"Tapping" the payphone to make calls without paying before STD codes. Tap the numbers, dial the zero. My mates number was 608 worked every time!
Encyclopaedias like Britanica... we had a Readers Digest one I remember it was in fact really good for the time.. bearing in mind there was little else to find facts with.. “ How” was a good programme also..
Anybody else make throwing arrows ? And another brilliant invention, pea guns (as we knew them) when you bought one it came with plastic pellets but we soon found out Leo dried peas worked better. There then became a shortage of dried peas in the shops of the village.