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Post by overatdaknee nli on Jul 6, 2007 13:24:22 GMT
;)Before the Internet... Before semi-automatics, joyriders and crack.... Before SEGA or Super Nintendo... Way back........
I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park. The corner shop.
Hopscotch. Butterscotch. Skipping. Handstands. Football with an old can. Fingerbob. Beano, Dandy, Buster, Twinkle and Dennis the Menace. Roly Poly. Hula Hoops, jumping the stream, building dams.
The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass.
Bazooka Joe bubble gum. An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays a tune. Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan or perhaps screwball.
Wait...... Watching Saturday morning cartoons, short commercials or the flicks. Children's Film Foundation, The Double Deckers, Red Hand Gang, Tomorrow People, Tiswas or Swapshop?, and 'Why Don't You'? - or staying up for Doctor Who.
When around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed like going somewhere.
Earwigs, wasps, stinging nettles and bee stings.
Sticky fingers.
Playing Marbles. Ball bearings. Big 'uns and Little 'uns.
Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro. Climbing trees. Making igloos out of snow banks. Walking to school, no matter what the weather. Running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach hurt. Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights. Spinning around on roundabouts,
getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles. Being tired from playing.... remember that?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon. Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle. Choppers and Grifters. Eating raw jelly. Orange squash ice pops. Vimto and Jubbly lollies
Remember when...
There were two types of trainers - girls and boys, and Dunlop Green Flash .The only time you wore them at School was for P.E.
And they were called gym shoes or if you are older - plimsoles.
You knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents.
It wasn't odd to have two or three 'best' friends.
You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas Eve.
When nobody owned a pure-bred dog.
When 25p was decent pocket money Curly Whirlys. Space Dust. Toffo's. Top Trumps. When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving pupil at home. Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs etc.
Remember when.... Decisions were made by going "Ip, Dip, Dog Sh*t" Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs.And the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one. It was unbelievable that 'British Bulldog 123' wasn't an Olympic event. Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a catapult. Nobody was prettier than Mum.
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.
Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.
Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED.
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Post by Welshmountainpony on Jul 6, 2007 23:08:35 GMT
 you've brought a lump to my throat - i remember em all and i'm only 35!! Times have changed for the worse you forgot riding bikes (or ponies!) down country lanes for miles, not worrying about strangers or traffic or when you'd get home and pick your own strawberries - when you ate more than actually went into the tub building dens in the woods buying a quarter of cola cubes and aniseed twists for a penny each and spangles and pacers ... oh i feel nostalgic
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Post by woof on Jul 8, 2007 19:02:53 GMT
How lovely, I remember them all. Sadly how times have changed, my mum used to run us to the yard for 9am and that's where we stayed with our ponies till she picked us up at 5pm. Chippy and sweet shop for lunch, and all the above mentioned to boot, how wonderful!!!
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Post by Getting old on Jul 12, 2007 20:47:42 GMT
I to remember all of that. 240 pennies in the pound, a bob, a tanner, thrupenny bits  Yards feet and inchs. Everyone wore hand me downs  Well they did in our house. Gas fire  whats that.  Go get some more coal from the coal shed in the yard thats if the miners were not on strike  Outside loos that where freezing in winter. Ah those where the days.  |
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Post by Milliesmum on Jul 20, 2007 20:41:18 GMT
Making toast over a coal fire. A stick of rhubarb and a bag of sugar. Picking blackberries till your fingers went pink. Opal fruits and Marathons. A bath on sunday teatime and then listening to the hymns in your pajamas. Little Jimmy Osmond, David Cassidy. School milk in those little bottles.
These are all things that I am too young to remember !!!!
(and if you believe that you'll believe anything!)
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Post by folly on Jul 28, 2007 11:23:44 GMT
Sherbert in a bag with a lolly on a cardboard stick, but the stick got soggy quickly and bent, so you ate the lolly and stuck your finger in the bag instead; sherbert fountains in a yellow cardboard tube with a licorice pipe that always clogged up after the second suck so you just ate it and then poured the sherbert into your mouth; sherbert spaceships that started to dissolve in your mouth and then got stuck to the roof of your mouth, causing you to cough, breathe in the sherbert, splutter a lot and then swallow. Sherbert obviously featured a lot in my childhood.........
My mum's turquoise coloured Raleigh shopper bicyle with a white pastic-coated wire basket on the front and a carrybag on the bag.
Hanging onto the back of the milk float when on my bike - yes, I know it's dangerous now I'm grown up, but he never went very fast.
Conkers! Clackers! The toy whose name I forget which was a rigid plastic hoop, with a bit of string with a weight on the end of it, which you span round your ankle whilst hopping the free leg over the string and weight as it went round.
Blue Peter with Peter Purves, John Noakes and Valerie Singleton
John Craven's Newsround
Chorlton and the Wheelies
Will O' The Wisp (most expectially the Moog and Mavis Cruet)
Having exercise books for every subject at school
Covering your text books in seriously grim wallpaper
HANDWRITING your homework essays and using a DICTIONARY
Small bright blue log tables for maths and trig
and to make a change from sherbert, how about chocolate limes?
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Post by yesterday on Jul 28, 2007 13:04:19 GMT
blimy folly you must be nearly as old as me!! - but then summer was summer although occasionally a wet one, and hay was made properly in bales which were tied with string/twiney stuff and it always smelt nice. nO e number then either, but I do remember having a very wet hols in scotland one year. |
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Post by piper on Jul 29, 2007 21:16:21 GMT
riding for an hour and a half to the forge to get my pony shod.the heat and the smell and the 40 year old parrot who knew more swear words than me.Mr Topley with his bent back and gnarled hands and voice that could calm the most nervous pony.
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Post by flashthecash on Aug 9, 2007 16:39:26 GMT
Black plimsolls with white soles (that were yellow) then moving on to white tennis pumps. That you had to whiten every other day, because you had worn them to muck out in  School uniform, that "WAS" school uniform. Everybody wore the same shirt, tunic, shoes.. etc.. CLARKE'S shoes! OMG! how old am I? White sheepskin numnarhs .. that were not sheepskin but some sort of synthetic stuff Ohh sheepskin coats! were all the rage when I was in my teens! and long leather coats down to your ankles |
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Post by ferret nli on Aug 9, 2007 22:35:55 GMT
Ra Ra skirts ...Duran Duran ....Culture Club .... riding to the yard on my bike with my tack balanced over the handle bars ...rubber riding boots ...white string gloves ...string girths ....riding out ALL day with a packed lunch ( poor ponies ) ....Christy beaufort hats with elastic chinstraps ....Muckers ( little funny boots you wore for the yard ..how awful were they )..... drinking Thunderbird cider (yuk ) and mad dog 20 20  god i am V old  !!! |
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Post by lolly on Nov 19, 2007 11:28:53 GMT
only just read this, its great overatdaknee
ferret you must be the same age as me, gosh what memories this brought back
I always rode to the stables on my bike, tack balanced over it, then i used to go for four and five hour rides, sometimes on my own from being 13. I always always felt safe and didnt have a care in the word. oh those were the days when summer holidays went on forever
and nobody had a mobile phone to ring you ......
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Post by shelleyj on Nov 19, 2007 20:43:18 GMT
Anybody seen the advert for the Jackie CDs? Donny, David Cassidy and the rest - have been threatened with divorce by OH if I go anywhere near it, am currently thinking whether its worth it........
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Post by Milliesmum on Nov 19, 2007 22:36:51 GMT
Recently went to Nottingham Arena, girls night out, to see a concert called 'once in a lifetime'. Consisted of Showaddywaddy, David Cassidy, David Essex and The Osmonds.
Ladies, if it comes anywhere near you, go see it, we had such a blast! Knew all the words, younger girl that came with us thought we were barmy! And yes, they all still had it, and you would certainly go there!!
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Post by ferret on Nov 19, 2007 22:41:22 GMT
only just read this, its great overatdaknee ferret you must be the same age as me, gosh what memories this brought back I always rode to the stables on my bike, tack balanced over it, then i used to go for four and five hour rides, sometimes on my own from being 13. I always always felt safe and didnt have a care in the word. oh those were the days when summer holidays went on forever and nobody had a mobile phone to ring you ...... bet we are similar ! I am late 30's feel bout 17 tho most of the time i am getting v pi**ed off as NO one will come and see the Spice Girls reunion with me and MUST see Duran Duran again if the tour again ...went to see Take That last year ...fantastic !!! |
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Post by elmo on Nov 21, 2007 11:28:26 GMT
ladies stop all this ... oh the good ol' days ... picnics on ponies out for 8 hours at a time over the moors,like you said no phone and no strange, weirdo's,always felt safe... i remember all the thing's from overatdaknee ... i'm 40's early tho.... Riding two's up as not all your friend had ponies .... hillman hunter car....my dad's fav. |
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Post by Milliesmum on Nov 21, 2007 12:43:34 GMT
When my hubby and I were 'courting', he had a Ford Capri!!! Gosh, many a happy memory!!
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Post by skint on Nov 21, 2007 17:00:00 GMT
I remeber being really impressed and going back out with a boyfriend I had previously dumped because he bought a Ford Capri JPS Special black with gold line (how shallow was I )
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Post by Milliesmum on Nov 21, 2007 17:08:26 GMT
LOL I married mine!!! Remember giving my mum a lift somewhere and she sat tipping her cigarette ash into her hand, I told her she could use the ashtray. Turned out she had opened the ashtray and found a certain item in there in case of 'back seat' emergencies!!! Bless her she never said a word! Probably relieved we were 'being careful'!!
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Post by stinkpig on Nov 21, 2007 17:15:11 GMT
ford capri...... oh the memories those two words bring back !!
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Post by lolly on Nov 22, 2007 9:17:17 GMT
Skint I dumped my boyfriend who was a very nice policeman but had a fiat Panda for a Minor who had a black ford capri and tatoos My dad was horrified  |
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Post by halfpass on Dec 27, 2007 23:36:56 GMT
you had it easy lolly I dumped my girlfriend for a leather clad biker called Ray, mortified I thought my dad was going to kill me. He'd never of found out if it was'nt for my big mouth sister and she only split on me because she fancied him. |
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Post by skint on Dec 28, 2007 9:54:18 GMT
Halfpass you always make me smile I can just picture the above situation
I can remember making a den with about 50 bales of straw if the bugggers had fell we would have all been crushed to death - We also a made a fire and had a saucepan but nothing to cook, so I am really ashamed to say I wee'd in the saucepan and we boiled that just so we could say we had cooked something on the fire.
Sorry to say I havent changed much as I have got older
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Post by seahorse on Dec 28, 2007 18:17:59 GMT
Oh those were the days when you thought nothing of hacking to a show and have to scrub your white string girth, getting on the ponies loose in the field because no one had thought of health and saftey
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Post by stinkpig on Dec 28, 2007 18:20:02 GMT
White string girths, plaited nylon reins and jute rugs !
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Post by seahorse on Dec 28, 2007 18:39:55 GMT
White string girths, plaited nylon reins and jute rugs ! Jutes are happy memories in the days when I am surprised the poor animals could stand the weight of rugs and blankets put on them, |
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Post by halfpass on Dec 28, 2007 19:24:56 GMT
Ooooo those plaited nylon riens thought I was the bee's knee's when I got a pair but my god no one said anything about the bloody great big blisters they left you with, some idiot told me to tie a knot in them to stop my pony pulling them through my fingers so like a twit I did. I must have been doing about 70 when I left the saddle the first time he stuck his head down
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Post by stinkpig on Dec 28, 2007 19:32:55 GMT
OMG i done that too, mine were blue and when they got wet they just got longer and longer !
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Post by halfpass on Dec 28, 2007 19:35:24 GMT
not wrong there!!!
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Post by Milliesmum on Dec 28, 2007 19:38:36 GMT
Stinkpig did you have the blue velvet browband to match? Funny, they were cheap and cheerful back then, now they're 40 quid!!
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Post by halfpass on Dec 28, 2007 19:43:10 GMT
you have got that one right MM, call it inflation?. Did you also have the matching numnuher and them horrible leg bandages that all matched or was i just POSH!
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Well they did in our house.
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