rowan
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We used them in our shoes to cover the holes in the soles..
lol.omg you really were poor. in my posh household we had extra soft super size dock leafs for comfort.
OK then, don't mind if I do!Sitting here with my mouth watering remembering flying saucers, they were my favourites.
What about buying a quarter of sherbet with a liquorice dip. Yum.
Yeah I remember my Mum shoving sheets through the mangle and boiling stuff on the stove and poking it with an old wooden spoon. And I guess we take for granted having a washing machine and spinner all in one these days, not to mention a dryer to boot!This isn't really a 'miss' but definitely a very strong memory. How many remember helping their Mums or Nans do the washing in an old boiler, scrubbing it on the wash board and then putting it through the mangle. Washing was put out all weathers and goodness knows how it stayed so sparkly white with all the fog and smog. Oh and the smell of that boiled washing was divine. Never seen whites as clean since. Lovely
Having said all that, thank God for automatic washing machines Lol.
I sometimes have to stop myself think how much something was in "odl money" I remember a mars bar was 6d now it's something like 60p or more - that's12/- (shillings).Sixpence, 2 1/2 pence wasn't it, I still have some old coins, one is a farthing, but my dad gave it to me lol not actually used one myself lol
I remember my gran washing her sheets in a Burco boiler and she used to put in a blue bag, don't know what was in it but it made the whites look very white.Yeah I remember my Mum shoving sheets through the mangle and boiling stuff on the stove and poking it with an old wooden spoon. And I guess we take for granted having a washing machine and spinner all in one these days, not to mention a dryer to boot!
I can remember we were pretty poor (didn't know it) but then everyone was in our street, we had very little but hankered after nothing really. Though I wanted skates, so mine came via my dads skirmishes into other people's throw-always, he was a decorator - so folk cleared stuff out but to my dad it was treasure. Came the day he found rusty wheeled all metal skates. Bless him he cleaned and oiled them, made new laced out of his old ones, to me they were the most exciting thing I had ever owned. Of course immediately I was the skater Sonja Heni.... Of movie fame. I only skated from our street door to the end of the road where the post box was (I couldn't stop without it) but that was heaven to me.I had my skates for christmas once , never could balance on them though ...
But they were trendy ..loved them
Aye ... and ya tell kids today and they don't bluddy believe ya!@Robinredbreast you had carpet??? you wuz practically royalty, i bet you had an inside toilet too with a wooden seat. all we had was hay on the floor and an outside shed with a hole and we shared that shed with the whole street and newspaper for toilet roll if we wuz lucky. those were the days.
lol.. aye... everything i said was true apart from sharing it with the street, as i remember, it was along time ago, the outside loo was freezing in the winterAye ... and ya tell kids today and they don't bluddy believe ya!
lol.. aye... everything i said was true apart from sharing it with the street, as i remember, it was along time ago, the outside loo was freezing in the winterbut we had a wooden seat and that made it a little bit more bearable, seems unimaginable now
Gosh that bring back memories! That's exactly what they wereView attachment 12234 or Ricketts blue bag
Is the black stuff now grey stuff or no stuff?.
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willie.
Awww .. I LOVE dolly mixtures .. they were my favourite sweets when I was a kid. The chocolate ones were my favouriteFry' s chocolate cream was one of my favourites as I have always preferred dark to milk chocolate, the bars (like everything) are much smaller now but what I wouldn't give to put my teeth into one. I remember the fruit bar too and Five Boys with the little faces on each piece. And what happened to Squirrel sweets nobody made midget gems or dolly mixture like Squirrell
They used to make Dolly Blue not far from where i live, not seen any in years, chears for loading the picView attachment 12234 or Ricketts blue bag
View attachment 12234 or Ricketts blue bag
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