Ahhh memories

[Kaz]

Di you're the first person I know apart from me who remembers Bettabuilder!!! I had loads of it - we were lucky enough to have lots of aunts and uncles who bought for us at Christmas and birthdays and they all knew I liked it I expect mum got rid of mine eventually, quite possibly passed on to a younger cousin - I left home at 17 and didn't take anything like that with me xx

[Kaz]

One Christmas I got a Spirograph! Does anyone remember those?

[debih]

One Christmas I got a Spirograph! Does anyone remember those?

I still have mine.

The girls play with it.

[debih]

I liked Sindy's and Pippas and played with them for hours on a Sunday - Sunday's were the day that we weren't allowed out to play with our friends.

We did church in the morning and then if we weren't going out for a walk in the afternoon I had to play with my sister and Sindys and Pippas were the dolls of choice (mainly because we had horses for them).

I detested baby dolls and most of mine met terrible fates. Their hair was generally hacked off and many of them had their legs ripped off and replaced with cardboard tails (I wanted to be a mermaid).

I had a farm which I loved though.

[Kaz]

One Christmas I got a Spirograph! Does anyone remember those?

I still have mine.

The girls play with it.

Oh wow!!! Can I come and play???

I'm glad I'm not the only one who was evil to dolls..............

[JoM]

My Dad made me a doll's house when I was 4 or 5, it had our house number on the door. I thought it was wonderful. He made another some years ago, which is in one of their spare bedrooms and it's all fitted out with electrics so that the lights work.

[JoM]

Oh, and dolls....I had Sindys and Pippas but mine all had cropped hair, courtesy of me and my scissors, and the Sindys with the white blonde hair all had their hair coloured with felt pens, all shades of blue, green and pink
My Tiny Tears is still upstairs.

[Diflower]

I know Kaz, nobody else remembers Bettabuilder
Spirograph yes, loved that - I may still have it, not sure...
I didn't play with dolls much; I had just one or two that I liked dressing and would make things for. Also a baby doll that my mum knitted an outfit for, but I didn't play with any of them as such. I did love my Silver Cross dolls pram (also passed to another child), I used to wheel my cat around the road in it
Nothing of mine was ever damaged/broken deliberately, I had to look after my things; my cousin had loads more than me but took it all for granted and would lose or break bits, leave them out in the garden, etc.

[JoM]

I don't remember Betterbuilder either Must Google it!

I loved Spirograph too, and I had one which you drew your patterns onto filter paper circles in felt pen, and there was a little dish which you put a small amount of water into and then lay the filter papers onto, making your pattern into a kind of tie-dye design. Used to love that!

[Kaz]

Oooh Jo, that sounds very Space Age Must have been after my time