Childhood & Sentimental memories

savvykaz

Oh ginger chick, you have just prompted me to post....

I'm a Yorkshire lass and we too were told "there and back to see how far it is", also, "those who live longest see most"

.. I too remember the tinned fruit with carnation and bread and butter

.. the pop man and cream soda, the insurance man

.. collecting the milk and the tops being pecked

.. going up to the nearby farm mid-October and 'pinching' pumpkins for Hallowe'en

.. dad growing most of our veg in the garden and it tasted soooo nice

.. our 'poor' neighbours having margarine sandwiches for tea - we felt so rich having spam or the like

.. being told from about the 20th of the month that it was "the end of the month" and that is why we're having 'cheap' meals

.. me getting Twinkle comic, then Jackie, then Just 17 when I was 15 and felt so grown up

.. getting bikes at Christmas and not being able to ride them because of the snow

.. every Christmas getting an orange, apple and 10p in our stockings

.. 'proper' chips in the deep fat fryer - DELICIOUS

.. APPALLING 70's wallpaper and carpets

So many more which have been mentioned - this has brought a lump to my throat and a tear in my eye - these truly were the GOOD DAYS

Happy_shopper

Nix143 wrote: »

Me and mum eating mince beef Findus Crispy Pancakes and thinking they were bloomin marvellous LOL - what an invention!

Findus mince beef pancakes! They were the future.

Happy_shopper

savvykaz wrote: »

.. me getting Twinkle comic, then Jackie, then Just 17 when I was 15 and felt so grown up

I'd forgotten all about Twinkle! I used to get Twinkle, then The Beano (and sometimes Dandy or Whizzer and Chips), then Bunty, then Fast Forward magazine, then Number One magazine, then Jackie, then Just 17. My friend used to get Look In.

You were so lucky to have home-grown veg! I sometimes get fruit and veg from a farm shop and they really do taste different to the supermarket stuff - much nicer.

Sami_Bee

When me and my sister visited my gt grandma we'd walk round to her friend's flat above a hairdressers to watch bagpuss while having ribena in a proper china mini tea set

shetitasatic

I couldn't sleep last night, so lay there thinking about:

Desperately wanting Father Christmas to bring me a pink Cinderella watch, which came strapped to a high-heeled glass (plastic!) slipper. I never got one though, but when I was 11 my parents gave me a 'proper, sensible' Timex watch with a black strap - not what they considered to be a 'toy' one!

There was a polio epidemic in the late fifties and I remember, during the school summer holidays , all children having to go to the local Church hall and queue for ages with our Mums for emergency immunisation injections.

Sleeping, with my sister, in the high double bed in the back bedroom at my Nan's, with boxes and boxes of seed potatoes 'chitting' underneath it.

Coming back on the bus from my nan's on a Sunday evening and standing in the Town Square to listen to the Salvation Army band playing hymns. I loved watching the girls in their bonnets, playing the tambourines, with the ribbons waving. I really ,really wanted to join the SA so I could play the tambourine!!

Penny Arrow (1d) toffees, especially the spearmint ones. Old English
Spangles, acid drop Spangles and butterscotch Spangles

Having my photo taken on the front doorstep, wearing my new secondary school blazer, with the sleeves covering my hands! It was only worn for Speech days , Prizegiving and choir concerts and still fitted me in the Sixth Form!

Going on a trip to Switzerland, by train, with the Guides in 1960 and sleeping under a duvet and drinking hot chocolate and coffee at breakfast from a china bowl! Strange - those foreigners!

Being taken, in a long crocodile, from Primary School to the local cinema to see 'The Ascent of Everest' - I must have been about 6

2 men coming into our class a t Primary School with big wooden tea chests full of straw. We all had to line up and were each given a Coronation mug!

Party dresses made by my great grandma from organdie. My Mum used to knit us little boleros from 'bunny wool' (angora?) to wear with them - I particularly remember a lovely pale green one.

Going to Church on Easter Sunday wearing new sandals, a
new hat and white gloves!

Folding a 'proper' triangular shaped Brownie/ guide tie and getting the big knot just right ,then putting it on and tieing it behind my neck with a reef knot, which was inspected at each meeting, and polishing my enrollment badge with Brasso

Having breakfast, in the kitchen ,in the winter, with the gas oven lit and the door wide open to keep us warm

When my Nan babysat so Mum could go to the pictures (Dad was away in the Navy) she used to wash us , from a bowl , in front of the fire before bed.
She used to soap her hands and blow bubbles through the ring made by her thumb and forefinger - she could blow bubbles that reached right down to her elbow!

In the early 60's going on day trips to Polzeath and Daymer bay in Cornwall and hiring a surf board and body board surfing - long, long before the rich London/ Home Counties set discovered these places!

Must stop - this is making me feel so old - what seems like yesterday is 40 to 50 years ago!
My son recently had his 40th birthday, and I said to my Dad who is 86, " it doesn't half make you feel old when your kids are middle aged" He looked at me and said " It's even worse when they're old age pensioners!!":rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Contains_Mild_Peril

Savvykaz, I got the apple, orange and 10p in my Christmas stocking every year too! Socks, of course, not the big sack-sized "stockings" sold especially for Christmas nowadays.
I got Twinkle too, then Mandy when I was a bit older. When I was a teeneger though, one didn't admit to still reading Just 17 at the age of 15: despite the title, at the time it was aimed more at 12-year-olds.
We had a big garden when I was ickle, with apple trees and fruit bushes. The gooseberries were gorgeous. So many people think they don't like gooseberries because they've never tried a ripe one. I don't know why the ones in supermarkets are picked and sold when they're green and sour. They never completely ripen after picking. They should be picked when they're purple, and lovely and juicy and sweet.
ANd oh yeah, the 70s wallpaper! Our 3-piece suite was even worse - a garish 1960s vinyl creation in bright orange! I drew on it with ball point pen when I was young, and my dad made my scrub it but the ink never completely came off. It was eventually replaced with a nice new brown dralon suite, which we thought was the bee's knees.
I remember the "end of the month" meals too. One month the menu was the same for about the last 5 days: cornflakes (cheap kind) for breakfast, sandwiches with raspberry jelly for lunch (we had a big bucket of the stuff which my baker grandad gave us), economy burgers and chips for tea, and broken biscuits for snacks.
When we moved to a town, we encountered the "lemonade man" and the "sweetie girl".
My sister and I always got a new dress and new shoes for Easter too.
The big old house we lived in when we were young was difficult to heat during winter, so we used to climb into the same bed on really cold nights and snuggle under 2 beds' worth of blankets.

Happy_shopper

Contains_Mild_Peril wrote: »

When I was a teeneger though, one didn't admit to still reading Just 17 at the age of 15: despite the title, at the time it was aimed more at 12-year-olds.

Same here, but I really liked it and read it until I was 18.

newlywed

Rich tea biscuits with marge and sugar on - as those were the only biscuits left in the tin.

Chocolate spread sandwiches being a treat.

Only being allowed 3 biscuits from the tin for pudding.

Sunday evenings were "spreading things" - ie sarnies you made up yourself from anything left in the fridge/cupboard including ham, cheese, pickle, jam, chocolate etc. Afters was served in the front room watching TV as a treat with mum making a big pot of tea and serving HM cake.

Juice meant you could only have a really small glass, but if you chose squash you could have a big glass full.

Sash windows with plastic taped over them in winter to stop the drafts.

Playing Monopoly by candlelight at the kitchen table whenever there was a power cut.

The potato man coming round with huge sacks of potatoes (we live in a city and haven't seen them for years).

My Gran making us teddies with joints and knitted toys and being excited and fascinated watching them being made.

Knitting my first jumper (for me) when I was about 10.

Making macrame hanging basket holders!!

MsChazzer

Happy_shopper wrote: »

I'd forgotten all about Twinkle! I used to get Twinkle, then The Beano (and sometimes Dandy or Whizzer and Chips), then Bunty, then Fast Forward magazine, then Number One magazine, then Jackie, then Just 17. My friend used to get Look In. :Dquote]

Aw, I loved Twinkle, I remember getting the annuals every year. My sisters used to get Fast Forward and I would read it too. TV Hits was another favourite, and then there were those Panini sticker albums you never seemed to be able to fill up, I remember getting quite far with a Holly Hobbie one though.

As for food, my mum used to give me banana, sugar and milk as a dessert, yum!

Happy_shopper

I remember TV Hits! I used to read Smash Hits occasionally too. I got all the stickers in a 'My Little Pony' album once (Pannini obviously messed up as it was only a small album, so kids could actually fill it. Even so, I'd hate to think how much money it cost to get a full album).