Playing Balls Against Walls, ...and sheds Options

[stuarty]

that was it murn a forget aww the games wee played jorries five stones a loved that game but a never learned to not play on the gravel my knuckles scraped to shreads

[murn]

dae ye remember chinese ropes?

[stuarty]

oh aye and the boys in the playground used to watch us as we had to tuck our skirt in our kinckers when it reached the oxters and why we ever tried it a dont know as a dont remember aybody managen to do it ha ha ha

[Heather]

I still play doublers against the wall of the house with the g'daughters. They are still learning how to manage the two balls, and the 6yrs old who is left handed finds it difficult.
They fell about laughing a few weeks ago when I hit the kitchen window with a right bang.

One of the songs they like is:

My father's a king, my mother's a queen
I'm a little princess and your a dirty wee thing
It's not because your dirty, it's not because your clean
Because you've got the whooping cough and measle's in between.
My mother said if I play with you,
She'll put me over her knee and this is what she'll do, she'll give me,
One two three a leery, I spied wallace beery
Sitting on his bumble leery, kissing shirley temple.

[murn]

Paddy oon the railway
piking up stones
along came an engine man
and broke Paddy's bones
oh says Paddy thats no fer
oh says the engine man ye shouldny be ther

[stuarty]

snap heather am a left hander as is my son stuart but his brother derek writes with his right but like in the style of a left handed person if you understand that

[sugaqueen]

i loved playing at balls,we played at school then when we got home we played in the back close against the cellars, we were amused for hours not like the kids nowadays, i tryed to teach my 2 girls balls when we stayed in the tenemants and they were bored after 5 mins and wanted to play rounders mind you i might have hogged the balls for a wee bit longer than i should have, the schools should start learning the kids these games cause the games are gonna die with our generation and the fun they missing out on ,give me a game of balls,skipping ropes chinks,rounders,2 man hunt,dodgey ball, blue murder god that game was murder but great, anyway i'd take one of they games to a playstation any day lol

[AnneTeak]

I remember singing a song that went along the lines of...
"something something ..battle fields were covered in blood
there I spied a wounded soldier lying dying saying these words..
Bless my home in Bonnie Scotland bless my wife and only child bless ..something something"

Isn't it weird the songs we sang and how we couldn't even repeat them now ..
"Eeny meeny miny mo
Catch a ****** by the toe
If he squeals let him go
EEny meeny miny mo

How did this one go..
"Hands up kick the can
somebody somebody's got a man
............?
I'll stop now I'm getting funny looks

[joycewilson]

Loved all those passtime games, we used to play balls at a wall round the back....lol old wummin would always come out to put her bin out and give us the look as the wall led into her kitchen lol....x

[stratson]

I loved playing ledgy ,buttony, peever, ropes,t girds,tying strings to cans and walking on stilts.
kick the can, relieval,rounders, back court concerts, truth or dares.>>>. never cost a penny for any of those magical memories of childhood days.

[TeeHeeHee]

We must have been better off than I thought we were, out in far flung Blantyre, 'cos
Mrs Cleary was
sittin' oan 'er bumbaleery,
eatin' choclit biscuits !

[TeeHeeHee]

Just remembered a skipping and balls song:-
( the lassies used to let me play too)

Ma maw's a mulyinare
(wid ye buliev it)
Blue eyes an' curly hair
( a dinny buliev it)
See her walkin' doon the street
Wi' her big bannana feet
Ma maw's a mulyinare

[mamie 1]

thanks everybody you have all given me a great bellhy laugh tonight. It brought back so many happy childhood memories, I remember them all, Does anybody remember kick the can, where we would all go into a circle and try and push each other till someone knocked over the cans, that went on till there was only two left ,and whoever was left was the winner remember was.

[mamie 1]

THE WIND THE WIND
THE WIND BLOWS HIGH
THE RAINDROPS TUMBLING FROM THE SKY
SHE IS HANDSOME
SHE IS PRETTY SHES
THE GIRL FROM
THE WINDY CITY
SHE GOES A COURTING
ONE TWO THREE
PLEASE WONT
YOU TELL ME
WHO IS SHE
MRS SO SO DAUGHTER

[TeeHeeHee]

My father told me of a game they used to play with cans when he was a kid. There were rows of miners houses with beds built into the walls and the toilets and wash houses ( for the clothes wash, the family bathed in a big zink bath in front of the fire) were built onto the back walls outside.
The houses had wooden shutters to cover the windows at night. Before night-fall one of the boys would walk past a house and stick a big safety pin with a piece of cotton thread attatched, hard into the wooden shutter
and then the boys would wait untill someone came out and closed the shutter and sneak over to the window and tie a big joiner's nail onto the cotton thread. Cans would then be stacked up, very quietly and carefully in front of the door. the cotton would be pulled, from a safe distance, and the big nail would rattle against the window and when the someone came running out the boys would run away shouting "Nurcky Nurckeee"

We were told naturally not to do it, but we did it too.

To be really mean though, we'd ignore the bit with the safety pin and cotton and just pile the cans up at the door then pick a hero to get up
onto the wash-house and creep up the slates of the roof and place a big clod of earth and grass on top of the chimney pot and then slide back down quick as you could.
As the house filled with smoke they'd come running out knocking cans all over the place while we shouted " Nurckee Nurckeeee"
That was Miners' Nurcky Nurcky but if you got caught you'd get a hiding.
All good clean fun for growing lads.