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ties, tights, and Chris Bowlby
Some 18 months ago Lakeland's wondrous plastic tube plant ties, which I had loved, disappeared, and I was left bereft. But at Chris's suggestion I persevered with my tights, having discovered that the key is to slice them up into *very thin* slices - and have spent many happy hours pottering with them since - thanks, Chris! But the plastic tubelets seem to have had a new incarnation: apparently the same sort of thing is now called 'scoubidous': thin plastic tubes in all colours of the rainbow and even glitter, and must-haves for primary school children: they braid them, make jewellery and animals out of them .... Wonder how long before we're encouraged on some makeover programme to tie up our plants in toning colours, contrasting colours, glittery colours..... -- Klara, Gatwick basin |
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Janet Baraclough wrote:
The message from Klara contains these words: But the plastic tubelets seem to have had a new incarnation: apparently the same sort of thing is now called 'scoubidous': thin plastic tubes in all colours of the rainbow and even glitter, and must-haves for primary school children: they braid them, make jewellery and animals out of them My schoolfriends and I were making scoobidoos with coloured plastic tubelets back in the 50's :-) Janet. Now let me see, making things with school friends in the 1950s, um that means Janet is, no never reveal a Lady's age. :-) |
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Janet.
Now let me see, making things with school friends in the 1950s, um that means Janet is, old and crusty. |
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On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 09:48:00 +0100, Klara wrote:
Some 18 months ago Lakeland's wondrous plastic tube plant ties, which I had loved, disappeared, and I was left bereft. But at Chris's suggestion I persevered with my tights, having discovered that the key is to slice them up into *very thin* slices - and have spent many happy hours pottering with them since - thanks, Chris! But the plastic tubelets seem to have had a new incarnation: apparently the same sort of thing is now called 'scoubidous': thin plastic tubes in all colours of the rainbow and even glitter, and must-haves for primary school children: they braid them, make jewellery and animals out of them ... Wonder how long before we're encouraged on some makeover programme to tie up our plants in toning colours, contrasting colours, glittery colours..... Oh, I shall have to raid my grand-daughter's supply of those things! I buy a big roll of brown plastic "string". I've bought the rolls I've had from stalls at garden shows. I think it was the company that sells gardening gloves, markers etc. It's very soft, lasts well, is reusable and less noticeable than the brightly coloured stuff. I's still use tights for tying up tomatoes and other soft stemmed plants. Pam in Bristol |
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Klara wrote:
Some 18 months ago Lakeland's wondrous plastic tube plant ties, which I had loved, disappeared, and I was left bereft. But at Chris's suggestion I persevered with my tights, having discovered that the key is to slice them up into *very thin* slices - and have spent many happy hours pottering with them since - thanks, Chris! But the plastic tubelets seem to have had a new incarnation: apparently the same sort of thing is now called 'scoubidous': thin plastic tubes in all colours of the rainbow and even glitter, and must-haves for primary school children: they braid them, make jewellery and animals out of them ... Wonder how long before we're encouraged on some makeover programme to tie up our plants in toning colours, contrasting colours, glittery colours..... Actually they are still available in Lakeland shops, but only in what they deem "the gardening season" |
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In message , Janet Baraclough
writes 'scoubidous': thin plastic tubes in all colours of the rainbow and even glitter, and must-haves for primary school children: they braid them, make jewellery and animals out of them My schoolfriends and I were making scoobidoos with coloured plastic tubelets back in the 50's :-) I can only remember plaiting pipe-cleaners and straws! (We moved to the States in the 50's, and I remember being agog at the neon lights, the colours, the multicoloured boiled sweets after grey post-war Europe!) But did you really call them scoobidoos then? I thought that name was born from a 70s cartoon! -- Klara, Gatwick basin |
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On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 14:51:39 +0100, Janet Baraclough
wrote: My schoolfriends and I were making scoobidoos with coloured plastic tubelets back in the 50's :-) So was I but we used to buy plastic-coated-electric-wire and strip out the wire first! Strange how things come back again! Pam in Bristol |
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Whyever not? I'm 58. Is that all? God you seem so much older :-(( |
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"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message ... The message from Klara contains these words: In message , Janet Baraclough writes 'scoubidous': thin plastic tubes in all colours of the rainbow and even glitter, and must-haves for primary school children: they braid them, make jewellery and animals out of them My schoolfriends and I were making scoobidoos with coloured plastic tubelets back in the 50's :-) I can only remember plaiting pipe-cleaners and straws! So did we. My cousin (pipe-cleaner-doll fanatic as a child) told me recently that she'd introduced the joy of pipecleaners to her 3 yr old neice :-) But did you really call them scoobidoos then? Yes. I thought that name was born from a 70s cartoon! Evidently not. I think it may possibly have been WW2 slang, but apart from the game, the only web reference I can find is the name of Breton boats which harvest seaweed . Janet. I remember then too (thought a ted younger than Janet!) Found the following........ How to: http://www.home.zonnet.nl/willeke_ig...ext_table.html Alternative use:http://www.platenspeler.com/diy/cabl...oobidoo_1.html Jenny |
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Janet Baraclough wrote:
The message from Klara contains these words: In message , Janet Baraclough writes 'scoubidous': thin plastic tubes in all colours of the rainbow and even glitter, and must-haves for primary school children: they braid them, make jewellery and animals out of them My schoolfriends and I were making scoobidoos with coloured plastic tubelets back in the 50's :-) I can only remember plaiting pipe-cleaners and straws! So did we. My cousin (pipe-cleaner-doll fanatic as a child) told me recently that she'd introduced the joy of pipecleaners to her 3 yr old neice :-) But did you really call them scoobidoos then? Yes. I thought that name was born from a 70s cartoon! Evidently not. I think it may possibly have been WW2 slang, but apart from the game, the only web reference I can find is the name of Breton boats which harvest seaweed . Very interesting: I have never actually seen one, and was told about them by French friends in about 1970. I, like them, assumed they were a French thing. There's a French site which says they appeared in the '60s after being introduced by a manufacturer of plastic curtains: http://www.webzinemaker.com/admi/m14...br=3&id=152839 so I suppose they must have crossed the Channel from Britain after the craze Janet was involved in, and the curtain-maker took the credit. The French friends said that at the height of the craze some electrical shops actually ran out of connecting wire. -- Mike. |
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Janet Baraclough wrote:
The message from "Mike Lyle" contains these words: Very interesting: I have never actually seen one, and was told about them by French friends in about 1970. I, like them, assumed they were a French thing. There's a French site which says they appeared in the '60s after being introduced by a manufacturer of plastic curtains: http://www.webzinemaker.com/admi/m14...br=3&id=152839 so I suppose they must have crossed the Channel from Britain after the craze Janet was involved in, and the curtain-maker took the credit. The French friends said that at the height of the craze some electrical shops actually ran out of connecting wire. I'm pretty sure the scoobidoo technique is much older than the 50's. It's somewhat like making corn-dollies (that was another school craze, several years later). Those ornamental woven-stalk techniques for making wrist and head bands, belts etc go back centuries in many different cultures. Certainly: quite apart from corn dollies, there are hundreds of ornamental knots and plaits, many of which must have been around for centuries or millennia (see _Ashley Book of Knots_, for example). I was thinking only of the name "scoubidou" and the thing's occurrence as a children's craze. -- Mike. |
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In message , Janet Baraclough
writes But did you really call them scoobidoos then? Yes, really :-) I find it strangely reassuring that what with gameboys and everything, this has come around again... -- Klara, Gatwick basin |
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Martin wrote:
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:12:46 +0100, Janet Baraclough wrote: The message from Klara contains these words: In message , Janet Baraclough writes But did you really call them scoobidoos then? Yes, really :-) I find it strangely reassuring that what with gameboys and everything, this has come around again... Me too. So has "jacks", apparently. We used to play that for hours on end with 10 little star-shaped metal things and a small bouncy ball. AKA "five stones" In Godzone we actually sometimes played knucklebones with real dead bones! We never quite knew the official rules, though. I'm reminded -- and this _is_ relevant to garden use -- of the routine by one of the stand-ups (Billy Connolly maybe, but I've fallen out with him) about boys intently watching girls playing hopscotch, trying in ever-increasing bafflement to work out what on earth the rules were, let alone the _object_ of the pastime (a bit like watching American football, I suppose). -- Mike. |
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In message , Mike Lyle
writes I find it strangely reassuring that what with gameboys and everything, this has come around again... Me too. So has "jacks", apparently. We used to play that for hours on end with 10 little star-shaped metal things and a small bouncy ball. AKA "five stones" In Godzone we actually sometimes played knucklebones with real dead bones! We never quite knew the official rules, though. I'm reminded -- and this _is_ relevant to garden use -- of the routine by one of the stand-ups (Billy Connolly maybe, but I've fallen out with him) about boys intently watching girls playing hopscotch, trying in ever-increasing bafflement to work out what on earth the rules were, let alone the _object_ of the pastime A girl thing ... but to stay on gardening: there were also daisy chains, of course, but we made lots of other things out of flowers and twigs and stones: petunia ballerina dolls, and frogs' chairs out of grass, and pipes out of ... I don't remember, some twigs with a soft centre that you could push out ... and 'tobacco' out of mulberry leaves (my brother got into terrible trouble for that... -- Klara, Gatwick basin |
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