Pasts and the present

In a week when some actual children have been very concerned around their examinations, this week I'm looking rather more at things from my past and the present.

One thing I really enjoyed playing with was lego which you could make more or less anything from but many of the suggestions tended to be more around boys interests like making trucks and less social so this is more my kind of lego.

Another thing I was interested in was nature study and the sciences so one thing I did have was a microscope set although it looked deadly masculine to be honest so I'd of loved to had had this set which although being a serious piece of kit is much more appealing.

Something I'd of love to had had would of been craft sets to make pretty accessories like these charms with girls sharing and chatting away.

As a sissy gurl they're so me.

 Tin Tin as in The Adventures of  was something I followed reading the books and watching on tv at the time although his past has come under much scrutiny in recent years and it can't be denied some scenes do reflect the less than charitable views Belgium had toward Africans in their then colonies.

It's right to be aware of such things but can we say in fifty years time many of our attitudes might be seen in the same way we do now?

I feel it's better to acknowledge the past and learn from it rather than re-writing or airbrushing it as if it never happened.

It's also how I look at my life experiences.

Christmas presents from the past

 Somebody mentioned to about the new range coming to ToysRUS in time for the upcoming Christmas festivities.

This got me thinking about some of the things I had and maybe you did too from your chronological childhood and I feel like talking a little about them this week.

At the time there were at least in my country quite a number of shows on the television featuring Magicians who invited members of the public to take part in their acts and these shows really held my attention.

It was just so super exciting to see something disappear and then by magic reappear at the waving of a wand or a chant so my folks bought me a magic set with a wand, hat and a few other things to try these tricks out.

That's all the bits and that you used to perform your magic with.

I also had something quite useful as I have dyspraxia  which makes trying to write neatly something of a pain and that was a basic Child's Typewriter with a small frame, limited to A5 or maybe going as far as A4 paper.

I used that to write short stories, thank you letters, lists and labels for school projects on.

This was well before the personal computer was widely available with word processing programs like Word Star came about never mind MS Word so you really didn't have too many choices!

We didn't have the spell checker - hurrah for the Can-E spellchecker on here! - so you had to use a little erasure and overtype this  being before even correction fluid became widely available for budding typists.

Mine was a Petite a bit like the one below which I kept until high school when I got a grown up manual typewriter.