Childhood & Sentimental memories

rosieben

Iguana wrote: »

... Bunty - with the cut out paper doll on the back of the comic!

oooh, that reminded me - I had a huge buscuit tin full of cut out dolls and outfits. My mum worked in a nursing home and one of the old ladies used to give her a weekly or monthly magazine, bit like Woman and Home. Had the childrens page wtih stories of the Robin family???? I used to get it when mum had finished with it and loved cutting out the dolls from each one.

anyone else remember it?

Winsome_2

we used to have those paper cut out dolls when we were on holiday at my grandpa's..... other things I remember from being on holiday (always at Grandpa's house) is watching the Banana Splits on TV, bouncing on a bouncy Castle near the beach, Grandpa's beach hut - sitting in front of it shivvering in the wind while mum made a cup of tea on a camping stove, having to have tar removed from our feet and legs with a blob of butter..... paddling in rockpools and trying to catch things with those cheapie shrimping nets that always fell apart.

chinagirl

livinginhope wrote: »

This thread has got me thinking back,I remember the bread and butter at dinner (well marg because we were poor )
:rotfl: )
I too remeber the Corona man,cherryade and cream soda mmmmmm!
LIH

" Every bubble's passed its fizzical":rotfl:

Spirit_2

What a wonderful thread. Sorry I can't help but join in.

Dad worked as a sprayer in car factories in the Midlands (remember when we had a manufacturing economy - Rover,British Leyland, Jaguar) and for some reason was given milk at work. He would bring the leftover milk home - open bottles re-sealed with masking tape. Yuk!

Living in a back-to-back house with a shared outside toilet (with squares of newspaper hanging on string - aargh) and washhouse.

• A snack was a piece (a slice of bread & butter)
• A treat was a piece dipped in sugar
• My baby brother having a bottle with milky tea in it.
• Orange syrup from the baby clinic

Going up in the world when I was 5 moving to an overspill town and mum and dad buying a house with its own bathroom and a downstairs loo. Buying a house was not easy then (is it really harder now?)

• My dad had 3 jobs. Factory Monday to Friday, all day Saturday in a garage, Sunday morning another garage. The smell of acetone/spray paint reminds me of my dad.
• I slept top-to-toe in a single bed with my sister and we would have coats on the bed as an extra layer of blankets.

Apart from Christmas - Turkey, ham and pork, I do not think joints of meat featured much. I can only remember eating minced meat stew or scrag end of lamb stew,bacon hocks, bacon, sausages or egg and chips.I can once remember my mum serving up rabbit and hurling it in the bin as we children had cried about the bunny.

Family from Ireland would bring over white pudding and 'corned beef' - I'd like to say it was delicious but it was vile.

No babysitters - so going to a catholic club with my parents on Saturday nights, we kids playing and drinking vimto, eating vinegary seafood from little white bags and dancing to a live band.The grown ups getting falling over drunk and then driving us home! These must have been the good old days.

Little bottles of (warm) milk at school. It used to make me throw up but it took a while before I was excused drinking it.

wannabe_a_mum

sonee2405 wrote: »

jawbreakers!- there used to be 3 in a pack and they were enormous-differnet flavours aswell .I remember the fiery flavoured we used to stick them in our mouths and then when it got to fiery to cope with we used to wash the jawbreaker under the tap and suck on them again.:rolleyes:
I also remember waking up early while my parents had a lie in to watch heidi and worzul gummidge and supergran:D I loved those programs must have been about 5 years old(im 26) and can also remember button moon and vaguely another program called lauras back garden, also loved watching the art program by tony hart and getting all excited over the chronicles of narnia but having to hide behind the sofa when aslan the lion used to appear.There was soemthing else aswell called mr mageeka on itv and another program about a witch who used to go to school on bbc1 but can't remember the name at all.
Any girls remember the "wake up daddy breakfast ready" ad with the little girl pushing a red&yellow breakfast trolley/kitchen thing around i always wnated one of those and when i finally did then ... well dad was a night shift worker but i used to wake him up every morning with a few cold beans on a yellow saucer.:D
bit older and i remember the yoyo craze with the coca cola and 7up logos -you were trendy at school if you had one also remember owning my first ever pack of colour changing feltips and boasting about them in class 4:eek: and off course the colour changing t shirts which c&a first had which were pink but if you blew on them they changed to orange i had the t shirt with a pair of joe bloggs jeans which were the kind that either had a green bit on the bum or a red(mine were red):o

Simon and the Witch.......and I remember trying to copy the dance that she and Simon did in the closing credits!!!!

LOOYATES

china girl was it not cresta....frothy man:cool:

johanne

does anyone else remember "playdays" every day with different but stops each day...my fave was the "why bird stop" with peggy patch etc and the worst and most boring was "dotty lady" stop with all the dominos things.

Iguana

Spirit wrote: »

What a wonderful thread. Sorry I can't help but join in.

• My baby brother having a bottle with milky tea in it.
• Orange syrup from the baby clinic

Little bottles of (warm) milk at school. It used to make me throw up but it took a while before I was excused drinking it.

Do people still give babies bottles with tea?
Do you remember rosehip syrup and Farley's rusks? We used to steal the rusks!

SPARKY16

I remember rosehip syrup and Farley's rusks?
I still buy Farleys rusks now they are not very high in calories so fit in great with my diet lol they take a lot longer to eat than a biscuit

Iguana

Am I the only person who remembers a rag and bone man who had a horse and cart?

This would have been in the 60's!