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Do you remember what toys you liked most as a kid?
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Do you remember what toys you liked most as a kid?For me it was batman.
Yeah, I just sold bunch of them...lol
Lego and Star Wars figured heavily, as did toy soldiers.
I had a large collection of board games, some quite complex, and used to make my own games up too.
One of my favorite toys when I was a little on was a humble little balloon. I'd kick it around pretending our hallway was the MCG and I was playing footy.
Then I had a pile of real sports equipment, plus toy guns, etc.
I was reading (the Children's Aid has told me) independently since I was just 3. Of course, at 3, I read the simplest texts possible, with all words being less the 2 syllables. But by the time I got to Kindergarten, I was way ahead of other kids. I read anything I could comprehend. When I was 3,4 and 5, obviously, these were the simple stories that all kids had access to -- but preferred to have read to them. I preferred to read them.
By the time I was in grade 9, at a boy's private boarding school that let me stay over holidays like Easter and Christmas, I spent my time in the library. I read Robert Graves "I Claudius" and "Claudius the God" over the Christmas holidays in grade 9 (I was, of course, 14 at the time). I found them fascinating -- not to mention a little titillating, since he didn't try hard to conceal the occasional orgy, or the depredations of Claudius's wife Messalina.
I still read all the time. When I'm depressed, I go to book stores. I've been an active participant in a very good book club with strong intellects, so I have to keep my game up.
My choice of reading now is much less fiction, much more science, philosophy and history, with a real love for poetry and plays (I've written my own one-man play about Shakespeare in which I describe his life through his own words).
But I've also read Tolkien's Lord of the Rings fully 5 times through, from beginning to end, around about every 7 years or so. Great way to escape. And I also confess I've loved reading Harry Potter.
Most romances, crime novels and the other sorts of fiction that are popular today -- I really can't be bothered with. Not because I think they're bad, but because I can't get interested enough to pick them up and begin.
Right now, at this instant, I'm reading Edward O. Wilson's "The Social Conquest of the Earth," "At the Existentialist Cafe" by Sarah Bakewell --- but I always have the Oxford Complete Shakespeare on my dining room table. It's too heavy to move, so there it sits, and that's where I read it.
I had one of those too. An earlier model.
Probably my favourite toys whilst a kid were Meccano so as to make various items, and Airfix models, where most of these were aircraft of many sorts and then hung from the bedroom ceiling. I also had a trainset of course - Triang, but not too extensive. I had a crystal set too - of the radio variety rather than just being crystals.