all those years i prayed for them, and now theres too much!!

The wooden floor on the tube train and the springy wobbly hold on handles

leaving my bedroom window open waiting for peter pan to fly in!

green and white pacers

a great big pyramid orange push up ice thing (or was that just a weird dream )

doctor remus play kits when I was poorly

texan chewy bars ( I could chew on one of those for ages) and the one with all the peanuts stuck on the outside?

being able to disappear off down country paths on my bike for hours - wouldn't dream of letting my kids do that now . . .

oooh those peanut bars were gorgeous! they had a sort of fudge inside didn;'t they?
were pacers those minty sort of chews?

Spangles.

The bubble gum that you got them temp' tattoos in??

Free gifts in the Beano - elastic band guns, them things that went bang when you flicked them.

On a Saturday morning we used to get in my mum and dads bed for a cuddle then Dad used to go down to make porridge, with evaporated milk and demerera sugar...yum!!! Then we'd sit in bed and eat it like the 4 bears!!

wot were those peanut bars called? I've been trying to remember for yonks, when watching 'Life on Mars' got us remembering stuff, like the scrunchy cellophane wrapper on the Lucozade bottles . . .

yep the pacers were minty.


My boys are addicted to the french bubblegum, malabar, they have the temp tatoos now, marvel comic characters at the mo. A real bugger to scrub off when they've got school . . . Even found my OH with one on his arm! They taste like the bazooka joes used to.

Bazooka joes! that was it, it tasted and smelt lovely, i CAN REMEMBER THE LITTLE CATALOGUES THAT USED TO LIST ALL THE THINGS YOU COULD GET WITH THE WRAPPERS, AND BEING SO SAD THAT IT AS ONLY AVAILABLE IN aMERICA!
(ooops caps!!)

Come on everyone!! What were those lovely peanut bars called??

I remember - weren't they called Jubblies? Mind you, I am prone to weird dreams too .......

And what about Lucozade - had to be nearly dying to have that bought for me?

I used to live on that when I was a kid ........ hyperactive, sure I was

Yes, it was a real treat wasnt it?

Cats cradle - string patterns woven through your fingers which a friend then hooped onto her own fingers and continued the pattern. Seems like an eternity since I did that.

Come on what was your Mum's co-op number?

I still do now . . . when I'm dying with a hangover

we never had a co op .... we wuz stuck out in the middle of nowhere with a small village greengrocers, a butchers and a newspaper shop ..... we used to dream of co op divvies