OTP Nostalgia
JayneB
a range of ages here, so it might be fun.
How about for starters (these are just a few that spring to mind
immediately)
Jayne
Spangles
Dr Who on a Saturday evening
Going to the seaside and playing in vest and pants
Girls tucking their skirt in their knickers when doing handstands
Victory V lozenges on a cold morning
Your mum rubbing you head to toe in Vick when you had a cold
When a penny bought you a handful of blackjacks and fruit salads
Sitting on the step with a stick of rhubarb and a twist of paper with sugar
in it to dip in
Fizzy drinks being a very rare treat
Coming in for bedtime after being out playing all day - a bit pink from the
sun and utterly exhausted.
Jayne
JayneB
wand with 2 strings hanging and on the end of each string a hard plastic
ball. The idea was to get those 2 balls going up and down hitting one
another above and below. Anyone remember the horrendous bruising on the
wrist that they caused?
Jayne
Bunny Hare
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I remember those Jayne, could never get them to work though, and had the
bruises to prove it.
And what about Hula hoops?
Parma violet sweets?
Roller skates that clamped on to your shoes?
Reciting the times tables?
Wirelesses powered by accumulators?
Sing songs round the piano on Sunday after church?
--
Barb
Smile at people and you get friends
Frown at people and you get wrinkles
JayneB
> I remember those Jayne, could never get them to work though, and had the
> bruises to prove it.
Blooming awful things - my mum banned mine in the end.
> And what about Hula hoops?
I thought they were more recent, but I remember the original crisps with the
bag of salt.
> Parma violet sweets?
Tasted like perfume!
> Roller skates that clamped on to your shoes?
Thats right - adjustable. We only had one pair, so my sister and I got one
each and had to scoot everywhere.
> Reciting the times tables?
Didn't do me a lot of good I'm afraid, as I still have to struggle with the
8's and the 9's!
Jayne
Janet Brown
actually having a real live bank manager (who was always in the cupboard!)
walking over a mile on my own to catch the school bus
cooking something ghastly in domestic science and then having to carry it
home
wearing my first bra - oh JOY - at last!!!!!!
Janet
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JayneB
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> phoning a business number and getting a real person
> actually having a real live bank manager (who was always in the cupboard!)
> walking over a mile on my own to catch the school bus
> cooking something ghastly in domestic science and then having to carry it
> home
> wearing my first bra - oh JOY - at last!!!!!!
>
> Janet
>
>
Oh I remember the first bra too! It was a Triumph something or other, and
it was a 29AA!!! I was so proud I couldn't wait for PE at school to show
it off! Oh, and those awful domestic science lessons, then like you say,
carrying home the burnt offerings and trying to stop the boys throwing it
around the bus on the way home.
Jayne
hevspecs
something simple,family favourites, the smell of roast lamb always reminds
me of family fav. also those big penny bubble gums tthat when you blew big
enough bubbles burst in your face and hair that meant troublewith Mum. Not
being able to talk to boys at that time of the month!!!!news:104957693...@dyke.uk.clara.net...
Jem
http://tv.cream.org/index.htm - under their header 'TVC Special
Assignments' have a look at 'Best before which covers all those soft
drinks and sweeties of yesteryear.
--
Jem
http://www.camelesk.demon.co.uk/hairless-heart-herald.htm
Home of the Hairless Heart Herald.
Joan
loop, placing your ankle in it, then whizzing it round and jumping over it
with the other leg.
Spud guns, loved em always remember mum going mental when she found all her
spuds with holes in, and lots of little marks on the windows where Id fired
them. Popping tar blisters in the cracks in the cobbles. Anyone have good
bonfire nights. When we had a bommy in the backstreet, all the neighbours
made something to eat and shared it all out. In the morning after, all the
backdoors had blistered paint bubbles on them, Guess who went round popping
them. Walking on pavements avoiding the nicks saying, stand on a nick and
youll marry a stick and a beetle will come to your wedding. Mad or what.
Eating Kali with your finger till it went a funny colour. Oh yes and do you
remember buying Beechnut chewing gum from machines outside shops. There was
an arrow on the side of the silver knob that you turned to get your gum, and
I think if it was pointing towards you you got two for the price of one,
fantastic thrill at the time.
I could go on........best not my age is showing.
Joan
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Bunny Hare
> > And what about Hula hoops?
>
> I thought they were more recent, but I remember the original crisps with
the
> bag of salt.
>
Hee hee, wrong sort of hula hoops Jayne. These were hoops that you put
round your middle did a sort of shimmy (hula) and tried to keep the hoop
spinning around your middle for as long as possible
Bunny Hare
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> Anyone else have a tennis ball in a nylon stocking making the end into a
> loop, placing your ankle in it, then whizzing it round and jumping over it
> with the other leg.
I had one of those too, great fun. You know they manufacture them now with
a brightly coloured ball attached by a plasticised rope to a plastic hoop
which fits around the ankle!!
The children in our after school club were quite surprised to find I could
actually get the thing moving and jump over it several times - well after
all I must seem quite ancient to them, some of their mothers are younger
than my oldest daughter
Sandy Morton
JayneB <tinse...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> As its a bit quiet at the moment, how about a thread on nostalgia? We have
> a range of ages here, so it might be fun.
I got my bus and ferry pass this week - it's quite worrying that I can now
travel free.
--
A T (Sandy) Morton
on the Bicycle Island
In the Global Village
http://www.sandymillport.fsnet.co.uk
Sandy Morton
Bunny Hare <bin...@lineone.net> wrote:
> Wirelesses powered by accumulators?
My top workshop had a generator for charging the accumulators - mains
electricity only arrive on the island in 1947.
Sandy Morton
> Didn't do me a lot of good I'm afraid, as I still have to struggle with the
> 8's and the 9's!
Getting seriously into the nostalgia now.
In 1954 I could do up to the 24 times table, I could do maths and science
to higher level but I couldn't sit the exams at our local JS school.
Why? I was the only pupil in the third year and many thanks to Barbara
Kerr (deceased) for making school ineteresting, enjoyable and a challenge.
I was 14 and it was a local authority school.
As an after school message boy I got paid 10/6 a week to deliver orders
after school - fifty two and a half pence in modern money.
My first bike cost £10-0-00
And every boy on the island had an airgun and we shot rabbits at the
weekend which we sold to the local butcher for 6d each - paid for the
airgun pellets and the weekly sweets.
I will now hibernate for another 50 years:-)
JayneB
> Hee hee, wrong sort of hula hoops Jayne. These were hoops that you put
> round your middle did a sort of shimmy (hula) and tried to keep the hoop
> spinning around your middle for as long as possible
>
> --
> Barb
> Smile at people and you get friends
> Frown at people and you get wrinkles
>
>
>
Oh duh!!! Now how could I forget those?
Jayne
JayneB
machines they come in. Oh, and that tennis ball in a stocking - I had
forgotten them!
Jayne
JayneB
"hevspecs" <hevs...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> first bra under the airtex vest very sexy, so how about Z Cars, sing
> something simple,family favourites, the smell of roast lamb always reminds
> me of family fav. also those big penny bubble gums tthat when you blew
big
> enough bubbles burst in your face and hair that meant troublewith Mum.
Not
> being able to talk to boys at that time of the month!!!!
Oh I remember how hard it was to get those bubble gums off your face -
especially if you had chewed two of them to get a big bubble. Many's the
time I got it in my hair, then got it from my mum!
Jayne
JayneB
"Andy" <use...@andyspages.org.uk> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 22:10:49 +0100, in uk.people.support.arthritis
> "JayneB" <tinse...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> >Oh I remember the first bra too! It was a Triumph something or other,
and
> >it was a 29AA!!!
>
> size............LOL
>
>
>
> Andy
Oooh that is cruel. I'll have to ask my sister where she buys her "chicken
fillets" and pass the info on to him!
Jayne
Alan Fisher
>
> >
> > >Oh I remember the first bra too! It was a Triumph something or other,
> and
> > >it was a 29AA!!!
> >
> > Exactly the same as Alan Fisher! Only problem is, his is still that
> > size............LOL
> >
>
"chicken
> fillets" and pass the info on to him!
>
We'll have less banter about my bouncers please. Remember, I am still an
honorary oinker, at least for a week or two.
Nostalgia? It's not as good as it used to be. It's a thing of the past.
Yeh I know but nobody else was going to do the obvious gag........
Cheers Alan F (pretty in pink)
JayneB
> We'll have less banter about my bouncers please. Remember, I am still an
> honorary oinker, at least for a week or two.
Ah, but you'd have a lot more to bounce with a pair of "enhancers"!
> Nostalgia? It's not as good as it used to be. It's a thing of the past.
> Yeh I know but nobody else was going to do the obvious gag........
>
> Cheers Alan F (pretty in pink)
>
>
Did you have a flutter on the National then Alan?
Jayne
Alan Fisher
>
>
> >
>
> Did you have a flutter on the National then Alan?
>
Nah, Jayney, I never do the National, apart from the works sweep and that
and maybe a 50p 'make it interesting' bet if I'm in the bookies anyway.
Er......got a joke about that, I think....what was that now?
Cheers WonderbrAF
JayneB
> Nah, Jayney, I never do the National, apart from the works sweep and that
> and maybe a 50p 'make it interesting' bet if I'm in the bookies anyway.
> Er......got a joke about that, I think....what was that now?
>
> Cheers WonderbrAF
>
>
I always used to think the National is a race that is pure luck as to which
horse can stay the course, so have never bet on it.
My mum's uncle used to be head lad (or whatever they are called) at Michael
Stoute's stable in Newmarket, and used to phone with the odd tip here and
there. In general my dad would put a bet on it and used to do okay by him.
Once however, when I was 19, he sent a tip up for the 1000 guineas so I
thought I'd put a fiver on it. That was a canny bit of money 22 years ago,
and I was so excited. In the three races before this horse (I think it was
called Marwell or something) won every race. Came fourth in the 1000
guineas though, and I was so gutted I've never had a bet since!
Jayne
Weekend_Gardener.
flavour......
Topo Gigio....... that little mouse on Sunday Night at the London
Palladium....
Metal frog shaped *clickers*.........
Bits of cards circular cut out like a saw and threaded on string to whizz
round as you pulled the string........
2 pennorth chips and scratchings with plenty of salt and vinegar and sucking
the vinegar through the news paper......
Bronco Lane with Ty Hardin.....
Faggots peas and gravy in an earthenware pint dish from the chippy wrapped
up in a tea towel....
Fistful of *Goosegogs* before they were ripe.....
Plastic sandals.
Pumps with shiney toes..........
Barratts lollies........
Sherbert Dip Dabs.......
and many moreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Regards ConnieD.
Weekend_Gardener.
liberty bodice...... the one with the rubber buttons on to fasten to me navy
drawers with the pocket in them...and pretty satin ribbons down the
front.......
Suspenders with one missing so using a 3d bit to fasten the stockings
on.....
Clear nail varnish ( if you were lucky) to stop ladders in yer
stockings........or a good dollop of cake soap....
Toothpast on love bites.......( never used it meself LOL)......or Polo Necks
in the height of summer......
Regards Connie D
JayneB
> A picnic of a jam sammidge with a bockle of water and a bit of sherbert
for
> flavour......
> Topo Gigio....... that little mouse on Sunday Night at the London
> Palladium....
> Metal frog shaped *clickers*.........
> Bits of cards circular cut out like a saw and threaded on string to whizz
> round as you pulled the string........
> 2 pennorth chips and scratchings with plenty of salt and vinegar and
sucking
> the vinegar through the news paper......
> Bronco Lane with Ty Hardin.....
> Faggots peas and gravy in an earthenware pint dish from the chippy
wrapped
> up in a tea towel....
> Fistful of *Goosegogs* before they were ripe.....
> Plastic sandals.
> Pumps with shiney toes..........
> Barratts lollies........
> Sherbert Dip Dabs.......
> and many moreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
> Regards ConnieD.
>
>
sandwich and bottle of water - we used to go wandering all day with that for
sustenance, AND you got money back on the bottle. Oh, and I don't think
fish and chips taste the same since they stopped using newspaper!
Jayne
Gwen Love
Gwen