Hi Swordies. Hope you had a very happy Christmas. Boxing Day has been and gone and life is insisting on normality again but I'm resisting hard. No-one at Moonbase having to be at work today or tomorrow helps so we're still in our pyjama bottoms and basically lounging around watching Xmas TV, sewing and, well, I'm blogging right now! The last of the festive meats have been scoffed and there's no cranberry sauce left. All we have is a huge assortment of crisps, nuts, chocolates and pickled onions. Party food! We'll survive on them until someone goes for more supplies! Sat amidst the tinsel and piles of opened prezzies inevitably takes me back to Christmas's past at Moonbase Junior in Ye Olde Lancashire of my youth.
We made snowmen and lanterns at school from toilet rolls and filled them with smarties and dolly mixtures! Is is even legal?
Mum got Yardley perfume and my two Sisses got Charlie!
My big hairy bruvvers got Soap on a Rope
and Hai Karate After Shave for when they too hairy!
My old Dad got an Old Spice Shaving Mug and Brush and all the adults drank brightly coloured drinks like Cherry B or Warninks Advocaat.
and a couple of toys I got that I've literally just remembered were a plastic toy pneumatic road drill [modern version above] and a battery operated ping pong ball throwing machine, which blasted ping pong balls at you for whacking with a plastic baseball bat! Funny how the grass is always greener even as a Kid though. Even with my Johnny Seven and Secret Sam Spy Case I wanted what only my cousin Andrew had - the Strange Change Machine all the way from the US of A with an american plug. Below's the 1967 TV Ad as well coutesy of YT! God, how I wanted that toy, but it was never to be!
What are your vintage Christmas memories?
It don't half come and go quick!
ReplyDeleteBit of festive ham and some fine cheeses left here, and a good dose of alcohol too if I could motivate myself to drink it.
I'm getting those after Christmas blues though...always do!
Did anyone see the new John Hurt adaption of "Whistle And I'll Come To You"?
I don't want to say anything incase fellow Swordheads taped it and didn't watch it yet but I would love to hear any comments when everyone who was going to watch it has watched it.
Well, Happy Third Day Of Christmas to all!
PS: What's this "sewing" malarky Woodsy?
"Whistle And I'll Come To You". Strangely differed from the first BBC version. The new version did scare me with the door scene, but I was disappointed with the ending.
ReplyDeleteAnyway back to the cheese and port.
Forget the sewing. I'm more worried about Mrs Moonbase sitting around in just her pyjama bottoms ... (hands her a dressing gown before she draws a crowd).
ReplyDeleteLooking at the strange change toy, I am left with the suspicion that it was a complicated way of shaping plasticine?
ReplyDeleteWell my favorite vintage Christmas memory is the christmas that I got the Action Man spacesuit and Mercury capsule and I was thrilled with them! And when I say thrilled, I mean that I had to be gently reminded by my mother that I did actually have other presents to open! (can't remember what those were though.....)
ReplyDeleteSo what was it, Woodsy? I am really intrigued now. Plasticine shaping? Heat-memory plastic? Some kind of balloon? Tell us more, please.
ReplyDeleteLovely story, Steve ^_^
ReplyDeleteAs far as I remember, my cousin placed little bricks of pressed stuff into the 'oven' and they 'grew' into shapes like the T.Rex and assorted ghoulies. There was a great smell as well!
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of smell? Serious question ... i am curious.
ReplyDeleteCan anyone shed light on this? (The bricks, I mean, not so much the smell).
Nicely creepy advert, btw!