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NatashaGransnet (GNHQ) Mon 11-Nov-19 14:43:08

To celebrate the release of The Double Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn Iggulden, we've teamed up with HarperCollins to offer one lucky gransnetter the chance to win a Roberts Revival radio worth £159.99 and a copy of the book.

More details on the prize can be found HERE and T&Cs HERE. We will pick a winner after 11am on 11th December.

To enter simply tell us... What childhood game, project or activity do you look back on most fondly?

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kevrigs Tue 26-Nov-19 13:36:28

You couldn't get away with it now, but it was making and playing with 'throwing arrows' with my friends roam the woods and fields.

Powli Tue 26-Nov-19 14:06:39

Cake shop!
Making cakes and fancy biscuits for sale to my friends the customers in a den with lots of colours, choices and fancy shapes! Granted the base was usually old bricks or stones/pebbles etc. I used mud, twigs, berries, leaves and an assortment of wild flowers and petals for decoration and colour! The children loved it! ?

Clarkehouse Tue 26-Nov-19 14:13:53

I loved playing elastic twist with friends and if I was on my own I put it around the dining chairs and played on my own I loved it - easily pleased.

kwatkins12 Tue 26-Nov-19 14:17:06

Sledging down the nearby hill in the winter with my Dad and then hot chocolate at home afterwards.

Jabba Tue 26-Nov-19 14:38:58

Playing Monopoly with the whole family, I was losing badly and I remember my grandpa surreptitiously passing me some of his cash under the table. It still makes me smile.

kristanybryn Tue 26-Nov-19 14:46:57

All the children that lived in the street used to be outside playing every day. We used to play marbles, hide and seek, rounders and used to go on 'adventures' to other streets to meet up with other children. As I live in Wales there was always lots of fields to play in and have picnics too. Sadly all the fields have now gone.

JamesAna Tue 26-Nov-19 15:02:56

British Bulldogs

Shalene777 Tue 26-Nov-19 15:11:08

We used to play Monopoly all the time for hours on end, it was always great fun and I still love playing it today.

annier56 Tue 26-Nov-19 15:58:07

Playing with Fuzzy Felts

kpdchudleigh Tue 26-Nov-19 16:02:59

I loved the Magic Robot game so much my ex found a vintage one online and made personal question and answer sheets for me. It's fabulous!

nanababs Tue 26-Nov-19 16:33:21

Two baller! Bouncing two balls against the wall in the back street, with or without a friend sliding in and taking over the complicated moves. 6er, 5ser, 4ser, 3ser, etc. Over arm, under arm, under left leg with a bounce on the ground, under right leg... would love to still have the balance and dexterity!

leegonz Tue 26-Nov-19 16:38:49

wheat field wandering

middleagespread Tue 26-Nov-19 17:47:06

playing Swallows and Amazons, but with no boats, no water but a great imagination, and yes a picnic

smurfetteB Tue 26-Nov-19 18:20:05

My favourite time as a child was when Dad would read Wind in the Willows to me. Always felt very special to me.

megrawc Tue 26-Nov-19 18:25:18

Playing Ludo, the only board game the whole family would sit down to play.

Ken88 Tue 26-Nov-19 18:44:38

Scalextric - kept me sane and happy for many hours!!

naps Tue 26-Nov-19 18:49:58

going to southsea to my granfmas and spending the day at the seaside hut

babyroo Tue 26-Nov-19 18:56:34

Making dens in the local park

lilaclover Tue 26-Nov-19 19:01:09

Building treehouses in my grandmother's apple tree. I could always climb higher than my sister so took every opportunity to get as high as I could to build my treehouse! Spent many an afternoon up there munching on apples ..not so sure about the subsequent tummy ache though ;)

Moragro Tue 26-Nov-19 19:16:15

Monopoly

DebKell29 Tue 26-Nov-19 20:06:08

I loved Fuzzy Felt

Sarahp Tue 26-Nov-19 20:47:21

Monopoly, the original version with the wooden houses and metal movers. A game with the family could last for hours but no one would want to quit because we were all so competitive!

LesleyBrown Tue 26-Nov-19 20:53:41

As a tomboy, besides climbing trees, I loved making working models with Meccano (especially once I had a clockwork motor), assembling Airfix kits, and best of all, making balsa wood planes. A twisted rubber band attached to the propellor
meant they actually flew!

janipans Tue 26-Nov-19 20:59:02

I lived in Singapore as a child and we went up to Frasers ####





Aged 11, I was in a "gang" of 4 girls and 3 boys from our village school and we played together almost every day. One day we decided to play hide and seek - girls against boys. We lived on a new build site and the girls decided to hide in a garage. It had hinged doors and as we crept inside a breeze block which had been propped up against the door fell back into place and trapped us. We were there for ages, shouting and screaming for help and when it got dark we were all well past our home times. Luckily the boys did not give up on us and eventually found us and set us free (the payment was a kiss each from each of us!) I had never been so pleased to see anyone in my life and willingly paid my dues! Even better, my parents never found out about it! They just accepted whatever excuse I must have given them (or maybe they were just so pleased to see me they really didn't care about the excuse!)

Dawnmf1969 Tue 26-Nov-19 21:06:20

Playing Monopoly with my brother and my parents, sometimes it would go on for days, we would leave it on the dining room table and continue where we left off the next day.We were all very competitive and would write on the inside of the box the date and who won and how much money they had when they won. We still look at those results now and reminisce

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