KateBall Report post Posted October 4, 2007 ... pound notes. 10 bob notes Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mossgrove Report post Posted October 4, 2007 10 bob notes Getting half a crown from my grandmother for Christmas. 13-sided threppeny bits. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Lya of the Nox Report post Posted October 4, 2007 either i have a really bad memory or i am not as old as my birth certificate says cos i cant remember any of this lol Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mumble Report post Posted October 4, 2007 either i have a really bad memory or i am not as old as my birth certificate says cos i cant remember any of this lol I'm with you Lya!! I'm beginning to think they're all at some party with a few too many 'happy pills' and :lol: 13-sided coins intrigue me though - completely inefficient - I'd like to see some of those. *Leaves with hood up* Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mossgrove Report post Posted October 4, 2007 either i have a really bad memory or i am not as old as my birth certificate says cos i cant remember any of this lol Relax. It's just because you are so old your memory is failing..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Devon mum Report post Posted October 4, 2007 ... Being able to go into the post office shop with a half pence and being able to buy a chew! ... the roads being busy when three cars went past in the same ten minutes. ... when skateboards didn't exist. ... when you got two chocolate flakes in a 99 and it cost 99p ... CB radios being waaaaay popular - everyone seemed to have one! ... espidrilles! (sp) ... ankle warmers being a MUST! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Clare63 Report post Posted October 4, 2007 Hacking Jackets.... weren't they a 70's thing, remember I was desparate one Kernackers (ooh sounds a bit rude) those were the 2 balls on a string you struck together ! Early closing on Wednesdays, shops shut on a Sunday and only the fish mongers open Good Friday Rumbarbars and babycham....... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Lya of the Nox Report post Posted October 4, 2007 Relax. It's just because you are so old your memory is failing..... ahh well will not worry soo much then Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
baddad Report post Posted October 4, 2007 I remember the darkness... I remember the fear... I remember the chitinous chatter of the swarming insects as they clamoured over clothes and flesh with equal indifference, and the red, shining eyes of the rats... Most of all, I remember the beatings and the screams...... Best episode of Adam Adament EVER! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pearl Report post Posted October 4, 2007 I'm a happy knocker upper And I'm popular besides Cos I wake 'em with a cuppa And tasty Mothers Pride Question: which quintessentially cool 60's chanteuse starred in this ad? No takers for this then? I just don't know WHAAAAT to do with myself....... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pearl Report post Posted October 4, 2007 My life in comics: Beano Dandy Beezer Buster June & Schoolfriend Jackie Petticoat She Mother & Baby Good Housekeeping The next step.... "Yours" ... full of cheery ads for stairlifts & incontinence pants Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pearl Report post Posted October 4, 2007 I remember the darkness... I remember the fear... I remember the chitinous chatter of the swarming insects as they clamoured over clothes and flesh with equal indifference, and the red, shining eyes of the rats... Most of all, I remember the beatings and the screams...... Best episode of Adam Adament EVER! Oooh, Adam Adamant.... one of my first crushes. Along with Illya Kuryakin & Davy wotsit from the Monkees. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pearl Report post Posted October 4, 2007 oooooh thought of some more.... Trolls all sizes and hair colours Fench knitting with a cotton reel cats cradle that game with elastic .... a person each end and you jump in and out (anyone know what I mean????) Cindy dolls Diana comic and those strange foriegn childrens stories very badly dubbed like "White Horse" Clare x x x I loved my Sindy doll. One of the first sort, with a brunette bob & the equivalent of a 32" bust. My dad told me if he won a bet on a horse I could have one. The horse lost, but one look at my face & he got me one anyway! I spent days just staring at her. My bro bought me the Sindy riding outfit for christmas, he'd just started work, and my mum used to knit her tiny ickle mini dresses! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Clare63 Report post Posted October 4, 2007 (edited) I loved my Sindy doll. One of the first sort, with a brunette bob & the equivalent of a 32" bust. My dad told me if he won a bet on a horse I could have one. The horse lost, but one look at my face & he got me one anyway! I spent days just staring at her. My bro bought me the Sindy riding outfit for christmas, he'd just started work, and my mum used to knit her tiny ickle mini dresses! Sindy sooooo much better than Barbie, sadly I used to cut her hair .....but there used to be a shop called the Dolls Hospital and you could buy new ones, either blond or brunette ! Clare x Edited October 4, 2007 by Clare63 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pearl Report post Posted October 4, 2007 Remember Tressy? Heeer Haaaair Groooooows........ You could pull it out of the middle of her skull to varying lengths. The original Blonde Bimbo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bagpuss Report post Posted October 4, 2007 I had one of those Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KateBall Report post Posted October 4, 2007 No takers for this then? I just don't know WHAAAAT to do with myself....... Sorry Pearl I feel I should know it but can't quite get there. On the other hand for the last 30 or so years I've never got this out of my head Lipsmackinthirstquenchinacetastinmotivemakinggoodbuzzingcooltalkinhighwalkinfast ivingevergivin - pepsi. OOOOOOh - that cleared my head - was it Dusty Springfield? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Clare63 Report post Posted October 4, 2007 Sorry Pearl I feel I should know it but can't quite get there. On the other hand for the last 30 or so years I've never got this out of my head Lipsmackinthirstquenchinacetastinmotivemakinggoodbuzzingcooltalkinhighwalkinfast ivingevergivin - pepsi. OOOOOOh - that cleared my head - was it Dusty Springfield? That's who my DH said, but I thought Adam Faith ??? that reminds me "I'd like to teach the world to sing" - coke ! Clare x Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Clare63 Report post Posted October 4, 2007 Sorry Pearl I feel I should know it but can't quite get there. On the other hand for the last 30 or so years I've never got this out of my head Lipsmackinthirstquenchinacetastinmotivemakinggoodbuzzingcooltalkinhighwalkinfast ivingevergivin - pepsi. OOOOOOh - that cleared my head - was it Dusty Springfield? That's who my DH said, but I thought Adam Faith ??? that reminds me "I'd like to teach the world to sing" - coke ! Clare x Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pearl Report post Posted October 4, 2007 Sorry Pearl I feel I should know it but can't quite get there. On the other hand for the last 30 or so years I've never got this out of my head Lipsmackinthirstquenchinacetastinmotivemakinggoodbuzzingcooltalkinhighwalkinfast ivingevergivin - pepsi. OOOOOOh - that cleared my head - was it Dusty Springfield? It was indeed the divine Dusty. Your prize: A years subscription to the "Oldie" magazine Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pearl Report post Posted October 4, 2007 Name this ad: She flys like a bird in the sky-y-y She flys like a bird and I wish that she was mine She flys like a bird, oh me oh myyyhyyyy I see her fly Now I know I can't let Maggie goooooooooo. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KateBall Report post Posted October 4, 2007 (edited) Name this ad: She flys like a bird in the sky-y-y She flys like a bird and I wish that she was mine She flys like a bird, oh me oh myyyhyyyy I see her fly Now I know I can't let Maggie goooooooooo. Was it John Major during a party political broadcast? Edited October 4, 2007 by KateBall Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pearl Report post Posted October 4, 2007 Ummm..... nooooo..... Try again! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jb1964 Report post Posted October 4, 2007 Name this ad: She flys like a bird in the sky-y-y She flys like a bird and I wish that she was mine She flys like a bird, oh me oh myyyhyyyy I see her fly Now I know I can't let Maggie goooooooooo. Nimble! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pearl Report post Posted October 4, 2007 Oh lol I just got it! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KateBall Report post Posted October 4, 2007 It was indeed the divine Dusty. Your prize: A years subscription to the "Oldie" magazine Only a year? How old do you think I am? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pearl Report post Posted October 4, 2007 Nimble! Woo! Girl in Balloon! Your prize..... A Stannah Stair Lift! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pearl Report post Posted October 4, 2007 Only a year? How old do you think I am? Tis less to do with your age than the size of the prize fund Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pearl Report post Posted October 4, 2007 OK heres another There are two men in my life To one I am a mother To the other I'm a wife There are two men in my life And both eat .............??????? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KateBall Report post Posted October 4, 2007 Woo! Girl in Balloon! Your prize..... A Stannah Stair Lift! I wanted one of them - swap you I also want one of those bath knights Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KateBall Report post Posted October 4, 2007 OK heres another There are two men in my life To one I am a mother To the other I'm a wife There are two men in my life And both eat .............??????? Jaffa Cakes? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pearl Report post Posted October 4, 2007 but WRONG! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pearl Report post Posted October 4, 2007 I wanted one of them - swap you I also want one of those bath knights Oo, I'd like a knight in my bath too. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Clare63 Report post Posted October 4, 2007 Is it shredded wheat ??? .......I fancy I knight in the bath too, is it the prize ??? Clare x Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jb1964 Report post Posted October 4, 2007 a man's gotta chew what a man's gotta chew (I think that's how it went!!!) Also remembered - packets of plasticine strips in a little cardboard packet that my nan always bought me when I wasn't very well. Fawlty towers - Pk chewing gum.. Jb Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pearl Report post Posted October 4, 2007 Is it shredded wheat ??? .......I fancy I knight in the bath too, is it the prize ??? Clare x Ho yes! We have a choice of knights for you, madam... Sir Paul McCartney Sir Terence Stamp or Sir Lawrence Olivier. Oh no, he's dead. *thinks* Sir Terence Conran? its late & my brain is fried. Me, I'm waiting for SIR Tony Robinson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KateBall Report post Posted October 4, 2007 Ho yes! We have a choice of knights for you, madam... Sir Paul McCartney Sir Terence Stamp or Sir Lawrence Olivier. Oh no, he's dead. *thinks* Sir Terence Conran? its late & my brain is fried. Me, I'm waiting for SIR Tony Robinson If it were my prize - I'd rather have Sir Loin Steaks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pearl Report post Posted October 4, 2007 a man's gotta chew what a man's gotta chew (I think that's how it went!!!) Also remembered - packets of plasticine strips in a little cardboard packet that my nan always bought me when I wasn't very well. Fawlty towers - Pk chewing gum.. Jb Oo plasticine - you could make the strips into slides for teeny childrens playgrounds. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pearl Report post Posted October 4, 2007 If it were my prize - I'd rather have Sir Loin Steaks Mmmmm, loins.... time for my cold shower. Night night xx Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
