General Chat

oh Carol !! I had a `Merlin the Magician ` !! I thought it was just marvellous !
I remember the big bacon slicers, and that reminded me of those big red weighing scales in woolworths which, for some reason, all us kids demanded to be weighed on ! (oh, the simple pleasures !)
and don`t forget buying hot roasted & salted peanuts by the 1/4 lb ,in a little greasproof bag that still let the grease through !
I was thinking back to mums old iron... she had two flat irons, both were heated on the gas stove, & one was used, then swapped for the other one when it cooled down !(in our old house, they went on the range to heat up) THEN !! (so exciting!) dad got her her first elecric iron !! it had to be plugged into the light instead of the bulb, so no ironing at night ! it was a long time till she got a proper plug job !
She used to make lots of cakes, did Mum, especially Xmas cakes, but the fruit then (which was delivered by the Grocer, wrapped in blue paper `twists`, ) all had to be washed first, then spread out to dry on big trays. us kids would manage to eat alot of it before it ever got weighed to go in the cakes ! When she made her fantastic sponge cakes, all beating of butter & sugar etc had to be done with a fork /wooden spoon, no food mixers then, & I have never managed to achieve the same quality cake as she did, so I bought packet !(much to her disgust!!)
makes me hungry just thinking of those cakes !mmmmm
Tina x

What about pictures on a Saturday morning, Minors of the ABC

We are the boys and girls well known as
Minors of the ABC
And every Saturday all line up
To see the films we like and shout aloud with glee
We like to laugh and have our sing song
What a happy crowd are we
We`re all friends together
We`re minors of the ABC

Casey Jones, steaming and a rolling
Casey Jones,you never have to guess
When you hear the hooting of the whistle
Its Casey round the corner in his Cannonball Express

Lots of memories, great thread

Marilyn

Very good Marilyn ......

That reminded me of an advert

Change to Brookbond
Brookbond Pg Tips
Change to Brookbond
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All the family love it
Smiling and happy faced
Brookbond Tea has extra flavour, tea you can really taste!

Is'nt it funny how someone can ask me something about last week and i'm like ... Dah!!! and yet that song from about 50 years ago came flying off the top of my head hhhmmmmm, right funny that! Susan x

I need a cake now Christina!

Another one to tickle your fancy!

Twizzle (1957)

MusicI’m a very special boy, Twizzle.
A very extra clever toy, Twizzle.
I’ve got a very special trick — just you wait and see.
When I start to go cri-crick, I’m taller than a tree!

I can make my arms long if I twizzle,
I can make my legs long if I twizzle,
When I walk along the road and see a wall,
O, I just start to crick myself,
I just start to crick myself until I’m tall.

I’m a very special toy, Twizzle,
An extra special twizzly toy, Twizzle,
Sometimes I can make myself so wee and small,
Sometimes I can twizzle till I’m very very tall.
I’m a very special toy, Twizzle,
Such a very clever toy, Twizzle,

My friends just watch me crick,
It’s such a lovely trick,
O, I love to grow just like a tree,
No other toy can crick like me,
I’m very special you can see,
’Cos I’m Twizzle.

Age of Innocence.....

Sex was never mentioned when I was a child it was evil ,dirty, never discussed. So I used to spend all my time playing hop scotch and post man knock ending with the light off,everyone coupled off - just for 'necking' ...nothing more , until I was about 16yrs .........


Then it all went belly up ....!!! LOL

I suggest you wash your mouth out with a bar of Lifeboy Marilyn!!!

I was always with a gang of lads until about 15, then Mum got worried about it and stopped it! Sex wasnt thought of, didnt even kiss any of them good night! My charm I was told in my twenties was that I always had a smile when any lads chi-icked me!

When i was "nowt but a wee nipper" i used to play with the lad across the road. A right little tearaway was he. His mother was always chasing him around the garden with a wooden spoon with cries of "you wait till yer father gets ome." One particular day he said "if i show you mine, will you show me yours?" He showed me his and i ran home!
I reminded him of this little "incident" during my speach at my 50th birthday party, in front of 140 people and you should have seen the look on his face! Mind you it was nothing compared to the look on my Dads!
I also reminded him of the fact that i thought our local clinic was actually the hair dressers because at least once a month, he would come out of there with his hair dyed purple!!!! x

LOL Susan,

I was threatened by my mother once to have my mouth washed out with soap,
because I swore , I said 'bleddy' and I never knew my mother was behind me , boy did I get an ear lashing right across my face as well !!

I had an ear ache after that,and my mother said you wont say that again !
will you my girl ?

Oh dear , and to think what what they say now at the age of 13yrs !!

Susan !! that would have been the good old stand-by Gentian Violet !!
I don`t think I can recall a child in our village who esaped it ! (in my case it was daubed on me when I got impetigo!)
Another `old favourite ` was Friars Balsam..... oh how I hated it... as soon as I coughed or sneezed mum would make up a bowl of boiling water & Friars Balsam & I had to inhale the steam... & a towel over my head made sure the steam never got away! I am , to this day, quite claustrophobic & I`m sure it came from being forced to go" under the towel" ( but one day I decided to get rid of it, & tipped it on dads lawn....it burnt a large area & he could smell what had been put on it.....I was in trouble that day !!!

Has anyone ever wondered who invented Robotic Dancing???
Well it was me! I was in the garden one day, aged about 12 and my Dad shouted something out of the window at me. I cant remember what it was now, but i replied by sticking my two fingers up at him.
Together with the grim look on Dads face and realisation of what i had just done, i proceeded to jerk my body around like something demented, with hands and fingers pointing in all different directions.
Dad face was all screwed up, his eyes were squinted with a look of.....did she or didnt she?
Got away with it by the skin of teeth........ !!!

Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'

Keep movin', movin', movin',
Though they're disapprovin',
Keep them doggies movin' Rawhide!
Don't try to understand 'em,
Just rope and throw and grab 'em,
Soon we'll be living high and wide.
Boy my heart's calculatin'
My true love will be waitin', be waiting at the end of my ride.

Move 'em on, head 'em up,
Head 'em up, move 'em out,
Move 'em on, head 'em out Rawhide!
Set 'em out, ride 'em in
Ride 'em in, let 'em out,
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in Rawhide.


Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Rawhide!

Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Though the streams are swollen
Keep them dogies rollin'
Rawhide!
Rain and wind and weather
Hell-bent for leather
Wishin' my gal was by my side.
All the things I'm missin',
Good vittles, love, and kissin',
Are waiting at the end of my ride

CHORUS
Move 'em on, head 'em up
Head 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em on, head 'em up
Rawhide
Count 'em out, ride 'em in,
Ride 'em in, count 'em out,
Count 'em out, ride 'em in
Rawhide!

Keep movin', movin', movin'
Though they're disapprovin'
Keep them dogies movin'
Rawhide!
Don't try to understand 'em
Just rope, throw, and brand 'em
Soon we'll be living high and wide.
My hearts calculatin'
My true love will be waitin',
Be waitin' at the end of my ride.

Rawhide!
Rawhide!

remember buying (or inheriting!) a nice big pram when the babies started arriving ?
I had a blue & white hard body Pedigree (with a fold-down handle!!) with two bigger wheels at the back than the front ! I was so proud... went to baby clinic each week with everyone else, & all the prams were parked outside & baby carried in to be weighed etc. you saw them all ! the high "coach built" prams, the more modern (like mine!) & the older well used ones.
I got a pram seat to put on top when baby no 2 came along, & i got a tray to put underneath to put shopping on. that pram did all three children, then the wheels made a great go-kart !
need I add we never had a car & walked everywhere then..... & I weighed alot less then too !
that reminds me... once baby had had the 10 am bath & feed, it was wrapped up well, put in the pram, insect & cat nets went on & the baby went out in the garden ( in the porch if it was raining !) the only time you never put baby outside was if it was foggy or if it was bitterly cold.
that doesn`t happen nowadays..
Tina x

If anyone can remind me the name of the lavender floor polish, used in the 50s which came in a flat, round tin about the size of a tea plate, you can av a suck on me gobstopper!..........I loved the smell of it and when no one was looking i would stick a lump of it under my nose!

I suppose in those days i was classed as a "Substance Sniffer!!!"

Hmmmm, i am not too sure about that Beverley, i kind of have a name on the tip of my tongue. I will have to give it some more thought ........... Dont worry yourself about the godstopper, i have it wrapped in my hanky and ive stuffed it up me knicker leg for safe keeping!! LOL Susan

One of the first dances I went to, the singer had a voice like Frankie Lane's and used to sing Rawhide . The dancing stopped and we all crowded to the front to listen and applaud.
Remeber goin to the gasworks with an old pram to fetch the weekly supply of coke? Great stuff for the cooking range.

Jean, you "remember going to the gasworks with an old pram to fetch the weekly supply of COKE!!!" Does that mean, that you were not only a drug dealer, but a self confessed (like me!) "Substance Sniffer"???

you didnt mention virol a dose every morning suposed to keep the bugs at bay,i remember having boils(do people get boils now days?) and the zinc bath tub no bathroom,youngest first dad last,filling it up with the copper plastic pipe all bendy and hot,and when it got a leak bubble gum was aplied to the hole,later going to the baths(more hot water IN number three please)oo those where the days.at school waqlking to the swimming pool miles across the park,get there two minutes and out again was it worth it no wonder i never learnt to swim.but happy happy carefree days pat b

I cant for the life of me remember the name of the Lavender Floor Polish, so i suppose Beverley gets to suck on me Gobstopper! Well, thats when i can peel it from my hanky!
Talking of "Boils" Patricia ......... i had one on knee, about the age of 8 and it turned into a major opperation!
My Aunty Tess was obviously Appointed "Chief Remover Of Boils"
No Anesthetic, Epidural or even an Asprin was available...................just boiling hot water and a darning needle untill you nearly passed out!!
Anouther little thought came into my my mind today................... does anyone remember....Silver Fish???