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Childhood
We didn’t have a lot of toys when we were young, so the toys I did have I really
looked a er.
These included a three-wheel tricycle, a small wheel barrow that had a steel wheel
and steel body that my grandchildren are s ll playing with, a wind-up monkey on a
motor bike and Mick Kennedy (our Irish worker) bought me a bear with drums on
his way home from Ireland by ship through the Suez Canal at Aden in Yemen.
A simple toy was an empty sunshine milk n half filled with stones and a wire
through the ends to pull it along either by hand or behind my tricycle.
The best toy I ever had was a wind-up Hornby train set. I s ll have it today in its
original boxes. It only comes out on special occasions. It is now giving pleasure to
our Grandchildren. Oliver would become highly exited when he was allowed to put
it together and have it running under supervision when he was young.
Grandsons Nicholas Dalin with my 67 year-old wheelbarrow and
Oliver and Max Filmer playing with my Hornby train set.
As children, we would play marbles on the west side of the house where there were
several large salmon gum trees that had a wire strung between them for a clothes
line. Nothing much grew under salmon gums, so we played poison hole that was like
playing golf with marbles where you had to shoot for a small hole in the ground.
There were other marble games played.
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