1 In order for the furniture restorer to work on the flood damaged desk, I had to empty out the top section very quickly into a box and have today been sorting through it all. I’ve discovered lots of long forgotten treasures, old letters, a Christmas list written by one of our daughters and some old toys…….
Mum’s desk, restored and more beautiful than ever
Inside the desk. I just love all the little compartments and the drawers – and the old, old ink stains.
2 There’s a fabulous collection of dice of all sizes and in different materials. Most of the dice are ordinary 1-6 for board games but there are some others in sets of five with King, Queen, Jack, the Ace of Spades and the 9 of Clubs, Spades, Diamonds or Hearts. I wonder if anyone reading this knows what game they were for?
Dice -but to play which game?
There are some card games including Lexicon and Main Line and there are some tiddlywinks – remember those anyone?
‘Main Line’ the railway card game
Tiddlywinks
There are some small puzzles where the pieces had to be moved around to be in a particular order.
Puzzles, to be ordered correctly. The Football one cost 1/11d
3 I remember this lovely Knitting Nancy! As a little girl I made yards and yards of ‘knitting’ with her and then sewed it into mats of all sizes, coaster size and dinner plate size that everyone was then given for Christmas.
Knitting Nancy
