Before my time!!!!
Sounds similar to 'Flumps' - a game from my Uni days - we were sweet and innocent really, honest!
Before my time!!!!
'We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.'
This made me laugh,remembering when my brothers got new choppers and I got the 2nd hand girls bike ! I was mad,however it didn't matter when the whole street went out in a pack playing 'Wacky Races' and I got to be Penelope Pitstop.................
--ooOoo--
Age is a question of mind over matter, if you don't mind, it doesn't matter
Leroy (Satchel) Paige (1906-1982)
Mickey Mouse's girlfriend, Minnie, made her film debut, along with Mickey, in "Steamboat Willie" on November 18, 1928.
That date is recognized as her official birthday.
ah.... where's my teddy
Do you know what I find weird and scary about all those things which we "oldies" did back then? (btw I'm 28 and take the hump at rememberring parma violets and drinking from the hose and being classed as an oldie )
Noone sued when we fell out of trees and off walls etc etc. Yet it's us who are the parents these days...
What happened? If it wasn't that bad to go out and play and live without technology and computers and fall off a wall without blaming someone else for putting the wall there in the first place then who on earth is taking out the lawsuits? Doesn't make sense to me.
(Sorry to bring down a humorous thread!!)
does anyone remember the love hearts that were actually heart shaped (not round with a picture of a heart) and you got two for 1p (or 1/2p each!!) God I'm 28 folks and I suddenly feel a lot older. I'm practically talking in old money
I feel your pain sister...Originally Posted by Little Monkey
On the sweet front, I was a fan of Pacers (a stripey minty chewy thing)
J X X
That was a very nostalgic stroll. Thank you Minnie for the signposting.Originally Posted by Minnie M
Originally Posted by Minnie M
The Runaway Train by Vernon Dalha
Was the first record I ever owned
I won a talent completion singing it at a Butlin’s holiday camp
I still have the prize, a Rupert Bear annual
In the line
“the fireman said you did like hell”
being children’s radio “hell” is bleeped out
sadly the record was broken, during one of those games, where you have circumnavigate the edge of the room without touching the floor
but cheer up,all is not lost , my neighbour is teaching his very young children the art of axe throwing
I'm sure I remember Michael Holiday singing this one.Originally Posted by philsmove
Originally Posted by Jive Brummie
My favourites were "Spangles" and "Galaxy Counters". Was devasted when they took galaxy counters of the market . Now I buy Revels and eat all the galaxy counters last!!
Great memories, they say life begins at 40 it certainly did for me.Originally Posted by Dance Demon
Originally Posted by Minnie M
and sherbet dabs red stringly liquorice
I'm too young to remember the original radio programme, but when I was little my auntie made me tapes with the Hello Children songs on so it's like memory lane for me too. The tapes have disappeared somewhere along the way, but we now have cds of them - they're ace! (I'm just a big kid really... )Originally Posted by Minnie M
I remember these too... but from the second time round!Originally Posted by Baby Peaches
OK... does anyone remember, wait for it.... The Black and White Minstral Show... and a radio programme called....... Sing something Simple??? I reckon that this makes me reealllly reeallly old........
oh, and yes, the original Starksy and Hutch... (boy thats embarrassing, I really had the hots for Hutch!!)
O dear YesOriginally Posted by jacksondonut
And WAKEY WAKEY, The Billy Cotton Band Show, Two-way Family Favourites, The Navy Lark and on TV
Muffin the Mule and the Lone Ranger
And you got a whole bag of sweethearts for a penny
I suppose imitation cigarette sweets were banned years ago
Sing Something Simple was on till quite recently - around the end of 2001 I think. Are you over 5?Originally Posted by jacksondonut
Love dance, will travel
Originally Posted by Jive Brummie
Oh yeah,
I loved these too!! I can actually imagine the taste right now!! Yum Yum!!
I am now a mummy and I have to say, most health visitors and other mums would be disturbed to hear that I only bought a stair gate for my second child AND I put it at the top of the stairs, not the bottom. The youngest is only 18 months and I have stuck her in her own bed already, without a guard. The oldest is only 3 and a half and she is on the top bunk!! (Must say that we have never had any accidents whatsoever, YET!!)
It's not that I don't care, I just don't fell pressured into buying all this safety equiptment that, let's face it, our parents and their parents before never needed.
My parents never had stair gates or bed guards for us when we were little. If we fell out of bed we were picked up and put back into them again.
Oh god, I really do feel as though I am turning into my mother more and more each day.
Lotsa love Lorna x-x
Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy - on the radio
--ooOoo--
Age is a question of mind over matter, if you don't mind, it doesn't matter
Leroy (Satchel) Paige (1906-1982)
Mickey Mouse's girlfriend, Minnie, made her film debut, along with Mickey, in "Steamboat Willie" on November 18, 1928.
That date is recognized as her official birthday.
That's the version I remember. Also I never missed the Black & White Minstrels. I used to call them the Golliwogs. Dai Francis was the one that used to sing like Al Jolson.........Ah..they were good times, *sigh*Originally Posted by Whitebeard
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