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Post by stinkpig on Jan 2, 2008 19:38:01 GMT
That is so very true !
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Post by halfpass on Jan 2, 2008 19:42:57 GMT
Gran was always spot on
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Post by stinkpig on Jan 2, 2008 19:47:47 GMT
Grans usually are although i don't think we always realise it at the time
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Post by stephjw1 on Jan 25, 2008 21:09:30 GMT
I just read this thread it really takes me back to my childhood. I had a red pair of nylon plaited reins red girth red numnah and a red velvet browband, I used to scrub the girth in washing powder I think it was called OMO or something like that. I also remember all of the above. Plus vinyl records cassettes in the car, furry car seat covers and a furry steering wheel cover, and yes it was a ford escort jacked up higher at the back, stilletos and legwarmers sheepskin coat and big earings. Actually I still wear big earings.
I also rode my bike to the stables with my tack over the handlebars. You could only get saddlesoap, neatsfoot oil and some gooey red stuff kaocholine to clean your tack I dont think wipes were invented then. Oh and elastic hair bobbles with plastic flowers on to keep my hair in bunches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by roxanne on Jan 25, 2008 21:36:22 GMT
stephyj, i can remember when girths were string, and my joddies had big flappy ears, there was NO stretch in them!the only turnout rugs were New Zealands made of canvas, very heavy when they got wet...............  |
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Post by spot on Jan 25, 2008 21:39:54 GMT
that last post was supposed to be from me! daughter was logged in by mistake! |
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Post by muggle on Jan 25, 2008 21:52:04 GMT
Did anybody have a washing machine with a wringer? or black and white telly that was the size of a small shed Now I'm really old cos I used to watch Andy Pandy and the Woodentops as a child  Used to have threpance pocket money everyday and bought Jamboree bags, sweet tobacco and liquorice wood. Fish and chips cost 1/4pence(about 8p in todays money!) This is a lovely thread and brings back great memories! Riding lessons cost 8/- an hour (40p) My Mum couldn't afford it so she brought me a budgie instead!!! Didn't go down well at all, that's why I've now got four ponies!!! |
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Post by overatdaknee on Jan 25, 2008 22:07:53 GMT
Flashy- think we must be same age, remember Andy Pandy well- what about 'Lost in Space' .........................
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Post by try on Jan 25, 2008 22:34:07 GMT
what about camberwick green and trumpton......
and Noddy! and tales of the riverbank
I suddenly feel sooooo old!
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Post by Milliesmum on Jan 25, 2008 22:36:27 GMT
Can anyone remember Pogles Wood? and Mr. Trimble? and anyone remember Thursday's Child?
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Post by try on Jan 25, 2008 22:38:11 GMT
i remember Pogles wood!! What was thursdays child about?
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Post by halfpass on Jan 25, 2008 22:41:22 GMT
Oh yes lost in space with that awful robot that spent most of the program shouting danger Will Robinson don't no why it did'nt just let the stupid sprog get eaten by the aliens. and what about the wooden tops and camblewick green with Hew, Phew Barny Mcgrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub
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Post by Milliesmum on Jan 25, 2008 22:44:40 GMT
Halfpass, Thursday's Child was a story about a little orphaned girl who was found on a Thursday, so they called her Margaret Thursday. The old lady who had taken her in couldn't look after her any more so she was sent to an orphanage which had an evil matron, of course she ran away and had lots of adventures.
I must have been about 9 or 10 and I loved it!!!
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Post by Milliesmum on Jan 25, 2008 23:04:02 GMT
This has started me off reminiscing!!! Anyone used to read the 'Jackie' pony books, My Friend Flicka (Cried Buckets!!), and one about a pony club camp, think it was a Pullien-Thompson one! And the Enid Blyton Faraway Tree and The Wishing Chair!
Also, one I loved on the telly was 'Carrie's War', they re-made it recently but it just didn't work for me!
Oh, and Walter Farley's Black Stallion books.
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Post by muggle on Jan 25, 2008 23:13:19 GMT
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Post by Milliesmum on Jan 25, 2008 23:21:53 GMT
Bet you remember Robinson Crusoe on a saturday morning!
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Post by try on Jan 26, 2008 10:08:00 GMT
Do you remember HR Puff and Stuff, think Jack Wilde was in it that was followed by the Monkees on a Saturday morning. Then at some point over the weekend was Belle and Sebastian and the compulsory White Horses and of course Follyfoot and sometimes Black Beauty, ahhhh those were the days.....pre vets bills, credit card bills and sulky OH's!!
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Post by spot not logged in on Jan 26, 2008 12:33:13 GMT
What about the Double Deckers! and Banana splits.OHHH i remember a toy "clackers" !? the were banned for being dangerous! |
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Post by Milliesmum on Jan 26, 2008 14:48:06 GMT
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Post by spot on Jan 26, 2008 17:00:39 GMT
Thank you milliesmum! also found Follyfoot! |
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Post by shelleyj on Jan 26, 2008 19:52:37 GMT
can also remember clackers! and the bruised and swollen wrists that went with them
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Post by halfpass on Jan 26, 2008 20:52:07 GMT
not so much as going back in time this afternoon I was grooming the ponies outside and thought how lovely it was and as I was brushing away my mind was wondering the birds were singing and I was transported back to when I was younger and the early spring days that we you'st to get just then I heard hoof beets going along the road and as they got closer the hunt came into view hounds in front sterns waving the huntsman behind looking splendid in his pinks, followed by the field in every hue of blue and black jacket and I thought only in England would you see a sight like this, thats when my daydream came to an abrupt end as the stallion I was grooming swung round stomped on my foot catapulted me into the wall and screamed in my ear. So much for day-dreaming and I'm sure I didn't hurt so much when I was younger.
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Post by seahorse on Jan 26, 2008 22:14:13 GMT
Sorry halfpass but ROFL but your right the most beautful site you can see, lets hope it comes back as it was oneday
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Post by maisieblu on Jan 26, 2008 23:14:06 GMT
Did anyone read the Jill pony book series by ruby ferguson i re read the whole lot not long back when i bought the whole set in a carboot I so desperately wanted to be her and berated my mum as i wished shed called me Jill
Must stop posting as Vin Diesil has just come on the tele xxxx mm mm mmm
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Post by seahorse on Jan 26, 2008 23:28:40 GMT
I collect pony books so love them all the jill series being a particular favourite
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Post by halfpass on Jan 27, 2008 20:13:04 GMT
they were smashing books they would probabley be band know because the things that they got upto would not meet up to health and saftey
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Post by stinkpig on Jan 27, 2008 20:21:16 GMT
but how i wanted to be like them
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Post by seahorse on Jan 27, 2008 20:26:57 GMT
I wanted to be Jill oh the innocence of youth
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Post by halfpass on Jan 27, 2008 20:37:33 GMT
Oh yes when the season followed each other, ride out on the roads without taking your life in your hands,compete in the bareback jumping at shows, no Health & Saftey and I had'nt discovered MEN
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Post by stinkpig on Jan 27, 2008 20:44:20 GMT
I hadn't discovered men either and sometimes wish i hadn't, oh for a horsey partner who understood that sometimes when i say i won't be long really means i could be ages !
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