narnia Posted October 30, 2013 Posted October 30, 2013 crikey yes..............you had to remember to place your toes into the gathered bit at the end...............and they looked so tiny when you got them out of the packet! Quote
sunnyday Posted October 30, 2013 Author Posted October 30, 2013 Who remembers when 'tights' first came out? I was thinking about this the other day when sorting out some old clothes. Anyone remember the ones that had knickers attached? Oh I do! Quote
Guest mukerjee1 Posted October 30, 2013 Posted October 30, 2013 Who remembers when kitchen matches were the size of small torpedo' s? To quote Bill Bryson ' In those days kitchen matches were heavy-duty implements—more like signal flares than the weedy sticks we get today. You could strike them on any hard surface and fling them at least fifteen feet and they wouldn’t go out. Indeed, even when being beaten vigorously with two hands, as when lodged on the front of one’s sweater, they seemed positively determined not to fail.' Not really reading a novel when I should be updating SEF.... Quote
sunnyday Posted October 30, 2013 Author Posted October 30, 2013 Not really reading a novel when I should be updating SEF.... Yay! You can join the SEF avoidance gang!!! Matches has made me think of 'spills' - think that's what they were called - my 'aunties' (they weren't really my aunties but always known as that) had an old cannon shell thingie on their fireplace full of 'spills' for firelighting - oh they were lovely - I spent many a happy hour playing with those! :1b Quote
sunnyday Posted October 30, 2013 Author Posted October 30, 2013 Just had a quick 'google' - they are called spills and they still make them! :1b Quote
louby loo Posted October 30, 2013 Posted October 30, 2013 Just had a quick 'google' - they are called spills and they still make them! :1b Yes but they don't have the same 'feel' to them With regards to SEF writing - this thread promotes 'reflective thinking' therefore should be viewed as 'research' rather than 'avoidance. Quote
sunnyday Posted October 30, 2013 Author Posted October 30, 2013 Yes but they don't have the same 'feel' to them With regards to SEF writing - this thread promotes 'reflective thinking' therefore should be viewed as 'research' rather than 'avoidance. Hey - good point well made! :1b Quote
Froglet Posted October 30, 2013 Posted October 30, 2013 SEF Avoidance Group - SAG? Is sagging really something anyone needs to be thinking about?! :blink: 3 Quote
Guest mukerjee1 Posted October 30, 2013 Posted October 30, 2013 Could be worse than sagging - what about Group Avoiding Sef. GAS anyone? Quote
sunnyday Posted October 30, 2013 Author Posted October 30, 2013 SEF Avoidance Group - SAG? Is sagging really something anyone needs to be thinking about?! :blink: No! Could be worse than sagging - what about Group Avoiding Sef. GAS anyone? Right - we need to give this some further thought :blink: I will put lots of effort into this - obviously so that I don't need to think about my SEF 1 Quote
Froglet Posted October 30, 2013 Posted October 30, 2013 No! Right - we need to give this some further thought :blink: I will put lots of effort into this - obviously so that I don't need to think about my SEF I'm glad to see you have your priorities right! Quote
Rea Posted October 30, 2013 Posted October 30, 2013 After reading this, I'm left wondering why I didn't get nice orange juice for free, why I never saw tights with knickers attached and why we didnt have huge matched or spills. Where was I when all this was going on? I'm not that much younger than everyone else am I? Quote
Rea Posted October 30, 2013 Posted October 30, 2013 This was the first thing i saw on twitter after i posted that last post!! Spooky! http://handinglove.co.uk/remember-when-you-were-young-blog-post/ Quote
sunnyday Posted October 31, 2013 Author Posted October 31, 2013 Oh I loved that - thanks Rea :1b Quote
JacquieL Posted October 31, 2013 Posted October 31, 2013 Brilliant Rea I remember all that! Mind you it doesn't mention Champion the Wonder Horse who was the centre of my universe! Quote
Rea Posted October 31, 2013 Posted October 31, 2013 Champion the wonder horse, white horses, black beauty. What would a little girl have done without them? Who had the pop man? Our neighbour did and they'd got 3 kids, hoe could they afford it if we couldn't with 2? Quote
sunnyday Posted October 31, 2013 Author Posted October 31, 2013 The 'pop' man, a baker with a basket of goodies, the potato man too.......(our dog bit him he wasn't so keen to call after that :blink: ), an indoor 'coal hole'.......... I need to think about why we had a 'salvage sack' into which mum put newspapers, mags, cardboard........what was that all about - early recycling or some left over thing from the war years????? One of my favourite children's books is 'The Tiger who came to Tea' - love the page.......'it can't be........' pictures of boys on bikes, milk floats...... :1b Quote
finleysmaid Posted October 31, 2013 Posted October 31, 2013 now why did you have to mention Champion the wonder horse? can't get the tune out of my head now ...i'll be humming it all day! Quote
finleysmaid Posted October 31, 2013 Posted October 31, 2013 just so that you can all suffer with me......!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCXvGR4IP3s Quote
Rea Posted October 31, 2013 Posted October 31, 2013 just so that you can all suffer with me......!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCXvGR4IP3s Not sure if I should thank you or not!! 2 Quote
Guest Posted October 31, 2013 Posted October 31, 2013 Ahh memories of black beauty and champion the wonder horse but for tunes that stick in your head it had to be 'Casey Jones' for me Quote
Panders Posted October 31, 2013 Posted October 31, 2013 Black jacks, or fruit salad 4 for 1d, some weird coconut confection called chewing tobacco! Mum had the library man call too, his books were in a suitcase to choose from. 2 Quote
Inge Posted October 31, 2013 Posted October 31, 2013 Hubby came home the other day with a jar of black jacks and fruit salad sweets... a freebie he got in a hotel celebrating 40 years.. they were delicious.. we fought over them! Nan always had a man with a suitcase call selling dusters, polish, shoe brushes etc... he used to give me tiny tins of lovely smelling lavender furniture polish.. for my dolls house.. along with mini dusters... think they were his samples.. I loved them... Tights with knickers were never long enough.. always been a lanky one and the crotch always reached mid thigh.. in fact early tights were all too short for me... Quote
Guest Posted October 31, 2013 Posted October 31, 2013 we had retro sweets at our school reunion last April - black jacks, parma violets, sherbert bonbons, cherry lips, fruit salads, sherbert dibdabs, licourice wheels, gobstoppers, love hearts, fizzers, tom thumbs etc complete with paper bags and sweet jars with scoops. No wonder I had a mouth full of fillings by the age of 13 Quote
Sue R Posted October 31, 2013 Posted October 31, 2013 Inge - I remember having to roll the top of my tights over and over to pull them up, but they always fell down . I was NOT a lanky one!! My husband always used to say I needed braces - or armholes in the 'waist' bit! 1 Quote
sunnyday Posted October 31, 2013 Author Posted October 31, 2013 Saturday morning pictures! Oh yeah - and I still call it 'the pictures'.......grandchildren have no idea what I'm talking about!!! Used to be two 'picture houses' in our local town - one was the Odean and fairly 'posh' - the other was referred to (affectionately) as 'the flea pit'. ..... 1 Quote
JacquieL Posted October 31, 2013 Posted October 31, 2013 French onion sellers. My mother always asked them in for a drop of Calvados and enjoyed speaking French with them ( she was French) 2 Quote
Guest Posted October 31, 2013 Posted October 31, 2013 Saturday morning pictures! we still have saturday morning pictures in our local cinema and it is still called pictures and is always well attended by children Quote
sunnyday Posted October 31, 2013 Author Posted October 31, 2013 French onion sellers. My mother always asked them in for a drop of Calvados and enjoyed speaking French with them ( she was French) Ooh la la - we didn't have any onion sellers French or otherwise - feel quite cheated now! Quote
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