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I used to love the cards with a stick of gum
Do you remember.
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Is that a young Toto Wolff?
Jamboree bags, oh yes.
My thruppence pocket money didn't cover the price. So I could only buy one every 2 weeks. And four-a-penny chews. Fruit salads and Black Jacks.
Would the latter even be allowed now?
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We had a corner shop next door growing up so as kids we were expert at returned pop bottles etc.
When ownership changed to Mrs Chan and family,their son ,now a surgeon and still friends with my brother after 30 years,she started marking the pop bottles with a little purple arrow stamp to show they were from her shop...so no mark no 2p! I had a pencil the same colour and got the mark making spot on!
When ownership changed to Mrs Chan and family,their son ,now a surgeon and still friends with my brother after 30 years,she started marking the pop bottles with a little purple arrow stamp to show they were from her shop...so no mark no 2p! I had a pencil the same colour and got the mark making spot on!
Reminds me of an ancient joke - Did you hear about the guy that entered a marathon? He got a peanut stuck under his foreskin. I'll get my coat
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Probably got the best answer to that..I was a child in Zambia, sub-Saharan Africa. We had no telly and had to wait for a photo set to be sent from the UK. Shortly afterwards we travelled to the neighbouring country of Rhodesia where the Bush War was getting serious after UDI.
Crossing over the border at Kariba Dam the soldiers were twitchy. My grandmother was white and British, like us, but her papers were out of order and she was arrested. Then the Rhodesians searched our VW Kombi for contraband..and found plenty, as we were taking banned papers and materials hidden in various cupboards.
It wasn`t looking good...then the soldiers found the set of pictures from NASA. They hadn`t seen them before.
They quietly passed them around....it was a `moment`. Black, White, Rhodesian, British, Zambian...we all just looked at that Blue Marble. It was very quiet. Even as a child, I could see how moved everyone was..this was beyond colour.
The soldiers passed us everything back, including the contraband, and Gran ( :) ) and sent us on our way.....
Fourpence a bag?? They must be the later ones - I'm sure I remember them being threepence.
Starting handles -- second car we had, 1958 Morris Minor 803cc split screen. No heater, flip-out indicators.
Drove it to Europe to visit my grandma on her 80th, with a one yearold babby in a carry-cot on the back seat.
Took a few goes to get it running as we were coming off the Harwich-to-Hook of Holland car ferry ... that was nerve wracking!
A bit more scruffy than this one ...
Drove it to Europe to visit my grandma on her 80th, with a one yearold babby in a carry-cot on the back seat.
Took a few goes to get it running as we were coming off the Harwich-to-Hook of Holland car ferry ... that was nerve wracking!
A bit more scruffy than this one ...
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My first mobile phone was two treacle tins joined together with a long piece of string. Never got any nuisance calls.
I got nothing but nuisance calls on mine. I had one tin and my younger sister had the other!,
I'd copyright that...
My parents had a Moggy 1000 with trafficators -
stubrewworx
Regular.
Has ceefax and teletext been mentioned?
Bread and dripping anyone?
Yes but worth another mention, the days before we all had internet access at home.
This video is brilliant and as one comment says strange how you don't miss something until its gone.
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...and Shunters Social Club...
Don`t for
Dammit! I STILL remember what the page numbers are for the footy.!
phettebs
Landlord.
Along the lines of the old rotary phones, I don't know if you had this in the UK but in the US we had something called a "party line" in the late 70s (I grew up in the country on a farm) where we shared the circuit with a few other families. I don't think it was very common even then because it went away in the early 80s. Nothing more irritating than going to place a call and hear someone already talking on it. You had to keep checking and wait your turn.
I remember in the mid-80's switching to a cordless phone with a massive extending antenna that allowed us to roam around the house and talk.
I remember in the mid-80's switching to a cordless phone with a massive extending antenna that allowed us to roam around the house and talk.
phettebs
Landlord.
That's the one! It was great.
