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Eldest has just been given her mobile phone early for her 11th birthday at the end of this month (high school this year so necessary evil)..she asked me *what did you get for your 11th birthday present?*

I said maybe something like a calculator which in those days was dead expensive.....no computers then, no DVDS...videos cost a bomb..3 channels on the TV.

She laughed and said.............so what did you DO in those days......

Erm....climbed trees ..hung out with my friends and watched 2 hrs of kids tv during the school hols because that's all there was !

She patted me on the shoulder and said *poor you*

Hell do I feel old :-S

I actually got a big childrens bible in colour off my Aunt which I loved and I still have ,off my mum I got a fountain pen set and off my dear Uncle I got my dead fashionable school bag...off my sister I got twin rag dolls boy and girl which I kep for years on bed till my sisters toddler daughter vandalised them after mum let run riot in my bedroom :-(

I think I was bought one of them pinafore dresses that were *all the rage* in those days..from an aunt i think...though I can't be sure :-S

I've always loved fountain pens Hayley..in fact I love stationary...can spend hours in staples nosing through their stuff.........odd eh? lol x

Yes you are very... :-P

Yeah thought you'd say that lol....OH refuses to enter any shops that have pens and stuff in there as i just go a bit yeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy look...it's got a caligraphy nib...

He walks off at that point lol x

Gawd I can't remember what I got for my 11th b'day, though I think I might have got a set of felt tips and a geometry set for the start of the new school year.

I do remember having my first confirmation class on my 11th birthday though, so I'm thinking my New English Bible might have been a birthday present, which I still have, as I remember taking it along to confirmation classes.

ooooooooooo Muffy you know how we went to Dublin and LIKE YOURSELF ;-) love a bit of history.....well we went and did the tour of the Goal, well I was there right at the front soaking it in...taking pics asking questions, after an hour and 15 mins I turned to my sister and said isnt it fantastic she glared at me and call me a geek... and an anorack... :-0

LOLOL know exactly how you feel on that one Hayley.

Where i live we have a fantastic row of buildings called *The Brink*...beautiful and Georgian..used in loads of costume dramas for filming.

I walk along with my friend saying.ooooooo look at how many of those windows have been blocked in to avoid paying the window tax..and ooooooo I never noticed that stable block at the back..I wonder if it's used for keeping dogs in or something now........

She just glares at me and suggests i examine the architecture of the local pub..which invariably I generally end up doing....just for a quiet life you understand :-D

Teresa felt pens how posh is that I got colour pencils..... :-D

I love wondering around the older streets of Norwich, we have Elm Hill and Colegate. Elm Hill is a medeival street which has barely changed since it was rebuilt in the 1600s after a fire, and Colegate is also full of ancient houses but is part of the Viking area of Norwich, so steeped in history.

I can't remember exactly what I had for my 11th birthday but I think it might have been a Parker Fountain Pen for when I started Senior School .Plus a bottle of Quink Ink. lol.I loved the smell of Quink.
I think my daughter had a telly for her 11th !!!!!!!!!!!

we have one of the oldest markets in history it can be trace back to the 1700's they uncovered loads of alleys and old bulidings, and they have restored loads.

Jane, I had a parker fountain pen too, And, just before my birthday, for passing what was then the Scholarship, I had my first watch. (No calculators when I was at school).

OH bought me a posh fountain pen for Christmas a couple of years ago....Tortoiseshell Sheaffer Targa...cost a bomb but OMG it writes like a dream!!

Hah! Norwich Market goes right back to saxon times, andis still in the same place....though it's been revamped a lot since 650ad lol