by Paul Arscott » Sep 11th, '12, 13:29
Just a quick message re Ellisdons. When I was 10 years old (about 50 years ago) my parents moved to a new house. The previous owners used to receive an Ellisdon's catalogue and hadn't cancelled it. I was fascinated by it. And looked forward to it arriving each year when I would buy floating sugar cubes, itching powder, double sided suckers which you could stick a cup to a saucer, soap that made your face dirty when you used it, very hot jelly sweets - I could go on. In fact I will because I must mention the luminious dancing skeleton as well.. The catalogue showed me a 'wonderland' I never knew existed. Every thing was irresistable. It eventually stopped coming and I was growing up anyway and friends and relatives were getting wary of what joke I might play on them, but it is something I have never forgotten and I can remember how much pleasure and excitment it brought. It's probably responsible for the urge I still have to play practical jokes on people from time to time even now.