Childhood & Sentimental memories

positivelymummy

aaaah bovril drink, i remeber being forced to drink that when i was a kid:D made a change from 'corperation pop'.!!..thats what my family called plain old tap water!:D

grannybroon

DH out pursuing his hobby earlier this week, he always takes a flask of Bovril rather than tea/coffee as he says much better to boost the energy! Thought Somerfield had stopped stocking Bovril until I realised packaging had changed from red to black!.

He has super strength Bovril (2 cubes to flask!) - maybe I should remind him this is an OS household (most of the time) and he should only use one cube!!!

GB

recovering_spendaholic

When I was growing up some kids used to have half an orange rubbed in an oxo. I had forgotten about it until I saw Cilla Black on something and she said she had it as a child.

Poet_2

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

When I was growing up some kids used to have half an orange rubbed in an oxo. I had forgotten about it until I saw Cilla Black on something and she said she had it as a child.

that sounds disgusting :rotfl:

Tuttifruitty_Theresa

i love oxo drinks, i had one yesterday cause i was a bit chilly, you can't beat oxo drink and a couple of slices of white bread - lovely


xx

positivelymummy

Tuttifruitty_Theresa wrote: »

i love oxo drinks, i had one yesterday cause i was a bit chilly, you can't beat oxo drink and a couple of slices of white bread - lovely


xx

ooh did you dip the bread in?:D

whatatwit

When we used to go and watch the greyhound racing, we used to buy hot oxo as an alternative to tea or coffee.

Them wer t'days lass.

noonesperfect

passion8 wrote: »

I vaguely remember Banana Splits, more the signature tune if this was it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbU5CzPi0zM

And crispy cod balls? No lol, but I remember crispy pancakes. They tasted so much better then

Depends how old you were in the early 1970's

FEE_100

Loving this thread some of the stuff just sends me straight back to my childhood. 10p mix ups rag and bone man bon accord juice van etc etc. The one thing I truly miss from my youth and early teens though is TEXAN bars.. they were truly fantastic covererd in choclate with chewy stuff in the middle, I can still taste it if I close my eyes!!!! hope they come back like the wispa!!!

passion8

Olliebeak wrote: »

The 'Walking Days' consisted of processions from each Mission Church Sunday School in the Parish (we had 4 in our parish) towards the main road out of town where we joined the main procession that travelled from the Parish Church in the centre of town. Very young children (3's - 5's) travelled on decorated lorries with Sunday School Teachers supervising them.

Had almost forgotten about the old 'dip and scratch' pens with the wooden handle and the brass nib. How on earth did we manage to do 'double-writing' with those things! We had to learn with a pencil first and then when we had mastered it neatly - out came the pens and blotting paper!

No recollection of Walking Days at all Olliebeak, so maybe it's my memory or we just didn't have any supporters of it?

As for the 'dip and scratch pens'

I remember the blobs of ink lol, I think it was all to do with the pressure