Twitter Competition £100 Voucher Winner!

Hi guys.

As many of you will know through your very generous spreading of the word, we offered a £100 voucher to spend on our When I Was A Kid to celebrate reaching 2000 Twitter followers.

We promised to pick the winner at random and true to our word, here is the screen shot from random.org - the method that was used to pick the winner:

Having been through our list of followers, number 764 is..... drum roll:

@sardinetin

Huge congratulations to our winner and a mahoosive heartfelt thanks to all the wonderful people that have and continue to support us. Keep spreading the word!

We shall also be announcing the winner on Twitter but if the prize in not claimed within 5 days, we will donate £100 worth of toys to a nominated charity instead.

Kind regards, Paul. Daddy & Owner, When I Was a Kid.

Bedtime Stories

When I was a kid I remember my Dad would occasionally deliver the bedtime story. He never read from a book because my sister and I demanded another episode from the life of the "Jellybottom" family. All I can remember about these stories is that there were three bears and they had very fat bottoms... and they wobbled along the road causing havoc.

Outdoor Play

When I was a kid and the yawning six weeks summer holidays were upon us it seemed like we played outside all day long.  There was just too much to do; riding round the block on my bike, picking at the tar that held the drain in place in the road, drawing pictures on the path in the garden or in the alley with chalk and a gang of us going to the park four streets away.

Gangs were not the feared groups of youths that they are now.  If you were in a gang you were a member of a club.  Our club house was in my dad's garage - the garage door even had two small holes near the handle that were just big enough to aim a pea shooter through.