Getting a kick from a flicknot kids’ stuff

ON Sunday morning, many of us will be woken by electronic bleeps and whirrs as new computer-powered gadgets and toys are plugged in, charged up and used for the first time.

But in a world unmarked by Xboxes, the analogue sounds of Christmases past soundtracked December 25.

Think Meccano pieces clicking, bike wheels turning or — if you were lucky — plastic footballer figures clacking against a disproportionally large ball.