Friday Census - Clubhouse - Runner's World

Flat Foo..ted

11/12/2009 at 01:34

The best present they ever received at Christmas

Mine was Castle Greyskull from He-Man when i was six, i wanted it for months and was not dissapointed either

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:hNpz-8gmo6GdpM:http://www.toyarchive.com/STAForSale/NEW2001%2B/MOTU/Toys/Loose/PlaysetGreyskull3a.jpg

AndrewSmith pirate

pirate

11/12/2009 at 02:42

A bottle of vinegar

runnerman

11/12/2009 at 07:04

lovely with fish and chips.

My best present was a Peugeot Black Lion BMX. (Yes Peugeot, the car. They did make
bikes once upon a time) It was white, black and red and went so fast it could beat
any bike before better gears arrived. It look like a bike out of the A Team van.

PloddingOn pirate

pirate

11/12/2009 at 07:37

surgery in a third world after a week

after waiting a year in a first world country

best birthday / christmas pressie combined EVER

Don Minquez

11/12/2009 at 07:38

Castle Greyskull here, too

Flat Foo..ted

11/12/2009 at 07:52

Minky !

Flat Foo..ted

11/12/2009 at 07:55

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:1lV0lYqO4XnINM:http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/sawzall717/mudcruncheretc002.jpg

Picture of Runnerman xmas 75 with new bike

Barkles

11/12/2009 at 08:23

When I was six, my parents bought me an English soldier paratrooper uniform complete with pretend rifle.

This is significant only in that I lived just outside Belfast in the late 1960's and the estate was close to a large Catholic area.

Corinthian

11/12/2009 at 08:35

Cripes Barkles did your mum and dad not like you...

Best Airfix 'Battle or Britain' set... A spitfire, a Hurricane; a Stuka 87 and a Messerschmidt 109 with groundcrew

Worst A trainset I wasn't allowed to play with until I was a 'big boy' (That'll be never then dad)

Barkles

11/12/2009 at 09:03

It's true, Corinth.

runnerman

11/12/2009 at 09:13

Flat Footed In a Pear Tree wrote (see)

Picture of Runnerman xmas 75 with new bike

Bit tricky. Wasn`t born in 75.

Blimpy

11/12/2009 at 09:19

My best ever present was a wooden fort that my Mum got one of our friends to make. There was also a load of Allied and German soldiers, tanks and vehicles and everything - it was quality. . I'd been in bed, asleep on Chrimbo Eve when I decided to get up and get a drink of water in the kitchen. We lived in a flat then and you had to walk through the living room to get to the kitchen. As I was going through the living room, I trod on something sharp. I put the light on to see this fort in the middle of the floor with hundreds of soldiers just everywhere! My Mum must have spent hours putting these soldiers out, imagine my guilt at having inadvertently ruined my surprise.

I didn't let on the next morning and my Mum never, ever found out.

Nam

11/12/2009 at 09:31

A beautiful huuuuge dolls house which my grandfather had build and it must have taken him months. With proper doors and windows that opened, proper ceiling lights, and the most beautiful furniture and flower baskets under the windows. At the time (I was about 8 or 9?) I thought it was a wonderful gift I loved playing with but it's only as I grew up that I appreciated it for the love and time invested to be up for hours and hours after I'd gone to bed building it.

ph0enix

11/12/2009 at 09:37

I got a 6 month cat one year. He found me actualy. His owners kept him outside all the time - so cold his food froze. So he came and adopted me till the week before xmas I asked his owners if I could keep him. The were over the moon. Were going to have him put down as they did not want him! So now I have a very happy, rather thick, fat black cat who is lovely.

That and the batman car which fired 'real' rockets from the back. V cool.

Wilkie

11/12/2009 at 09:38

Meeting my lovely, lovely Squeeze just before Christmas 2005

Shimmy shimmy

11/12/2009 at 09:57

My little pony beauty parlour. I'd wanted one for ages. It was fab!!

gingerfurball pirate

pirate

11/12/2009 at 10:02

Best present ever....

http://www.virginmedia.com/images/chopper-4x3.jpg

Worst - a bottle of knock off Youth Dew perfume!!

Edited: 11/12/2009 at 10:03

M.ister W

11/12/2009 at 10:11

A huge teddy made by my Mum when I was 2 or 3 (well, he seemed huge as I was very little). I still have him.

Kwilter with a K

11/12/2009 at 10:17

...and you're still very little

Mine was my quilting program from Mike 2 years ago which enables me to design my own work, produce patterns and generally be creative without needing to colour in squares on graph paper.

As a child, probably the Girl's World aged about 7 or 8.

PloddingOn pirate

pirate

11/12/2009 at 10:23

Stille Nam Heilige Nam wrote (see)

A beautiful huuuuge dolls house which my grandfather had build and it must have taken him months. With proper doors and windows that opened, proper ceiling lights, and the most beautiful furniture and flower baskets under the windows. At the time (I was about 8 or 9?) I thought it was a wonderful gift I loved playing with but it's only as I grew up that I appreciated it for the love and time invested to be up for hours and hours after I'd gone to bed building it.

Best one thus far, I reckon