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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Terbs on 18 December 2012, 23:55:51
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What is the first Christmas present you can actually remember getting.
Mine was a wooden aeroplane my dad made for me when I was about four. My parents did not have any money after dad was demobbed from the RAF after the war, so I gather from my mum, it was that or nothing. I can still see it in my minds eye now, a silver sunderland flying boat, made from old pieces of wood. A few years later, when things got a bit better, they bought me and my brother a friction BEA Viscount plane, which cost them more than they could afford. But we never went without :)
Stopping now....making me feel a bit emotional :(
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A guitar when I was 9 years old.
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an helicopter Action man used :y
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:y :y aload of matchbox cars and a garage never forget coming down the stairs at 4am and starting to open prezies with dad coming down the stairs steam coming out of his ears calmly telling us that christmas dosent start till 10 oclock and chasing us up to bed
but he was like a big kid at chistmas he realy loved it bygod i dont half miss him. lost him christmas 1991 :'( :'( :'(
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a 4trax 8)
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Best Christmas present EVER first wife leaving 11yrs ago, Haven't spoken to her since long may it continue. :y :y :y :y :y
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An american fire engine with working extendable ladders ;D
Then a in my early teens a ghetto blaster for the shoulder :D
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A Mechano set, made a great big crane on Christmas day which mum promptly stood on while serving the lunch and bent the longest pieces :( :(
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A big box of Lego or an optimus prime transformer when they were made of metal not the crappy plastic
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A big box of Lego or an optimus prime transformer when they were made of metal not the crappy plastic
I got one of those for my eldest son the red metal one and his younger brother got the baddy deceptorcon???
So I guess you must be about 30 ???
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Something called Tric-Trac :y........The blue Man from U.N.C.L.E Oldsmobile :y.......a space hopper :y..... a selection box (with spangles and an Aztec bar) :y :y .....and a Party Seven.. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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An american fire engine with working extendable ladders ;D
Then a in my early teens a ghetto blaster for the shoulder :D
Ah yes, EMD...The legendary wog box......sorry, but that's what we called them. ;)
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An american fire engine with working extendable ladders ;D
Then a in my early teens a ghetto blaster for the shoulder :D
Ah yes, EMD...The legendary wog box......sorry, but that's what we called them. ;)
I still do :y :y :y
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I got an orange and, if I was lucky, an apple and a clip round the ear hole.
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You deprived child, no nuts or a shiney new hapenny ;D ;D ;D
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The transformer baddie is Megatron. Cant really remember any particular presents, but we never went without. Best presents ever would be a cure for my mums parkinsons and a cure for the youngests epilepsy...........
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Something called Tric-Trac :y........The blue Man from U.N.C.L.E Oldsmobile :y.......a space hopper :y..... a selection box (with spangles and an Aztec bar) :y :y .....and a Party Seven.. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
I remember getting one of those..... :y :y I remember getting an electric train set, before I was really old enough to understand it properly, but remember my Dad helping me a lot!!!!! ::) ::) ::)
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Although Mum and Dad were not exactly flush, and with a big family, we couldn't be extravagent, we never went without. We all always had a stocking, and a couple of main pressies.
I remember a ping pong table, a snooker table and calculators (when they were ridiculously expensive, and the LEDs ate batteries).
But my childhood memories are always of family, fun, and Christmas din dins. And left over turkey for weeks - the carcass wasn't thrown away until the turkey soup was completely transparent ;D. Being the youngest, I always had to give up my bed for grandma and "Uncle Bill" (step grandad), but it was exciting at that age to kip on the floor.
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Although Mum and Dad were not exactly flush, and with a big family, we couldn't be extravagent, we never went without. We all always had a stocking, and a couple of main pressies.
I remember a ping pong table, a snooker table and calculators (when they were ridiculously expensive, and the LEDs ate batteries).
But my childhood memories are always of family, fun, and Christmas din dins. And left over turkey for weeks - the carcass wasn't thrown away until the turkey soup was completely transparent ;D. Being the youngest, I always had to give up my bed for grandma and "Uncle Bill" (step grandad), but it was exciting at that age to kip on the floor.
Obviousy why you have a bad back now.....whats the phrase....wheres theres blame theres a claim ::) ;D
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Wow Jamie....your comments about the turkey carcass.....made into soup......swmbo does it to ours. luvvly jubbly ;)
Do the younger generation do it...I bet not !!!!!!
Also....I can remember getting my first electric train set....but I never got near it at first, as I can still picture my dad and two uncles setting it up on the table and I did not exist. Electric train sets were a new innovation in those days :)
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Wow Jamie....your comments about the turkey carcass.....made into soup......swmbo does it to ours. luvvly jubbly ;)
Do the younger generation do it...I bet not !!!!!!
Also....I can remember getting my first electric train set....but I never got near it at first, as I can still picture my dad and two uncles setting it up on the table and I did not exist. Electric train sets were a new innovation in those days :)
:y :y :y i had the same terbert when my brother& i was given a scalelecrix 1 year for christmas :y :y :y
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Yeah Ozzy....dads were notorious for that.....'thinks'...was I like that with my kids ;D ;D ;D
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Also....I can remember getting my first electric train set....but I never got near it at first, as I can still picture my dad and two uncles setting it up on the table and I did not exist. Electricity train sets were was a new innovation in those days :)
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No more key sticking out the side of the trains. :y
I was actually thinking exactly the same. First present I can recall too. Train set, at the age of 4. My Dad held off a whole 4 years before buying himself me one. :y
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First I can remember is when I was around 5 I think. It was a bat mobile with little batman and robin figures that you could take out of the car. Seem to remember the car had a button that when pressed let off the 4 rockets mounted on the boot.
Fantastic present!! :)