ahhhh!! remember those???
Sep 8th 2007 | 7:19 am
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Sep 8th 2007 | 7:21 am
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Re: ahhhh!! remember those???
Yeh they were great - what was the thing you used to say now - ..........................inside, outside donkeys tails???????
Sep 8th 2007 | 7:30 am
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Re: ahhhh!! remember those???
I used to love buying 2oz or if i was lucky a 1/4 of Yorkshire mix (rock things in shapes of fish, cubes etc), pineapple chunks, cola cubes, rainbow crystals to dip your liquorise in - oh yeah those were the days 
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Sep 8th 2007 | 11:14 am
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Re: ahhhh!! remember those???
right i've started a group on FACEBOOK 'campaign to bring back Nutty bars', you never know it might work, it did for Wispa!!!
join the campaign!!!!
join the campaign!!!!
Sep 8th 2007 | 7:29 pm
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Re: ahhhh!! remember those???
Too right, our first house had an outside toilet and Izal toilet paper. We had no bathroom so bathnight was on Sundays in a tin bath in front of the fire where me and my brother had to share the water.
Chopping firewood and filling the coal scuttle on a winter's morning, then lighting the fire. Took ages to get warm.
Washing day was Monday and I can still smell the damp clothes as they came out of the copper and mum threaded them through the mangle. We always had a steamed meat suet pudding on Monday cos mum used to cook it in the copper with the clothes.
Chopping firewood and filling the coal scuttle on a winter's morning, then lighting the fire. Took ages to get warm.
Washing day was Monday and I can still smell the damp clothes as they came out of the copper and mum threaded them through the mangle. We always had a steamed meat suet pudding on Monday cos mum used to cook it in the copper with the clothes.
But we had a built in bath (Very posh) under the kitchen worktop, filled from the copper with a bucket and drained into a bucket. lol
Sep 9th 2007 | 7:06 pm
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Sep 9th 2007 | 7:41 pm
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Re: ahhhh!! remember those???
On the subject of tv, does anyone remember a 70s series called Thriller. It was on Saturday night and used to frighten the life out of me. No doubt you can now buy the boxed set on Amazon.
Sep 9th 2007 | 8:26 pm
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Re: ahhhh!! remember those???
That's gas, paraffin and electrical appliances in a confined space with water. How did I ever survive to adulthood?
Sep 9th 2007 | 8:49 pm
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Re: ahhhh!! remember those???
When my sister was born, we moved into a 3 bed council semi with a bathroom but no central heating. When I had a bath I used to have an old Decca record player in the bathroom with me (eight 45s stacked up) along with a paraffin heater and hot water coming from an Ascot above the bath.
That's gas, paraffin and electrical appliances in a confined space with water. How did I ever survive to adulthood?
That's gas, paraffin and electrical appliances in a confined space with water. How did I ever survive to adulthood?
Sep 9th 2007 | 9:00 pm
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Re: ahhhh!! remember those???
When we were growing up (four of us) we all had jobs that had to be done before school. Mine was clearing out the grate and setting the fire ready for when we got home from school, my sister had to wash up, one brother had to dry and the other brother had to clean the door knocker and dust the house.
Sep 9th 2007 | 9:15 pm
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When we were growing up (four of us) we all had jobs that had to be done before school. Mine was clearing out the grate and setting the fire ready for when we got home from school, my sister had to wash up, one brother had to dry and the other brother had to clean the door knocker and dust the house.
Sep 9th 2007 | 9:20 pm
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Re: ahhhh!! remember those???
When we were growing up (four of us) we all had jobs that had to be done before school. Mine was clearing out the grate and setting the fire ready for when we got home from school, my sister had to wash up, one brother had to dry and the other brother had to clean the door knocker and dust the house.
I'm so glad I came over here, it's so much more fun than the CE thread which has got a bit turgid lately.
Sep 9th 2007 | 10:24 pm
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Re: ahhhh!! remember those???
Ah, chores. Whatever happened to them. The only way I got any pocket money was to do my list of chores and to top it up I had a paper round and a Saturday job as soon as I was old enough to do them.
I'm so glad I came over here, it's so much more fun than the CE thread which has got a bit turgid lately.
I'm so glad I came over here, it's so much more fun than the CE thread which has got a bit turgid lately.
What took you so long?
I have a likkle feeling you are getting addicted to siesta time like the rest of us
