Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 3

onomatopoeia99

I would have been in my first year at university when the wedding was shown in the UK. People in my flat in halls would all pile in my room to watch Neighbours on my black and white portable telly! The old type where you found the channels by turning the tuning dial on the front and the vertical hold was erratic unless the tuning was spot on.

I can probably out do you all on uncoolness though :rotfl: , when I was 12 and no-one had even heard of them, I asked my parents for a ZX81 for Christmas and taught myself to program it (it was later replaced with a spectrum and then a BBC Model , then spent my teenage years sat in my room programming or playing games. Hanging around on street corners and "getting girls into trouble" (wonderful phrase!) formed no part of my adolescence at all. And there was the Dungeons and Dragons group in the school library at lunchtimes as well, all the cool kids had big game handbooks and boxes of dice of various types. Not :rotfl: Still have all of it as well, it's all come with me every time I've moved.

tea_lover

Randomly, I heard a brand new Shakin' Stevens single yesterday! It made me laugh that he was still called that, I thought he may have changed his name since the 80s to something a bit more grown up :rotfl:.

Pyxis

tea_lover wrote: »

Randomly, I heard a brand new Shakin' Stevens single yesterday! It made me laugh that he was still called that, I thought he may have changed his name since the 80s to something a bit more grown up :rotfl:.

He's probably shaking for a different reason now! :rotfl:

Pyxis

codemonkey wrote: »

I like DP stuff but they've stopped selling the tall range in store here. I have managed to get some tall trousers but it was following a fruitless wander around two shopping centres and not one shop had a single pair of long length trousers. I managed to find some in M&S eventually. Iz, that dress is lovely but would be way too small for me. I have a couple of dresses, a couple of trousers a couple of skirts and some shirts but not many tops. It'll have to do me until I have more money.

I need to go into old work today to return a couple of bits I forgot on my last day. It's also supposed to be leaving drinks for me but I don't think anyone is going to come.

Try Charity shops,, Code. It's amazing what you can pick up in there! They often have a designer names rail too, a bit more expensive, but still loads cheaper than buying new from those shops.



I was never in any fan club. I got very, very little pocket money, so couldn't afford to join any!

Georgiegirl256

Pyxis wrote: »

Try Charity shops,, Code. It's amazing what you can pick up in there! They often have a designer names rail too, a bit more expensive, but still loads cheaper than buying new from those shops.
!

I was gonna say the same thing, but know everyone isn't a fan of them!

I got some really cool bargains yesterday whilst out on our bike ride, that I needed TWO rucksacks! One was a long denim Afghan style coat made in Italy, and for £1, I just could not resist! The other coat was a lovely navy peacoat with a fur collar, also £1!

I had my own rucksack, my uncles was full of books he'd bought, and so the emergency rucksack came out....was so funny with the fur sticking out of it, looked like two ears and like I'd kidnapped Gizmo! :rotfl: The last couple of miles I had to more or less cycle one handed :eek:

I also got a BNWT Pineapple dance studio top for 50p....I could go on, but we'd be here all day!

Pyxis

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

I was gonna say the same thing, but know everyone isn't a fan of them!

I got some really cool bargains yesterday whilst out on our bike ride, that I needed TWO rucksacks! One was a long denim Afghan style coat made in Italy, and for £1, I just could not resist! The other coat was a lovely navy peacoat with a fur collar, also £1!

I had my own rucksack, my uncles was full of books he'd bought, and so the emergency rucksack came out....was so funny with the fur sticking out of it, looked like two ears and like I'd kidnapped Gizmo! :rotfl: The last couple of miles I had to more or less cycle one handed :eek:

I also got a BNWT Pineapple dance studio top for 50p....I could go on, but we'd be here all day!

I had to google pea coat! Never heard if it! We used to call that style of jacket a Reefer jacket.

Why pea?

Georgiegirl256

Pyxis wrote: »

I had to google pea coat! Never heard if it! We used to call that style of jacket a Reefer jacket.

Why pea?

That's just what I know it as and have always called it. My Mam had never heard of the term either.

Apparently it comes from the US Navy, and the Sailors used to wear them. They were once made from "pilot cloth", and so P for Pilot apparently!

tea_lover

Code - I had great intentions of reinventing my office style when I moved jobs last year but it didn't last long :rotfl:.

My work clothes include black trousers, shirts, dresses, tops, jeans. Apart from important meetings, there doesn't seem to be any logic to what I wear. Yesterday I had a smart-ish skirt, nice top, thick black tights (my favourite )... the day before it was a decent pair of jeans and a long-sleeved top.

As a company we do a lot of dirty site work, so even in the offices it's not at all uncommon to see people in 'proper' work clothes (ie, muddy!) But then we also have people that are quite smart. I do really like that I can veer between the two extremes and not worry about it. I would (and do) happily wear jeans or a nice dress or anything in between.

Not much help I realise!

The nicest work trousers I've got are from M&S. Not very exciting but good basics. I even managed to get a decently long pair to wear with my beautiful stiletto boots. I usually need long trousers just to wear with flat shoes.

Also have some from gap that are ok, but they're years old (although guess that says something about the quality).

For tops, cardis, etc I tend to end up in H&M or Sainsburys!

geminilady

tea_lover wrote: »

Randomly, I heard a brand new Shakin' Stevens single yesterday! It made me laugh that he was still called that, I thought he may have changed his name since the 80s to something a bit more grown up :rotfl:.

I used to have a crush on him just checked he is 68 now:eek:

Solarjunkie

We can't get Dave. Too many hills, we get a very restricted number of Freeview channels. So unless Red Dwarf turns up on youtube, it'll just have to be shown on a sheet at the side of the duvet fort.