giodafa

spangles very dangerousthe thinner they got the more they used to cut your mouth and tongue, I liked the purple ones best

Pecora Nera

Old english one were the best. In a moment of madness about 3 years ago I bought a sherbet fountain I bit the top of the liquorice stick and sucked up some of the sherbet. I nearly died. It was a good 10 mins before I could breath, talk or stop my eyes from watering.

giodafa

I only remember fruit spangles, must check them out next time I go Home. There's an old fashioned sweet shop nearby and I spend hours in there they also sell old fashioned blocks of fudge...Ryanair please hurry up and bring back the flights

Pecora Nera

Yes what is up with ryaniar. I used to fly into East mids from Milan but it is not available...

TestaRossa

I have to ask - how old are you?! Older than 70 and yes you will still wear an underskirt, less than that....throw them out!!!! Btw, see-through in summer is now fashionable but not with granny knickers...

Gio

Someone gave me a Opel fruit type sweet yesterday and I found it hard to get rid of

ononno

talking about the good old days has just reminded me that it is 40 years since £.s.d. became decimalised. Anther nail in the coffin of what made us different and great. When I were a lad, I were a milk lad; with a horse and float to start with. Milk in churns and cans, and measured out with certified measuring ladles. Some old folk could only afford a gill, let alone half a pint. At tenpence a pint they would pay up at the end of the week for 6 gills and half a pint on Sunday. How much was that to collect? ( 1/8 i.e. 1 shilling and 8 pence).
Would love to see today's schoolkids work out some of the problems we were given in arithmetic.
When the coinage was decimalised, I was in Italy; so my memories of tanners and joeys and half crowns and ha'pennies and florins remained with me much longer; as I wasn't handling the new coinage as frequently. What about you?
ciao for now,
'o nonno

Pecora Nera

My Grandad would say "Shall we go and have a gill" Which meant shall we go to the pub for a half.. It is a long time since U have heard the word Gill used.

Pecora Nera

Yes spangles became quiet sharp..... but not as sharp as my sisters tongue.