General Chat

im getting there,not grumpy though

lol bob .. can remember all .. i got the museum opposite me.

the old black grates how they lived ... use to play marbles and jacks to ...

we used to have those old black grates,the food always seemed to taste better cooked on one of those,or maybe the raw ingredients were better
we always used to call jacks five stones because we used to play with stones,i think the name jacks came later
i could be wrong

yes it did bob.. can picture my mom cooking ..mind you didnt like cleaning them.. mom had a boiler to had to light a fire to underneath to heat the water to wash it was huge ...use to go to the shop with a big penny to fetch a gas mantle ..think thats the right word ..

yes with those mantles get back home and if you put the match to close to light it and it was back to the shop

yes they where delicate lol...broke a couple myself...

can remember my brother giving the ragman my dads gold watch lol. he gave him a goldfish gawd did he get a hiding my dad ran after the ragman lol

did your mam ever put abrick in the oven then wrap it in a towel for you to take to bed to warm it up
no central heating in them days

WELCOME TO THE GOLDEN OLDIES

yes bob she did .. also a pop bottle wrapped it a towel not boiling water though..the thought of the ice on the inside of the windows brrrrrrrrr and a coet throw on top of bedding lol

hello grandad .. ..

Marbles were called glarnies in my part of the Midlands - I had a massive tin of them some quite beautiful ones.
Then of course toy wise I had a tin fire station and garage with Corgi and Dinky cars all probably coated in lead loaded paint

hello grandad bear
has your memory gone

Listening to Dick Barton Special Agent and Valentine Dyall in The Man in Black on the wireless. then being scared to go to bed .
;-)

From the list you left off
At school
liberty bodices with rubber buttons worn in the winter
thick black woollen stockings also worn iin the winter held up by suspenders
black knickers - shirt removed had to used for sports/gym
Short trousers for boys
:-)

Those were the days :-D

Where's BOBBIE gone?

Oh remember every single one plus, must be really really old :-|

Carol

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Can't go back as far as some.

But it is nice to remember things. Mine are:

"I need you" by N-DUBZ. Faser was my fave.
Lovely Chico - it's Chico time
And Gnarls Barkley

Happy memories. Hope we will all have many more :-S

Oh, alright :-( :-( :-( 52/52

Plus another. My grandma used to have a tiny silver coin in her purse which was called a "mite". It was smaller that a silver joey and was worth half a farthing. She kept it for a "rainy day". :-D

Oh., and Wolves winning the FA Cup :-D

On my 21st birthday, a man at work told me "one day, you will realise you're getting old, because you will say 'Oh, doesn't that policeman look young!' "

He was right, that happened about 20 years ago lol

Now I feel ancient....... a couple of years ago I saw a little girl dressed up in a police uniform, and she had a gun!!

:-(

Pig bins! They were chained to a lamp post and the lorry collected the waste food about once a week.