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I didn’t have any toys so I just played with my Willie…

Same toy all this years huh?

Brilliant retort Lena mou!!
B x

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My bicycle with which I moved around Famagusta. The things I made myself, slingshots (catapults for the British), bows and arrows, a spear gun that never speared any fish. And there were the seasonal games and the toys that went with them- marbles, spinning tops and pen knives to play the game of "tchakoui" which is like a partition game on a drawn square on the soil. You throw the knife into the square and slice off a chunk along the entry line of the knife. You keep the biggest side. People take turns and the winner is the guy who ends up with the biggest piece of real estate.

Why specifically the British ?

B x

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I didn’t have any toys so I just played with my Willie…

Same toy all this years huh?

Finders keepers they say... Why have you given yours away?

[Nikitas]

Catapults to the Americans are those humongous machines used to throw rocks at castles. The Americans call a boy's catapult a slinghsot. Over the years my English has become americani(z)ed.

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I didn’t have any toys so I just played with my Willie…

Was Willie the name you gave your imaginary friend?

My imaginary friend is Fifi.

[Nikitas]

and no, I did not use them on the British. We used to throw rocks by hand for that.

[phoenix]

Chemistry Set and Telescope

Any accidents? With the chemistry set that is!?!?!?

Bubbles x

None that were traceable . . . But in later years we had to evacuate a school because I got a class of thirty kids to synthesise Iodine on the bench (instead of fume cupboards) and one by one they started choking and bending over double. I thought they were being disruptive, my being a student, so I kept forcing them to go back to their benches until the real teacher came in and started choking too.

As a postdoc I contaminated our research labs with radioactivity because I thought the Geiger counter was not working as everything I checked seemed to be screaming hot, off the scale. I left for the evening to play skittles and returned next day to find yellow radioactive tape all round the building and my lab coat and espadrilles were confiscated for burial. To top it all, I was the Radioactive Safety Officer at the time

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Catapults to the Americans are those humongous machines used to throw rocks at castles. The Americans call a boy's catapult a slinghsot. Over the years my English has become americani(z)ed.

Katalaveno dora!
B x

[LENA]

I didn’t have any toys so I just played with my Willie…

Same toy all this years huh?

Finders keepers they say... Why have you given yours away?

Yes I did

By the way hold it tight

[LENA]

Catapults to the Americans are those humongous machines used to throw rocks at castles. The Americans call a boy's catapult a slinghsot. Over the years my English has become americani(z)ed.

Katalaveno dora!
B x

Bubbles mou ... you need more lessons for your Greek!