Pro - Does anyone else's nest boxes get soaked in rain?

[The Dogmother]

Little house on the prairie

The Waltons

Grizzly Adams

casey jones

[Seagazer]

I absolutely loved The Waltons and Little House on the Prairie. My dad used to do shift work and he loved little house as well.

 

The music for the Waltons just sends me into a deep calm moment, it chills me out. Actually we watched The West Wing dvd last night and the music on that sends me off to a lovely place in my mind.

[clootie]

Did anyone keep s"Ooops, word censored!"s? Does anyone know what they were?

 

Little coloured pictures of pixies, gnomes, flowers, children or cottages. Pretty things really, some were adorned with glitter. Those were extra special. They'd be kept in a book, any book really, usually hardback. One s"Ooops, word censored!" per page and you would go through your book with your friend, who also had a book of s"Ooops, word censored!"s and if you were interested in any she had or vice versa, they would slide up to the top of the page like a bookmark to come back to once you had reached the end and were willing to swap. Then the negotiating began !!!!

 

I came across some a while back at an antiques fair and bought them - brought back lots of memories. Great days indeed.

[keyhole kate]

Clootie

I collected s"Ooops, word censored!"s too I wish I knew what happened to them

I had a real favourite a little girl dressed in a red coat trimmed with whith fur

and a hand muff of white fur they came in several sizes and i used to be exctatic when I had a complete set and the cherubs with wings aaah happy memories I guess the cards that kids collect & swap would be today's equivilant I wonder if it was a scots thing only

[chickencam]

I watched the Waltons and liked it but really loved Little House on The Prairie

[clootie]

Clootie

I collected s"Ooops, word censored!"s too I wish I knew what happened to them

I had a real favourite a little girl dressed in a red coat trimmed with whith fur

and a hand muff of white fur they came in several sizes and i used to be exctatic when I had a complete set and the cherubs with wings aaah happy memories I guess the cards that kids collect & swap would be today's equivilant I wonder if it was a scots thing only

 

I think it probably was a scottish thing Keyhole !! I get blank expressions whenever I've mentioned it in the past. The cherubs - leaning on a cloud if I recall, head and shoulders only, wings at the back!! Remember the ones that were too big for your book and you had to fold them in half?

[keyhole kate]

Yes yes yes It's all coming back to me

I am going to mail an old school friend in GLW

and ask her to see if you can still get them she

has 2 little girls of suitable age.

[clootie]

Yes yes yes It's all coming back to me

I am going to mail an old school friend in GLW

and ask her to see if you can still get them she

has 2 little girls of suitable age.

 

What about an old girl of a certain age?

[Valkyrie]

I only remember keeping birthday cards and postcards in a s"Ooops, word censored!"book, yours sound much more fun. Didn't s"Ooops, word censored!"booking come back into fashion recently?

For my 3rd birthday I remember getting a cardboard cut out of a "Memphis Belle" type of doll with a magnet on her back. She came with an assortment of paper coats, dresses also with magnets to attach them to her. There were hats and other accessories which had paper tags on to attach to other parts - the hats had slits in to slide over the head.

 

Two more TV ones - The Buccaneers and Gilligans Island

[keyhole kate]

If she can get them I'm

collecting them all over again lovely

me having an age crisis naaah

we could do swoppsies

[clootie]

I only remember keeping birthday cards and postcards in a s"Ooops, word censored!"book, yours sound much more fun. Didn't s"Ooops, word censored!"booking come back into fashion recently?

For my 3rd birthday I remember getting a cardboard cut out of a "Memphis Belle" type of doll with a magnet on her back. She came with an assortment of paper coats, dresses also with magnets to attach them to her. There were hats and other accessories which had paper tags on to attach to other parts - the hats had slits in to slide over the head.

 

Two more TV ones - The Buccaneers and Gilligans Island

 

I remember the Buccaneers !! They're on the side of your Buccanead aren't they?

 

Sorry............

[Valkyrie]

That was Robert Shaw before he got eaten by a ruddy big shark!

[clootie]

Was that the dry run (or should that be wet run) before being eaten by an even bigger shark later in his career do you think Koojie?

[Valkyrie]

He was obviously drawn to the sea, Clootie, arrr harrrr!

[Egluntyne]

Clootie, was the Michael Rodd programme Screen Test??

 

Egluntine - we lived at Beauchief (pronounced Beechiff for non Sheffield people!) We sledged down Abbeydale Golf Course. I think that it must have been between 80 and 82. I was at Jordanthorpe School which became Meadowhead School, as far as I know, is no longer there! Very sad!

 

The church where I was christened on The Manor has also been knocked down. What with The Tinsley Towers, don't know what's becoming of the old place!

 

**Meadowhead School** is still there, although you wouldn't recognise it!

 

It has been rebuilt at a cost of 18 million this year. Him Indoors used to be a governor there. Heaven knows why, as none of the children went there.

 

I live a hop skip and a jump away from Beauchief, and know the golf course......or at least where it is!

[clootie]

He was obviously drawn to the sea, Clootie, arrr harrrr!

 

[Hen Watch]

Oh yes Little House on the Prairie repeats and the Waltons, but thinking of those reminded me of those heavily dubbed foreign childrens TV programs.

 

Who remembers:

Heidi

Monkey

Flashing Blade ......I think it was called?????

[Valkyrie]

I do Now sing the Flashing Blade song . . . "you've got to fight for what you want and all that you believe . . ." I always sang "for all that jubilee"

[Plum]

Heidi

Monkey

Flashing Blade ......I think it was called?????

 

Oh I'd love to see Heidi and White Horses again.

[Seagazer]

Heidi

Monkey

Flashing Blade ......I think it was called?????

 

Oh I'd love to see Heidi and White Horses again.

 

Me too and Folly Foot Farm and The Kids From 45a (I think it was called).