MargieH

Seven girls for each available lad - that would mean the girls were all vying for attention. I must have been an exception because I never found this to be true......

So you're posh, then, Jill? Having just looked on t'internet, I wonder if the two items are used together to curl butter..... could the 'knife' be used to make a curl onto the 'spatula'? There are several items online that look like knives but are called 'butter curlers'

That is sad, Brew...

I think it is a butter knife and a butter curler! Bit posh...

....and a good bike lock, or someone may decide to take it for a joyride if you leave it parked outside the Roebuck!

We were visiting an old friend of mine at Kingsmill hospital about 2 months ago. It is a very impressive building, inside and out. The care my friend was receiving seemed very good - I hope it's the same standard all through the hospital.... You should have taken a photo of the nurses smoking, Jill!

You posted that on a different thread, Loppy. I saw it... And there's no Mr Sparks on my Happy Family cards, although it may be the garage man in the Noddy TV series.

Good news, Catfan. PTL

Chulla, my mum was born and grew up in Saundby, the next village to North Wheatley, but she didn't belong to any cycling club! She sometimes rode my dad's motorbike in the 1920s though...

Seeing as there isn't a separate thread for 'hammers' and other people's photos are all in here, here is a selection of some of Paul's. He is obviously not as organised as the rest of you as there are a couple more he knows are somewhere but he can't find at the moment.

That's a bit like the card game "Happy Families" where there is a Mr Bun the Baker, Mr Chalk the teacher and Mr Constable the policeman etc. I still play that game with my youngest grandchildren...

Gem, that is amazing! Thanks for posting the picture. Can we see the other houses as well, please? I think they're not playthings for very little children.....

Anyone watching 'Howard's End'. I'm quite enjoying it...

We used to do that when we were skipping by ourselves ....the rhyme was 'salt, vinegar, mustard, pepper'. It was a single jump for the first three then a double -O for 'pepper'

I've just showed this picture to Paul and he says he's got all of them bar one - the fourth from the left - but he has got another one with rubber on one side and solid plastic on the other side. He's got a couple of pick axes as well - do they count? He says he's thinking of coming out of retirement and going into a small demolition business! What will be the next photo of tools I wonder.... hope it won't be various screws and nails because he has jars and jars full of them!

We also used to run through the turning rope... one way was 'under the sun' when the rope was turning towards you; the other way was 'over the stars' when the rope was turning away from you - that way was more difficult!

Brew and Rog, perhaps we should cease all the connotations now, however tempting it might be to continue.... the list of alternative names is very long! 'Peace and ❤️ ' to you all..

Are you sure of that, Michael...... .... ?

Looks a bit of a weedy tree, Michael!

One has appeared above YOUR post now, Carni!

And it's disappeared from mine, too...

I loved Famous Five, but not Secret Seven! Also Mallory Towers was a favourite of mine.

I've got a thin blue line running across the page between Cliff Ton and Brew! Perhaps it's a mole burrow?

Perhaps there's a BBC mole on Nottstalgia getting ideas from looking at the different threads...

When building with Bayko, I remember that you had to put 3 of the upright metal poles at each corner of the house because there were special corner bricks that needed 3