Our family got its first hairdryer about 1964, a bright pink one from Morphy Richards. I seem to remember it cost £12 though the price was subsidised with Green Shield stamps. In today’s money that’s £231.
No, I’m fairly certain it was £12. Here’s an advertisement from 1965 showing a very similar price albeit in guineas. Back then a simple television cost 50 guineas or close to £1000 by today’s values.
£12 in 1964? That’s more than a weeks wages for many folk back then ... are you sure it wasn’t 12/- (twelve shillings)
It probably took 4 people to work the bellows back then.
Poorly concealed cat complaint again: My neighbour over the road, who refuses to recycle, put their bins out today and as the wheely bin was full they've scattered black bags along the street to make it look like other peoples' rubbish. We've been officially told that we can have one wheely bin, lid fully closed and nothing else. Of course their bins are full of food as well as recycling so a cat was sat out there this morning ripping one of the bags apart. Cheeky b****r wouldn't be pursuaded away from its mess until I actually went out into the street to shoo it off. They don't recycle and they don't clean up mess left from their bins. Once it crosses their boundary it's someone else's problem, usually mine since the wind blows towards my house.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I have a cheap, long-lasting, low-energy hairdryer: it's called a towel.
Ah - but you have to wash and dry it
People are a***holes w. edges. That's the beginning and end of it I'm afraid, and decent people usually have to put up with their shoddy behaviour. Have you got a camera to film them? If you have, off to the council with it
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
No, I’m fairly certain it was £12. Here’s an advertisement from 1965 showing a very similar price albeit in guineas. Back then a simple television cost 50 guineas or close to £1000 by today’s values.
Was it on here or maybe I saw it somewhere else. You can get a sticker for your car window or bumper sticker. The nice ones are. choices like: I brake for Unicorns, Faeries, Dragons . But the best curmudgeonly one.
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(twelve shillings)
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
https://electricgenerations.com/2017/08/14/exhibition-taster-morphy-richards-hairdryer-ensemble/
I'd be slinging it straight back and having a word.
Cheeky beggars 😠
People are a***holes w. edges. That's the beginning and end of it I'm afraid, and decent people usually have to put up with their shoddy behaviour.
Have you got a camera to film them? If you have, off to the council with it
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
You can get a sticker for your car window or bumper sticker.
The nice ones are. choices like: I brake for Unicorns, Faeries, Dragons .
But the best curmudgeonly one.
I brake for Tailgaters.