narnia Posted October 30, 2013 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyday Posted October 30, 2013 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mukerjee1 Posted October 30, 2013 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyday Posted October 30, 2013 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyday Posted October 30, 2013 Author Share Posted October 30, 2013 Just had a quick 'google' - they are called spills and they still make them! :1b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louby loo Posted October 30, 2013 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyday Posted October 30, 2013 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froglet Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 SEF Avoidance Group - SAG? Is sagging really something anyone needs to be thinking about?! :blink: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mukerjee1 Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Could be worse than sagging - what about Group Avoiding Sef. GAS anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyday Posted October 30, 2013 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froglet Posted October 30, 2013 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rea Posted October 30, 2013 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rea Posted October 30, 2013 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyday Posted October 31, 2013 Author Share Posted October 31, 2013 Oh I loved that - thanks Rea :1b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JacquieL Posted October 31, 2013 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rea Posted October 31, 2013 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyday Posted October 31, 2013 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finleysmaid Posted October 31, 2013 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finleysmaid Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 just so that you can all suffer with me......!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCXvGR4IP3s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rea Posted October 31, 2013 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 31, 2013 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panders Posted October 31, 2013 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inge Posted October 31, 2013 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 31, 2013 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue R Posted October 31, 2013 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panders Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 Saturday morning pictures! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyday Posted October 31, 2013 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JacquieL Posted October 31, 2013 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 31, 2013 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyday Posted October 31, 2013 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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