1950's Childhood.

and seeing if you liked butter with a buttercup under your chin

Anyone remember a book called 'Rennie the Rescuer'? about another dog?

And our relatives who were 'Ten Pound Poms' in the late 50s left me one half of the Children's Encyclopaedia - six books and I never did see the other half. I loved them.

Does anyone remember Sunny Stories? It was in quite a small format and if I remember correctly the cover was pink and blue? I think it was Enid blyton. I also used to get deliverd Playbox tho my mother cancelled it when she thought I'd outgrown it. I hadn't
Way back someone mentioned as a child blowing on blades of grass. I still do it! Long live childhood!

I remember Sunny Stories and saw it as my own special 'magazine'. In fact I loved everything I could get hold of by Enid Blyton.

I remember Sunny Stories. Santa Claus used to bring one every Christmas. He put it in my stocking along with a clockwork toy, an orange, puzzle or colouring book, scarf or pair of socks, tube of chocolate dragees and a sugar mouse. It wasn't Christmas without the sugar mouse. They were traditional stocking fillers, same every year. My sisters and I loved comparing what we got!

PS we weren't allowed comics or magazines any other time of year!

The New Book of Knowledge by Waverley in 8 volumes.
They are sitting on the shelf just behind me!

I must have a look on ebay and go through all these old books - would I have enough for a holiday if I sold them?
Muffin is staying, though.

Ah yes, the pink sugar mouse with a string tail. No wonder I have so many fillings!

Mary Mouse stories by Enid Blyton.
Small books in comic format, with two lines under each picture (like Rupert Bear)
I learned to read with Mary Mouse, and Sunny Stories too.

Adventures of a Teddy Bear and More Adventures of a Teddy Bear by Mrs H C Cradock
(just seen on Amazon in much worse condition than mine for £14.95, but mine is going nowhere!)

I moved about a lot as a child, can't count the number of times we moved when I was between the ages of 5 and 8.

I think mum must have been feeling guilty because she bought me a pink sugar elephant. I ate it all and can still see it in my mind's eye. It was at least four times bigger than a sugar mouse.

Do you remember rainbow sherbert don't know about you but my finger was the colour of a rainbow by time I got to school..lol And remember wood sticks tasted like liquorice
And fruit salad sweets blk jacks.

'Conny Onny' butties. Condensed Milk on bread and after Christmas there would be a couple of jars of Goose grease in the larder, not for roast potatoes Oh no! my mother would rub it on our chest and back to keep cold out. Must have smelt awful but I still had friends at school, so maybe we all had it on.

I do remember dripping on toast I really loved that for supper lol if you even showed me some dripping I would throw up I'm sure of that.lol

I loved dripping on toast- my favourite tea. I haven't had it since.

I remember going out to tea as a child and it always being assumed that you would drink tea. I also hated being offered ham sandwiches because I didn't like any fat at all and my mother said it was too rude to open the sandwich, look and remove!

Liberty Bodices with rubber buttons
Eating the burnt crust from the bread
Running through autumn leaves

First flight to Egypt to join father who was posted there
Sand and camels
Bombs dropping in Port Said
Long sea trip to Malaya
Sun and sea and wonderful new adventures
Lots of new schools
Lots of new friends

Country dancing, and dancing around the maypole on May Day with flowers in the girls' hair. Banging into the boys to put them off.

Sunday school trips - if you had attended regularly - sandwiches, buns in a bag and usually eaten in a church hall somewhere because it was raining and blowing a gale but great fun. Going there on a bus!

We used to go to Alton Towers on Sunday School trips (before it was a theme park!)

Yes; I went there back then. All I can remember about it were lots of flowers and a pagoda.

Did any southerners go to dreamland at Margate? That was the old one, not the more "exciting" revamped one. It was a great day out together with a donkey ride on the beach.
On an earlier post I mentioned collecting silver paper which we used to smooth out with our nails. That was at primary school, so more late 40s I suppose.
At some point we also collected labels from triangular cheeses. My brother collected cigarette cards.
Primary school teachers smoking a pipe in the classroom (male ones)!
And ditto throwing a heavy blackboard duster at inattentive children!!

There was a boating lake and a model railway at Alton Towers - and those lovely gardens and pagoda.

Collecting and swapping PG tips cards (have I said that already?)
Playing with mercury on the bench in the science lab

Annual Brownie outing to Culzean Castle where we played hide and seek among the rhododendrons.
Trips with granny and aunt up the Firth of Clyde to Rothesay, Arran or Big Cumbrae; days out in Largs; aunt teaching me to ride a bike before I got one for 9th birthday.

Whenever there was a spell of prolonged bad weather, people would blame the sputniks, believing they caused havoc with the weather.