Little things that brought you absolute joy as a child

[DevilledEgg]

For me it was silver balls on cupcakes. Such a simple thing but we didn't have them very often, so whenever I saw some on a cake I'd bubble with excitement. I bought a cake today with some on and I swear, I was five years old again!

These woodpecker toys. I had one with pink "hair" that I bought on a school trip. My friend got a green one and we raced them all the way home on the coach.

The Alfie range of books
Those cupcake dolls with the lovely smelling skirts
New pyjamas on Christmas Eve

Colouring books from the local garden centre. They were quite dear back then and I'd buy the biggest fattest one and beg my mum to buy me it. We used to go maybe once a year at Christmas to look at Xmas Dec's

Also, the feeling of a heavy stocking by my feet on Christmas morning; fun fact that my mum still does a stocking for my brother and I (we are in our 30s & 40s) with the same stockings we had growing up ♥️

Brand new staedtler colouring pencils

Highlighters

An entire full 1970s selection box

Just reading all these makes me realise how privileged we were to grow up when we did.

Head school bag
Smelly rubbers
Moon Dust that crackled in your mouth
Tiffany and Debbie Gibson cassettes
Malory Towers books

Shrinky dinks - they weee some sort of plastic you'd pop in the oven and cook them!

Getting a Pick and Mix from our local post office on a Friday after school!!!!!! Oh the joys 😍

ice on the school milk that we had to break through with a straw.

[Showing my age!]

My white rabbit called Belinda. I loved her!

The cream on the top of the milk, for my cereal. Those mini multi pack cereals. And those bouncy balls with glitter and the rainbow iridescent thing inside. I used to hold them up to my eye when they caught the light.

Going to the library, and climbing the tree in the library garden afterwards.

Reading an Enid Blyton (from the library) at the Sunday breakfast table with the book propped up on a sauce bottle. Only allowed on Sunday!

Trips to the dump with my dad (still love the dump!)

Araldite

Pencil toppers, I loved the fruit shaped ones.
Anything with Mr Bump on it, my favourite Mr Man!

My new Jackie annual in bed on Christmas night wearing new pyjamas, bliss!

We live less than an hour's drive from Gourock's lido; must give it a visit this summer if we get some decent weather. ☀️ 🏊‍♀️

Those little pairs of magnetic ladybirds
jumping beans

Deely-boppers with green glittery balls on the end. Summer specials of comics. New books in a series I loved. A strawberry cornetto. It was a simpler time, but I do still love new books and strawberry cornettos

We used to get milk cartons, but the Nice biscuits we had with them were the best.

Absolutely. Such a heart warming thread. Different times now.

Ah I think we also had biscuits (possibly Nice), but our milk was in mini glass bottles and sometimes the birds pecked to get the cream out of the lid in the summer.

In the winter it was frozen. That was when I loved it most because it was ice-cold. Warm milk never did it for me.

My adult children have told me that it used to fill them with delight when I laid out their clothes on the floor if we were going away in the morning. I laid them fully extended like a person, but in the right order for putting on. It was just convenient for me - I didn't know at the time how much they treasured it.

Tracing paper.
And graph paper.
Powdered milk.

Getting out ten library books for my holidays to majorca

Strawberries and cream

Getting in a taxi! It meant we were going somewhere posh for dinner (usually a hungry horse 🤣 but I'd still put some dangle earrings in and smear on some strawberry body shop lip balm and spray charlie all over myself)

Anything glittery or shiny, like tinsel or that foil wrapping paper with hologram patterns.

A Christmas present of 20 Felt Tip Pens and an A4 blank paper book