Stilts and things

Serenity · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:44 am Post subject: Stilts and things

Another fave that my dad was always making for us, was stilts. He get two posts and attach a block of wood on each to stand on, and off we went!!! We used to have stilt races up and down the pavements and often came a cropper. The wood leaving splinters in your hands often lol but who cared, we were king of the world on those!! Did anyone else make them? Never see them about either nowadays.

Another thing we'd do was get empty baked bean tins, and dad would attach (if we had any at that time) string to them. Then we would walk on the cans holding the string and pulling up as we did so...all great fun!!!

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Serenity · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:45 am Post subject:

Did anyone ever try this??? You pulled the string tight, one of you went out of the room and talking into the can and you could hear it in the other room by holding it to your ear lol FAB huh!
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Thumper · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:18 pm Post subject:

Our next door neighbour Brendan had those stilts ( real one's ) and real baked bean thingy's, he was sooo spoilt, I was soooooooo jealous, Jodie and I would wait til they had gone out then we would jump over the fence and play with them whilst they were gone

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Shelley xx

Serenity · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:16 am Post subject:

Shelley!! I'm shocked lol
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Memph1s · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:57 pm Post subject:

haha yea we did the "phone" thing with yoghurt pots!
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