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Toys are really just for dads

With Golden Boy hanging around the house all rainy day after rainy day, what with his nursery on a fortnight’s hiatus and the Great British Summer in its usual state, the purchase of new toys has been in order to keep my son amused.

TOYS ARE REALLY JUST FOR DADS.

18.09.08, 12:50pm

Umph, UK. today ! Do many children, mothers even know who or where daddy is. Cynical, wicked even, unfair comment ! If the cap fits wear it.
Self analysis / appraisel.

• Posted by: juan01 • Report Comment

DEVOTED TO YOU.

13.09.08, 10:30pm

It's night, the
fall of an absent
caprice leaves
in the country
a sullen behaviour,
the sound of
a fancy and
always that care,
like a beautiful
fortune.

Francesco Sinibaldi

http://forums.canadiancontent.net/canadian-culture/74142-long-vigils-night.html

• Posted by: Sinibaldi • Report Comment

THE SADISTS TOY.

15.08.08, 7:18pm

HariUK,did you mean that little gordon doll you stick pins into, in all the unmentionable places?.

• Posted by: bluenote • Report Comment

I CAN NOT REMEMBER THAT FAR BACK ..

15.08.08, 3:41pm

But my favourite toy now is

Gordon Brown .

• Posted by: HarriUK • Report Comment

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TOYS ARE REALLY JUST FOR DADS

14.08.08, 8:08pm

My favourite childhood toy was - and still is - my Subbuteo Table Soccer. Perfect for a rainy day. If I didn't have an opponent say brother or friend to have a game with I would use the solitude to brush up on my skills.

• Posted by: philfam28 • Report Comment

MY DAD...

14.08.08, 11:13am

...was a builder, and he designed and made a set of walls (all sizes), windows, doors, shop fronts, roofs, etc etc, they had holes in the tops and the bottoms where little pegs slotted in, these went on to the floor/ceiling base which had a series of matching holes. My sister and I played for hours with that until we were about 12 years old. We used our imagination and that is something children don't have to do much of these days.

• Posted by: Disgruntled • Report Comment

THE GREATEST TOY?

13.08.08, 8:24pm

When I was a lad of ten my father bought me a meccano set - the biggest and most complex available. They were'nt being manufactured any more, but this one he got from a friend whose son was bored with it. What a great and constructive (forgive the pun) gift this was!. I made so many complicated working models, and never got tired of it. It helped me to understand mechanics, leverage etc, and in later life made stripping down motor cycle engines a doddle, my bikes were the fastest around after having the BHP tweaked up 50%.. Later on, my favourite toys were girls!!

• Posted by: bluenote • Report Comment

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