We have a push mower bought in 2018 from DIY store. It's to mow the grass paths between plots at the allotment. Ideal, as it is environmentally friendly and can be left in the allotment shed without having to worry about expensive equipment being stolen. It's also really easy to use and was really cheap to buy and there's not much to go wrong with it. Sometimes technology is unnecessary.
My nostalgic memories are probably more rooted in the 60s than the 70s so if you can recollect these in an instant you’re a grade 1 baby boomer: Cathy Come Home Sturmey Archer gears Car coats and string backed driving gloves Surgeons who would open up the patient for a “proper look see” No 10 Meccano sets French fancies Passing Cloud cigarettes Mr Pastry and Harry Worth (equally awful) Bronco and Izal Describing things as common Black Tower and Mateus Rosé The Three Day Week Lincoln biscuits TSR2 Simon Dee Charles Atlas (and 7 stone weaklings) Charles Buchan K.E.Y.N.S.H.A.M. The great smell of Brut Zal disinfectant Oz Practical Householder Reveille Jubilee bags Green Shield Stamps
And what was it that 🎼 “cleaned a big, big carpet for less than half a crown ... for less than half a crown” ?
Kunzle Cakes. A chocolate case containing a layer of jam, next a layer of sponge, next a layer of buttercream icing, topped with a chocolate decoration. You had to lick everything out of the middle until you had nothing left but the chocolate case and decoration.l
Birthday treat - a gateau from Lyons Corner House.
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Sometimes technology is unnecessary.
Cathy Come Home
Sturmey Archer gears
Car coats and string backed driving gloves
Surgeons who would open up the patient for a “proper look see”
No 10 Meccano sets
French fancies
Passing Cloud cigarettes
Mr Pastry and Harry Worth (equally awful)
Bronco and Izal
Describing things as common
Black Tower and Mateus Rosé
The Three Day Week
Lincoln biscuits
TSR2
Simon Dee
Charles Atlas (and 7 stone weaklings)
Charles Buchan
K.E.Y.N.S.H.A.M.
The great smell of Brut
Zal disinfectant
Oz
Practical Householder
Reveille
Jubilee bags
Green Shield Stamps
And what was it that 🎼 “cleaned a big, big carpet for less than half a crown ... for less than half a crown” ?
"A thousand and one, a thousand and one,
Gets rid of that workaday frown.
A thousand and one cleans a big, big carpet
For less than half a crown."
Might be earlier than the 70s though, if you consider we went decimal in 1971.
Verse Two:
Live action foam deep cleans
Cleans your carpet like new.
And if that didn't work, you could do the shake and vac and put the freshness back
Kunzle Cakes. A chocolate case containing a layer of jam, next a layer of sponge, next a layer of buttercream icing, topped with a chocolate decoration.
You had to lick everything out of the middle until you had nothing left but the chocolate case and decoration.l
Birthday treat - a gateau from Lyons Corner House.