One of my christmas presents

[battyrat]

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Painting with numbers. I think some were copy's of famous paintings and others were made up. I had one myself of some Swiss mountain scene. The paints were oils in little plastic pots in this set.

Craft sets seemed to be all the rage in the 70's.I can remember all types. One that sticks in my mind was of cork place mats with cute animal pictures printed on them. You had to finish painting them and coat them with varnish.

Does anybody remember the craft books where you had to cut out costumes and stick onto cut out people. I had a medieval knight set which kept me busy for hours cutting out all the little bits and attaching them to the figures.

[staffslad]

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Talking of artists materials, I remember having as a child a painting set with a number of pieces of paper on which were printed various areas outlined with thin lines. Inside each area was a number which corresponded to a particular colour or shade of colour. You just filled in each area with the appropriate colour or shade and gradually a picture was created. Can't remember if these were all originals or if they cribbed various famous paintings. I got it for Christmas sometime in the early/mid 70s.

[battyrat]

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I admire people who are good at arts and crafts. Just remember the more you paint the better you get, so don't give up. It's a great hobby.

Make vintage style teddy bears myself. It's always nice to have something to show for your efforts.

[tex]

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Getting some artists materials, been itching to give painting a try for a while

[battyrat]

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I had an alarm clock that you were supposed to throw against a wall to stop it ringing. Guess I threw it too hard as it broke on my first throw. Ended up with some sort of multi part jigsaw.

[Zincubus]

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I wanna new digital alarm clock for Chrissie. My current one I have had.. wait for it.. since the late 70s.. (I kid you not) is now in its death throes. If only merchandise today had such a long useage.

Maybe a cricket based one




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[Donald the Great]

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I wanna new digital alarm clock for Chrissie. My current one I have had.. wait for it.. since the late 70s.. (I kid you not) is now in its death throes. If only merchandise today had such a long useage.

[Donald the Great]

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Wife bought me this for christmas, 1000 pieces...this will take me to NEXT chistmas!

tex that is gonna give your blood sugar level one hellova hit. Ever heard of diabetes?

[tex]

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My mate has one of those Alexa jobbies, we were drinking round his and he was telling me how he hasn't worked out most of the commands yet, so I shouted "Alexa, set an alarm for 3am everyday", he had to look up how to cancel all alarms.

Thats hillarious

[Mulletino]

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My mate has one of those Alexa jobbies, we were drinking round his and he was telling me how he hasn't worked out most of the commands yet, so I shouted "Alexa, set an alarm for 3am everyday", he had to look up how to cancel all alarms.

[Zincubus]

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One of those wotsits, its called Alexa and you ask it to warm up your slippers and stuff.

Ah ... my old neighbour's daughter bought him one to kinda keep him company after his wife passed away .. funny thing is it's supposed to make things easier but he can't remember what 'she's' called so his daughter wrote her name in his telephone book ... which is kept in the other room near the phone

Sooooo when he wants to ask her something he has to get up off the sofa and walk to the phone book to see what she's called

The other funny thing is ( apart from him cursing her all the time for mid -hearing him .... is that 99% he's asking if some sportsman or other is still alive


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[tex]

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We need more info than that unless it's 'bedroom' based of course


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One of those wotsits, its called Alexa and you ask it to warm up your slippers and stuff.

[Zincubus]

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So my wife is getting me one of those new fangled thingummy bobs.

We need more info than that unless it's 'bedroom' based of course


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[tex]

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So my wife is getting me one of those new fangled thingummy bobs.

[victorbrunswick]

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Lesney was a combination of the names of its founders, Leslie Smith and Rodney Smith (no relation).