Do you recall,,,,,,,

[sailbadthesinner]

Ricketts
Polio
Slum housing
Coarse loo paper
No running hot water
Pubs shut early
no all day opening sunday
only the very rich could afford to own a boat
class system ruled
asbestos
miners lung


eeh what days

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'you're making a scene'.

 

[ccscott49]

In fact Halcyon days eh!......................geddit! Oh well never mind, I did try!

 

[ccscott49]

Ey! Lad, but we wuz 'appy!

No hongkong flu either, or any of the other resisitant flus' and other viruses and diseases, like aids etc.

 

[pugwash]

Well said!

Perhaps the biggest step-forward of all is that any of us around 60 or more is still alive to remember the days when to have half a crown in your pocket was riches and people didn't make a song and dance about good fortune.

 

[ruthhobson]

Don't forget "IZAL" - that shiny loo paper in school.

 

[ccscott49]

Remember it! Still use it, reccommended for blakes toilets! Seriously is.................. but thank god I dont use it.

 

[Twister_Ken]

And frost on the inside of your windows. nm

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[sailbadthesinner]

Yep. it was medicated one side only
but did not say whcih side

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'you're making a scene'.

 

[sailbadthesinner]

Re: And frost on the inside of your windows. nm

I slept in the attics so i had that yip


Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'you're making a scene'.

 

[Twister_Ken]

And chilblains. nm

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[sailbadthesinner]

Oh SCHOOL is it EH?
COAL MINE not good enough for you.

hark at her with school

i had to go to work before i got to bed after which i came home and was whippped within an inch of me life

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'you're making a scene'.

 

[ccscott49]

An INCH A WHOLE INCH!! you wuz lucky!!!!!!

 

[sailbadthesinner]

Yeh well i was tired from having to carry the pit pony around so they let me off
but it was to within an eighth of an inch of me life on Sundays.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'you're making a scene'.

 

[claymore]

And treat those two impostors...

So I remember days as you describe...but let's not wish they hadn't gone. Today is as good a day as there has been - if you want it to be.
I worry when people yearn for the past - its gone, good as it was and even better through the rosy specs - we cannot do anything to make it return - but we can do something about today and tomorrow and the one after and in so doing make them better than any day that has passed

regards
Claymore

 

[halcyon]

Posh what!!!!, toilet paper, didn't you sit there tearing newspaper into squares, and threading them on a lenght of string like the rest of us???

Brian

 

[halcyon]

Re: And treat those two impostors...

But if you do not look back, you have no referance as to wether you are improving matters, or making them worse.
History is only a referance point for the future.

Brian

 

[sailbadthesinner]

Re The older i get the better i was nm

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Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'you're making a scene'.

 

[tome]

By ecky thump

Wot about the rag'n'bone man then?

Never had to sort out all our tut into different coloured plastics, 6 grades of cardboard, garden refuse (perennials, coniferous, exotic), magazines (hobbies, adult, tv listings) before taking them down the tip and as often as not came back with more than we dumped.

Army surplus was just that (once picked up the clockwork mechanism from a time bomb - imagine that now!) not Millets rejects. Bought the same homing pigeon 5 times from market in Manchester, watched George Best play his first game for ManU, and got a good hiding from the Park Police for climbing trees to nick berries if the fat b*****d could catch you. Shinned wall at back of off-license to nick empties, which we returned next day for deposit...

Everyone in street hung front door key on string behind letterbox and the thrill of standing on't railway bridge whilst the steam loco thundered beneath with steam a billowing, flattening farthings on railway line and going on to become a boring old flatulent fart like my elders...

 

[ponapay]

Didn't have telly at home before I was 21 and away working.

I remember when we got a box (7lbs)of sugar as a great treat from a naval friend just back from Jamaica. It tasted real good, I did not at that stage know how lucky we were.

I also remember 1/3rd pint of milk ar school, cod livr oil and malt for breakfast and MoH Orange juice.

PS: I am still young too.

 

[ianwright]

Sir,,,,,?

"Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' "

Could be,,,,,,, what have you done to deserve it?

IanW

Vertue 203, Patience