oh.my.word.

I was reading a post on DSSA and it reminded me of my dad’s old reel-to-reel that he would haul out every now and then, dust off some reels and play them. Some, I remember, were radio skits he would write, complete with sound effects Here’s an example of what the reel-to-reel looked like:

Gosh, now I’m thinking about that attic and everything that was stored up there. There was an old radiogram (I don’t think it worked) that we enjoyed playing with - opening the door, pulling and pushing the valve. It looked similar to this one:

There were also some ballroom dresses of my mother’s, a doll’s house (miniature of our house) and other bits and bobs. We also packed our old school books up there, because I couldn’t bear to throw them out

Another childhood memory I have is of the barrels we had in the backyard. They were empty (have no idea what they were there for) and my sister and I would put them down on their sides and practice ‘barrel walking’ (for lack of a better description) the length of the backyard. We were pretty darned good at it too!

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