Childhood Games

[lindylou]

We used to collect ly ice sticks from the floor - collect hundreds and then your Mam would go mad and make you throw them all away. Used to post them down the grid then! If you played in the grid you got the fever!!



I used to play two-balls for hours - I tried to teach my little girl but she is left-handed and I had trouble explaining it to her - she got it in the end though! We used to stretch the skipping rope across the street and the Mam's used to "turn-up". There was no traffic then.

yep, we did all that. Two balls, skipping ropes, as for collecting ly ice sticks .. I used to collect caterpillars in a jar - hundreds of 'em !! I'd spend hours picking them off the trees.
Come to think of it, why don't we see these 'catties' these days ??
There used to be literally loads of them crawling up the tree trunks. They were yellow with black, or was it dark brown spots, and a little black face
I thought they were lovely and I'd have hundreds of them in a jar. I probably would have let them all go free again eventually knowing me!
They seem to have disappeared - perhaps they were wiped out as a being a pest by the forestry commision or something !
Anyway I spent many an hour carefully picking them off the trees. .

The other thing I collected tons of was dandelions. I'd pick hundreds of them and my mum had to put them in jam jars all over the house.

'pee the beds' they were known as. Why were they called this does anyone know ? ha,ha.