BEDS

wini · Post by **wini** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:27 am

Joette,
I had forgotten about Kick the Can. There was always a rhyme for that too.

"Hard up, Kick the can,
Isabel (or some other name) has got a man.
If you want to know his name

Now I have forgotten the last line.

Rounders and Tip and Run. were favourties.

And we didn't have watches, so it was come in when the street lights came on.

We usually played in the middle of the street and any car that came along, there weren't many, had to proceed with caution.
We didn't have much money but we did have happy childhoods.
Never heard of anyone having all the problems they have nowadays.
The latest one being that pre schoolers are being treated for stress related problems.
My stress was if I didn't go in straight away and I knew I would be in trouble.

wini

AnnieMack · Post by **AnnieMack** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:01 pm

I loved beds and playing balls - my mum taught me to play both. We used to play balls up against the wall in the close and the neighbours were fine about it as their girls were there too, especially in the dark winter afternoons.

I don't understand the thinking re not letting kids chalk the beds on the ground as the rain in Scotland soon washes it away. We used a bottle bottom for a peever

Annie

Post by **joette** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:59 pm

His name is -insert name of your true love!

All round if you had confided a secret to your mate & she let it slip out!!

Post by **Merlot** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 3:54 pm

joette wrote:Oh yes & the tenement walls would be festooned with balls & their stockings which were bounced too enthusiasticly. I am sure that if the buildings had been engulfed like Pompeii archaeologists would be puzzling at all those "stranded" objects at the end of the buildings .
I loved "peever" or beds & we had several varieties-aeroplane-that was 123 in a straight line then 4,5 adjacent then 6 then 7,8 adjacent & oh if you fell whilst turning or kicked the peever out .Then just plain beds which was the 1-6 variety & needed a delicate kick/push of the peever
Skipping songs
123 O'Leary,
I see Miss McCleary,
Sitting on her bumbeleery,
Eating chocolate biscuits.
I have heard tell of weans today being given an official warning from the Police for chalking beds on the pavement .

Variation on this one:-

1 2 3 O'Leary,
I spy Wallace Beery,
Sitting on his bumbleleery,
Kissing Shirley Temple.

Post by **joette** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 5:27 pm

I have been going around singing this little ditty as I scrubbed the bathrooms.
"Down in yonder meadow where the green grass grows,
Where so &so bleaches all her clothes,
She sang she sang she sang so sweet
That she sang so & so across the street
As she cuddled him & kissed him & sat upon his knee
So & so won't you marry me
Agre,agree I hope you will agree because tomorrow is your wedding day & you must go
So & so made a dumpling she made it so sweet
That she cut it up in slices & gave us all a piece,
Saying taste it taste it don't say no because tomorrow is my wedding day & you must go.
The only problem is was it a skipping song-I don't remember skipping to it or playing ball to it so

but then that's nothing new for me!!

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 2:29 am

Beds sounds like a game we used to play in Australia when I was a kid many years ago. Except that we called it Hop Scotch.

Alan

Post by **marilyn morning** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 2:38 am

We used to call it Hop Scotch too, but I never gave it a second thought

as to why it was called that,until tonight.

Marilyn

P.S. Maybe I'll give it a try this weekend, just for the memories...

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 3:12 am

You're right, Marilyn, about the name, the same thoughts crossed my mind.

But I don't think I'll try it. I'll probably end up breaking the pavement, myself, or both. (or else I might end up getting taken away to nice soft room somewhere)

Alan

Post by **Anne H** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:28 am

Hi Everyone!

Thanks for the memories...and even our mothers would come out and play...beds, ropes, rounders, whatever we were playing. Every so often in our street, just as it was getting dark and we all had to go in, somebody was always able to talk the mothers into a game...it was great, and you even got to stay out a wee bit longer

Regards,
Anne H

momat · Post by **momat** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 5:20 am

Peevers /Hopscotch

The parent of a child who left the Kindergarten my Grandson attends, gave them a set of hand made Mosaic tiles in Blue ,with Yellow Numbers on them.
My Husband Concreted them into the Playground for them and they are a feature that is enjoyed by Children and Adults.
Most Primary Schools in New Zealand seem to have them Painted on the Playground as a permanent fixture,
Have a look on this site http://www.ourglasgowstory.com

TalkingScot.com

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