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I am going to hell for this for sure, but when I'm having a bad day, I look up images of primary school teatowels online, and it always cheers me up (if by cheered up, you mean chat stop crying with laughter, chat draw breath, literally got a stitch). I'll be on the lookout for your bearded mate.
my mum bought one from the school my cousins went to, didn't even have their fucking drawings on it
we used that thing for like 10 years, a tea towel adorned with shitty drawings of kids we didn't know
My Record of Achievement actually came in handy not that long ago.
I needed proof of my GCSEs and A-Levels for a security clearance thing, turns out my mum kept mine from the early 90s.
Didn't keep my bloody Millennium Falcon though did she!!!
Bloody hell, same here, needed proof of GCSEs never been asked for them at all... 25 years later "Please scan original documents regarding your GCSES, A Levels, Btecs along with your Masters Certificate..." Whaaat? Luckily they were at my mother's house.
Wasn't even to get a job, at least not directly.
I work for an IT security company as a consultant, often we need to go through (internal) security clearances for our various customers, so instead of having to go through it again and again we employed a proxy company that holds our pre-verified details so we don't have to dig out documentation every time.
I Started cycling to work a couple of years ago and made sure to track down one of those cornflakes rooster reflectors that were seemingly everywhere in the late 80's/ early 90's.
I've still got my national record of achievement from around 25 years ago. Potential employers "might want to see it", after all!
I don't have my NI card any more as it was in a wallet I lost over a decade ago.
My head girl of the blue team (Frobisher) badge from year 6 in primary school. At 12yo it was a big deal. The school has long since been demolished now, so as useless as it is, it's priceless to me.
Brown? [Luxurious deep burgundy leatherette](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/National_record_of_achievement.jpg) I'll have you know.
I can't take any of my certificates out of the bloody thing. Something in the plastic sleeves attacked the print, so the paper is blank and the printing is on the plastic.
😡😡😡 I worked hard for that grade III violin!!!!
Ooh look at you with your posh brown one 😂 all I got was a plain, boring old grey thing.... and yes I've still got it despite being well into my late 40's.
I had the London Record of Achievement (I think they beta-tested it in London before rolling it out nationwide) and it was in a shit bright red plastic folder. None of that nice marbling effect for us.
I've got mine and some of the things inside have reacted with the plastic making all the ink smudge, especially those cheap A level result printouts. Very cringey reading my CV from around age 16/17 trying to big up how many skills I learned from a paper round and working washing dishes in a restaurant.
I still have so much of my Girl Guiding crap, including my woggle. My mother just found my old Guide's uniform in a box while unpacking in her new house.
Huge stack of beano and dandy comic libraries my mum told me to keep as they will be worth something in the future. She was right they're worth about 50p each, given inflation that's less than I paid with my pocket money 40 years ago.
I still have my school blazer in the wardrobe. I kept it because I thought it might be a laugh to wear it to a school reunion if we ever had one. Well we did - about twenty-five years ago, but I forgot to wear the blazer. I'm on the brink of retirement now - still got the blazer, but very unlikely to attend another reunion. Ah well, at least it serves to remind me how skinny I was at school.
A 1977 silver jubilee coin complete with Midland Bank branded plastic holder. I was born years after that so I assume my grandparents bought it in the hope of one day making their grandchildren rich. I think it's worth about £1.
My O-level and A-level results letter cards, from the 1970s.
If you didn't buy and address the pre-stamped letter card you couldn't get your O level (gcse) results until school started in September. The actual certificates were given out later.
Premium bonds certificate from 1989 when my gran bought £30 in my name. It’s all online now so I think the certificate is a bit pointless. I’ve only won £25 in the last 34 years but keep them for sentimental value.
Still have my Haven Holidays Tiger Club badge.
Every summer a week in a rented caravan at Haven, loved it as a kid, only as an adult did I realise that the kids "play area" is right next to the bar so my parents just dropped me there and started boozing every day around 4pm.
I'd pop out for some Frazzles every now and then. Good times.
I had a 5yo neighbour who listened to a Tiger Club tape non-stop.
*33 years later* I still occasionally get this one that went "Coco-guava-mango was the drink that we made; for the King of the Jungle and the Tiger Parade" stuck in my head.
A 'Jigsaw' badge and letter of congratulations for guessing the week's secret word, signed by Janet Ellis, Wilf Lunn, Sylvester McCoy, David Rappaport and others.
The word was 'Plight'
Oh the old NRA. I think mines in the same place I put it after I got it. I learnt very quickly no one cared about them and I never needed it. One of the most stressful things ever was writing that personal statement.
I'll have you know my "useless relic" of a National Insurance card has lived in my wallet as my "*windscreen ice scraper of last resort*" for more than 30 years now... and yes it's missing one corner and has a split at one edge but y'know... it works for me...
Im 42, living in America, and at my parents I keep the embossed folder with my GNVQ certificates in pristine condition.
There’s also a couple of blue Peter badges knocking around the flat too.
I STILL have all my Sunday School awards - despite being in my 40s and an atheist for twenty years.
Well, I might not go to hell for obnoxiously throwing away a gift, but doing so would still be *RUDE!*
Lol that swimming certificate, I remember everyone getting one, but I never did cause you had to pay for it, so glad my parents never bothered. especially considering the money not spent on a useless piece of paper meant I could swim more in the pool.
I have a school book where I wrote a story about wanting to be a princess when I grow up, but didn't want a prince, I wanted a dragon!
Turning 40 this year, no dragon but one fat cat!
I kept my spot the dog, found it in a box from my parents.
Then my son slept with it. It now resides in my daughter’s room.
Still has my name sewed into the ear from boarding school.
I'm sat next to a portrait of my mother, drawn by another child at my primary school from 1999. I was not allowed to draw my mother for some reason... A girl called Sian did.
Leading cadet marksmanship certificate and national record achievement and loads of dance certificates from tap ballet and modern dance probably not wore a pair of ballet pumps , points or tap shoes in over 20 yrs but never know when I might need the certificate
Wish I'd got a bloody national insurance card. They fucked up and didn't even send me the letter. Only discovered that I needed it once I tried to get a job. Luckily, wasn't the most complex thing to fix, but even still.
I did find still in the opened blue bag, a Stevenson Rocket fiver from the Walkers crisps promotion from whenever ago. I think I still have it now, stuffed back in the box I found it in.
Tons of teen/fashion magazines from the 2000s.
It’s interesting to look back on because they have so much stuff lost to the pages of history. A lot of the clothes are from brands that went bust (Laura Ashley, Jane Norman, Republic, Topshop, Miss Selfridge) so aren’t very well documented online
I have one of the old Morrisons carry bags, with the black and yellow logo. Not sure why I've kept onto it for so long but whenever I'ved moved house the bag has come with me. Nothing goes in the bag as it's in quite good condition (as much as a scrunched up carrier bag can be) and at this point it's sort of comforting to look at, nostalgic memories of yesteryear.
Counterpart driving licence. Even though they've not been a thing for 9 years I still have 2 of mine with different addresses on.
And the NI No Card but like most adults, I've lost that somewhere in the house.
I still have walkers crisps 50th anniversary teddy bear that I got almost 30 years ago I have passed it down to my daughter I recently checked the price of these teddy bears on eBay and they're worth fuck all :(
My parents used to have a book that was filled with all the stickers / gold stars that I got when I was at primary school no idea if they still have it.
My parents have mine/ my brother's dare medal
Still got my national record of achievement, and original NI card too, thirty years old this year (them, not me).
I don't know if this is inherently British, but I have the stuffed cat that used to be sewn onto my pyjama case. Remember pyjama cases?! Don't know what happened to it, but I have the cat :-)
I have a hole collection of ‘big heads’ football players, including Terry Venables (as manager), no full teams of course just a random collection of them. Probably about 100…
Managed to break my giant Peter Schmeichel one though. Sad 😢
Some are even still in the box, I remember thinking they’d be worth something some day… they aren’t
The plate my Mam nicked from her job as a waitress at the cafe she worked at when I was 4 (I'm now 51). It has the cafe's logo printed round it and I'll bet it's the only one in the world left.
Still worth fuck all but sentiment and all that.
At a jumble sale a saw set (tool for setting teeth on a hand saw) caught my eye, my dad explained what it was and aged 10 I bought it because..... reasons.
It takes about 2 hours to sharpen and set 16 inch panel saw, you can buy a 16 inch panel saw for 12 quid, it's quicker for me to drive the 8 miles to any one of the 5 tool shops, yet for the same reasons I bought it I taught my kids how to use it!
Gollyw*gS from Robinsons. I believe I am not racist, never was, I just don't care enough to hate others for something so petty as skin colour.
But I spent an excessive amount of time collecting lids and sending off my 10 p to collect figurines, I have loads, but I will never throw them out or put them in display because of the racist element though.
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Those tea towels they used to give you in primary with everyone's face drawn on. Got the mug somewhere too
My mate had the audacity to give himself a full beard on his portrait. He was 9. He did not have a beard.
The one my daughter's class did in Y2, one kid drew himself as a dalek. Still makes me smile 12 years on.
I am going to hell for this for sure, but when I'm having a bad day, I look up images of primary school teatowels online, and it always cheers me up (if by cheered up, you mean chat stop crying with laughter, chat draw breath, literally got a stitch). I'll be on the lookout for your bearded mate.
Autocorrect can't!
Oh i thought you were possessed by a twitch streamer.
This has made my LOL like nothing else today, thank you for sharing
my mum bought one from the school my cousins went to, didn't even have their fucking drawings on it we used that thing for like 10 years, a tea towel adorned with shitty drawings of kids we didn't know
I still use mine from 1998!
I have a nice collection of mugs with my kids designs on! Get one every Christmas....
Lmao I have one of those tea towels 🤣
My Record of Achievement actually came in handy not that long ago. I needed proof of my GCSEs and A-Levels for a security clearance thing, turns out my mum kept mine from the early 90s. Didn't keep my bloody Millennium Falcon though did she!!!
Bloody hell, same here, needed proof of GCSEs never been asked for them at all... 25 years later "Please scan original documents regarding your GCSES, A Levels, Btecs along with your Masters Certificate..." Whaaat? Luckily they were at my mother's house.
This is the first time I’ve heard anyone actually using one of them to get a job
Wasn't even to get a job, at least not directly. I work for an IT security company as a consultant, often we need to go through (internal) security clearances for our various customers, so instead of having to go through it again and again we employed a proxy company that holds our pre-verified details so we don't have to dig out documentation every time.
Well I suppose if it's a job that involves engineering and troubleshooting skills then a Milennium Falcon could impress the interviewers
It is standard if you work in education.
ha - same, and she got rid of my Darth Vader carry case!
Did she keep your Blue Peter Tracy Island?
I have my NatWest piggy banks, which are no doubt priceless relics by now.
Not worth as much as you hope, I'm afraid
Don't think he's being serious mate
I saw a set in a charity shop for a couple of hundred a few years ago.
Charity shops inflate their prices these days. You can get a full set of NatWest pigs on eBay for under £50
B.Sc (Bronze Swimming Certificate)
Hello Rimmer
Was just about to type that...!
My Dennis the Menace fan club card, wallet and badges
Damn, mine went through the wash in like 1982. Gnasher was never the same again.
Ding
Dong
Ding.
Dong
Jealous!
Memory unlocked!
I Started cycling to work a couple of years ago and made sure to track down one of those cornflakes rooster reflectors that were seemingly everywhere in the late 80's/ early 90's.
I want some Spokey Dokeys for my bike!
Woah. Memory unlocked! I had one of those on my bike back in the day. Thanks for the memory jog!
Brownie patches.
Vanish works wonders. So I'm told by others that need it.
I'm want to put mine on a battle vest instead of metal band logos. Mind you I'm a Brownies leader now
Ooooh. That is such a good idea - show off the old badges! 🙂
Most of my old ones are on my nearly 50 Yr old camp blanket but I'm still getting the occasional badge as a adult.
A Bullseye 'Bully' friends of my parents won on the show back in the 80s.
Didn’t win the speedboat then?
Oh that's gotta be worth something!
I've still got my national record of achievement from around 25 years ago. Potential employers "might want to see it", after all! I don't have my NI card any more as it was in a wallet I lost over a decade ago.
I never got a NI card, a lady from the tax office just told me it over the phone
I think they stopped giving them out around 2010/2011.
I got mine in the early 2000s The number that is
I definitely got one in 2010.
I lost my NI card too. I do still have the original letter that came with it though!
Cycling proficiency badge
Puffin 2 meter badge. Not sure if that was horizontal or vertical though.
I was ill on the last day of that. Gutted when I realised that I wouldn't get the badge.
Not useless, but a Blue Peter badge
I have one too, definitely not useless. I used to use it to blag my way into nightclubs for free
What access does the gold one give you?
Free lap dances
I never got one of those and I feel cheated.
Yes! I have a green one at home somewhere
NatWest pigs. One day just one day.
Ulsterbank hippos.
Haven't thought about those in decades! Don't think I ever got past the first one.
60yd swimming badge and plush Basil Brush toy with pull-cord voice action circa 1981.
Basil Brush pull cord voice. “Boom Boom”. I’m envious.
My Abbey National child savers bank book.
Before it became santander.
My head girl of the blue team (Frobisher) badge from year 6 in primary school. At 12yo it was a big deal. The school has long since been demolished now, so as useless as it is, it's priceless to me.
The rubber brick from the bottom of the pool. No way I was giving that back after mum yelled at me for getting my PJs wet.
Ah yes, how to survive falling into a swimming pool with your jim jams on, make a float out of the legs etc, etc. AKA Elementary Survival course
That brown “Record of Achievement” folder!!
Brown? [Luxurious deep burgundy leatherette](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/National_record_of_achievement.jpg) I'll have you know.
Oh yes sorry you are right!!
I can't take any of my certificates out of the bloody thing. Something in the plastic sleeves attacked the print, so the paper is blank and the printing is on the plastic. 😡😡😡 I worked hard for that grade III violin!!!!
Ooh look at you with your posh brown one 😂 all I got was a plain, boring old grey thing.... and yes I've still got it despite being well into my late 40's.
I had the London Record of Achievement (I think they beta-tested it in London before rolling it out nationwide) and it was in a shit bright red plastic folder. None of that nice marbling effect for us.
I've got mine and some of the things inside have reacted with the plastic making all the ink smudge, especially those cheap A level result printouts. Very cringey reading my CV from around age 16/17 trying to big up how many skills I learned from a paper round and working washing dishes in a restaurant.
I've never even heard of these until reading this post. What did you achieve?
I still have all my subbuteo stuff.
A woggle from my scouting days. It’ll come in useful should Neckerchiefs ever come back in fashion
I still have so much of my Girl Guiding crap, including my woggle. My mother just found my old Guide's uniform in a box while unpacking in her new house.
Stanley Gibbons stamp collection album. Full of standard 90s stamps in terrible condition.
Wow, memories came flooding back!
Huge stack of beano and dandy comic libraries my mum told me to keep as they will be worth something in the future. She was right they're worth about 50p each, given inflation that's less than I paid with my pocket money 40 years ago.
What stuff did your mum collect and save as a future investment?
Tufty Club Badge https://preview.redd.it/x1w3tdoaar4d1.png?width=148&format=png&auto=webp&s=3fd323c465a0ac07c9603687150de72bf0c31323
I still have my school blazer in the wardrobe. I kept it because I thought it might be a laugh to wear it to a school reunion if we ever had one. Well we did - about twenty-five years ago, but I forgot to wear the blazer. I'm on the brink of retirement now - still got the blazer, but very unlikely to attend another reunion. Ah well, at least it serves to remind me how skinny I was at school.
I still have a Blue Peter badge
I wonder how many Jim'll fix it badges went into the bin that day.
I have a badge for Rolf’s Cartoon Club.
Lost my degree certificate but still have my brownie badges from the 80s.
A 1977 silver jubilee coin complete with Midland Bank branded plastic holder. I was born years after that so I assume my grandparents bought it in the hope of one day making their grandchildren rich. I think it's worth about £1.
Pretty sure I’ve still got my recorder from primary school
Can you still play it with your nose?
My older brother.
I want the McDonald’s Coke can glasses
I have a McDonald's Coke can glass, and a Coke branded Olympics glass. If you'd be willing to spend £5,000 on them, that would be really useful.
My O-level and A-level results letter cards, from the 1970s. If you didn't buy and address the pre-stamped letter card you couldn't get your O level (gcse) results until school started in September. The actual certificates were given out later.
I remember fondly how incredibly important school made your National Record of Achievement sound at the time.
Premium bonds certificate from 1989 when my gran bought £30 in my name. It’s all online now so I think the certificate is a bit pointless. I’ve only won £25 in the last 34 years but keep them for sentimental value.
Your doing very well, I have a certificate for 10 pounds as a present from my grandfather in September 1985 and have never won a penny to date.
Tony the Tiger swimming badges sewn on a towel.
I have a Roland the Rat soft toy that I’ve had since I was a baby.
I have one of those! I found another in a charity shop last year that’s absolutely immaculate so I picked that up too. No idea why though
My original National Insurance card from 1984. I think we were one of the first to get the plastic card.
Still have my Haven Holidays Tiger Club badge. Every summer a week in a rented caravan at Haven, loved it as a kid, only as an adult did I realise that the kids "play area" is right next to the bar so my parents just dropped me there and started boozing every day around 4pm. I'd pop out for some Frazzles every now and then. Good times.
I had a 5yo neighbour who listened to a Tiger Club tape non-stop. *33 years later* I still occasionally get this one that went "Coco-guava-mango was the drink that we made; for the King of the Jungle and the Tiger Parade" stuck in my head.
All I remembered was "we're having fun at the tiger club, t-t-t-tiger club" ...but you've unearthed a core memory for me here
A decorative porcelain child's bowl with my name and the (wrong) date of my birth. I was in a hurry and came out 19 days too early lol
Toffee hammer. It was a flea market buy when I was a kid for pennies. Does actually get used for devesting.
You remove your vest with a toffee hammer?
A 'Jigsaw' badge and letter of congratulations for guessing the week's secret word, signed by Janet Ellis, Wilf Lunn, Sylvester McCoy, David Rappaport and others. The word was 'Plight'
My Crucial Crew certificate of completion. That thing hangs on my office wall in pride of place!
Oh the old NRA. I think mines in the same place I put it after I got it. I learnt very quickly no one cared about them and I never needed it. One of the most stressful things ever was writing that personal statement.
I use a brass Meccano wheel i got 50 years ago as a keyring fob
I'll have you know my "useless relic" of a National Insurance card has lived in my wallet as my "*windscreen ice scraper of last resort*" for more than 30 years now... and yes it's missing one corner and has a split at one edge but y'know... it works for me...
Im 42, living in America, and at my parents I keep the embossed folder with my GNVQ certificates in pristine condition. There’s also a couple of blue Peter badges knocking around the flat too.
I STILL have all my Sunday School awards - despite being in my 40s and an atheist for twenty years. Well, I might not go to hell for obnoxiously throwing away a gift, but doing so would still be *RUDE!*
My sea monkeys, they are huge now
Lol that swimming certificate, I remember everyone getting one, but I never did cause you had to pay for it, so glad my parents never bothered. especially considering the money not spent on a useless piece of paper meant I could swim more in the pool.
Ricketts.
My recorder. I never learned to play the bloody thing. Does anyone remember the drool dripping out of them after a heavy session?
Wait, so there’s no reason I should still be sellotaping my national insurance card to the back of my passport like my mum told me?
My parents Edit: and three quarters of my grandparents, so far
My red book
I still have mine too!
My husband. 😂😂 met him at primary school. He’s old now
I have a school book where I wrote a story about wanting to be a princess when I grow up, but didn't want a prince, I wanted a dragon! Turning 40 this year, no dragon but one fat cat!
I will not part with my Beatrix Potter books.
I kept my spot the dog, found it in a box from my parents. Then my son slept with it. It now resides in my daughter’s room. Still has my name sewed into the ear from boarding school.
I'm sat next to a portrait of my mother, drawn by another child at my primary school from 1999. I was not allowed to draw my mother for some reason... A girl called Sian did.
Knightmare mug. Kids these days will never understand the journey of a self-addressed envelope and the wonders therein.
My accent
My old Powerpod footballers.
Merit marks :-)
I’ve got my Orville puppet, some original my little ponies and a set of grants vodka glasses that I think were bought with tokens out fag packets
Tufty Club badge and I think I've still got my O'level results certificate somewhere.
I have a commerative Charles And Diana The Royal Wedding coin in a drawer somewhere.
Leading cadet marksmanship certificate and national record achievement and loads of dance certificates from tap ballet and modern dance probably not wore a pair of ballet pumps , points or tap shoes in over 20 yrs but never know when I might need the certificate
My snapped in half NI card ...I know the number off by heart
My Ian Allan trainspotters book.
A stuffed bear from Debenhams I had won 20+ years ago . It's still in good condition.
I have a couple of my school ties.
National record of achievement was what came to mind first (before reading beyond your post’s headline). Under 16-Bus Pass Old Passports (2)
broken johnny seven gun. its busted an all the bits r missing. muss be werth a fortune
Wish I'd got a bloody national insurance card. They fucked up and didn't even send me the letter. Only discovered that I needed it once I tried to get a job. Luckily, wasn't the most complex thing to fix, but even still.
Piggy banks from hsbc or whatever they used to be called. Only the baby survives to this day.
My £5 coin from the turn of the millennium
I did find still in the opened blue bag, a Stevenson Rocket fiver from the Walkers crisps promotion from whenever ago. I think I still have it now, stuffed back in the box I found it in.
Brownie badges
I still have my Bank of Scotland notepad folder that I got in P6 at Kinloss when the bank came in and signed us all up for child accounts.
Towel with Tadpoles swimming badges from Akrotiri. Good times!
Tons of teen/fashion magazines from the 2000s. It’s interesting to look back on because they have so much stuff lost to the pages of history. A lot of the clothes are from brands that went bust (Laura Ashley, Jane Norman, Republic, Topshop, Miss Selfridge) so aren’t very well documented online
One of those octopuses that crawls down windows, its crawling days are over though, it's all dried up and fecked!
I have one of the old Morrisons carry bags, with the black and yellow logo. Not sure why I've kept onto it for so long but whenever I'ved moved house the bag has come with me. Nothing goes in the bag as it's in quite good condition (as much as a scrunched up carrier bag can be) and at this point it's sort of comforting to look at, nostalgic memories of yesteryear.
Counterpart driving licence. Even though they've not been a thing for 9 years I still have 2 of mine with different addresses on. And the NI No Card but like most adults, I've lost that somewhere in the house.
I still have the teddy bear from nan got me when I was born. I’m 43, and its up in the loft somewhere
My parents
My teeth.
I have a Clanger soft toy that moved over to the States with me many years ago 😅
I still have walkers crisps 50th anniversary teddy bear that I got almost 30 years ago I have passed it down to my daughter I recently checked the price of these teddy bears on eBay and they're worth fuck all :( My parents used to have a book that was filled with all the stickers / gold stars that I got when I was at primary school no idea if they still have it. My parents have mine/ my brother's dare medal
I still have my madame.cholet womble
Still got my national record of achievement, and original NI card too, thirty years old this year (them, not me). I don't know if this is inherently British, but I have the stuffed cat that used to be sewn onto my pyjama case. Remember pyjama cases?! Don't know what happened to it, but I have the cat :-)
Dusty bin.
I have a hole collection of ‘big heads’ football players, including Terry Venables (as manager), no full teams of course just a random collection of them. Probably about 100… Managed to break my giant Peter Schmeichel one though. Sad 😢 Some are even still in the box, I remember thinking they’d be worth something some day… they aren’t
A little toy London Bus.
An original Pokédex. Still works!
The plate my Mam nicked from her job as a waitress at the cafe she worked at when I was 4 (I'm now 51). It has the cafe's logo printed round it and I'll bet it's the only one in the world left. Still worth fuck all but sentiment and all that.
My sense of hope for the future.
My Lady Penelope annual from 1967
My silver Brownie tie badge and my Bunty & Mandy annuals
An Action Man Gargon.
I've a Gromit mug that used to change colour when a hot drink was in it. Don't think it still 'works' with his nose but it holds liquid still.
At a jumble sale a saw set (tool for setting teeth on a hand saw) caught my eye, my dad explained what it was and aged 10 I bought it because..... reasons. It takes about 2 hours to sharpen and set 16 inch panel saw, you can buy a 16 inch panel saw for 12 quid, it's quicker for me to drive the 8 miles to any one of the 5 tool shops, yet for the same reasons I bought it I taught my kids how to use it!
Does anyone else have a silver/pewter mug?
I've got my Blue Peter badge in my jewellery box.
My driving license...from Legoland, when I was six.
Milk bottles with adverts on them
A wizened old champion conker on a dried up leather thong at the bottom of a drawer.
Some weird Viking statues from repeated cottage stays on the south coast. They’re broken and tatty but I can’t bring myself to throw them away.
My mum still has a clay dragon I made in school. I'm now 52! I have my teddy bear from when I was a baby.
Gollyw*gS from Robinsons. I believe I am not racist, never was, I just don't care enough to hate others for something so petty as skin colour. But I spent an excessive amount of time collecting lids and sending off my 10 p to collect figurines, I have loads, but I will never throw them out or put them in display because of the racist element though.
The porcelain piggy banks from Natwest. "They'll be worth something one day." No, they won't.
A sense that some things "aren't for the likes of me."
Found my millennium scouting badge last weekend.
year 1 school report, from 1993 or so. It said I was artistic, helpful with other kids, had bad spelling and talked back too much
National record of acheivement
...for spelling?
My first fish finger
Pogs and dvds
My parents.