h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

fizzy, I was just going to say, I had the old pair of tights/tennis ball combo too!


I wonder if the gruesomes would play with that if I made them one.

You've no hope, my kid has the hoop with a wheelie ball thingy and the contraption lights up when you roll it to skip.

Oh how I miss my Mum's old tights.

oh I want one of those.
(did you also, apart from putting it round your ankle and skipping over it) do that game against a brick wall where you bounced the ball from side to side, or between the legs/over the head?

gah, nostalgia!

Ladies, are we still talking clackers?

Yes I did Sho - but I'd forgotten about it until now.

We also played two ball or three ball that's another thing I couldn't get my daughter interested in.


No Bel, we're just revisiting a simpler time.

MMF

I've posted our 1970s memory lane on misc chat http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F16034?thread=4796613&post=55772878#p55772878 ... before the PR police arrive.

I was just polishing the

Ahhhh Z Cars.

P.C "Fancy" Smith is going to be turning on our town Xmas lights at the beginning of December

Isn't it funny how some towns get the real A listers.

You're lucky, last year our MP turned on ours.

This is good - just move that last footnote to the end of the sentence it's in and add some links to the Entry - perhaps one to BBC Health

Alex

Thanks Alex, I fixed the footnote and will get around to links this evening ... I hope.

Nice entry. But my goodness, you old people had strange toys before video games... Shoot-em-ups are much safer.

Old People??

Use your spudgun, lil!

MMF

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You better Leo before I unleash the hounds...

Me bruvva's nicked the spudgun..


I've got me cowboy gun'n'caps

Yeh it was the real world Lio SuperNerd, before you needed a 3-day Risk Assessment conference to decide if it was safe to cough