I'm so old...

[jennymanara]

I remember when Iceberg lettuce was exotic
When you had to load up a computer game using a tape recorder
When hitchhikers were common

I last heard the rag and bone man's horse and cart about 5 years ago! Sadly not since then-they have built on all the random green spaces the horses use to graze. I still have a tiny freezer compartment though...you can't keep ice cream because the compartment defrosts itself ...so you just have to eat it!
I remember people writing letters. I have a big stack from friends ( who were in late teens then) from places all over the world.
I miss letters.

Milk floats-those rattly carts the milkman drove.

Antennas on top of TVs, we had a such a temperamental TV and the antenna had to be in a certain position to get signal, plus TVs having big backs / very bulky.

Brick phones that were pretty much invisible.

*Brick phones being in invincible...

Watching Blue Peter on the day that the baby elephant pissed on the studio floor

Pen Friends

Dial a Disc

Waiting in a long queue to use the phone box at the top of our road.

Dustbin men coming through the gate into the back garden and carrying the metal bin out to be emptied before returning it.

Public phone boxes with the old black Bakelite phones and Button A and Button B. 😂

The Pools man coming on a Thursday
Spot The Ball
Your mum having a dish of dripping Aka “ mucky fat”
Taping the Top 40
Ice cream vans going round every street
Dry cleaners going from door to door
Speaking clock
Telegrams
LPs and singles with messages scratched on them
Catalogues
Arndale centres

Insurance man calling round yo collect the premiums. The rent man came every Friday and stood in the street with a leather satchel and all us kids would be sent out with the rent card and money. We’d queue up in the street, with a wad of money to pay this guy and then off he’d go to the next road...walking around the estate with all that cash for the council!
Also remember mum had washing machine with a mangle, then progressed to a stand-alone spinner, then a twin tub (she used wooden tongs to lift out the hot washing). It would be trundled out and hooked up to the taps. When we finally got an automatic, i remember we sat in the kitchen as a family watching it the first time like it was a telly!

The weekend ice cream man,who came round on his old bike,with a little wooden box trailer attached to it. This was in Cheshire,but the man was a lovely Italian guy,who used to sing as he peddled around. the choice was either a cornet,or a wafer,and he would put some raspberry juice on if you asked him. We also had milk bottles with cardboard tops, and all the kids saved them to play games with,or make things with them.

So I am very old.We had a lot of clay in the gardens round our way,,and in the Winter time, lots of kids use to dig up some clay from their gardens, and mould it into brick like shapes.then hollow it out and just have a hole in the top.then find things to burn inside it,and we sat on the kerbside and all of us could keep our hands warm on these winter warmers as we called them.. such fun hey !

When pubs opened at 11 and closed at 3, then opened again at 7 and last orders at 11.
Playing bamboozle on teletext
The 'pop' man
The milk man

When you could bend a floppy disc.

1forall. That is a brilliant suggestion to keep warm! I am going to do that today as it surely must be more environmentally friendly than patio heaters!

More details please, what size were the pots? Did they have bases? Did you burn them in grass or in tarmac?

Mum having a crank up handle to get her car started.
Sitting in the boot of the traveller with no seatbelt.
Phone boxes.
The first remote control which was basically attached by a cable to your TV.
Having a lesson on how to send an email at university (and I didn't understand but thought it didn't matter as I would NEVER need to do that).
Having to go to the library for books for my homework.

1/2 pence pieces (and the sweets you could buy with them)
Pound notes

Luncheon vouchers

Phone cards

@TheJellyBabyMadeMeDoIt

A417 - still talking about building a bypass.

(can you tell I use it every day :))

Making sure you closed the curtains so no one could see the light on your Ferguson Videostar and break in to nick it.

String pie for school dinner but followed with delicious chocolate concrete.
Standpipe in the street.
Bath once a week.
Lying down on the back seat of the car.

Posting off your photo reel to Truprint and waiting excitedly for three weeks for them to be developed and returned.

@Redshoeblueshoe sorry to contradict but it was a wren and not a robin on the farthing. I had to go and check!

This popped up on a post on Facebook this morning.

Pull up Ariels on cars

@ohbutyoulovescarves my daughter's school still has these

When we got rid of the old twin tub washing machine we hardly believed our new machine could go through each cycle unaided so sat and watched the first wash like television.

Halloween was something that fell on 31st October but nothing happened - no dressing up, no excess of sweets and no calling at other people's houses.

Fitting as many as we could in Dad's car pre-seatbelt law, so we could take the neighbour's kids to a civic fireworks display, admission per car not by individuals.

Going to the phone box on Christmas morning with my parents to ring richer relatives with house phones.