On the Sofa: Wisdom & Play Time!
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- I need to do some pressing so I'll have a chatty catch up with you at the same time. The last couple of weeks; birthday, excitement, election late night, thoughts on growing older and wiser (??!!), memories of childhood toys and games.......monkey bars!.....and more.....
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I love that dress on you. You look so fresh and summery. One of my favourite sayings to myself is 'work smarter not harder'.
Beautiful dress Vivi❤
I was thinking that. Such a lovely print.
Anyone else on edge thinking she’s going to scorch those tablecloths as she pauses with the iron to talk?!?!?
Not our Vivi!!
@@cynthiaolson959 totally....the tension....🤣
Yes!!! 😅😅😅😮😂
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God, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the Courage to change the tings I can, and Wisdom to know the difference.
Love your dress 👍❤️🙏🇺🇸
The Serenity Prayer:
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. The courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
And the wisdom to know the difference 😊 x
Love watching you iron, but that long pause holding the iron on the fabric was making me so anxious!! 😂
Oh my gosh - me too!😄
Hahaha....adding a bit of jeopardy. 😉
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You inspire me so much. Genuinely love your videos. I always learn something new.
Oh that's so lovely, thank you. X
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Your dress looks amazing on you. Absolutely stunning ❤
I had cannackers. Actually, i still have them.
I showed my daughter a few months ago, and her reaction was hilarious.
My ones are beautiful pink.
I also had the same roller skates. Oh my goodness. Summertime fun and bloody knees. 😅😅😅.
The 70s were brilliant.
I had a little dog radio, which still works for Christmas one year.
We didn't have lots of presents at Christmas but what we did have we cherished and respectfully played with the toys we had been given.
Gosh, that's a rabbit hole of memories 😂😂😂
Thanks, Vivi, for the chat.
Sending hugs, lovely lady xx
Ooooh, I'm jealous......the pink ones were the best! 😉
Oh my gosh yes, scraped knees. Constantly.
As always Vivi, a lot of wise words and memories. I had those sort of roller skates but never learned how to skate without holding on to something. When I was 16 and at college a couple of lads decided to teach me in the sports hall one lunchtime. They took me to the middle of the floor, one each side holding my arms, and then left me, thinking I would have to skate back. I didn't - I just sat on the floor, took the skates off and walked back to the coffee bar. I agree that people seem to buy their kids so much these days, but there didn't seem to be as much in the shops when I was little in the 50's/60's. My birthday is right at the end of August (so I was always the youngest in my year at school), and most of my birthday presents seemed to be school supplies - pencil cases and geometry sets - and one auntie used to knit me a school jumper. One year I received a ten shilling note from my "rich" auntie and someone had drawn a little stick figure in the corner. I had to put the money into my post office savings and when I got it out later on I insisted that the note wasn't "mine" as it didn't have the little drawing on it. I was very young ☺. It was so good to be able to be in the sun yesterday and potter and read for a while, instead of huddling inside wondering if I should put another jumper on.
Awww, I love the story of the marked note not being the one you withdrew! That's adorable.......and perfectly logical for a small child! 💖
i had clackers ...you've sent me back to precious nostalgia memories of childhood - thank you
Right off the bat…You were killing me resting that iron on the cloth while you waxed poetic! 😬 eeek! Couldn’t take my eyes off it! Of course you had it all well in charge. 😅 BTW gorgeous linens for the shop. So glad you find and preserve them. Then pearls of sports wisdom and a peak into Vivi’s deep 🧠 archives…..the odd triangulated dream, skates, monkey bars and otters! What will Vivi “remember” next?
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Hahaha....cheers lovely.....aren't our brains amazing...and curious with their tricks and turns! 😊
Awww lovely memories vivi. I loved my roller skates too, i thought i was the bees knees whizzing around on them 😂 I also loved my chopper bike. It was a yellow one, and my oldest brother put black tape around it making it black and yellow striped my own little customised bike 😊 xx
Lovely dress Vivi,I loved listening to you talking about childhood toys,I’m 60 and remember all those that you was talking about,I loved my roller skates I had for years,I also had a space hopper,I considered them both as a mode of transport,I’ve got 7 grandchildren and they hardly ever play out now think it’s a sad reflection of our society now😢when I was a kid we were out from morning and told to be home before dark,nothing to bad ever happened to us 😊I think we were lucky to grow up when we did,Take Care Vivi ❤
I think so too. It saddens me that kids aren't free to pay and roam now. 😥
Ah, nostalgia! I remember disappearing all the daylight hours and making mud pies, pulling up plants to see if they were growing, lighting little fires, galloping on my horse (a string threaded through the holes of a plastic pot for a head, which was upside down on a garden stake for its body). Also deliberately falling backwards on a monkey bar to hang by the knees! So much fun!
And now I want to know about otters!
Happy days. 😊
Looking beautiful
I had those roller-skates too. Loved em. We used to be allowed onto the school playground after school had closed back then (well maybe we weren't allowed technically but no one stopped us) and the playground was so smooth and perfect for rollerskating. I remember spending hours playing a game called elastics. We had a really long piece of elastic, tied together at one end and two people used to stand at each end of it holding it with their ankles or knees while a third person jumped over it to the chant 'two, four, six, eight, in, out, in, off'. We also used to play a game with a tennis ball shoved down the leg of a pair of (American tan) tights.
Fab memories! 😄
We called that elastic thing French Skipping. The game would get harder as the elastic progressed from ankles, knees and thighs. Each girl had to produce a cat’s cradle with the elastic as they jumped in and out and on the elastic.
Oh what fun memories. I had those over the sneakers roller skates back in the 70s. Back when kids played outside. Those were the days.
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So lovely to hear all about the otters 😊Thank you ❤
Between watching you ironing and your dream story, you triggered a memory that I haven't thought of for 30 or 40 years. Nothing earth shattering but one of my maternal Great Grandmothers was in service in a great house in the English countryside. All she did all day and every day was all the ironing for the whole house. All the clothes from upstairs and downstairs, plus all the bed linen, table linen, towels, tea towels, even dusters! I haven't thought of that in so long. Also playing as a kid. Here in Australia it was exactly the same. Bikes, adjustable roller skates, matchbox cars in the dirt outside in the garden and yes, the monkey bars. I too spent hours hanging upside down. Childhood, childhood! How times have changed. Thanks for making me recall.
Awww, happy memories of simpler play days! I can't imagine, though, what it must have been like to be in service.......cleaning up after rich people all day......
In the 80’s I had those skates that you had to tie on to your shoes🫶🏻. Love them!!
So full of life in this vid. The summer and sport bring out your best. I love the bright new outfit it speaks vitality and joy.
Cheers lovvely. 😊
I had green plastic skates with white plastic straps and plastic wheels that were adjustable to foot size. I can't remember if I eventually progressed to the larger metal adjustable skates with ball-bearings in the wheels for a smoother roll along, but I definitely remember wearing them.
Wish I still had all my old things from childhood.
Thanks Vivi 🍀🌷🌷💚 best wishes to you
Aww, me too! When I was 16 I used my weekend job money to buy a pair of proper roller boots.......ooooh, I loved them!
I think anyone our age had a great time playing out. I loved my roller skates too - same ones in red. I had a hoola hoop as well. We used to play hopscotch for ages (or beds as we called it in Scotland). We'd play tennis ball games against walls or with a partner singing songs, skipping (10 of us with a washing line), jumping over elastic bands at different heights, kerby (throwing a ball against the kerb). The list goes on. Then the roaming in the woods and towards any water like streams, building dams. The best of times. The rest of time reading or watching Little House on the Prairie or the Waltons. My cousin had red clackers but was an only child so got that kind of thing. Ah, wonderful to think back.
Such lovely memories.......and I love how we all have different names for those made up games with balls against the wall...or skipping games etc. Happy days. 😊
@@WhatVivididnext Very happy days :). My mum used to put a tennis ball in an old pair of tights and tie it round one of my legs and I'd skip over it with the other leg as it swung round. She also attached string to empty tins for stilts to walk on (you'd pull on the string). I remember going into the Early Learning Centre with my son when he was small and they'd made these things same toys out of plastic. I wouldn't swap my childhood. It taught us so much.
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Hmmm, clackers, monkey bars, very tall metal slide with no side rails in blazons sun, and swinging high and jumping out… it’s a sure wonder we survived without more severe injuries lol … love the walk down memory lane❤️
Hahaha.....so true! I'd forgotten how scorching hot the slide would get (especially in the summer of '76).......proper bum burner! 🤣
Me too! I was 9 years old in 1970, so a bit older than Vivi, but the stories resonate.
You look beautiful in that dress Vivi, such a pretty style. Lovely update. ❤
Thank you lovely. 😊
Hi vivi I am not a sports watcher but I've followed Cav for years due to my cycling mad husband . I was so pleased for him it was so uplifting and inspiring to watch . ❤❤❤
I loved it........such a wonderful moment......definitely a bit of a damp eye. 💖
What a lovely entertaining video Vivi, so enjoyed it. Im older than you and remember all the play things you mentioned, brought back memories for me too. Love the dress, really suits you x
Aww, thank you lovely. 😊
OMGosh, clackers! My brother is 12 years older than me and he had a pair of clackers. I remember playing with them and having a ball....but my Mom constantly warned me to be careful because they were so hard and dangerous. Such a simple toy (even though dangerous) and it entertained me for ages.
On why you remembered the one episode of the show that you mentioned about the wet nappies... My guess is that, because you are a person who detests injustice, you were stricken by how horrible it was for the nanny to get in trouble for something she didn't do. Just a wild guess.
Those roller skates! When I was really little...maybe 6 or 7, I had a pair of those but they were plastic (for small kids). I remember they had a doo dadd on the bottom to adjust them to my feet and adjustable straps on top. They were pink and I think blue, if my memory serves me correctly. Wow...I'd forgotten about those.
And playing out in the evenings... Once, my Dad had some fill dirt dumped and sort of dozed off to make a little embankment on a part of our property that had previously been owned by someone else and had the place in a shambles. My neighborhood friends and I called it "the dirt pile" and we'd come home and eat our dinner, change out of our school clothes and put on high water pants from the previous year and an old shirt and we'd slide down the dirt pile like it was a water slide. We also played around this dirt pile in the fall when it was covered with weeds and we'd make "gook" from the poke berries and other goodies we'd find. That might have been a foreshadowing of me becoming an herbalist. lol
Thank you so much for the walk down my own memory lane....or a slide down my dirt pile, as it were. ; )
Awwww, the simple joy to be had from a dirt pile!! I could totally imagine it. 😊
I had white clackers. I loved them! Can't imagine I could do the full clack. Knowing me I probably just liked looking at them 😂
Hahaha. 😊
My clackers were bright red. They were dangerous 😂. I also remember the metal roller skates tied to the shoes. Mine were forever coming off and flapped around my ankle. I am surprised I didnt break my ankle from going so fast. The plastic whizzer, which was just a tube you wound fast round your head to make a whistling sound. The skip ball which was a hoop with a string and a ball on the end, you put around one ankle, and swung your leg to move the ball in a circle and lift you other foot over the string and try to keep it going. Hoola hoops, skipping ropes, cats cradle around hands and around legs, making dens and finding thrown away items to furnish it. Marbles, conkers, etc My husband said you were out all day and only came home when the street lights came on for your tea or you were feeling hungry. Lots to do. Lots of reading. I bought my first books in a jumble sale with my pocket money. I still loves those two books and the authors they have stayed some of my favourites Little Grey Rabbit makes Lace by Alison Uttley, and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis. Puzzle books, dot to dot books. Oh happy days. You set off loads of memories Vivi. Big hugs lovely lady.
@@Briardie Glorious, happy memories! 💖💖
I join the chorus singing in praise of your dress. You look beautiful in those bright colours and patterns! 🎉 You talk about awful weather. Meanwhile, in central Europe, we're having heatwaves of up to 36 degrees. You can go mad. Seriously. It's not normal. Mother Earth has really had enough of us... :(
Thank you re the dress. Ach, crazy weather during the Tour de France too.......blistering heat then chilly pouring rain!
The serenity prayer...... I remember the swingboat in the playground.... I was always dragged around by my teenage sisters and I remember all these teenagers in the 1960's on the swingboat singing petula Clark's 'sailor' at the top of their voices! ( 1961) Who stole my life!!!!🤣
Oh my goodness.....I'd forgotten about the swing boats! 😄
I had clackers and yes they hurt a lot😂and left big bruises on the wrists 👀👀
We use to play tigs off ground and tigs anywhere, we had loads of fun.
I had a space hopper and roller skates and went down the avenue on them where we lived in the 70s.
I was born in rural IRELAND 1974 WE WERE OUT ALL DAY MY CHILDREN CANT GO OUT NIW ALONW TO PLAY THWY COULD NEVER GO OUT TO DANGERIOUS NOW
Ah, I remember those skates too! When I was young, I lived across from a supermarket and, back in the day, it was always closed on Sundays. So, we always had our own (FREE) roller rink right across the street. Good times!
Yay for Sunday closing and an extra playground! 😊
Oh my goodness, I had the same exact skates growing up… You are so right, I never got new skates because they always fit me year after year
Oh yes I remember clackers 😆they were noisy and my mum said I couldn’t play with them indoors. Mine were orange,they really hurt you wrist if they hit but the joy when I managed to get them to hit above and below in one flick. I longed for a space hopper but never got one. My favourite was my scooter I’d scoot around all day. We played out with lots of other kids there was usually lot of mums at home,my mum worked but that was unusual in the 1960’s. Isn’t there a type of yoga where people hang upside down by rope? Supposed to be beneficial to the joints. 🤷♀️
Oh I longed for a space hopper too! Yay for scooters in their stead. 😉
I want to now watch the show about the nanny you described and looked it up and it’s not accessible to see anywhere. I was so bummed. I need to do a whole British tv deep dive but that show sounded super interesting to me. I wish I could find it somewhere now lol. And yet it’s the stuff of nightmares. Lol
Love your gorgeous orange and white dress also. Side notes to the video itself but def inspired me to do some tv exploring. I find it hard to find things I want to watch. You and the Richard and Paul duo may inspire me.
Ps. I had clackers I think also.
My roller skates I first had were metal and strapped on the top and yep they could get bigger! When I got booted cheap roller skates but they were fiberglass or some rubbery stuff I felt that glide was magical but I lived in my metal skates for years too. I remember the sound they made.
I loved that trip down memory lane. Some of my mates had clackers and I longed for them, but never got them, my mum said they seemed a bit dangerous. Mystic Meg my mum was. 😂 I did get a space hopper though, I bounced like a maniac for a week then it got a puncture 🤣
Hahaha.....the short lived joy! 😉
Lovely dress Viv.
Good to see you on this fine summer day ,the tea cloths are gorgeous.
Ah !!! You brought back sweet memories w Teeny Tiny Tears doll and skates! ..yay for nostalgia - the more I age , the more I crave those memories!🫤 ahhhh ….the good ol’ days. Otters. Remind me of the sloth ! Both SOOO CUTE !!!
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Yay for happy memories......simpler times. 😊
I loved my roller skates too & did get roller boots when i was older as we had a roller rink up the road from us xx
Fun times! 😊
@@WhatVivididnext Very i loved my skatesxx
That color on your dress looks great on you. Dreams are fascinating to me.
Oh yes...clackers....i had them....they featured on a 70's programme the other day. R.
I really want to have a go on some again! 😄
@@WhatVivididnext guess what you're getting for Xmas....? 🤣
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I had a purple glass set of clackers and my best friend had a plastic orange pair. I was mad when they took mine away from me. Talking about the old roller skates reminds me of the song by Melanie, “Brand New Key.” Canada had a real roller skating culture when I was growing up and on weekends, we all met up at the local arena. I think I got my first precision boots when I was around 13. we loved when the song “Whip It” by Devo would come on and everyone would form a long chain and go in a circle and try to whip the last person off or to break the chain. Dancing on roller skates was so much fun. It was considered a cool thing if the local boys got part time jobs renting out the skates. Of course, in the winter, we hung up our roller skates for ice skates.
Love it! 😊
Hi Vivi. Clackers were out in the late 60's and 70's over here in the USA. I remember them well. Loved them. You would see them hanging from power lines sometimes. Also, the boys had Num- chucks.
I had those same rollerskates. Unfortunately my brother took the wheels apart so he could have the ball bearings, and my parents couldn't afford another pair for me so that gift didn't last long. Now kids are stuck in the house on their gaming stations, they don't play outside. My daughter just broke off a relationship with her boyfriend due to him not being able to stop playing electronic games enough to even go to work. He was given lots of toys when he was a child, and the electronic games became an addiction.
Oh that's so sad.....for both of them. 😢 That's one of the reasons I am very happy to not have a smart phone.....
Our weather in the Seattle area is almost exactly the same as yours today! (7.18.). I do love your new dress…it looks so comfy and fresh. So we had clackers and they were made of a resin - that would chip! I do remember bruising my wrists. Our roller skates were metal with leather straps. I still have my skate key - the thing you would use to adjust the size. XXX
.......and now our weather has decided to be summer.......it's going to be 30c today.....finally! Awww, I love that you still have your key. 😊
Oh you've taken me down memory lane today ! From the toys we had to the games we played . Such lovely memories . Used to love hanging upside down on monkey bars for hours . When our kids started having cars we all used to have to back out to let the one at the front out and we called ourselves the butterflies after the program ! Fun times. Thank for reminding me . Your dress is lovely by the way . x
Yay for happy memories. 😊
My clackers wee emerald green. I *loved* them. I would buy a set today if I could find one.
Hahaha - ditto!
Haha…speaking of feral children playing in the hood…my mother used to lock us out of the house in the middle of winter for at least two hours at a time. Lots of fresh and air and a bit of peace and quiet for her. Back from the mountains now…had a great time. A little something via Pay Pal for you.🌟❤️
Thank you so much lovely, I hope you has a wonderfully relaxing time. 😊 Hahaha, yep, I think our mum's were onto something.....chuck the kids out of the house in the name of play.....so they could put their feet up for a minute....in silence!
Hi Vivi. I loved the monkey bars too! I'd play chicken on them. I don't know if that's the same as tick on the monkey bars?
I love otters. I live by the water and we have cute, pudgy river otters. I watched a documentary on a woman that they called the otter whisperer of the Amazon. I'm not exactly sure about the title but it was so amazing. She had be friended the river otters and always came to her voice, even after years. It was an amazing story.
I love your dress, it's so summery.
I love the idea of the woman whispering to the Amazon otters - wonderful!
You're a joy Vivi. So interested in everything. And so compelling when sharing your fascination and delight with us.
I never had the trendiest toys. But I DID have those roller skates AND a Tiny Tears who did wee wees ⛸️👶🚽
Ooooh, lucky you to have a TT doll!! 😄
Loved my adjustable roller skates Vivi… such a clever design 😁 and I’ll keep an eye out for the otter program as it sounds wonderful 😊
We had clackers too! Did you have a lemon twist? It was a plastic lemon on a "rope" tied to a ring. We'd put an ankle through the ring and swing the rope to skip over the lemon with the other leg. We also had shoe skates. We had plastic bats and balls for baseball and we spent hours playing basketball. We used chalk to draw in the sidewalks and play hopscotch. We played tag, hide and seek and caught fireflies in the summer until we were called for supper. We weren't under our parents watch but we had to be close enough to hear our name called or a whistle to come home. When we were old enough to ride bicycles we had to be home for supper. We had a huge playground and park in our neighborhood. It had monkey bars, a metal slide and a metal merry go round. It was a death trap lol Even jn the winter we stayed outside sledding and playing. Tha ks for the memories!
Lovely memories. 💖
If you want to hang upside down on monkey bars Viv, make sure you wear trousers!🤣 You took me back to my childhood talking about roller skates. Those were the days, dare not try roller skating now as I am 71.
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That is strange... We have been having such a horrible heat wave (central-eastern Europe), I can barely stand it, most of the days must be spent (maybe it's just me and my family?) indoors because it is too hot... My tomatoes are taller than me and I am about to start picking... What a strange year... Hugs Vivi!!
Wow to your toms! I was at the garden again a couple of days ago and looking at my friends' plants......still so little.....still no fruits......
@@WhatVivididnext But Vivi it is not normal, you see. I would not start picking toms for another two weeks or so. But they got bonkers since the temperature has been above 30 this last 4 weeks or so. I cannot breath in such a weather. AND I am highly concerned about the blight, because with heat storms came... it is unbelievably moist. The snails are having a party. The world has gone on its head, I tell you!
I grew up on a farm and we had a two story barn. There was a chute to throw hay down for the cattle from the hay mow to the barn floor. And of course it was also a wonderful place to jump from. Many years later I looked at how high that was and was amazed that none of us broke anything jumping down.
It's amazing how fearless we are as kids! 😊
Hi Vivi, I’ve not watched the video yet but just wanted to say how amazing your new (only new to you probably) clothes are x
Thank you lovely. 😊
Dress looks fab on you Vivi ❤ I loved Eddie Merks, he was my fav cyclist. 😊
I love otters! When I'd take my kids to the zoo, it would be so depressing for me. The otters seemed to be the only happy creatures in captivity. I could watch them for hours.
Vivi, so interesting how similar my experience as a child in the US is to yours with the exception of going home for tea. Up, chores, and out for the whole day! I’m from Minnesota and a darling young boy named Jacob Wetterling was abducted while biking to the store with friends in a small town in 1989. In my opinion that was the end of innocence and of lettting your children out of your sight.
Oh that's awful......beyond words. 😥
My hands and wrists were permanently bruised due to those clackers. Awesome fun, but bloody painful!
Thanks for the childhood memories of clackers, roller skates etc., those early days were wonderful, just how a childhood should be. Standing up on the swings and swinging all the way around, I remember also, but I did not do it. It was interesting associating your unpleasant dream with Butterflies ( I used to watch the show). I can see how the bad dream happened when you explain it that way.
Hahaha......trying to go right over the tops on the swings was one thing I never did try......I thought it far too scary. 😉
How lovely to reminisce about our childhood, I always say that I invented the skateboard by tying a beano annual to a roller skate. I am 10 years older than you Vivi and we used to play hours with a whip and top probably this was before your time. Who else remembers the triang scooters. This has taken me down memory lane when life seemed much more simple and worry free, those were the days.
Yay for those simpler days.......gosh we did make a lot of fun out of nothing! 😊
I've added Supercharged Otters to my watchlist as we don't have it here yet in New Zealand. I'll get a notification when it's been purchased by one of our channels. I've always loved them, ever since going to the cinema as a child to see Ring of Bright Water, which was also the first film that made me cry.
Monkey bars here were always called jungle gyms. I don't know if they still are.
Oooh, I hope you can get it soon.....such a wonderful documentary. 😊
1976--South Africa-- still Jungle Gym
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Did you say cooler Vivi, I call it dam cold most nights.
I can't imagine running over the top of the monkey bars! I recall crawling along the tops only. There used to be a game we played on monkey bars where 2 kids started on either end and met in the middle. While holding the bars above with hands, you'd wrap your legs around the other kid and try to pull each other down that way. If u were pulled down you were out. I was grateful that my kids raised late 90s, early 2000s also had a neighborhood where they could play outside with other kids on skates, bikes, etc.
Oooh, that sounds like a fab game on the monkey bars! 😊
Fantastic
I had clackers!😊
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I am from northern Ireland too though I am 62, think they were more around my Era 😂😂
Beautiful dress, looks lovely on you.
If you are going on the monkey bars Vivi, don't forget to put clean knickers on!! Also don't knock yourself out with your boobies!! Lol!!! Oh those happy carefree days, out playing all day long, coming home all tired and mucky. Kids today are missing so much, just stuck to their playstations or whatever. Its a sad world we are living in now, just full of fear. Great chat lovely! xxx
Cheers lovely. Ach, yes, it makes me so sad that kids aren't free to roam now. 😥
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I was a new teacher and they were banned in the school
If you are going to play on the monkey bars, don't forget to take a video, we all want to see you upside down ( remember to wear leggings ! ) Back in the day I grew up in the middle of nowhere, friends all lived miles away, so had to amuse myself, spent hours in the woods surrounding our cottage, so gained a good knowledge of natural history when young, paddling in the ford and going down to the chalk stream by our school to watch the trout. Life was so much simpler then. Take care Vivi we don't want any broken bones ! Xx
Yay for simpler times! That's why I loved spending every summer in Dorset.......running feral and sooooo happy! 😊
Kids don’t play out enough!
I had royal scot flyers roller skates which would,fly off and almost break your ankle, Iwasn't allowed a spacehopper but I used my friends, remember those long flexible tubes that you span around and they would make a whooshing noise.
I was just remembering the whooshing tubes!
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Hi Vivi! I've just watched your video on the Polti iron. I've just had one delivered and had a question about it. How do you empty the tank? I'm very interested in learning more about all the controls of the iron. Thank you so much!
I haven't emptied mine yet.
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I Think it stuck in your mind cause it was such a mean thing to do and it upset you..just a thought.Enjoy Take care b safe. Chgo .I'll.
Absolutely.
If you hang on monkey bars make sure you record it 😂
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Don’t think I’m getting any wiser 😂
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All change the last few days!! I nearly got heat stroke
Cor, not half! A bit of a shock to the system after all the grey, cool days! Take care lovely. 😊
@@WhatVivididnext You too 🌞
Have You Seen Wendy Craig in The Nanny with Bette Davis? One of Bette’s Best!
Clackers & a Hula Hoop = Bliss! 🥳
Thank You Vivi!!!🥰😘😍
Did you have a hoopla hoop as well?
Yes!
I lived on a street where one end was cobbled and the other end tarmac and I managed to roller skate on both but have to admit that the tarmac was easier 😆