Games we played when we were small

I wouldn't dare skip now I have too many bits that wobble and as whatisamashedupphrase has put it, "can't do it with legs crossed"

I have other problems when I try to skip. (whisper - it feels like parts are gonna drop out! )

Can't do it with legs crossed.

Ah hula hoops I had a lovely yellow one, me thinks I should get another one and if I use it enough times I may get my waist back , what do you think

whatis raspberry, strawberry, marmalade, jam tell me the name of your young man and then we hit the two balls against the wall reciting the alphabet until we dropped a ball, whichever letter we dropped the ball at was the initial of the boy's name. Funnily enough it nearly always dropped on the initial of DH, balls

Leapfrog, handstands against the wall, and yes, we also had a hole in the hedge that we would cut through to save going through the gate at the opposite end of the garden. In the 60s, one of our gang would bring a transistor radio to the local swing park and we would listen to Luxembourg for the top twenty on Sunday at teatime.

All of above plus Pussy 4 Corners and What's the time Mr Wolf.

Does anyone remember the skipping rhymes?

Cinderella dressed in yella, went upstairs to kiss a fella,

How many kisses did she give him?

Another was

All in together girls, never mind the weather girls, when it comes to your number please jump out. I think we we all had random numbers and would jump out of the line up when it was called.

I couldn't skip now without giving myself two black eyes lol.

We had a rhyme for throwing the ball against the wall - "Plainsy, clapsy, roll-the-ball, t'backsy. Right hand, left hand, touch your heel, touch your toe, roll your hands, and under we go". Then you had to go through it again but doing the first thing as well. So it was all "right hand". Then all "left hand", and so on.

Oh! Never mind!

I'm still quite good at it. Can impress the grandsons.

My sister and I used to play tennis in the middle of the road we only had to stop once in a while to let the odd car pass.
I was forever doing handstands much to dads dispare as my feet were always up against the garden hedge, there was always a hole in the hedge where I had been. !
It was the 60s and we used to smuggle mums radio outside so as we could listen to radio luxembourg. The single was terrible but that didn't stop us !