IF YOU CAN REMEMBER MOST OR ALL OF THESE,THEN YOU HAVE LIVED
DURING A GOOD TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...........................Do you remember a time when...........
Decisions were made by going 'Eeny-meeny-miney-moe?
'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
Catching tadpoles could happily occupy an entire day
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a catapult ?
War was a card game ?
Cigarette cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motor cycle ?
Playing cricket with no adults to help children with the rules of the game.
Bottles came from the corner shop without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger.
............And with all our progress ,don't you wish, just once,you could slip back in time and savour the slower pace,and share it with the children of today?
............Basically we were in fear for our lives,but it wasn't because of drive by shooings,drugs,gangs etc.Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat!
But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
As well as summers filled with bike rides,cricket,Hula hops,skating and visit to the pool,eating lemonade powder or liquorice sticks.
...........Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say,YES,I remember that
I am sharing this with you because it ended with a Double Dare for you to share it.To remember what a double dare is, read on, and remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.
Share this with someone who can still remember the Lone Ranger and Sgt Bilko
Share this with anyone who made need a break from their 'Grown-Up life'
I remember milk bottles with cardboard tops with little circle bits in centre.
We used to save those, rinse and push out the circles and clever mums used to thread raffia through and then stitch them together to make shopping bags.
I remember those cardboard milk bottle tops too. We used to make Pom poms by putting two together and winding wool round through the hole and when the hole was full cutting between the tops. Also made 'whizzers' - long piece of yarn doubled and threaded through the centre, ends tied together and put round fingers or whole hands and spun around and then pulled to and fro at each end to make the 'whizz' sound.
Love sharing these great old memories King - oh yes, I do recall the Lone Ranger and Tonto, also Champion the Wonder Horse and Wagon Train: early sixties saw Dr Kildare; ,Voyage to the bottom of the Sea; Dangerman and The Avengers. Making things with Blue Peter...now who hasn't tried that at least once? My own favourites were the animal programmes... - Animal Magic, White Horses and Follyfoot : -) As for 45 RPM records - still have a collection of these. After school we'd play out in the street - cowboys and indians, - making the bows and arrows out of suitable twigs from a nearby hedge and some old elastic from mums work-basket! Favourite past time was rolling skating... and was good at it even though I say so myself, lol : -) Happy days! Lovelight xx
Me too remember the picnics, children only olders looking after young ones, each one with a bottle of water and 2 jam butties which were always dried up but still eaten.Collecting tadpoles and newts. Happy days.
My gran used take us into the fields during haymaking.She would lay a ginham table cloth over the hay and out of her whicker basket would come fresh hot bread and dripping mmmmmmmmmmmmm
As a family of 5 boys and 1 girl. whos father died in his early 30s, my dad told me that bread and dripping was the staple diet in his family.His mother struggled to bring them up.No benefits in those days.
I still have mine in a lozenge tin - used to play it endlessly. Also a hula hoop - used to hula hoop my way to school - must have looked a right prat!!!!
My wife sand said i lost my marbles years ago . But when you tell the youngsters which way we played then that's all you get yer right. Get with the times bamp.never mind still got the hard toffes. And the sherbet dip and salt and shake.
Oh what bliss to slip back just for a moment & have my rememberer reminded as tigger would say thank you KOTC you are a gem & yes i remember them all & the fruit & veg man coming to the house & the bread man & sticking my fingers in melting tarmac in the WARM summers & helping bring the hay in & going to the farm for milk that was still warm when we had run out & going out in the morning & not seeing an adult till tea time I WANA GO HOME
Wern't they & wouldn't it be lovely to have them back, so long as we could keep the central heating it,s great that everyone is sharing their memories & adding to the list bless you King x
Oh I loved corona pop, dandilion & burdock & cream soda mmmmm oh for a "swig" now My Fair Lady & The King & I on Sunday afternoons, & taking a bowl to the ice cream van & getting it filled, as the song goes these are a few of my favorite things
Hey...Jandan, I remember well the Davenports beer adverts on telly...'because beer at home means Davenports' . Think it was in the fifties. Then there was ...'What we want is Watneys Red Barrel...it's our favourite beer' sung to the tune of Roll out the Barrel...and I'm a girl! - lol xx
I worked at The grand Hotel in Torquay and we were the first establishment in the areato sell this new fangled beer IT WILL NEVER CATCH ON !!!!!!
Oh goodness I remember them all,I am positively ancient!! I also remember the horse and cart delivering the groceries, milk, bread etc,and my darling Grandpa running after it,with his shovel and bucket, collecting the manure,for his garden,which he was so proud of!! xxx
Bless him. See organic gardening was in vogue way back then. I don't remember horses and carts but do remember warm third of a pint of milk free at school at break time - yuk. Also pretty yukky my mother used to dose me up before school with cod liver oil on a spoon. Had that taste in my mouth all morning - vile. Also things on TV - does anyone remember the Brains Trust on a Sunday? Father used to watch it and we had to be deathly quiet - god it was boring!!!
me too,and bunking down in the cellars of my grandads farm whilst Manchester and Liverpool were being blitzed.
remember playing cat's cradle a lot,and the treat of dipping my finger into a bag of mixed sugar and rolled oats as a comforter whilst the bombs came down
We used to climb over the fence of the local Shweppes factory and pinch a couple of empty soda syphon bottles. We would take them to an off-licence in the town next day and get the 7/6 deposits back on them. That's it. After 55 years I have confessed my criminal past. Lock me up!
i remember taling empty bottle back and getting the money back, does anyone remember muffin the mule on tv, i also when the grass was cut, putting the cuttings into a house it sounds silly now and i dont think kids today do it
what about hopscotch, that was good, sherbet dabs, telephones liquorice.
Does anyone remember selling the Sunny Smiles to raise funds through Brownies and Guides? I remember one year I sold the most in the town I lived in and I got to meet Princess Margaret and give her flowers I broke my heart the person who came second got to give flowers to Sue from Sooty and Sweep who was there with Harry Corbett and I would have preferred them
Rag tag and Bobtail, Wooden tops, watch with mother Fire ball x l 5 Twizzle, Torchy the battery boy. But we still get our milk in glass bottles with tin foil tops. I remember the pop man the veg man and the parafin man. I remember getting plastic tulips free with washing powder
I bet they till tell you tales of the GOOD OLD DAYS
I also remember Watch with Mother, inc Bill and Ben. Loved Fireball XL5 and the captain of the spaceship was Steve Zodiac - .'I wish I was a spaceman, the fastest guy alive, I'd fly you round the universe in Fireball XL5'.... ,lol. Who remembers the old gas metres of the early 60's ? Ours took a '5 bob bit ' and every so often the man would come to empty it. My parents had usually put plenty in the slot so it was like emptying a piggy- bank and there'd be a little treat later : -)
when my son was little i told him about having an outside toilet.. he thought it meant there was one sitting on the lawn.
Recall laying in bed seeing your breath in front of you, a pee bucket in the corner cos it was too cold to use the outside loo. And that damnable test card on tv that seemed to be there all day.
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