Back in my childhood days..
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@leeCal does sound painful2024 The year of the general election...the time for change is coming 💡
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And don't forget ......who is Sid
From the advert tell Sid link below
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/money/video-1005261/Tell-Sid-Classic-Thatcher-era-advert-sell-British-Gas-shares.html
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@Sandy_123 Was that Sid something to do with the gas board? I only vaguely remember it.
one thing I did remember was balsa wood aeroplanes. You covered them in tissue paper and wound up a propellor attached to a rubber band and whoosh...two weeks work wasted and a broken aeroplane! Haha.“This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”
― Dalai Lama XIV -
Did anyone have plastic, I think we called them dive bombers? You threw them up into the air, then they landed with a 'bang' on the ground as you'd placed a pellet in it's nose. I also had a 'Man From U.N.C.L.E.' gun.....you might guess i was quite a tomboy.
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I remember them lee and airfix models2024 The year of the general election...the time for change is coming 💡
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@chiarieds I had a thunderbirds 2 probably be worth a few bob now2024 The year of the general election...the time for change is coming 💡
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@chiarieds Those dive bomb things were pretty good loaded with a gunpowder cap! Quite a fad for a while, as were those dense rubber balls which bounced extraordinarily high.
Also circular helicopter blades which flew off after pulling a plastic strap. Or was that a different era?“This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”
― Dalai Lama XIV -
airfix models were great @woodbine, I had quite a few thinking back and the soldiers too.
“This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”
― Dalai Lama XIV -
I liked my doll I had you could make her hair long or short you pulled her hair out the top of her head to make it long and pressed a button to make the hair go back back in she was called sheena
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Yay I just remembered i used to play Jack's my grandad taught me how to play that and clackers I used to bruise my wrists lol and conkers gosh those were the days ?
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@Ellestar is right about manners. I was brought up being told manners cost nothing! reading @woodbines list is unbelieveable I am way too young to remember any of those things. I don't even remember a telly only having 3 channels. Reading some other people's memories has made me remember a few things from my past. Like @66Mustang says I remember the pencil sharpeners. He has remined me about being allowed to use a pen at school. I was taught to use a cartridge pen when I was about 10 yrs old. I kept my first cartridge pen for years. A lot of things from my chodhood have come back now!
vinyl records
cabbage patch dolls
my little pony
Lots more things a well. All I can say is thank goodness the shell suit has not come back. I can't believe I used to wear one of those things when I was a kid! -
Having to wait months for big movies to cross the Atlantic. (Jaws opened in the US in summer - it didn't come out in the UK until December.) And then of course E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial just about single-handedly launching the video pirate industry thanks to the UK distributors holding off its UK release until December....
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Milkman delivering milk and milkshake maker that looked like a plastic cocktail shaker to your door. Action man jeep. My parents found this while rumminging through an old box in the loft a few months ago. Not seen it since about1980. Not sure you can get these anymore.
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Milk in bottles was a great example of recycling now its mostly in plastic, although it's cheaper than it was 25 years ago2024 The year of the general election...the time for change is coming 💡
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I still have a milk man where I live I love it ? I have milk three days a week
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I purposely engaged a milkman some years ago because I wanted to help him to remain employed. He delivered milk about three times and then it stopped and I never saw him again. I was younger and busier in those days so I didn’t bother finding out what happened . We didn’t even get a bill. Mysterious. Perhaps the blue tits got him!
(when I was a child blue tits used to open up the bottle tops and steal the cream on top, a very common occurrence.)“This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”
― Dalai Lama XIV -
@leeCal I have had my milkman for 3years I love it
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Having cassette tapes
computers were just starting to come out
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On the subject of milkmen, my Dad was the milkman
And I'm not joking - my Dad was, in fact, a milkman for many years!
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I remember a small shop near my primary school where many flavours of sherbert was sold. You could buy it in amounts from 1d upwards. It was put into a small white bag. You could also buy a glass of Tizer or Cream soda.
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