When I wer a lass/lad (game)

Listening to the comedy programmes on the radio, when my dad fixed up a speaker on the landing so that we could listen in bed. There was Ted Ray in 'Ray's a Laugh', Jimmy Edwards in 'Take it from Here' and Arthur Askey in his own show. When I was a student, there were 'Round the Horn', 'Beyond our Ken','The Navy Lark', 'A Life of Bliss'...How did I get any studying done?

Every winter I developed a bad chest and the doctor always gave me the Linctus. Heaven knows what was in it but I must have drunk gallons of it when I was growing up.

Food was food and you didn't have to think about the salt, sugar, fat (various types), additives, calories etc. that we have to think about now.

Only rich kids got new bikes. I didn't know anyone who didn't ride a second, third, fourth, fifth hand model.

Being made to wear an orange coloured Thermogene pad on my chest to help manage a chronic cough.

Sitting on my gran's lap watching The White Heather Club and The 1 o'clock Gang.

Having my school scarf wound around the back of my head and over my nose and mouth to stop me breathing in heavy city fog while waiting for the school bus.

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I was a Brownie too and did learn all kinds of knots but DH is always scathing about my knots because I always do a Granny Knot.

Well, I am a Granny

I loved tying up parcels with knots learnt at Brownies, but just as I had perfected the art, along came Sellotape! What about flat irons, heated on a big appliance, for us to use in our laundry lessons. Thank goodness for steam irons.

A friend said to me how much she liked tights and would be sorry to have to go back to suspender belts and stockings.
We assumed tights were just a bit of fashion that would disappear.

I used to work in a bank and we had to calculate buying and selling foreign currency by long division using pen and paper. Two people had to do it to make sure it was right.

A time before selotape, wrapping parcels in brown paper, tying with string and putting sealing wax on the knots. I used to watch, fascinated, as mother held the red wax over the candle flame.

My dad taking me to the local shop on bonfire night to buy 5 bobs worth of fireworks. They were on an open shelf with different price labels and you picked the ones you wanted. The lady then popped them into a paper bag. When we got home dad put them straight into a biscuit tin.

Whilst on the subject of biscuits they were displayed in tin boxes with hinged glass lids. You picked the ones you wanted by lifting the lid and picking them out by hand....not necessarily clean hands lol. You could also buy broken biscuits by the pound. Even less hygienic as we children would rake around in the box looking for the best ones. Oddly we all survived eating the biscuits lol.

Sitting round the radio listening to the Archers (still do). Also listening to 'Journey into Space' as a family which sparked a life long interest in Space and Science Fiction. Also well remembered Sunday family listening were 'The Goon Show', 'The Navy Lark', 'Billy Cotton Band Show', 'Forces (and then) Family Favourites'. 'Childrens' Favourites' was on a Saturday I remember. Also so many other programmes too many to mention.

I remember my dad taking us out into the back yard at night to look up and watch the Sputnik going over. I still look out for the ISS and wave to the guys on board!

Not Listen With Mother AuntieFlo, but I do remember Watch With Mother, Andy Pandy and the Flowerpot Men in particular. Wearing liberty bodices in the winter! And wooly bonnets with a kind of metal headband in the front to keep them on, and two bobbles on a string attached to the crown - would bounce all over when you walk.

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Buying a bar of Cadbury chocolate from a machine outside the newsagents for 6d.
Going round the back of the pub and buy a bag of broken crisps for 1d

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SeventhHeaven, I don't remember if we had pictures by our beds, but I'm sure that we also listened to the radio, maybe, Listen with Mother?

Chilblains - ached when your feet and hands were cold, itched like crazy when they warmed up. I can remember rubbing my sparkly party shoes (with a crossed elastic to keep them on) together to try and get rid of the itch, the sound that made and the way it didn't help at all!

Wearing a smock-top, 28" flared "loon" trousers, so long they covered your platform shoes, and dark Mary Quant lipstick...thinking I was so cool!

Auntieflo! Yes! In nursery we had little campbeds. Each child had their own, with a little picture at the top of the bed to identify it - mine was a little blue car eith red wheels.

I've got quite a list
Public information safety at work film on tv - one quite scary about accident ina factory gave me nightmares!
School tuck shop selling sweets at morning break! Mojos, fruit salads, drumsticks, jammy dodgers!
Getting a ten shilling note in a birthday card (50p)
Come Dancing with Peter west!
It's five to five and its. crackerjack!!
Vesta curries
Cresta - it's frothy man!
Being allowed to stay up and watch Rowan and Martins laugh in ( with a very young Goldie Hawn)
Going to Chessington when it was just a zoo.
Wearing american tan coloured tights with white socks on top so it looked like you had tanned legs.
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Roneo! Darned autocorrect!

Yes to Gestetner, Romeo and also Banda machines - purple ink everywhere! Also, typing wax stencils using bright red correction fluid to cover any errors (which meant you couldn't hide the errors!)

Does anyone remember having little camp beds, and having a sleep after lunch at infant school?

being taught algebra and Latin when I was at school, never used either after I left school when I was 15.

Using logarithm tables in maths.
Buying penny 'Arrow' bars.
Having to get up and change TV channels without using a remote control.
Putting rubbish out in a huge tin dustbin which the binmen used to carry down the garden path.
Black and white TV only.

downtoearth i thought you had typed rickets !