BEDS

wini · Post by **wini** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 5:42 am

This topic has been dominated by the "girls" what did the boys play, apart from pulling pig tails and annoying the girls.
My husband tells me they used to put squibs through the neighbours letterboxes and knock doors and run away.
I think he must have had the makings of a delinquent.

wini

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:02 am

Well, Wini, I’m a boy, and I can see what you mean about being dominated. I don’t remember Hopscotch as being so much a girls game as just a kids game but it was so long ago I can’t be sure.

We used to have big lumps of Plaster of Paris under the house from some long demolished feature and they were great for drawing on the footpath or whatever.

Was there a circular version as well or am I thinking of something else?

My favourite game was anything involving losing skin off the knees and getting covered in dirt. Anything of the “What have you been up to??? You’ll be in trouble when your father gets home!!!” variety.

Us boys never did anything wrong, and even if we did it was self defence, or in the public good, or someone else’s fault, or any other excuse under the Sun.

Alan

Post by **emanday** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:57 am

Hi Wini,

My brother and his pals had a variation on "knock the door and run away"

They'd tie a rope between the two opposite door knobs on the landing, then knock the door! They could hang around giggling till it looked as though the rope (or a door knob) was going to give

Post by **joette** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:20 pm

We always played games with the boys apart from beds,skipping,ball & chinese ropes.It was hilarious if a "big boy" joined in the skipping especially if he was really good.
We played "Dead Man Falls"Commandos & off course "Chap doors & run away"

Post by **Tracey** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:48 pm

Wasnt the door knocking game called "Knock down (up ?) ginger" - dont know why though

Could never do cats cradle or the one similar you did with your feet and elastic

Tin can alley was one the boys played (with or without girls)

Russell · Post by **Russell** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 11:52 pm

Hey everybody

I'm glad the boys are getting a look in here at last although I have enjoyed the reminders of some of the girls games too.
As kids we would often play, boys and girls together, games like '(H)all over' which involved trying to dodge the person who was 'het' while trying to cross to the other side of the road.
Another one was 'statues' trying to sneak across without any movement being spotted by the 'het' person.
If a road was quite wide we could play Chain Tig. If you were caught you joined on the end of the line and tried to add another victim. When the chain got too long it could be quite dangerous especially for the wee ones with shorter legs.
The all time favourite was always Hide and Seek. The short way of counting for that was always
'Five, ten, double ten,
Five, ten, a hundred'

The wee ones always got in trouble for not counting to one hundred properly which was a shame as most of them couldn't count up to one hundred anyway

In the summer the boys played at Tarzan on the rope swing and in the winter it was Batman & Robin using our school Burberrys as a cape and jumping off air-raid shelters.
Great reminiscences.

Russell

nancy · Post by **nancy** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:15 am

I remember the boys playing along with us at Statues,giant steps,kick the can,chap doors runaway and rounders!BUT!Who out there remembers KKT
Or to give it its right name,kiss,kick or torture??

It was played with two teams,the boys versus the girls

First team would run away and hide,and when found would,before they were released would have to agree to a KK or T

Obviously you would pick a Kiss

It was all so innocent though and we were aged 11 to 14!

Nancy

wini · Post by **wini** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 7:09 am

No Nancy,
It depended who the boy was, sometimes it was worth the torture, like Witches burns.

When we were hiding we just ran through peoples gardens to hide, no one seemed to bother,AND if it was someone who was out of favour we wouildn't even go looking for them, pretty nasty. I'm ashamed of myself now.

wini

nancy · Post by **nancy** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 11:33 am

Yes Wini,

you're right!!If the boy chasing you was rather dishy,you'd let him catch you

On the other hand if you didn't like him,you'd go into hiding till the end of the game(sometimes you even went into your house and sat there a wee while)

Then if the game finished and they came to the door looking for you,your ma got the blame of shouting you in

I remember running through closes,backdoors and jumping dykes,just to get away from people.

Thing is though we never did any damage to anyones property

Aye,those were the days

Nancy

Post by **emanday** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 11:42 am

At one point we lived in a cul-de-sac. Absolute heaven!

Depending on the "season" it could be a tennis court, rounders field, or have all sorts of peever grids drawn all over it. The girls outnumbered the boys in our wee bit, so they only got to use it for football if WE wanted to play