I had Jacko, it was a three foot monkey, with a jumber and trousers, rubber hands and feet you could manipulate, it could swing from things from it's hands or feet and had a really good face also make of rubber. It had been an expensive toy Jean and my father clubbed together to buy me when I was about three. It came from a toyshop in Summerset, where a toy I loved just as much, an articulated horse that you could change into numerious positions came from (my father bought me that the following week, as he had loved watching me play with it and putting it in the various positions. Jean and my mother didn't see that as they were so encrossed in Jacko). They were both thought to be educational, and had a bit of a premium price because of that. My father had the last say, but, as an engineer he was impressed with the toys and agreed Evenutally Jacko's hands and feet were falling off, as were his ears, and, with much sorrow, he was given a burial in the bin. I had the horse until I got married and left him at home. After my mother died I'm not sure what happened, but guess I should explore some of these boxes marked nic nacks.

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A lot of the games I remember from childhood seem to have died out now. I just wonder what has happened to them. Here are some we useded to play, I have narrowed it down to ones we played outside school, and left out the fads we had from the time, and biased towards girls games as they are the ones I remember.

Balls: a girls game, usually two balls bounced against a wall, which you caught. Usually had a rhyme to go with it.

Skipping: a rope, with two girls controlling it, and the others jumping in and slipping over the rope, then out letting the next in. Also had a rhyme to keep the beat.

Rounders: Think American Baseball, but very improvised. Teams made up of whoever was there, boys or girls, what ever could be used as a bat and a ball and coats thrown round as the bases.

Hopscotch: a chalked template from one to ten, a peaver (anything we could find, but you could buy one). You threw the peaver to the number, hopped round the template, and, when you got back to where your peaver was, picked it up, still on one leg.

Beds: Very like hopscotch, but more popular where I played. Slightly different template, and could go on for hours as we tended to improvise.

Elastics: elastic bands joined together to make either a strip, to be jumped over, or a triangle, which could be saddled with a rhyme as you moved round the triangle.

Well those where the most popular when I was young. What did you play as a young girl (or boy), that you just don't see any more?

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I went to see Disney's Snow White with my mom as a six year old. It was the first movie I had seen as a child, and loved it. I was enraptured. A total favourite. I just loved it to death. I even bought my niece a Snow White costume for a fancy dress party.

It is not a favourite now, I guess not even in my top ten, or even lower, but will always hold a special place in my heart for the memories.

The cinema we went to see it in became a bingo hall a decade after that, and we never had another cinema in Glasgow, we had to travel into the city center to watch films in the big screen. It has been demolished totally now, but had such memories for those of us who remember it.

Right will stop spamming now!

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