Trip down memory lane....

Subject: Trip down memory lane.... Thu Sep 20, 2007 5:55 pm

I have just looked up that amazing Brexton picnic hamper on e-bay (as listed on Alison's wish list - I have a hamper fetish!) and the same seller has some other items for sale that has just nearly brought tears to my eyes!

There is the Homepride Baking Man set - some articles of which my daughter has just said she still has in her toy box at Nanny's house! How fab is it that we can share some of the same childhood item memories! And there is also a Sindy caravan. Now, that is an item I remember coveting as a child, but never actually owned. But, in the spirit of an up-and-coming home maker, I avidly watched Blue Peter and made one following their instructions, using a cardboard box and anything else I could lay my hands on! I can still see every nook and cranny of it today, I was a perfectionist even as a child and thought it was the best thing I had ever made! If only I had a photo of it now... my Kodak Instamatic can't have had film in that day! I was strictly a Sindy girl - my younger sister strayed into Barbie-dom in the latter years of our childhood, but only momentarily. My Mum still has the three story Sindy town house (complete with balcony, roof terrace and fully opening doors and windows) that my beloved late grandad made my sister and I as children. It's a real heirloom (and I would love a sneaky play now and again!)

I would never have remembered all this nostalgia had it not been for that quick peek on e-bay. Anyone else have any especially loved childhood items/memories??

Subject: Re: Trip down memory lane.... Thu Sep 20, 2007 5:57 pm

Or was diligent enough to make something to be proud of from Blue Peter???.....

Subject: Re: Trip down memory lane.... Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:22 am

Ah DG, now we have to try to explain to the Americans here about 'Blue Peter'... I worked with an entirely American team once and someone mended a broken item ingeniously and I said "ooh well done, you get a Blue Peter badge for that" and then fell into the trap of trying to explain... there was this kids' tv programme, y'see... and they made stuff out of, well, yes, things you would throw away otherwise... and if you did something really well like lifesaving or fundraising you got a badge... ummm....

;-)

I grew up with the Homepride flour Freds as well, though; you're not alone!

Actually I still have and read the books my father, mother and grandmother grew up reading! School stories set during both world wars, that kind of thing...

laura

Subject: Re: Trip down memory lane.... Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:08 pm

Ha ha! I forget that not EVERYONE in the whole world has the pleasure of 'Blue Peter'!! Do kids still watch it even?? I know my daughter doesn't, even though she is very creative etc. It's just not the same now is it?

I would have loved to have had books from my parent's childhood as a kid. It's strange actually, because both are avid readers and lovers of books, my Dad especially who obsessively collects old books - he 'hearts' e-bay too - I wonder if it's to make up for the ones he doesn't have from his childhood?!

Because of his love of books, we were very lucky to be surrounded by them as children ourselves, and so my daughter now has the pleasure of all mine. I have yet to convince her of my great affection for the 'Famous Five' complete story set, in hard back, which has 'mysteriously' made it's way onto her bookshelf, whether she likes it or not! She is sick of me telling her how I collected each and every one by being a member of the Famous Five Club!! I know she must love me when she strokes my hand and looks at me with a mixture of bemusement and pity.....

She does love 'The Velveteen Rabbit' though, and of COURSE my most prized copy of E B White's 'Charlottes Web' (way before it was popular again). EVERY child should read that - every person come to think of it!

Sasha