ditchman Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 fiddling about in the shed this morning...getting ready to do the engine on the landrover, ticking the bits off on my list.....opened up an old box and found this............. i last used these , about 50 years ago...the memory of long hot summers listening to the cricket on the transistor...face down on the lawn and my cricket book....rolling these and having an epic battle for the Ashes.......with shouts of "OWZAT"....gasps of relief when it rolled "no ball".... its amazing how little things like this can unearth dormant memories........... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ips Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 Flamin Eck I remember those, I bet mine are still in my mums loft with my gyrosope and such like 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted September 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 Flamin Eck I remember those, I bet mine are still in my mums loft with my gyrosope and such like oohhh yes "gyroscope"................."awsome"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wymberley Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 Well I'm blowed - 60 years ago for me. Used to use a cloth so the teacher didn't hear them during Latin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnfromUK Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 It's still available now, though made in plastic now. There are always a few originals on the well known auction site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted September 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 (edited) Well I'm blowed - 60 years ago for me. Used to use a cloth so the teacher didn't hear them during Latin. amo amas amat...."salvea oh magastri"...."salvea oh pueri"...............................somewhere i have a tin of "jacks"..........remember them ? Edited September 3, 2017 by ditchman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVB Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 Blimey that brings back memories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12gauge82 Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 I love threads like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 amo amas amat...."salvea oh magastri"...."salvea oh pueri"...............................somewhere i have a tin of "jacks"..........remember them ? and "The Shortbread Eating Primer" as BH Kennedy's textbook was inevitably altered to by bored pupils Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wymberley Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 amo amas amat...."salvea oh magastri"...."salvea oh pueri"...............................somewhere i have a tin of "jacks"..........remember them ? Amamus amatis amant. The jacks made me laugh. A couple of Christmasses ago we was staying with my step-son and his fiancee and a bag of these were produced so we started playing. After a bit I was well behind - useless in short - when all of a sudden something kicked in from the deep and distant past and I ran straight through from the 2sese to the 10sese winning in fine style. Did cost me several pints in the Bradgate later on though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puggers Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 I had a set of these too - lost the first set and until I could buy some more, I shaved the ends of two pencils and wrote the wods on those instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisdom Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 Brilliant thread this could roll out(pardon the pun)into a great thread. I remember them well tin box was like a razor. Never got Jack's though couldn't understand it. What about cap bombs? could you imagine that now.Everyone would dive for cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted September 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 Brilliant thread this could roll out(pardon the pun)into a great thread. I remember them well tin box was like a razor. Never got Jack's though couldn't understand it. What about cap bombs? could you imagine that now.Everyone would dive for cover. yes ...yes ...yes......plastic rockets in a cornflake pack.....put a cap in it chuck it "BANG"...............remember the smell of caps ?....you were rich if you had 4 rolls of caps a six gun and a thousand dead indians.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ips Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 Cap bombs 😁 We made our own out of two big bolts and one nut holding them together with the paper thing in between. Cattys, what about homemade cattys oh and bow and arrow cunningly fashioned from a branch cut from a tree. Oh the joy of it. But then of course we found girls and we stopped being boys 😞 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wymberley Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 yes ...yes ...yes......plastic rockets in a cornflake pack.....put a cap in it chuck it "BANG"...............remember the smell of caps ?....you were rich if you had 4 rolls of caps a six gun and a thousand dead indians.. Was it the Cornflakes that had the little plastic models of cowboys and indians? Used to shoot at these with a Diana Mod 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted September 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 truth time now.......just remembered.......... got given an ace cap gun for birthday from my uncle..(he was in Burma during the war) and always showing me stuff how to kill japs etc;......... antway this cap gun ...think it was called "the lone star"....looked like a colt peacemaker with a smith&wesson cylinder release (i know now)....it had 5 what looked like 45cal ACP shells in it ...you dug the end into a spud...and loaded a cap into the other end..(i used 2 ) and that had a small hole in where the cap went....loaded them into the revolver.... didnt have it for very long as i shot my dad in the rear when he was filling the coal bucket up in the coal shed...i ambushed him as i was saving prisoners from the japs... imagination............cost me a sore ear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear-uk Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 Remember Jetex rocket motors strapped the a balsawood jet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ips Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 truth time now.......just remembered.......... got given an ace cap gun for birthday from my uncle..(he was in Burma during the war) and always showing me stuff how to kill japs etc;......... antway this cap gun ...think it was called "the lone star"....looked like a colt peacemaker with a smith&wesson cylinder release (i know now)....it had 5 what looked like 45cal ACP shells in it ...you dug the end into a spud...and loaded a cap into the other end..(i used 2 ) and that had a small hole in where the cap went....loaded them into the revolver.... didnt have it for very long as i shot my dad in the rear when he was filling the coal bucket up in the coal shed...i ambushed him as i was saving prisoners from the japs... imagination............cost me a sore ear. Spud guns 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ips Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 Ps So who will own up to action man. We were not well off when dad left the raf, action man was quite expensive in 1971 but dad came hone from work one day with a pressie (for no reason) it was action man copy called (I think) "Tommy" he got it off Wigan market. I thought it was better than action man but only because my dad bought it for me (RIP dad 👍) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted September 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 Remember Jetex rocket motors strapped the a balsawood jet. christ they used to get HOT.. ...the fusewire facinated me............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted September 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 (edited) Ps So who will own up to action man. We were not well off when dad left the raf, action man was quite expensive in 1971 but dad came hone from work one day with a pressie (for no reason) it was action man copy called (I think) "Tommy" he got it off Wigan market. I thought it was better than action man but only because my dad bought it for me (RIP dad ) alright..........top trumps now...... 1/- WAR MAGS.......................best read with your mates and loads of bubblegum...... Edited September 3, 2017 by ditchman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wymberley Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 Dads, eh? I got a rollicking of mine for bringing a rabbit home with 3 pellets in it. "What the devil do you think you were playing at?" "It was wounded in a big bramble patch and I couldn't get to it and it wouldn't keep still when I tried to finish it." "Fair enough, I'll get you something because that will not happen again. Just make sure you break the high jump record next week." Next week comes and we're +2&1/2". A few days later, compliments of the Exchange and Mart my machete arrives. Come saturday and I'm walking past the bank and post office with this in its sheath hanging from my belt and the air rifle under my arm - all of 13 years old. Nowadays I'd be in a care home and father would be inside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetlee Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 My next door neighbour had a big oak barrel which served to collect rain water for her veg plot. The barrel lid had a cross piece as a handle and the lid also served as my shield when we, the Saxon Fyrd numbering at times 9 (or less if mumps was about) and led by an elderly 12 year old, gathered to fight the imaginary Viking invaders. To be enrolled as a Fyrd member it was necessary to pass the courage test and crouch behind the big wooden shield while members of the band threw their Ash spears at it!!! Every year in a particular season the local Policeman would ambush us and confiscate our sharpened spears. Later I often thought that the Runner Bean frames in the Copper's garden and those in his friend's garden the village Postmaster, always looked remarkably like Saxon spears for some reason... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted September 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 in the mid 60's i got caught smoking outside the village pub by the local bobby PC Sutherland....he handcuffed me to the railings knowing that my dad would be along shortly for his "evening snifter"............. imagine having that done to you now......................noway... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumfelter Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 Ps So who will own up to action man. We were not well off when dad left the raf, action man was quite expensive in 1971 but dad came hone from work one day with a pressie (for no reason) it was action man copy called (I think) "Tommy" he got it off Wigan market. I thought it was better than action man but only because my dad bought it for me (RIP dad ) We were even less well off, my dad got me an empty box and told me it was an action man deserter.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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