Flashback Friday – Favourite Toy…
I found this week’s theme very difficult.
I mean, so much of what photographs end up being taken are tied up in what the photographer values & appreciates.
As a result of my mum’s love of the outdoors, horse riding & holidaying we don’t have any/many photos of me & my toys. I wasn’t a doll girl & Mum certainly never would have whipped out the camera to snap a pic of me playing in the street with the neighbours or playing PacMan, Simple Simon, Speak & Spell or Commodore 64 games.
So, what I’ve got is this…
a photo of my first ride on Yalunga (named after my cousins’ shetland pony). Yalunga was black & white with a patent leather saddle & real stirrups.
If you rocked on him wildly he would begin to gallop jerkily down the hallway & as older kids we had ace fun racing him up & down the hall.
Then, one day his red stirrup leather broke. Non “fixed” it with some green kitchen string but I have to say I could never look at him in the same way again.
Fiona @ Dragonfly-Crafts
2063 days ago
What a great story Kirsty, to start with I thought it was going to be the box in the background. How many times have we bought toys for our kids and they get more fun out of the packaging.
Pip
2063 days ago
oh.. i had one of these! if you rocked it hard enough it would tip over and you would go flying! ah the simple pleasures of a horsey ride! it was a bit scary actually…
boobook
2063 days ago
I guess it as all horses for us. You look like a little angel!!
xoxx