Each week Maggie and Lauren ask us to think back to our childhood. This week they are asking what toys we played with and what were our hobbies/ pastimes!
Like girls my age, I loved playing with dolls. I had one which I kept for the longest time. My father brought it for me when he came back from America. It could blink and had long golden hair. I used to stitch clothes for it, made sweaters, caps and booties and even shoes for it. I think I outgrew it when I was about 13-14.
Other then playing with this doll, my favorite pastime was reading. I would read anything that I could. Another thing that I liked to do was making things with beads. I would make little pieces of jewelry or hair clips with beads and sell them to my class mates. As I grew older I convinced my father to let me buy a knitting machine. I made sweaters, scarves and caps for everyone. Making scarves with two front pockets was my specialty. I earned money by making them for my friends. But this was when I was around 18.
We were four siblings and most of our afternoons were spent playing outside. Hockey, cricket, football and cycling. We were allowed to play outside our homes too as there weren’t and security risks in those times.
Thursday throwback prompt this week is: Toys and Pastimes. Hosted by Maggie and Lauren
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Reading and stitching dresses for dolls at such a young age? 😧 You sure were a sharp, skilled child!
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Thanks Sam. I learned to stitch with hand from my grandmother. She could make such neat and tiny stitches.
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I love reading, always a favorite pastime for me especially Nancy Drew series.
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I never read Nancy Drew. My favorite were all Enid Blyton books.
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Yes, I remember them as well. Awesome.
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👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
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Sadly, kids today don’t have the freedom we had. We were always outside playing and exploring, rarely in our yards. Some days the only time we were home was for lunch and then out again until supper.
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Yes, they now don’t want to play outside. Sitting at their computers or devices all day long is all they want to do.
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Thank you for joining in Sadie. My sewing skills at a very young age were primitive to say the least, but I enjoyed the hand sewing. I too was a reader. The school library was my haven. I dreaded summers only because it meant no new books.
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My grandma taught me to hand stitch dolls dresses. She was very good at it. We all went to British council library every week to get new books with our library cards. That’s how I developed a taste for British literature.
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Awesome
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Thanks!
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It must be nice to have the skill to make lovely things.
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It was always fun. And I felt very accomplished 💖
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A lovely reminiscence. The scarves with pockets sounds amazing. Thank you for sharing, Sadje.
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Thanks Jeff. They were very handy, though no one had a cell phone in those days.
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Most welcome, Sadje. Always. Ah, indeed.
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🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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The joys of memories 😊
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You’re so right! Thanks
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Playing outside is something the younger generation have never really had the chance to do. I still remember a neighbour making wooden stilts for us.
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Yes, things have changed a lot for them. We encourage my grandkids to play outside but it’s a struggle.
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Reading was one of my favourite pastimes and drawing 🙂
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Reading, when started early makes out childhood magical
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what wonderful childhood memories, sadje. there is something special about our favorite toys of childhood.
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You’re so right Beth. Thanks 🙏🏼
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Sadje, thank you for joining us again this week. You were very industrious making items to sell to your friends. My hand sewing skills were very primitive I’m afraid and I could never knit or crochet. I did try, though! What lovely memories.
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Thanks a lot Maggie. Because of your prompts we are taking lovely nostalgic journeys
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I am glad you are enjoying them, Sadje.
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Thanks Maggie. I am
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Wonderful memories of having fun playing and learning to make jewelry and knitting! Thanks for sharing your thoughts. 🙂
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Thanks Barbara
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I basically had three things I would play with. Cars (Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars), Lego (back when there were few sets and mainly just blocks and your imagination) and Barbie dolls (me and my sister had a lot of them) I love that you knitted sweaters… my mom tried to teach me to crochet, but I could never keep the stitches even. Do you have any of the old sweaters you made still or did you give them all away?
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Thanks Leigha for sharing. I think they are all gone except the one I made a couple of years ago for my granddaughter. She still wears it though it is a bit small for her now.
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You’re welcome.
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