47. School milk, with frozen cream sticking out of the top during the winter of '47. School milk crates pushed against the radiators during the winter of '47. Central heating radiators in church going clank, clank, clank, during the sung Gloria (pre V2). Buckets on the church floor to catch the rainwater. Great social life in the parish so we could raise the money to stop having buckets all over the place. We did so well, we raised enough for full restoration, and new mosaics from Florence.
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Rose of York	Monday, 30. March 2009, 22:21 Post #28
Administrator Posts: 14,517 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: September 25, 2006	Ankle contest at the parish gala. A blanket was hung from a tree. Parish ladies stood behind the blanket. Parish men walked past, in a competition, to see how many pairs of ankles they could identify. One man cheated, he squeezed some ankles, to make the women scream, so he could write their names down. The parish priest told him off, made him to stop it, so some of the women didn't get their ankles squeezed. Meeting my English aunt by marriage for the first time, and discovering some Catholics did not have Irish grannies.
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OsullivanB	Monday, 30. March 2009, 22:27 Post #29
Posts: 2,193 Group: Moderator Member #205 Joined: August 14, 2008	Rose of York Central heating radiators in church going clank, clank, clank, during the sung Gloria (pre V2). Praying Mass would end before all feeling finally left the feet on the first Friday of a winter month (no heating on weekdays - not sure about Sunday). Then remembering that Benediction followed so the feet were doomed to become like blocks of ice.



OsullivanB	Monday, 30. March 2009, 22:27 Post #30
Posts: 2,193 Group: Moderator Member #205 Joined: August 14, 2008	Wondering what a Canon was, and no-one able to tell me (didn't dare ask the Canon himself, our PP - still not sure why he was one). Edited by OsullivanB, Monday, 30. March 2009, 22:30.



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