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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Jackie on February 20, 2010, 07:37:25 pm
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WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER!!"And we never had a whole Mars bar until 1993"!!!
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930's 1940's, 50's, 60's and early 70's !
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.
Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonald's , KFC, Subway or Nandos.
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because.......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY ,
no video/dvd films,
no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
Lawsuits from these accidents.
Only girls had pierced ears!
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time...
We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!
RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT
Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and bully's always ruled the playground at school.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law!
Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL !
And YOU are one of them!
CONGRATULATIONS!
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WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER!!"And we never had a whole Mars bar until 1993"!!!
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930's 1940's, 50's, 60's and early 70's !
And YOU are one of them!
CONGRATULATIONS!
Darn, just missed me then! all too true though...
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Must add:-
We always had lodgers
Mum did her washing in a gas boiler until buying the first Rolls Rapide
No tumble dryers
Lino until mum and dad bout Cyrle Loyd fitted carpets
We wore libberty bodices and vests
No central heating and old itchy blankets not quilts
Than Nylon sheets that caused static
Black and white TV and constant cowboy or war films
We did not know that perverts were about............. but they were!
All your jumpers were hand knitted with itchy wool
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You could use a public phone to signal a ring to your mum you were ready to come home from the swimming pool without putting in your 2p.
You were allowed up the swimming pool on your own.
You could ride you bike on the pavement or on the road.
Cold mornings always meant you could here the sound of old rusty Fords turning over and over cos they wouldnt start - ever without a push.
It was OK if you had big rust holes in the bodywork of your car.
You could have milk left on your doorstep without it being nicked and when you did a paper round people would leave the money on the doorstep for you.
Bus drivers would stop where you wanted to get off even if there wasnt a stop there.
It was perfectly acceptable to get a job on the local market when you where 10.
Parks had real rope swings, proper dangerous see saws and the good old witches hats.
1/2 p sweets and 5p bags of crisps.
As a kid you had to put your pocket money towards big christmas presents like bikes and go carts
Kids were happy with a hammer and nails and a pile of batons. (well I was!)
Everybodys dad did DIY or built there own extensions
As we grew up we had we were overjoyed with 16k of ram in our spectrum.
We had the patience to wait for a game to load and if it didnt we had the know how and were trusted to have a screwdriver to adjust the tape head on our tape deck.
lol
Baz
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Going down a 1 in 10 hill on a book balanced on a skate. Collecting acorns for the pig on the allotment. Sadly we knew all about perverts!!!! They were just as plentiful then, they maybe didnt have cars and motorways so would stay closer to home.
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I forgot garters...blinking things gave me varicose veins as I remember socks were not too good at staying up so I remember doing athletics with very tight garters.....then tights with pants sewn in, a lovely Orange tan color, they used to wrinkle around the ankle like Nora Batty....no deodorant, itchy hand knitted jumpers that grew, stiff clothing, pointed end bras that have a crater in the end, drop down socks and big navy pants...wonderful!!!!
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Makes you realise how times have changed .... for the better. Long live lycra
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God we're showing our age people...
I remember having to walk to the top of the road to use the phone then the excitement of our 1st telephone in the house.. I even remember the darn number ;D. I remember the atari games system, how amazing were those paddles and the white dot going back and forth.. our first colour telly.. our first remote controlled telly.. camping overnight with the kids in the street in a field 10 miles away and you walked there and back to do it.. going out virtually at dawn and not coming home until dusk and mom and dad didn't have kittens worrying where you were.. you were playing out.. all kids stayed out all day holidays and weekends. I remember the kids in the street getting together and putting on concerts in the back gardens to entertain our parents and ourselves.. charging 2p entrance fee..lycra leggings the first time around..Z cars, the professionals, morecambe and wise on the telly saturday night.. good memories..
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Like Jackie I was dragged up rate according to Mam and Dad could afford and was best for us brother and I We didn't go round Tesco screamin and stamping our feet because we couldn't have this or couldn't have that.No our 5 lads didn't either.You show us up in public you will regret it Kath would say and they never did not once that I can recall and you all know my memory. I know there was no Tesco but use your imagination Muther standing in a queue and one of us behaving like most not all only most children do ;D :farmer:
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Agree with all above...and miss most of it even now...but the thing I morn most of all is the loss of respect...for oneself and others...the world is sadder for that loss and would be a better place if we could resurrect it!
Farmer, :farmer:
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hear hear... I was only saying to my kids this weekend that when we were at school the threat of the cane or slipper kept the kids in line and a clip round the ear from a policeman was expected if you cheeked them.. too right as well.. In this age of everything being PC I think we have lost a lot of respect for others and that goes for adults as well as kids i'm afraid. I'm not an advocate of beating kids or infringing human rights but pleeasseee I ask you in a world when a parent can be sued by their kids for giving tham a well deserved smack on the legs (infrequently) what's gone wrong? Perspective that's what we've lost.. IMHO..
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True story for a start helencus Next to the farm was Glazebrooks orchard a commercial unit one would say now a days At our house was an orchard a few apple trees pears plums and damsons but best of all greengages.All much better than ours.What happens we must go scrumping in Glazebrooks The Cox's will be fit by now and they are on the Far side.so off we sneak.Now I dont know if you did it at your village but the approved way of going by a gate was to Western Roll over it just like the high jump champions at the Olympic Games in London.You charge up to the gate place one hand on the top and one on the second rail and heave your self over."What are you young buggers up to shouts a voice panic and all heads for the gate.Now brother Billy being some 4 years younger than me and not quite so adept at this art Lay across or should I say along the top rail and in those days boys wore short trousers no jeans then and would you believe Scrutton the policeman was behind the hedge and whats more would you believe his big Gauntlat Gloves landed on Billy's arse and bare legs.Hell he did shout and roared his eyes out.Muther said Whats up wi our Billy so she found out and told Dad at tea time that I had egged him on cos he wouldn't do oat like that on his own.So I got a taste of Dads belt.I got my own back on Billy I sneaked off down the dyke and into Newark and we walked all the way to the Monastery at Kelham and went brambling in the wood behind the Monastery and sold all of them to Old Man Stanger for half a crown Then he went roarin to Muther George has got some goodies and wont give me any.I hid them in the cut box chute under the straw and when she looked in my pocket there was only two so she gave him one of them.Alas he didn't get any of the others though
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Good days George.. I grew up on a council estate in South Bham but never the less it was on the outskirts so we could walk out a few miles to fields and countryside. I distinctly remember going scrumping in the fields at the bottom of the rec and being chased by the blumming cows.. never ran so fast in all my life .. before and since ;D
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Nice memory Wizard...I remember scrumping and being the youngest was always the one sent to climb up to the highest branches...the old farmer caught us one day and my 'friends' high tailed it leaving me behind...the Farmer scolded me for being a thief and frightend me so much I began to cry...he picked me up and carried me to the farm house, where his wife dried my tears and chastised him for being a bully...she made some tea and we had hot buttered scones and jam...when I left they gave me a bag of apples and an apple pie for my mother...I confessed to my parents who called around to the farm to apologise...and that led to a lifelong friendship between our families...funnily enough it turned out that old Bill (the Farmer) had met his wife, Annie, when HE was caught scrumping on her Dads farm many years earlier...so all's well that ends well...but I learnt my lesson and that was the last time I did any scrumping!
Thanks for making me remember that...it happened in the fifties and it was good to remember how nice folk could be to one another back then.
Farmer, :farmer:
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Hello farmer Yes it still happened then I was back in the late 40's but it don't matter it was a different world.I don't know if you know Newark and the surrounding area where I grew up Only free things were done really Bod Eggin and Train spotting The London to Scotland LNER passes through Newark and I've seen all the A4's many times Another true story The troughs were just outside Newark and the game was to sit on the fence at about 1/4 to 12 and wait for the Flying Scotsman Trains guess what was hauling Its Gannet today No its the Dominion of New Zealand no its Merlin the deep toned whistle gave the game away as to which it was as it passed under Claypole Bridge Now who was going to stay dry if the fireman didn't wind the chute up soon enough The top would fly up on the tender and a 18" column of water would stream up into the air and if you had chosen the right place you stayed dry on the other hand as well as 4 fingers and a thumb a drenched train spotter ;D ;D ;D :farmer:
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[quote ...it happened in the fifties and it was good to remember how nice folk could be to one another back then.
Farmer, :farmer:
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And still are now, just look at the nice people on this forum.
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Well said HM...I bow to your observation...Another fond memory I have is walking two miles along the canal after school to a junction so that I could ride the canal horses back to the local gas works...I paid for my pleasure by bedding down the horses and fetching a flagon of ale for the bargee...I well remember the smell of bacon being cooked on a shovel by the resident Blacksmith/Farrier and the sing-alongs accompanied by an old chap playing a squeeze box accordion....oh happy days...innocent, safe and lost forever!! :(
Farmer, :farmer:
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Helencus, we had a shed where we put on shows for money, I remember buying some penny chews and my mum made me give ALL the money back, the show was probably very poor anyway. My brother had a skiffle group,Lonney Donnagon type (for those purist who need correct spelling SORRY) My brother went on to back many interesting folk bands, and my c using still dose, I also was in a band.....Love music. It's true, things change and move on but I loved the fact we could be children, now, they have to mature too quick but stay static, having a prolonged teenage period, I was married at 21 whereas a lot of young people still like to have fun as a single person.......
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There was only one kind of milk - not whole, semi-skimmed and skimmed - and the birds pecked holes in the caps and supped the cream before Mum could get out to take it in because the milk man came round so so early. As did the postie (my Daddy) - and he used to feed us on the gifts he got on his rounds, fish, eggs, veggies from folks gardens etc. And Mum used to send us for a QUARTER (pound)of bacon for Dad's tea - can't remember what we ate but Dad got the bacon
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our milko used to have red top , silver top and gold top . Red top must have been semi skimmed , silver was just normal pasteurized and gold was full cream , then there was that disgusting gut wrenching stuff ...UHT with the metal bottle top .....to this day that still makes me heave .
But also on the subject of the milkman , when I were a lad (the sound of the Hovis music plays gently in the background !! ::)) ,eeee I remember it like it were yesterday !!! well anyway, I remember trying to get some breakfast in the morning before going to school . I would say to mum , " can I have some cornflakes mum?" and mum would reply " no there isn't enough milk , there is only enough for the kids !!) , my instant reply was .." MUM , I AM ONE " " you know what I mean " she would say . Well yes I did , but I was still only 11 . No matter ,I would fill my pockets with corn flakes , and on the way to school I would nick a pint of milk off of the milk float as I passed . Handfull of cornflakes , mouthfull of milk ... lovely stuff !!! I would even grab a yogurt and a pack of cheese sometimes too .... it was really good when the milko had the variety packs of cereal .... rice crispies , sugar puffs , corn flakes , FROSTIES , those disgusting co co pops I used to sell to a mate at school ...he he he ... great days ....The cheese I would eat throughout the day , but there was always loads left to take home for a midnight sarnie with some onion MMMmm .
cheers
Russ
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Rusty lets you and I start a new thread How disgusting eh Can I argue with you please.The tall bottle with the crown cap was Sterilized Homogenised Milk and it was definatly Tibetan Cow.There was another in Lincs with a Gold top Jersey Milk the cream you could see a third way down the bottle.The even worse stuff came later UHT in waxed card boxes uuuUUUhhhHHH! ??? :farmer:
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Does anyone remember the Automated Milk Machines, where you could get a carton of ice cold milk rather than a fizzy drink? I think they went out in the sixties, but surely they were much more healthy for you...
farmer, :farmer:
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don't remember them but I remember free school milk until Thatcher the milk snatcher got rid of it.. and much to many peoples (and mine) disgust I grew up in Bham (which was bad enough) and we had sterilized milk.. very big in the midlands in the 70s.. absolutely bloody disgusting. I only have to think about it and I retch...ugggghhhhh...
We were somewhat naughty as well and aften helped ourselves to a pint of pass as we called it.. (pasteurised) from the milk float on the way to school.. we called it humphreying.. do you remember the ads.. watch out watch out theres a humphrey about. Mom would have clipped us round the ears if she'd known.. ;D Actually maybe kids today aint so bad sounds like a few of us were little tea leaves.. in a harmless way of course lol! :D
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yes you are right George it was sterilized ....we never had it EVER !!! it was only a few of my mates had it ..I Know I could never drink tea in there houses because of it . The UHT stuff is just as bad ( if not, as you say George, worse !!), and brings about the same gut wrenching gag ......
I remember the milk machines too ...could never afford the stuff though , all my money would go in poppets and chewettes machine ...Think that was what they were called....I had forgotten all about those .
cheers
Russ
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Anyone remember the sweets that are long gone?
I loved sweet tobacco, it was coconut shreds. Spangles? Sherbert dib dabs or a pennyworth of kalai in a paper twist that you dipped your finger in and it went red/blue etc. ;D oooh and old fashioned Victory V's ;D ;D My nana used to feed me these and they used to contain ether and chloraform. H & S had nothing on us.lol
I remember going to the local bakery on the way home from school and buying day old cakes and buns a penny each.
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Yes I remember spangles! at a fancy dress competition once a boy in front of me was dressed as a King, he had spangles stuck to it as jewels, i picked them off and ate them! :o
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I still only drink pasteurised, unhomogenised milk (Gold top). Can't stand UHT, or anything else. My weakness though, is evaporated milk mmmmm...
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Whats that milk called that comes in tubes and can be spread on bread with sugar sprinkled on top?
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my mum used to eat condensed milk on bread with sugar .....yuk ....but that came in a tin ...I used to like it as it was, out of the tin , but not on bread or with sugar . Too sickly for me now though , as is . But I have used it in cooking often . I also like evaporated milk on fruit or apple pies etc , but not in coffee ....up chuck time then ....
cheers
Russ
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Good this intit Such happy memory's even a clip round the ear makes me smile when I think back Yes farmer and Bowater Perga cartons of farm fresh milk .Jackie what ever happened to a ha'penny stick of liquorish and black jack that evil stuff liquorish root and Chinese cachoo's.Oh you OOOOty Dixie you.Yes a white tube and blue Nestle on it Full cream condensed milk If that didn't make you have bad teeth nothing would.Yes and the school milk was in 1/3 pints and a quiet falling out who was milk monitor this week Do you remember that MofF Concentrated Orange Juice even cod liver oil Its not bad as cod liver oil and malt I think thats why I hate FISH and how about Friars Balsam and paregoric oil Vick's Vapour rub the list is endless intit? ;D :farmer:
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OMG I remember cod liver oil and malt extract George :( Devils own stuff Yuk!
Lol I loved liquorish root and did you ever eat carob beans?
Anyone remember when we used to skin our knees Mum would sit us on the draining board and slap on our knees red hot Kaolin poultice. OMG If that wasnt child abuse I dont know what was!!!
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Not kaolin here, but the dreaded iodine in a brown glass bottle :o And black's ointment if you got boils ;D
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Worra baht ring werms ;D :farmer:
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Gentian violet!! Aha took me ages to think of that ;D
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Yellow basilica? what was that used for? and remember germolene in a tin!!
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And doesnt Germolene smell nice? looks a bit like windowlene though lol
Yellow basilica was used for hand cream at least it was in WW2, so my mum says.
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As I recall Yellow Basillica is made from a yellow marble dust and is used in many Italian Basillica/church's
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Why would you use the stuff for hand cream? It must have acted as an emolient??????
PS mum has alzheimers but shes usually good on things from way back.
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Lovely, lovely post.
I was born in the fifties, and agree with all you have written.
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Memories are wonderful things Pigtail I agree. I was born in the 50's too, '56 to be precise, and in Cyprus when my lovely dad (deceased ) was in the RAF.
We filter out the bad and keep the good. And this thread is too make us all feel good on a cold winters day. ;D
Truly, I think the older we get the more we value memories. ;D
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Memories are wonderful things Pigtail I agree. I was born in the 50's too, '56 to be precise, and in Cyprus when my lovely dad (deceased ) was in the RAF.
We filter out the bad and keep the good. And this thread is too make us all feel good on a cold winters day. ;D
Truly, I think the older we get the more we value memories. ;D
Indeed we do,
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Gawd, yer aw babbies! I was born in the early 40s - a war baby, me! I don't remember any gold top, silver top or the like - we only had one kind of milk in our street. I loevd the malt extract (Virol), which is probably why i am the weight I am now! ;D ;D ;D
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Malt extract, yummy, a spoonful on our way out the door, before we went to school!
Until mother knew better than granny and she doscovered halibut orange which I regulary choked on, yugh.
Gimme the malt, granny. ;D
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No offence intended Annie who is it on here with alzheimers?
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Eh, what? What day is this? Where am I? ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Lol Annie the correct answer would be, Who are you? ;D
Been there, done that with my Mum.
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It's something I dread my children having to contend with. I have always had a bad memory but I would hate to be a burden to them
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I can understand your feeling like that Annie, i did too but having Mum live with us stops me worrying about her when she was on her own and I class her being with us as a blessing.
Sometimes she can be very funny with her forgetting and we all have a good laugh and now that there are 4 generations of us living together I believe we all gain.
Im lucky in that when day to day caring becomes too much for me/us we can afford carers and nurses to come in and help so we dont fear the furture either. :)
I hope when its my turn that my kids have learnt enough about valueing people that they will care for me as they have seen me care for their grandma.
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Have 'lost' a close friend to this awful condition, aged only 58 when he was admitted to the hospital...now he is just a vegetable with no power of speech, recollection or any form of communication...terrible to see...two close friends and I still visit him every month and spend the time reminiscing about 'the good old days' when he was well and 'one of the guys'...we are always upset and angry that he should end his days this way, but we do have fond memories of better days gone by...........Cheers Bob here's to you mate...we still love you!
Farmer, :farmer:
(Sorry gang...makes me a little emotional...)
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Don't worry, Farmer, we understand. I certainly do - have lost my two best ever friends to accidents - my husbands. I get emotional sometimes too, time does help there is no doubt about that.
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Its a god awful desease Farmer and one I wouldnt wish on my worst enemy. It is a credit to you that you visit.
I remember an old man being asked (not by me) why he visited his wife everyday in the nursing home when she clearly couldnt remember who he was and he replied, "She may not remember who I am but I remember who she is."
That sentance by that man I think sums up dementia. We lose the people we love by inches, oh bodily they are still there but everything we love and know about them goes.
Personally I am hoping my mum dies with her heart before it gets to that stage as it would be a 'kinder' ending.
Anyway enough of this depressing subject, this was meant to be a feel good thread. :)
Remember your old childhood books? Tales of Toyland by the blessed Enid was mine. And I still love it ;D
Bunty and Jackie comic?
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'Go to work on an egg', or 'In a hurry, no time to eat?...unzip a banana'.
Bom bom bom bom, Esso Blue.
;D
Rosehip syrup.........what was the brand name? ??? :-[
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Hello Og I remember If it wont start Pull the YOKE out ;D :farmer:
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What about the kids tv. Andy pandy, chigley, candlewick green, Mr Ben... That was when tv was tv
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Good morning Helen Its foggy here in GY quite thick still no snow though Moving away from the tots TV all of the Bakers used to watch spell bound excuse the pun Samantha and Darren poor Darren he just could not win with Endora about could he.I have a smashing lady friend on RCC and I asked her if she could wiggle her nose.Alas not I'm sorry to say George was her reply and her family used to watch as well ;D :farmer:
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Morning George. I believe your thinking of bewitched and I liked that too. The other similar one was I dream of genie but didn't like that so much.
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She was a smashing looking girl but I dont think JR made the best of his chances do you? ;D ;D ;D :farmer:
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Thanks for the understanding .... it is much appreciated.
Back to the thread....My earliest memories revolve around the radio, The Glums, The Navy Lark, Round The Horn, of course The Goons Show and best of all The Archers...to which I still listen avidly!
Radio spurs the imagination like T.V. never could!
Farmer, :farmer:
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Farmer You are so right POVEY YOU WILL BE HERE FOR TEA MY MOTHER WILL BE HERE AND SO WILL YOU Left hand down a bit Terrific rattle Didn't you let us free of the dock AH AH AH ! great I can remember 1st of January 1951 will it be as good as Dick Barton Special Agent? Could relate to it so it grew on us and for years we hardly missed an episode.Then it was on proper wireless on 1500 metres Long wave It used to say Droitwich on the tuning scale on the old Cossor.
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Who could forget 'Two Way Family Favorites'...'The Clithero Kid'...'Uncle Mac'...and the most bizarre programme of all 'Educating Archie'...a ventriloquist dummy on radio!...and yes I was an Oval Te-nee (don't know correct spelling, sorry Rosemary)...Ahh...happy, happy days!
Farmer, :farmer: ::)
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My OH still reminisces about the days of 'Listen with Mother', and then 'Watch with mother'. He always associates it with the smell of Woodbine, bless him I think he still misses his mam (she died young). He still listens to the Archers though, which does my head in, because I'd much rather listen to summat else! :-\
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Daphne said "Are you sitting comfortably" ;D :farmer:
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Aye, George, that's it. 'Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin...'
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Great days sage
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My OH still reminisces about the days of 'Listen with Mother', and then 'Watch with mother'. He always associates it with the smell of Woodbine, bless him I think he still misses his mam (she died young). He still listens to the Archers though, which does my head in, because I'd much rather listen to summat else! :-\
IS THERE SUMMAT ELSE????
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There's KERRANG radio!! :P
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Sorry...never heard of it...I'm just a simple guy...changing the dial on the radio would be like loosing the link to TAS...not worth the risk!
Farmer, :farmer:
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Lol! Different generation ;D Mind you, I know younger people who can't stand the 'noise' on kerrang radio. It's based in the midlands anyway, so you probably don't get it where you are ;D
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Daktari, and Clarence the crosseyed lion. ;D
And the weekly series 'Robinson Crusoe'.
There was 'Zoo Time' too......was that Johnny Morris?
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George, you asked about ringworms - that one was Whitfield's ointment! Took me days to remember ;D
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you are right sage this gittin ode aint no good to the little grey cells is it ;D ;D :farmer:
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I can remember hiding behind the sofa when Journey into Space was on.
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What abaht the Robinsons and Dr Smith with Robbie ??? :farmer:
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There was always something a bit strange about journey into outer space, I felt ...was it Dr Smith? was after the Robinsons teenage daughter...well the baddy in it looked like a perv anyway!!!
Daktari, and Clarence the crosseyed lion.
And the weekly series 'Robinson Crusoe'.
There was 'Zoo Time' too......was that Johnny Morris?
The cossed eyed lyon, i loved that too,,Johnny Morris!! I would still watch him now if he was on, so nice and so funny, lovely programme, his voice was geat and very calming...What about Black Beauty, Skippy, THe littlest Hobo, and the Lone Range? all vey similar story lines I suppose and I love the flying Dr!!!! Now what has TV to offe???? MUCH MORE!!! but a lot of trash!
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wasn't Dr Zachary Smith in 'Lost in Space' ? I don't remember 'Journey into space' ? But I do remember 'Land of the Giants' .... But they were just good fun ... the real heavy stuff was 'Stingray' , 'Fireball XL5', and then 'Torchy, the Battery Boy' , 'Twizzle' , 'the Wooden Tops' ...the list could go on and on .... ::) ;D
Lost in Space : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH6j63lhAAc&feature=related
Land of the Giants : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iMNBY61ndQ
Stingray : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E06cNv55jTs
Fireball XL5 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASvBTqfTrzA&feature=related
Torchy : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wujTB-nDe-M
Twizzle : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFF26F-C_RQ&feature=related
The Wooden Tops :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HZXQEKLWl8&feature=related
cheers
Russ
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I was soooooo influenced by Sting Ray..just rechageing my memory
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yep ..me too... I WAS 'Troy Tempest'. I thought 'Phones' was a bit of a div :dunce: really ...but I was madly in love with 'Marina' :love: :love:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD96RQ1-wnY&NR=1
cheers
Russ
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Marina, aqua Marina.........she was rather lovly..nothing like me ;)
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Oooh it's all coming back - unized milk from the local farm from cow to cooler to bottle - good old green top! And no such thing as sliced bread, tea bought loose by the quarter, butter from a barrel (does anyone from Oldham remember Shannons butter store ?) Cheese cut from the wheel instead of arriving in shrink-wrap and potatoes covered with soil. Shops all had a half day closing and the butched and confectioner closed at lunchtime on Saturday!
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If you want to talk 'puppets'...then what about 'Muffin the Mule'...'Andy Pandy'...'Bill & Ben'...'Sooty & Sweep'...all of whom have come in very handy when naming pigs I might add....strangely though I tend to stick to more Dickensian names for my Dexters....Little Dorrit...Darcy...Dorcus & Daisy for last years brood.
Does anyone else name their animals after characters from books or TV/Radio programmes?
Farmer, :farmer:
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Lost in Space was on TV, Journey into Space was on the radio - which is why I thought you might think it odd that I hid behind the sofa ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Joe 90.. I loved that.. The theme tune was fab
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lol... I used to hide behind the couch when Dr Who was on ....but I can't remember listening to the radio . We had a telly from when I was 5 , although for the first couple of years it was only a tiny little green thing in it's own cupboard !!! I remember the first BIG one we got was a 19" b+w one.
cheers
Russ
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Good Morning all from a dry nearly sunny will be hopefully Gy Bugger me it soon wants to be its March 1st on Monday.Dr Who he had soom orribull nimy's didn't e.I know its not a part of this thread but I found Paddy and the bricks on Google and of course Pat Cooksey if you play that version (the best version)If you are interested the top little oblong that comes on with the page that is Paddy is Achmed the dead terrorist press that one In my opinion its so funny The new in say "I kill you" play it and see.The pheasant was ***** + can one have 5 star plus? Well we can now because I say so we had roast Yam and greens Got to keep my 5 a day up ;D ;D ;D
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The scariest radio and later TV and film I remember as a child was QUATERMAS...(not sure of spelling)...my sister and I used to hide on the stairs to listen without our parents knowing...I then became an avid fan and well remember going to the local 'flea pit' to watch 'Quartermas and the pit'...I was under-age and had to pretend to be older just to get in...The music still stirs all those old memories.
Farmer, :farmer:
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I dont think it matters much how you spell it Most will know the original hole was ahhh AAHH Oh eck :o :farmer:
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Does anyone else name their animals after characters from books or TV/Radio programmes?
Farmer, :farmer:
Yes, but its probably a thread all of its own!!
Margo and Geraldine - goats (The Good Life) and Lenin the cockeral
Murphy, Maud and Mildred - pigs (The Worst witch)
Smokey and The Bandit (mummy and daddy rabbit, and their children..) Tonto, the Sundance Kid, Zorro, Dandino (From The Illusionist) and Midnight
Peters and Lee (guinea pigs, my last ones were Tom and Jerry!)
I'll stop now, before you try and have me sectioned... !!
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Little Blue...you're a star...we once had a neighbour who called her two hand reared lambs 'Rigour & Mortice'...thinking ahead no doubt...we had a bunch of very lively GoS piglets that we knicknamed 'The Munch Bunch' and a sleepy old sow we called 'Bagpuss'...our two latest Tamworth sows were named 'Sausage & Bacon' by the previous owner, but we renamed them 'Buttercup & Daisy'...much more friendly!
Farmer, :farmer:
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;D
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Thinking along these lines what about the cats Felix Tom and Jerry and Itchy and Scratchy and Bagpuss the best one Garfield Odie and Jon No Tell me your favourite one is Korky? ;D ;D ;D :farmer:
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Our cats are Claude (Jermiah Greengrass - Heartbeat), Delby (Del-boy, but turned out to be missing the boy parts!) and Bim (Jim Reeves song - Bimbo)
And (Girl) Friday
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No cats Little Blue...two Tibettan Terriers (Terrorists) Oscar (Oscar Wilde) and Beatles (Black haired with a fringe over her eyes)...We have a pet ram called Laurence (posh for Larry) a goat called Jake (Jacob look alike) another called Kenco (coffee coloured), a ewe called Thelma (we lost her sister Louise) and one of our cows is called Boo-Boo (changed from Bo-Bo because I mistook her for a bull calf when she was born...I made a BooBoo of sexing her!) We have a Bull called Prince, so we named one of his male off spring Bozie (nickname of the Prince of Wales)...as you can see we're completely bonkers!!!!
Wizard...yes Korky was a favorite, but I liked Lord Snooty and Desperate Dan as well...and what about The Bash Street Kids, Dennis the Menace and all the other Beano characters.
farmer, :farmer:
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not just us then.... : )
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Farmer Gnasher hozze E ;D :farmer:
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Theres a pub near me that makes 'Desperate Dan Cow Pies' complete with pastry horns sticking out the top!
Yes I did try it but couldnt finish it. Eyes bigger than my belly. ;D
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Hello Jackie There is a butchers down the coast at Sommercoates Brian makes a beautiful steak pie he calls a Desperate Dan Cow Pie its a foot across and a inch and half deep and it lasts us 4 meals with veg and pudding not as good frozen as fresh but still leaves the big boys miles behind ;D ;D ;D :farmer:
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Hello George, when we move (soon I hope :'( ) over that way I will certainly be off to that butchers. :)
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Im going to call my 2 gilts (when I get them) Pricilla and Primrose just cos the names are sweetly old fashioned. ;D
Every year they are going to be Pricilla and Primrose. lol
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I started naming my Ex battery hens after my 5 grandchildren but then decided as they mostly looked scraggy things they may be insulted, only got around to calling the biggest Big Sandy and the wee scruffiest Wee Stevie, even though she is a girl. We called our Rottie cross Bruce after Bruce Willis as my OH watched a lot of his films, then we moved to Scotland across the road from the Bruce family coat of arms and it seemed even more appropriate, sadly he was put to sleep last year, he was a wonderful dog absolutely no bad habits, although he certainly did not like some dogs but never ever had a fight or had to be stopped from fighting, unlike Bruce Willis!
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I called my weaners kim and aggie after the 2 from how clean is your house. They're always in pig stys so seemed appropriate ;D
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Ok then as we have drifted a bit what about cars?
Ford pop was my dads first car and I remember his ford anglia very well too.
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I know one shouldn't wish but I had a Jowett Bradford Estate Car ex Cleethorpe police.A grand thing for a 18yr olds first car.Several of my so called mates tried to pinch it an hide it some other place but could never get it to move it always stalled.No ignition key just turn the knob in the center of the light switch and press the great big button the center of the dash.35 mph in the middle of the road go any where in time.You had to get out and strike a match to see if the lights were switched on.Being a motor mechanic I converted it to 12 Volt from 6V now theres a project What about the petrol gauge the trafficator semaphore arms he he he ??? :farmer:
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My first car was an Austin 8...for which I paid almost a months wages, £15.00...but boy was I proud!
Farmer, :farmer:
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My dad loved his cars and was always changing them so not too sure but we did have a black one with a running board and a red strip around the middle, I told my friends how important that red stripe made my dad...all I know is I used to get very travel sick as he smoked a pipe, my mum smoked cigarettes and I was in the back with my brother with the addition of petrol fumes.
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Not betting money but Morris Motors were very fond of a deep red strip around the cars waist particuarly their 12hp model That was a posh car at that time ;D :farmer:
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Farmer a BS1 or a over engined Ruby style Great weren't they.Did you ever get the chance to drive an Austin Six we had one as a Taxi where I was apprentice :farmer:
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Can't say that I did Wizard...but I too served an apprenticeship as a mechanic..a loooong time ago...when cars were cars and not computers on wheels! If I lift the bonnet these days I haven't a clue what I'm looking at!
Farmer, :farmer: ???
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I remember my Granda had an old Ford that he delivered his ice cream to small hotels in. (He had an Ice Cream Factory ;D yum yum) My cousin Stuart and I sometimes went with him. When I passed my test at 17 my uncle gave me the keys to the company Morris Oxford Estate car and told me to disappear for two hours to learn to drive properly ;D ;D after that I was commissioned to take my Grandma out for a drive every Sunday afternoon, she used to take me in for afternoon tea in the best of country hotels. A lovely lady!
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Lovely memories Annie. :)
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I remember when I was around 5/6 when my parents had a smallholding and kept a few pigs; the styes were surrounded with a wall with a rounded top and the school boys used to have great fun walking along it and teasing the pigs...one day a local boy slipped and fell straight into the newly filled trough. It was 'Pig Swill' in those days and he was covered from head to foot and very frightened.
Luckily my father was around and he reached over and picked him out, then hosed him down in the yard before my mother took him in doors and dried him off. They fed him and loaned him some of dads clothes before taking him back to his parents...Mom washed and dried his clothes before taking them back the next day. His Father was so annoyed with him that he was made to come around and clean the pigs out for the next week...he never tried to walk the wall again! ;D
Farmer, :farmer:
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And that's what's wrong with our civilisation today! Nowadays the smallholder would be made to put up fences to keep his
'wild' animals in, or get rid of them! >:(
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"On a cloth untrue and a twisted cue and elliptical billiard balls"" Make the punishment fit the crime " wrote WS Gilbert in the Mikado.AND we still don't do we? Make the punishment fit the crime. :farmer:
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Annie love Why should I tolerate your rotten horses pigs sheep diggin their toes in my took years to prepare bowling green? You love them dearly I would be tempted to empty an ounce an a sixteenth of No 6 on them HE HE HE ??? ??? ??? ;D ;D ;D :farmer:
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The week I was born Jonnie Ray was number 1 singing 'Just walking in the rain.'
What was it when you were born?
http://www.everyhit.com/dates/
Sorry George it doesnt go back as far as the stone age. ;)
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Huh, NOR the Post stone age ;) ;D ;D
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Well I don't care but one of the top songs was the Inkspots singing "Smoke gets in your eyes" a long time before the Platters It also sold a bundle of sheet music So There!
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Paul Anka singing 'Diana' was number 1 the week I was born...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuTbB-d12A0
since then he has been sitting in the back of many cars , just looking out of the rear window , head wobbling !!! .....what does he do that weird head wobble thing for ? ...lol.
cheers
Russ
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Oh I'm positively a child then. Jumpin jack flash by the stones was number 1 when I was born.
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Ack! Mine was Benny Hill's 'Ernie (the fastest milkman in the west)' :P
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Ahh...the Inkspots George..."Whispering Grass"....always reminds me of 'IT Aint Arf Hot Mum'...what a typically British show...and very funny!
Farmer, :farmer:
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Farmer g'day.It is again in Gy that's every day this week has the sun shone.It got up to 7c plus Wednesday afternoon but it is being spoiled by the very cold nights.Not really ready for any planting outside yet.
Remembering tell me do what pop music or Tv show equal to Don Estelle and Windsor is there today for your son to talk about I remember in 2010 the was a program ????? Plenty of Wycliffe and Tom Barnaby but sit and have an hour of continuous laughs ? ??? :farmer:
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Found the link for those that do remember Johnnie Ray ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCjTWYoRTzM
Seems odd that I know this song, how can I remember something from around my birth???
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All I remember about music is the Billy Cotton Band Show on Sunday's then the Clithero Kid, Loved that!!
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aye wont the Navy Lark before Billy Cotton Band Show and Alan Breeze?