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    What's your Rosebud?

    The things from your childhood you want to regain, but can't find anywhere? I'm not talking about intangibles like regaining the innocence of childhood, or whatever.

    In my life, I've found many other things I missed from my childhood and youth, either in digital form (scanned PDFs of magazines, or songs or movies or TV shows from my childhood). Some books and records I've bought in second-hand shops. But three things I can't get hold of:

    1. A 1960s kids' comedy in two parts called in Germany "Klick, Klack & Co", which apparently is a French TV two-parter. I saw it on TV in 1971 and again in 1973, and remember well that its storyline was about a school class that managed to stop time, with all kind of chaos ensuing. I loved it, and would love to see it again. But I can't even find any info about it on the Internet. I only recently discovered its name by scouring old TV schedules.

    2. A short book by German author Erich Kastner called "Zwei Schueler sind verschwunden". Possibly the first book I read twice. It's about two boys who run away to Garmisch-Patenkirchen for the 1936 Olympics and make friends with a British ice-hockey player. Like all Kastner books, it's delightful. But it's nowhere on sale, neither as an eBook nor as hard copy. Next visit to Germany, I'll have to visit second-hand bookstores.

    3. This one might still exist: an ice-lolly from Denmark with a licorice flavour (with a lemon-tasting part, as well). I think it was called "Karate". I used to eat in on holidays in Denmark in the 1970s. I still found it in 1999, but on my subsequent two visits to Denmark, I couldn't find it. To this day, I remember its flavours vividly.

    #2
    There have to be copies of the Kastner knocking around in FFM. Copies of the audio cassette has been on EBay several times, but not currently.

    This looks like the current Unilever version of the ice cream

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      #3
      My red-and-white teddy. Called, very imaginatively Teddy...

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        #4
        Mine (same name, more natural colouring) is in the other room

        ursus minor created an elaborate new back story for him in which he is a wise old Portuguese bear named Carlos Alberto who spent much of his life travelling the world

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          #5
          A wooden sky blue and white football rattle made for me by an uncle when I first started going to games at about eight years of age. Quite a piece of craftsmanship, beautifully made and carefully painted, heavy as hell, made a real racket and I took it to games for years. Reminds me of simpler times. I can’t remember the last time I saw a rattle at a match. Or a rosette, come to that.

          I also had a collection of Jennings books by Anthony Buckeridge that I wish I’d kept. It seems curious in retrospect that a young kid from a council estate in Manchester should be so besotted with novels about a Home Counties public schoolboy. I think I was happier before class consciousness ruined everything.

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            #6
            I think that mine are all experiential (and therefore impossible to get back).

            The 64-65 World's Fair, the original Yankee Stadium, the Day Liner up the Hudson.

            Though I would definitely miss not having Carlos Alberto.

            And I still have my Bronx Zoo key

            Last edited by ursus arctos; 02-05-2021, 21:32.

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              #7
              Ah yes, Kung Fu ice-lolly!


              https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...ce=sh%2Fx%2Fim

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                #8
                I loved the Jennings books. And Biggles. And William. I think that I've got a Biggles omnibus somewhere.

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                  #9
                  Soccerama football board game and Britain's models military Land Rover. I loved both of them.

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                    #10
                    Anthony Buckeridge was a lifelong socialist and member of CND and if you read this obituary you might understand why

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                      #11
                      Well, thanks to eBay, I just grabbed mine.

                      Being a sad Beardhammer kid that got in at the early days of Games Workshop, I bought the 1988 Golden Demon book. These were (probably still are) awards for the best paint jobs on miniatures, and back in those days it was still pretty outlaw, with models that were totally scratchbuilt or not entirely kosher from their range. This was before GW got properly fascist about the models, when the rulebook would say, "Fine, you get two extra squads of <whatever but not allowed in the rules> if I can have my Ork ornithopter" as opposed to getting slung out for fielding the wrong edition troops.

                      I was utterly fascinated by the book, but for whatever reason (girls, one in particular, wonder what, she's doing now) it got moved on and I regretted it ever since nostalgia kicked in. And thanks to this thread, and provided eBay delivers, and God knows that's never certain, I am getting a copy again.

                      Playing Blood Bowl, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and D&D the kid's section of Sutton Library is something else that is embedded in my memory.

                      The other is NFL on Channel 4.
                      Last edited by Eggchaser; 02-05-2021, 22:11.

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                        #12
                        I've got a lot of stuff from my childhood but I am missing some bits off my Millennium Falcon.

                        I would like the instructions for the big Lego Space base that I had. I've still got most of the bits so maybe I should just go and find a copy of the instructions on eBay.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Tony C View Post
                          I also had a collection of Jennings books by Anthony Buckeridge that I wish I’d kept. It seems curious in retrospect that a young kid from a council estate in Manchester should be so besotted with novels about a Home Counties public schoolboy. I think I was happier before class consciousness ruined everything.

                          I loved Jennings too. I kept all my books but when my children showed no interest in reading them I gave them to to some sort of Jennings Appreciation Society group.

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Gangster Octopus View Post
                            "I think that I've got a Biggles omnibus somewhere," he ejaculated tersely.
                            WE Johns style guide applied

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                              #15
                              Too many to list.

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                                #16
                                It has to be something irretrievable right?

                                When I was very young — three maybe — I had a small plastic boat I played with in the bathtub. It was crewed by two white, Rupert-like bears glued to the deck. Eventually they became detached and the boat disappeared. But I kept the two bears for ages, four or five years at least, which is an eon when you're a kid. They slept under my pillow at night and in my pocket during the day. We were inseparable. Then one disappeared, just vanished. Probably left home with his worldly possessions wrapped in a red spotted handkerchief. The second one did the same a year or so later. I hope they found fame and fortune. I still think of them now and then

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                                  #17
                                  I feel certain that they encountered Carlos Alberto and swapped tales

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                                    #18
                                    I had a sizeable box of such mementoes which went missing in our last house move in 2006. Among many other items were my beloved threadbare bear Teddy Tar, an old copper pendulum I dug up in a garden and polished up. and an assortment of crappy hand made sci fi comic books. All my mates did them and mine were probably the worst. Centrepiece of the oeuvre were the five editions of Space Journey, tales of the Federal Interplanetary Command. FIC for short; I could still draw the logo.

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                                        #20
                                        Hey that's not bad! A little more work needed on the relationship of the 'I' and 'C' but otherwise pretty fine. You may have missed your calling.

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                                          #21
                                          Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View Post
                                          Hey that's not bad! A little more work needed on the relationship of the 'I' and 'C' but otherwise pretty fine. You may have missed your calling.
                                          Ha ha thanks Amor, that's the best I can do in MS Paint. First time I've ever drawn it without a compass and felt tip pens, and the first in about 42 years. Knew it off by heart. There were three types of enemy aliens: Fends, Zalts and Zoctanians.

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                                            #22
                                            A painting of Thomas The Tank Engine I made when I was five. I won a competition and there's a photo of me pointing to it but it's out of shot, even though it was huge - about 5' by 3' judging by how many sheets of A4 I can hazily remember taping together.

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                                              #23
                                              A very half-remembered (sort-of) music show that was briefly on air in South Africa in the late 80s. It took the form of two rival radio stations, one of which played alternative music, and one of which played more mainstream music. It was set in London, I think, but I have this vague (and possibly incorrect) memory of it having German origins (e.g. German names in the credits), It's all so hazy, that it's almost like it was a dream, but I know it existed. The trouble is with my very vague memories of it, there's no finding it on the web.

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                                                #24
                                                Probably my complete Football 78 Panini sticker album. Never knew what happened to that.

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                                                  #25
                                                  Originally posted by elguapo4 View Post
                                                  Soccerama football board game and Britain's models military Land Rover. I loved both of them.
                                                  I bought Soccerama in a charity shop 10 or 15 years ago, intact and very enjoyable to replay, tho not sure Ms F felt the same...

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