Some small thing you longed for as a child, but never got. 🙁

I has piano lessons and hated them and persuaded my mother to let me give up. Wish I'd stuck at them now though.

had .....

I will write the name and I sincerely hope this is not taken down; a toy I really wanted.
A golliwog.

Oh, I had one, eazybee. I loved him, he had grey rabbit fur hair. He sat with Teddy and the dolls in my "school". He was a good listener 😁

An older brother!

I had one too, much loved.

A younger sister - I'd have given up the idea of a pony for a younger sister!

Certainly not Sky TV!

I always wanted a charm bracelet as my best friend had one, it would’ve been daft as I spent my leisure time in the woods, making dens and up trees.

I wanted an ostrich feather fan as carried by the girls on the Black and White Minstrel Show .Instead my dad obtained a daggy feather boa from a friend who did AmDram

eazybee

I will write the name and I sincerely hope this is not taken down; a toy I really wanted.
A golliwog.

My brother had one. It’s the only soft toy I remember him having.

I wanted a scooter, the old fashioned wooden kind you propelled with one foot. My request fell on deaf ears. It was probably not affordable.

So as a good actholic girl I prayed to God that I could have a scooter in heaven when I died. I also prayed, that although I might be quite old when I died, could I still want a scooter. I hated the idea of getting to heaven, getting the scooter only to find that like most adults I had outgrown my desire for childish things.

A Tressy doll (her hair grows) I had very curly hair and it was always kept short. I desperately always wanted that doll because of the hair. But I never did get one it was considered too expensive. Cheap imitation dolls just didn't do I wanted the real thing!

M0nica

I wanted a scooter, the old fashioned wooden kind you propelled with one foot. My request fell on deaf ears. It was probably not affordable.

So as a good actholic girl I prayed to God that I could have a scooter in heaven when I died. I also prayed, that although I might be quite old when I died, could I still want a scooter. I hated the idea of getting to heaven, getting the scooter only to find that like most adults I had outgrown my desire for childish things.

Not showing off but I had a scooter like that. We weren't well off but I think Father Christmas probably brought it or my birthday money went towards it (I had lots of aunties and uncles).

On my Christmas list one year I asked for a tapestry skirt and a pair of hoes with a Louis heel. Goodness now why I wanted those. Needless to say they didn't materialise under he Christmas tree.

Curlywhirly I loved my Tressy but would have liked extra clothes for her

A baby brother or sister. Never happened ☹️

I remember asking my dad if I could have a dolphin! I must have been about 6 (where the hell did I think it would live?)

I wanted to ride the BIG carousel horses at the fairground, but was never allowed. Mum thought they were dangerous. Hounslow Heath, near where we used to live, used to have a marvellous fair within a good walking distance. Lights, smells, music and excitement.
I also wanted roller skates, but when I got them, they were somehow manufactured to go slower than normal.
Such disappointment still 75 years later.

Piano lessons.

DGS, aged about 3, and animal mad. Standing at a field gate looking at the sheep and saying in a voice full of longing. 'I wish I could have a pet sheep'

Ahhh.. that's really sweet (and not out of the realms of possibility)

The only thing I can remember was that my best friend Margaret had a Raleigh Tiger tricycle which I coveted madly, because it had white wheels and a proper boot which carried loads, but my bike only had a little basket on the front which would fit one doll.

A bike, but never got one. My mother's excuse was that my father, who was an ambulance driver, had seen so many head injuries, he wouldn't allow it.

I accepted that excuse, until one Christmas, my brother (the favourite) got a bike. I was devastated.

Ouch!!! Marydoll