Blasts from the past

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trundles left foot said:
whatever happened to kids playing these, chucking things at the tree to get them down and all the supposed ways of making them stronger. I know why kids don't play anymore. They actually have to leave the ****ing play station.
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Ah the good old conker fight, there was a cracking tree up in Treboth by the cemetery, the tree was in someones garden. We used to hang around waiting for the owners to go out, then we would be lobbing everything at it. Never got find the best way of hardening them, put them in lime, in the oven.
 
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neveroffsidereff said:
Ah the good old conker fight, there was a cracking tree up in Treboth by the cemetery, the tree was in someones garden. We used to hang around waiting for the owners to go out, then we would be lobbing everything at it. Never got find the best way of hardening them, put them in lime, in the oven.
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I use to soak mine in vinegar. They were rock hard as a result.
 
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When schools could discipling with the cane or slipper if you did not behave...... Covering your books with old pieces of wallpaper to keep them clean....
 
swanseaandproud said:
When schools could discipling with the cane or slipper if you did not behave...... Covering your books with old pieces of wallpaper to keep them clean....
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My teacher in the last year of primary school was Mr Sanderson. He used to bring his bull mastif to school and had a cane named 'Oscar' that we were all terrified of. It bloody hurt as well because it was a thick branch off a tree. <laugh> But I tell you what - lots of learning was done in that class and our grades were all pretty good. Not saying we should go back to that but our teacher had respect (we actually loved him!) and he got results. Nobody, and I mean nobody misbehaved and disrupted the class. Just saying.

Vividly remember covering school books with brown paper or wallpaper. They always ended up tatty anyway.
 
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Tape recorders that were useless as you could not take them anywhere without electricity and the playback sounded nothing like what you recorded.....<laugh>
 
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