They were everywhere, they took over the school yard, they caused fights and you couldn’t get away from someone mentioning Pokémon Cards. Pokémon cards came around in 1996 around the same time that the animation came around in the UK ( if you ever watch SMTV then you […]
Sometimes you didn’t always want a minty taste and at the end of the nineties there was a hard holey sweet that was zingy and sharp at the same time and then they disappeared very suddenly as soon as the noughties kicked in – welcome to the world […]
‘Mr Frosty he is so fun he makes something for everyone’ – or it was something like that… it was one of those songs that got stuck in your head as a kid and I guess due to the catchy theme tune it may of indoctrinated every single […]
One thing I would love to do when I was a kid was get a copy of the Argos catalogue and get a pen and head to the toy section. I used to love circling things that u wanted to get and I found it so much fun […]
When I was a kid I was never really into toy babys – i had one from birth called Baldy Bean (who apparaently I kept hitting my head on in my cot as her head was very hard plastic.) but apart from that I was never a girl […]
It is one of those games that I always found the concept disgusting if it is also one that was really popular. It is a game that is still around today and is still pretty popular – so what exactly is Gooey Louie? This is a game that […]
It is a fashion that you may have seen around in the last year as it has slowly come back in style and has made it back to the catwalks and celebrities seen wearing it but Double Denim really was a core source of the nineties and very […]
The other day I was in a dance room for Musical improv (article this Monday) and we had to take are shows off and do the lesson in socks – this lead to a lot of conversations that took us all back to the school yard and I […]
When I was growing up stationary was a huge thing and in the nineties there was a lot of cool and funky gadgets that you desperately wanted to have in your pencil case. If you were a girl (i am saying girl because I only ever remember girls […]
They were the number one present for christmas, they were the toy that everyone wanted, they were so popular they also sold out everywhere. The Furby – the robotic like creature that made a comeback in recent years but in the nineties everyone wanted one – including myself. […]
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