The Good Old Days is being repeated on TV at the moment - well, not this very moment, but we watched one last week and the week before - so good - Hinge & Bracket, Bernard Cribbins, Ken Dodd, John Inman and Patricia Hayes are just a few of the acts we've watched lately.
Think it's on BBC 4 but I can't swear to it ..............
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We're huge Peter Skellern fans here. Sadly he is terminally ill, but has just achieved a lifetime's ambition of being ordained an Anglican priest. There was a feature about him on the radio not long ago.
Did anyone make a Go kart out of pieces of wood and the wheels from the old Silver Cross prams. You had long rope to guide the front wheels. We use to race the other kids down the hills.
We use to go up to the co-op and get loads of cardboard boxes and make dens in the garden. sling an old candlewick bedspread over it. We use to think it was great.
Did anyone do the French skipping, where you had two people stand facing each other and they would step into some elastic, put it around their ankles and the third person had to jump on and into the elastic and grip it with the heels on your shoes. It started at the ankles then your calf's then the back of your knees. If you could jump really high it would be up to their hips.
MARBLES. Where you use to knock them into the holes of the old manhole covers.
My brain has been sent into overload with all these fabulous memories!
I don't remember cardboard milktops, but I do remember the foil tops. We had Silver top (and if you were lucky, you had the cream that rose to the top). I was envious of my friend whose mum had Gold top (Channel Islands milk, I think). We saved the tops in big bags - for "blind dogs" I think it was. But at Christmas, we would make silver bells: 4 or 5 tops would be used per string of bells, each of which had to be put over a lemon squeezer and the thumbnail run down in the grooves. A piece of string would be threaded through each of the middles, with a knot in between to make a little tinkly Christmas tree decoration. (The cat loved them!)
Money back on pop bottles: I think it was in "d" not "p" in my day. The cheekiest boys would climb over the wall to the back of the local pub, and bring their booty round to the "Offy" to claim the money back. I know it was stealing, really, but we were in awe of their gymnastic ability and sheer cheek.
Uncle Mac on Saturday mornings: yes! Sparky and his Magic Piano. Pink Toothbrush/Blue Toothbrush. The Deadwood Stage. This Old House (Connie Francis). Where will the Baby's Dimple Be? And many more, of course.
Two Way Family Favourites on Sunday (Jean Metcalf and Cliff Michelmore) followed by Beyond Our Ken (which then became Round the Horne), Ray's a Laugh, Life with the Lyons, The Navy Lark. And then Billy Cotton's Band Show. Wakey Wakey!
I remember the go cart, but didn't have one. I had a 2 wheeled scooter, I would go up the path,a bit of a hill and come down fast, sometimes i would fall off and scrape my knee.Because I had 2 older brothers I was a bit of a tom boy.I had 2 large dolls that would stand by themselves and supposed to walk.I would go to the park with my brothers and go up a grassy hill, lie down and roll down the hill.
Me too Logan, bit of a tom boy. Use to love playing roly-poly down the grass banks. Use to go on a place called camels hump scrambling on us bikes. Remember the Chipper and the chopper bikes. After that I got my Raleigh Eighteen in gold.
Anyone been to the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley Birmingham. Great place to visit.
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The Good Old Days is being repeated on TV at the moment - well, not this very moment, but we watched one last week and the week before - so good - Hinge & Bracket, Bernard Cribbins, Ken Dodd, John Inman and Patricia Hayes are just a few of the acts we've watched lately.
Think it's on BBC 4 but I can't swear to it ..............
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We're huge Peter Skellern fans here. Sadly he is terminally ill, but has just achieved a lifetime's ambition of being ordained an Anglican priest. There was a feature about him on the radio not long ago.
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/cornwall-terminally-ill-man-fulfills-ambition-to-become-a-priest-thanks-to-archbishop/story-29830081-detail/story.html
His albums are still available on Amazon.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sad about him being ill. Do you remember Lyndsey de Paul? I had one of her albums, it had a track called sugar me.
Yes - she's really successful as a songwriter and producer nowadays.
Do you remember the Walker Brothers?
We're big Scott Walker fans here.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Did anyone make a Go kart out of pieces of wood and the wheels from the old Silver Cross prams. You had long rope to guide the front wheels. We use to race the other kids down the hills.
We use to go up to the co-op and get loads of cardboard boxes and make dens in the garden. sling an old candlewick bedspread over it. We use to think it was great.
Did anyone do the French skipping, where you had two people stand facing each other and they would step into some elastic, put it around their ankles and the third person had to jump on and into the elastic and grip it with the heels on your shoes. It started at the ankles then your calf's then the back of your knees. If you could jump really high it would be up to their hips.
MARBLES. Where you use to knock them into the holes of the old manhole covers.
My brain has been sent into overload with all these fabulous memories!
I don't remember cardboard milktops, but I do remember the foil tops. We had Silver top (and if you were lucky, you had the cream that rose to the top). I was envious of my friend whose mum had Gold top (Channel Islands milk, I think). We saved the tops in big bags - for "blind dogs" I think it was. But at Christmas, we would make silver bells: 4 or 5 tops would be used per string of bells, each of which had to be put over a lemon squeezer and the thumbnail run down in the grooves. A piece of string would be threaded through each of the middles, with a knot in between to make a little tinkly Christmas tree decoration. (The cat loved them!)
Money back on pop bottles: I think it was in "d" not "p" in my day. The cheekiest boys would climb over the wall to the back of the local pub, and bring their booty round to the "Offy" to claim the money back. I know it was stealing, really, but we were in awe of their gymnastic ability and sheer cheek.
Uncle Mac on Saturday mornings: yes! Sparky and his Magic Piano. Pink Toothbrush/Blue Toothbrush. The Deadwood Stage. This Old House (Connie Francis). Where will the Baby's Dimple Be? And many more, of course.
Two Way Family Favourites on Sunday (Jean Metcalf and Cliff Michelmore) followed by Beyond Our Ken (which then became Round the Horne), Ray's a Laugh, Life with the Lyons, The Navy Lark. And then Billy Cotton's Band Show. Wakey Wakey!
I remember the go cart, but didn't have one. I had a 2 wheeled scooter, I would go up the path,a bit of a hill and come down fast, sometimes i would fall off and scrape my knee.Because I had 2 older brothers I was a bit of a tom boy.
I had 2 large dolls that would stand by themselves and supposed to walk.
I would go to the park with my brothers and go up a grassy hill, lie down and roll down the hill.
Me too Logan, bit of a tom boy. Use to love playing roly-poly down the grass banks. Use to go on a place called camels hump scrambling on us bikes. Remember the Chipper and the chopper bikes. After that I got my Raleigh Eighteen in gold.
Anyone been to the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley Birmingham. Great place to visit.
https://www.bclm.co.uk/
P c,yes I remember the bikes, wasn't allowed one, mom said too dangerous. Haven't been to the museum.