Motorbikes sticker album

I don't really know why I had this in the first place, and I'm not sure why I kept it either. Hoarder?  Moi?

But I have, and it takes its place amongst many other incomplete sticker albums including many football seasonal albums, E.T the extra-terrestrial, Mask, The Simpsons, and Star Wars ROTJ amongst others.

MOTORBIKES ALBUM (sorry for the blurry image!)

This Motorbikes sticker album was released in 1982 and was by Flash Collection. I guess I probably got it free with a comic; Possibly Shoot!, Match, Beano, Dandy, Whizzer & Chips, Buster..... could've been any of them really. Another possibility is a well-meaning relative got them (my brother had one too) knowing we liked sticker collections. Maybe. I seriously can't remember. All I know is motorbikes weren't our cup of tea and I don't think any of our friends had these albums either. Our sole focus was on completing our football albums, which we never succeeded in doing anyway! 😳

As you can see from the photo below, I didn't collect many. I suspect I only added the stickers that came in the free packs that came with the book.

Shrunken Crisp Packet

Erm. How do I explain this? This was a thing we did in the 1980s. Possibly people might've done it before and since. I only ever did it once. With a pack of Hula Hoops and a pack of Monster Munch. I don't know what happened to the Monster Munch packet but it looked cooler than this one below.

Sorry about the quality of photo. It was quite small and in hindsight I would've chosen a better background than a light brown carpet!

Anyway, I think the idea was to make keyring fobs from crisp packets by sticking them in the oven. It might not work today because most packets now have some kind of foil for preserving the contents, so I guess the results might be different.

Suffice to say, I never made this in to a key ring. It has just sat in a drawer for many many years.

If you want to give it a go with your kids (supervised!) a quick google and you'll find some instructions. 

The Donkey And The Carrot board-game

This was one of my favourite board-games, and I have recently played it with my own kids who enjoyed it too.

The aim of the game was to get your little donkey to the stable by rolling a dice (with straights, curves or carrots) to build a path or to move the donkey along the path.

There are some available on ebay, but I'm keeping mine for now because, well, it's kind of like a family heirloom or summat. Ok, I like it and I can win at it too!