Do you remember if your party cake was one that mummy made or not???

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I don't and quite frankly don't care. She loved me enough to give me a party and that's enough.

I've just realised that it may have sounded like I was comparing your mum's lovingly hand made jumper with some skanky second-hand brown flip flops .

What I meant was that I really, really wanted flip flops and my mum, bless her, got me some but they were brown which was a disaster at the time. Which still makes me sound really ungrateful as looking back I don't think my mum could afford to buy me any and I probably made a right fuss.

at your mum - that's such 70s kids party etiquette! Do you still have to eat a sandwich before you can have a cake?

My mum will be exactly the same when her gc are old enough.

I had the clarks shoes Sally

I'm going to try to get kids to play The Farmer's In His Den and In and Out the Dusty Bluebells and they'll all stand there looking at me like some dusty relic from the past

no no bookthief, my DD plays dusty bluebells at school all the time!

I never had a party, ever. So would never have had a cake.

I remember when I was 9 I told a girl in my class I was having a party & that she was invited.

Her mam dropped her off at mine after school, her complete with party dress, ribbons in her hair & a parcel in her hand. My mam stood on the doorstep & looked at her... she said "We're having chips & sausages for dinner, you can like it or lump it"

said girl sat uncomfortably at our kitchen beside me & my 7 siblings.... & went to school the next day & told everyone I didn't have a prty, it was just dinner & I had lied

But she & I remained very very good friends until she moved away to go to uni & we lost touch

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaw

You'd have came wouldn't you flamey?

well ff we can have our own partys now to make up for it!

( i do remember a friend coming to dinner andsitting nervously with me and me 3 sisters - my mum asked her if she wanted tea my friend said she did not drink it so my mum said 'tea or water'- the friend was silent the whole meal it was horrible]

(hugs and lots of cyber cakes from me to you)

awwww otter, deep breath & help me blow out the candles!!?

Gimme the travellin funds and I'll come to one now - complete with ribbons and dress

i am using my deep breaths to stop the bloody tears right now

Oh Otter

Hah... funds... what're they?

I remember my brother giving me a jaffa cake with a lit match in it on my 13th b'day!! we laughed like 2 eejits! ROFL

Ah Otter, don't cry... I don't like snot

Ooohhhh, now there's an idea

I had a black one with a flourescent bat on it! [I know flourescent is spelt wrong but it's late & I'm not going to look it up 'cos I can't be arsed]

I remember my mam knitting my sister & I a suit! My skirt was green & the jumper was grey & green. Julie's skirt was red & her jumper was grey & red! She always got the most feminine colours... I always had the dolls with the yellow dresses & she got red/pink.... hmmmmmmmmm

I just put my sisters name

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