Confession

Oh I see! So it was vanity which led you to confess?

I can! I thought you were older than me! I also remember the man with his hook coming to ignite the gas lamps in our road.

You can't!!! Can you?!

Gas lamps? Like Robert Louis Stevenson's poem?

I can't.

Anagram. It was flippin' guilt!

Yes! They had a pilot flame and this man came round every night, put his hook into a ring pull, and
FIAT LUX!

Well, now you've made us all accomplices!

Fiat Lux - what a great name for a car.

And really, is that old geezer likely to look on here to see if he's been plagiarised? He might now, though - someone could shop you, jingl!

I also remember the rag and bone man with goldfish or plastic windmills in exchange for whatever! He had an 'OSS and cart as well!

Yes, and my granny regularly went out with a shovel to collect the horse's droppings!

And I'm only 61!!!

I remember all of the above as well as the farmers coming down with carts drawn by lovely big Clydesdale horses to fetch loads of seaweed from the shore to fertilise the best potatoes ever - Ayrshires.

Agreed! I'm 67!

I'm (wait a minute while does some arithmetic) 56 and I remember the greengrocer's harse and cart. The horse was called Dobbin and used to eat our hedge. It didn't like children to eat but it would bite them if they annoyed it. Then the man gave it a nosebag.

That was in Hull, early sixties.

So wot you on about, jings?

She's trying to make out she should be on mumsnet rather than here, sniff!

Thaat's probably where she plagiarised her posts from!

Aah!

No it wasn't from Mumsnet! They wouldn't put that stuff up on there.

We had electric street lights where I lived. Gas lights indoors though, downstairs only. Candles and oil lamp upstairs.

Oh it was lovely actually! I think I want to go back.

jing's world.....!

I hope you believe me, cos it's flippin' well true!

I can remember having six candles on my bedside table to read my book. Six!!!

We probably couldn't afford any paraffin that night.

Paraffin as well!

That was for the oil lamp in the bedroom.