Comments on: Chris Kelly & Dan Jones In The Playground

By: Bill Cahill

Bill Cahill — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 00:18:32 +0000

What Woolf called it:

“That great Cathedral space which was childhood.”

Can you remember?

By: Pamela Traves

Pamela Traves — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 03:26:26 +0000

Such Gorgeous Pictures of these Darling Children!! Thank You So Much!!?????????

By: Eric Forward

Eric Forward — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 02:58:20 +0000

She was a local politician Pam. The actress Angela Lansbury’s father was also another local MP with an estate named after him.

By: Bailey Jones

Bailey Jones — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 20:40:24 +0000

Miss Polly had a dolly took me right back.
Enjoyed the dips too. I liked the rude one, where ‘it’ is the one who ends up with knob.

Two dips I remember. A longer one that lengthen the process:
‘Ip dip
sky blue.
It is not you!’

And:
‘One potato
two potato
three potato
four
five potato
six potato
seven potato
more.’

By: Pamela Bough

Pamela Bough — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 17:13:38 +0000

Who was/is Susan Lawrence of the Susan Lawrence School?

If she, like many that schools have been named after should be remembered well.

Pam from Canada

By: Geri Caruso

Geri Caruso — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:58:58 +0000

This is wonderful. To think that these rhymes have survived in today’s electronic world makes me feel full of hope for this generation of children.

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:12:27 +0000

Pure joy! Goodness, I can’t imagine of the last time I thought of “Ta-ra-ra-BOOM-de-yay!”.
That gave me a chuckle, recalling the Western-Pennsylvania school yard version of a Parisian can-can! Too funny.

What a delightful group of kiddos you’ve shown us, and adding the rhymes was genius.

In high school we had an insufferably-long-and-complicated “call and response” song, that
started out with “Flea!”……then “flea! fly!”……then “flea! fly! flow!”; back and forth. But
then it got horrifically complicated with long passages that sounded like “faux” Latin. All
sung with gusto at top volume, on buses going to football games. Lord, how I pitied the teachers who were forced to accompany us. They must have wanted to “flee” for sure.

Thanks for this happy carefree post!

By: Helen Breen

Helen Breen — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 10:44:40 +0000

Greetings from Boston,

GA, what a delightful combination of children’s photos by Chris Kelly with accompanying rhymes by Dan Jones from a few decades ago.

And not a sign of Plexiglas separators, hand sanitizers, masks, plastic gloves, or social distancing. When will we ever go back???

By: Donna Reeves

Donna Reeves — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 10:01:53 +0000

Wonderful photo’s and rhymes! At the age of 66 I recognised several of the rhymes and dibs – from my school days in different parts of the country, including London. Some of the words are different, some not as ‘rude’ as I remembered, but lovely to know the traditions are carried forward. Thanks for a bright start to today.

By: Jill Wilson

Jill Wilson — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 07:28:58 +0000

Girls and Boys

Full of joys

Cheering up our Monday

Best of times

Making rhymes

Happy clappy Funday!