Hahaha, I bet someone will be imagining the wrong thing here. That would shock any girls' dad.Once, wrapped my trannie in a towel in the bathroom while I was having a bath... (Why? Dunno, no idea) (Too much information? Yes, probably!) I then completely forgot about it. Later, my dad, doing some household chores, picked up the towel and, to his surprise, launched my transistor radio in a high arc across the room to a crash landing in the (empty) bath.
I got a bit of a telling-off about that. Poor dad, he'd been a Royal Marine bandsman during the war and had seen plenty, but I think the flying trannie still gave him quite a shock.
That's how I discovered the blues Bob Dylan Chuck Berry and so much more!..Transistor radios! Used to hide mine under my pillow so I could listen to Radio Caroline late at night!
I was usually ok with the other kids. The area I came from had a reputation for producing gangsters and hardknocks. I played up to that so nobody took me on. Apart from the teachers, and some of the posh girls' parents. Still They had no reason to doubt my reason for being there when I came top of the class in most subjects.In theory I was classic bully fodder - clever and small - but for some reason it never happened. Maybe because I always mixed in well with all sorts and didn't do anything provocative. I could run very fast if needed, but if threatened I tended to just stand my ground out of laziness and they backed off. Foolhardy possibly but it seemed to work!
I was the most bullied, I think, it wasn't a competition! I was small, headstrong and unwilling to pamper to there excesses, but it was all for nought as the teachers encouraged the taunting of someone above his station. Thank whoever brought in the classless system we have now in our secondary schools!In theory I was classic bully fodder - clever and small - but for some reason it never happened. Maybe because I always mixed in well with all sorts and didn't do anything provocative. I could run very fast if needed, but if threatened I tended to just stand my ground out of laziness and they backed off. Foolhardy possibly but it seemed to work!
I remember lp's being 37/6p. Two of my brothers clubbed together and bought a Dansette and the first records they had for it was Kitty Lester Lover Letter and (Ithink) Joe Brown Picture of You. First lp I bought with my own money was Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced from Sound of Music in Havant, and I remember buying King Crimson Court of the Crimon King from there as well. They don't write songs like 21st Century Schitzoid Man any more (OK who said thank goodness for that!)There you go, 45 rpm discs - when I first bought them (Can't Buy Me Love by the Beatles, so 1964?) they were 6/8d, exactly three for £1. Which was a bu$$er if you'd only got a ten-bob note as a birthday present. LPs were 37/6d. Record players had speeds of 16, 33, 45 and 78.
And then the cassette. When they first came out it was like something out of the space age. I never quite got 8-track cartridges, although they were of better recording quality than cassettes. The cartridges were just too big though.
My local still closes from half 2 to 5 each day apart from Sat and Sunday, but most of the 8 pubs in the village (and there used to be four or five more) are open all day.What about when pubs closed for a few hours during the afternoon?
Good old days? I think not!
But maybe.
Shops closed on Sundays too.
First lp I bought with my own money was Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced from Sound of Music in Havant, and I remember buying King Crimson Court of the Crimon King from there as well
My brother had a dansette record player which he played soul and Motown on and his favourites Beach Boys singles. He would break my fingers if he found me using it! He never caught me!I remember lp's being 37/6p. Two of my brothers clubbed together and bought a Dansette and the first records they had for it was Kitty Lester Lover Letter and (Ithink) Joe Brown Picture of You. First lp I bought with my own money was Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced from Sound of Music in Havant, and I remember buying King Crimson Court of the Crimon King from there as well. They don't write songs like 21st Century Schitzoid Man any more (OK who said thank goodness for that!)
I had to wait until they were both out at work before I could play it, I would have been in deep doo doo if they'd caught me out.M
My brother had a dansette record player which he played soul and Motown on and his favourites Beach Boys singles. He would break my fingers if he found me using it! He never caught me!
my first pint cost me 1s 10d and ten no. 6 were a shilling.My local still closes from half 2 to 5 each day apart from Sat and Sunday, but most of the 8 pubs in the village (and there used to be four or five more) are open all day.
We do still have one pub (whcih I don't count as it's about 100 yards over the border in West Sussex) that still has sawdust on the floor, but I find it a bit "clique-y" with the yatch set. You know that bit in Americal Werewolf in Paris where the two guys go into a bar on the Moors and everything stops........my first pint cost me 1s 10d and ten no. 6 were a shilling.
That was when pubs were pubs, spitoons on the floor.
By where we lived. By the docks the docker drunk in the bar where no lady's were to be found, and there was no furniture or other things that could be thrown or broken when there was fights etc. glasses were thrown as a norm. Didn't visit the place very often!We do still have one pub (whcih I don't count as it's about 100 yards over the border in West Sussex) that still has sawdust on the floor, but I find it a bit "clique-y" with the yatch set. You know that bit in Americal Werewolf in Paris where the two guys go into a bar on the Moors and everything stops........
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