Very posh.
Opal fruits always stick out like a thumb with everything else in thoseRemember these wellView attachment 69237
must have been a big stocking!!
I’d forgotten all about them. We used to throw them outside Mrs Page’s house (a right battle axe who lived on our street) to wind her up and then leg it round the corner when she came out; a pyrotechnic version of knocky-hido.remember those cap things. Most were like rocket design only an inch high. You'd tear off a cap from your reel , then load it into the compression area between two metalplates. The nose cone was spring loaded and would press the two plates together. So you'd go outside on some hard surface , chuck the thing in the air and it would land nose down, setting off the cap , giving you a big smile. Got loads of them , and stocking flller was prime time to receive them .
Deb still makes me up a stocking every year and there will be a handful of nuts, an apple and an orange, chocolate coins, refresher chews, etc.I always remember the ubiquitous bag of chocolate coins in my stocking, plus a roll of fruit gums and fruit pastilles or sometimes a chocolate orange.
And a magic setA compendium of games!
And a chemistry setAnd a magic set
The best of the lot. Kids given a burner, random chemicals and magnesium ribbon to play with. What could possibly go wrongAnd a chemistry set
In the early 70's, one of the Mullen's who lived near Birchington Avenue brought a bomb he had made from his chemistry set and a few other bits he'd managed to get his hands on to the Grangetown Boys Club and told us he was going to detonate it on the fields out the back.The best of the lot. Kids given a burner, random chemicals and magnesium ribbon to play with. What could possibly go wrong
Absolutely LOVED Battling Tops !