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

SamBeckett I still love the smell of a paraffin lamp - brings back fond memories of double no my homework by the light of one during the 3 day week

Try that again without typos!

SamBeckett I still love the smell of a paraffin lamp - brings back fond memories of doing my homework by the light of one during the 3 day week

The excitement of getting your photos developed, and they were all shit 😂

3 TV channels lol

Im so old that I remember when cars had indicators. Now I think modern technology has taken over and they don’t fit them anymore

The day King George the V1 died.

No electricity.

No water indoors,had to go down the road and pump it.

Loo was a bucket,emptied into a deep hole in the garden.

Walking three miles each way to school.

Ireland in the early 1950’s.

School milk put me off drinking milk entirely. Urgh.
There was a gap of a few years before we started getting yoghurts at home, I think all my calcium must have come from the regular pilchards and occasional treat tinned salmon.

I'm still not entirely sure what the Green Shield ones were for - can anyone remember?

You stuck the stamps into special books, there was a catalogue and you had to have so many books of stamps for whatever item. I remember the Embassy catalogue too, you (or my parents) collected the tokens inside their cigarette packets and exchanged them for stuff. You basically had to smoke yourself to death to get anything decent.

Water bowsers in the streets during a drought
“Give me three rings when you get in”
Putting 50p in the back of the telly
Storyteller cassettes and books
Watching the wrestling on a Saturday and later on Gladiators
Watching Channel 4 being switched on at my nans
Watching the Challenger Disaster
Jamming wooden clothes pegs in sash windows to stop them rattling in the wind
Bath night was Sunday
White dog poo!
So many memories (almost 44)

Phone cards or reversing the charges.

Going to the shop with 10p and coming out with 20 sweets
(Ha'penny sweets anyone?)

Chocolate tools.

Going to the shop with 10p

What, two shillings?

I remember a finger of fudge being thruppence.

Errol
I'm definitely with you on the school milk, I don't drink milk at all, can't stand the stuff and that stems from the warm disgusting stuff we were forced to drink in school. I also remember tinned pilchards and tinned salmon.
Regulated power cuts, we used to sit in the house waiting for the electricity to go off.

Yep to the two shillings too

In primary 1, we had little blackboards & chalk. I expect they'd been in use for many years.
We moved and the school there was much newer and we had little jotters, which were normal size jotters cut in half.

William Hartnell as Doctor Who.
Arriving back from holiday and my granny saying "Come and see this new programme - it's called The Golden Shot."
Bernie the Bolt
Nancy with her wiggly bottom (yuck)
Bootsie and Snudge in The Army Game, then Civvy Street.

Washing your hair with that weird rubber attachment.

People constantly jump-starting cars.

Smoking at the back of the cinema.

Icecreams half way through at cinema

Going on AA walks and getting lost so ending up waking for 15 miles instead of 5 miles and then having to cross a field full of bulls. Stopping half way for cheese and onion sandwiches and barley water.

Pogs in crisps

Does anyone else remember cop cards?

Relatives writing to say they were coming to tea Wednesday
Choke on car.....had forgotten it
No power steering great arms &!chest...tgat may have been youth
Sachets of shampoo
Slimcia bread & mothers being on diets
Hot summers & cold winters

Knowing that every birthday party you went to from 5 years to 11 years that you'd play the same games; pass the parcel, squeak piggy squeak, musical bumps etc. And all the girls would be wearing long dresses.

My mate's flashy posh boyfriend bought her a VHS video player. We were all mega impressed. It cost him £500.

I have a letter from my sister when she went to university explaining this new thing called the internet, or was it the World Wide Web?

The latter wasn't invented till 1989. The Internet began from about the 60s; I played Mornington Crescent on an Internet forum when I was a postgrad in the early 1980s.

Thinking 'Hole in the wall, what's that? I don't think I'll bother with it'.

Thinking 'Suitcases with wheels might be handy but I won't get one because they'll be heavier than ordinary ones.'

Thinking 'Computers sound complicated. I've been fine without one so far, so I won't bother with them.'

Real forward thinking, me.