The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

Floss

I remember the Pink Panther candy bars - I think they were strawberry flavoured, and very nice! But not as nice as Olde English Spangles

Hard_Up_Hester

I can't help it if you have a dirty mind Monna I keep warm the same way you do, by wrapping up in a quilt.
When it's really cold we light the log burner, then we get too warm, open all the windows and take all our clothes off, woo hoo!!

nannywindow

You lot really cheer me up.
I also played buses with the dining room chairs and Big Ted and Little Ted were the passengers. I also had a doll with hooped earrings and she was the opposite of white in colour, oh and a golli*og. ( hope I'm allowed to say that ! )
I don't remember pink panther bars but I did have five boys chocolate bars. Oh dear you've sent me and DH down memory lane ( same age) and we were going to have an early night. ( no, not like that ! To sleep, perchance to dream..... mucky minds :rotfl: )

MMF007

I had a collection of Golly badges ( from Robinsons jam?). I thought they were cute little characters. Never occurred to me that they may be linked to humans, be anything unpleasant or indeed could be considered outright racist - maybe because no-one in my family ever used racist words?

on the confectionary note - I once found our terrier with white powder all over her face, looking very guilty. Fortunately we were a very innocent family - she had stolen a Bassets sherbert fountain and ripped it open.

mardatha

O god what I wouldn't give for a sherbet fountain right now...

ivyleaf

Off to hospital appointment with OH this morning to have his stomach looked at! back later xx

pollyanna_26

Ivyleaf Hope all goes well at the hospital today .

Hester Saw the tiller pin earlier , it's so you and looks as though it would also make a handy weapon .

We too had many indoor adventures I didn't imagine when I was musing on the past how many memories it would evoke here . Remember the old fashioned toy tills ? Eldest daughter had a proper date stamp too Floss in her home made Post Office she also yearned for a real school register which meant a trawl around stationary shops so she could be the teacher and subject her younger sisters to a school regime in the style of Miss Trunchbull . Each of the daughter's had libraries , no shortage of stock in this house . Eldest now in her mid forties made her career in books after uni .
The minute you mentioned olde english spangles I could smell and taste them . Mar do you remember the times when eating a sherbet fountain often you seemed to inhale them and started a choking fit ?
Funny how a musing leads in different directions , it started me thinking of the proper old fashioned stationary shops where you could buy a school register , date stamp and so much we never see anymore .
I suppose although things have moved on and not all children can safely be allowed that level of outdoor freedom many people still search for the old ways and a simpler way of living . Our own dear Fuds and many more such as Flowertotmum have carried on the old style ways as much as possible .
It was quite a humid night , sun is now shining so more washing in the machine .
See you later
polly

monnagran

Polly, when I was teaching infants - remember mixed infants? -- it used to amuse me to watch them playing 'schools'. It appeared that school consisted of the teacher calling the register, ticking sums in books, shouting at the children and standing them in the corner. Standing them in the corner?? Where did they get that from? No wonder they all wanted to be the teacher and no-one wanted to be the pupils.

It's not actually raining this morning but it's overcast and chilly.
I've had a lovely e-mail offering me the possibility of editing another book. Perhaps another career beckons. Who knows?

I have a busy morning planned. Sorting out a chest of drawers wondering if I really need everything therein.

Coffee first.

mardatha

Hmmmmm.... Mixed Infants sound sort of like Jelly Babies don't they ... I wonder if they come in the same colours and flavours? I wonder if biting their heads off would maybe be frowned on..

Knit_Witch

mardatha wrote: »

Hmmmmm.... Mixed Infants sound sort of like Jelly Babies don't they ... I wonder if they come in the same colours and flavours? I wonder if biting their heads off would maybe be frowned on..

A warning would have been nice - I nearly sprayed my screen with tea :rotfl::rotfl: