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Post by johnnyowen on Dec 17, 2006 17:52:08 GMT -1
when you were a nipper...what was the best present that father christmas ever brought you....i always wanted a scalextric but never got one..... i did get a magnetic football game one year that i thought was fantasic...you moved your players from under the table with magnets on sticks...quite impressive because if i remember each player had different kinds of magnets that only worked his team...still not sure how !!!!
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Post by fluffymoat4 on Dec 17, 2006 21:27:49 GMT -1
Johnny - my best Christmas pressie ever turned out to be my worst one!! I got a little baby doll and buggy. To my little bod it seemed life size but the dolls legs (being new) refused to bend enough to sit in the buggy. My toddler sister woke up and so I put her in the buggy instead - she was a perfect fit!! Trouble was she didn't want to be MY Christmas "doll" after a while (obviously wanted to open her own pressies). Anyway, to cut a long story short - she threw a tantrum and I couldn't get her stiff body out of the buggy. Her screams woke my parents up and I got such a slapping that I hated the buggy after that!!
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Post by Lisa on Dec 18, 2006 16:20:33 GMT -1
Hi Johnny, Long time no see.........One of my best presents was a pair of roller skates; the type that fitted to your shoes with the help of a key. It ruined your best shoes by loosening the soles, but who bothered? I used to get my dad to oil them for me and they went like a rocket. It was good practice for me for when I started ice-skating at the Ice Palace in Derby Street in Cheetham Hill. I spent hours in the street getting the manoeuvres right and they lasted me for years until they were replaced by the rubber-wheeled variety with ball-bearings. In those days I only got one MAIN present with a christmas stocking full of tangerines, nuts and crayons but I never felt deprived because everyone else got the same........  |
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Post by johnnyowen on Dec 18, 2006 16:54:44 GMT -1
hi lisa and everyone !!! been dead busy lately and have missed coming on... i got a dancette record player one year...remember you were supposed to be able to stack ten singles and they should have dropped one by one...but they always came down four at a time....i also got 2 records telstar and venus in blue jeans..i sat on the door step with the door wide open so everybody could hear my new present....eventually my dad threatened to throw the whole lot through the window unless i packed it in
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Post by Lisa on Dec 18, 2006 17:01:09 GMT -1
Hi Johnny, I also had a Dansette and remember Venus in Blue Jeans. Wasnt it Craig Douglas who sang it. Yes, I too remember the cream vinyl covered record player that never fulfilled its promise.......it was always my favourite record that never dropped down but maybe I piled too many on top. We then progressed to a radiogram which would now be worth something on the Antiques Road Show as the cabinet was a work of art in lovely pale rosewood with a radio inside and a place for all your records at the side. I wonder what happened to all those radiograms?
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Post by johnnyowen on Dec 18, 2006 17:05:50 GMT -1
it was mark wynter who did venus.....i remember the radiogram....listening to 2 way family favourites on a sunday
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Post by fluffymoat4 on Feb 10, 2007 21:14:38 GMT -1
The best Christmas Pressie I received this year was a pineapple corer and slicer. Once the top of the pineapple has been cut off you put the "gizzmo" in the top of the fruit and then turn it clockwise. As the centre corkscrews around the core a small blade on the outside cuts through the fruit and creates a continuous spiral of pineapple. You continue twisting the "gizzmo" until you reach the base and then TUG the whole thing out. All I had to do then was to make a cut to separate the swirl into pineapple rings. I can't believe that after all these years of making such a mess cutting up fresh pineapple that someone had actually thought to make a suitable tool. It was a gift from my mother-in-law so I don't know where she bought it from but she will be receiving a thank-you card shortly.
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