Guest Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 http://www.thechestnut.com/play.htm Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pepe Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 Where do you get the idea's for your topics Phil? I loved little Ted, come to think of it, I was'nt keen on Hamble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 Where do you get the idea's for your topics Phil? I loved little Ted, come to think of it, I was'nt keen on Hamble Hamble was creepy!!! Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paola Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 I loved Little Ted also I could not remember Hamble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicola H Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 I remember Hamble she gave me nightmares as a child I still can't have dolls with realistic creepy faces in the house........My MIL bought Emily lots of those horrible dolls and I have had to put them in the loft they freak me out.................Thanks Phil for reminding me about Hamble I won't sleep a wink tonight.............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 I'm glad I'm not alone in hating that type of dolls. In the village near where I used to work, there was a gift shop that was stacked with china doll type things - I couldn't go in there; I thought they looked like dead babies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beauty-Box Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 Hamble was Horrible!!. She was always seemed to be the presenters favourite too! I liked the rag doll better (what was she called?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 I think it was Jemima. I don't like dolly dolls either, they really freak me out. My MIL also gave the children some,those awful china faced ones in old fashioned dresses (a woman of taste ) & they were donated to Oxfam right away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 To this day I am terrified of those awful china faced victorian dolls due I think to a scary great aunt who had a moustache and a houseful of these horrible dolls. Her house was like the set of Gaslight. I can't look at Punch and Judy either...it really freaks me out...due to a Punch and Judy man exposing himself to me and my friend when we were 9. It was inside someone's house, with the birthday girls mother only a few feet away and totally oblivious. Is as if he wanted to be caught. That's why my psyche is in such a state!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 I hate clowns - they just scare me to death. And those horrible Pierrot things too *shudder shudder* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 I'm with you Sarah. I hate clowns too . Hamble was horrible. I didn't like her at all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 I had a Hamble doll, and I must admit - I loved her. My nana knitted a whole box worth of clothes for her, and she was paraded around in my pink plastic dolly pram, where ever I went. She survived many haircuts, kidnapping attempts by my brothers and a close shave with next doors sausage dog, before being handed on to my neice. Rag dolls - now they really give me the willies...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 ...and what sort of a name is Hamble anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Clare are you alright with clowns If not I will remove the one in the spare room I had no feelings either way for Hamble but yes it is a daft name BTW I haven't checked the link we are talking about Play School aren't we Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theherd123 Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Hamble was a little freaky!!!! Little Ted was great. Im a hater of clowns too - cant stand it when you see them in the street carrying balloons trying to look friendly - whats all that about!!! I dont think the Stephen King book 'IT' did me any favours either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheilaz Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Can anyone post a pic. of Hamble as I couldn't access the link, and memory is muddled. But, now I'm intrigued. Sorry to be a nuisance, and for scarring anyone who will be traumatised by a pic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Hamble and Big Ted... Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 What an evil face she has. I'd quite forgotten how vile she was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 I remember when my mum bought my daughter her first "proper" doll - she looked pleased - then she tipped it back - and the eyes opened!!! she SCREAMED!!! - and then ran upstairs - never to touch the horrid thing again. My mum was not best pleased! Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Hamble is GORGEOUS! And look - she even has a lovely pink feather boa on - what is there to dislike?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cate in NZ Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 I liked the rag doll better (what was she called?) The rag doll was most definitely Jemima. My little sis is called Jemima, and spent most of her childhood being teased and tormented about rag dolls and puddleducks. She loves her name now, but had to reach her 20's before she started to appreciate it. What's wrong with Hamble Can't say I was I ever remember watching that much Play School (probably Jemima's fault ) but Hamble never bothered me much either way. Surely they were all just representative of the kind of toys that children owned back then. So what would they have now in a modern day Play School? A talking PC, handheld electronic game, a robot and a all-singing, all-dancing doll? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beauty-Box Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Hamble does,nt look as scary as she did all those years ago. Thanks for the reminder on the ragdolls name, of course it was Jemima! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 My little sis is called Jemima, and spent most of her childhood being teased and tormented about rag dolls and puddleducks. She loves her name now, but had to reach her 20's before she started to appreciate it. My eldest brother had a girlfriend called Jemima, and every time he mentioned her name, my dad would burst out singing Oh Jemima, look at your Uncle Jim, He's in the duckpond learning how to swim First he does the backstroke, Then he does the side, Now he's under the water, swimming against the tide I've never been able to work out if this was an actual song, or a product of my fathers imagination, but even now, if the name Jemima is mentioned in front of him, he still sings it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cate in NZ Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Love it I'll have to try and remember that for the next time I see her Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Googled it, and it's a real song! http://www.bigeyedowl.co.uk/show_songs.php?t=3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
