Do you remember when...

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Humour me, I'm counting down the minutes until I can officially log off work for the day (don't worry, I'm SE so I'm not taking the biscuit!)

Let's play Do you remember when...

it can be about anything that pops up in your head!

So mine is -
Do you remember when it was hot and the back of your legs and thighs got stuck on hot plastic car seats (no air conditioning!) and how excruciating it was to peel them off when you had to get up 😳
I'm pretty ancient though so maybe won't get many Yeses!

Oooh yes @Feelblue I had a great aunt who was obsessed with snooker. She always seems to have it on when we visited and stayed up for the late games.

When gripe water had alcohol in.

Children's aspirin was orange flavoured

Sweetie cigarettes,

Walking to school alone from 5 yes old

Spangles

Power cuts in the early 70s.

Getting a key at 7 (latch key kid)

The TV in the corridor at school. "How we used to live"

The radio being rolled out and plugged into the socket in the classroom.

Roaming the neighborhood in the dark in winter.

Deep snow in the 70s and being allowed to stay home at lunch time if you went home for lunch. Teachers had to go and teach in their nearest school if they could not get to their own school. (LEA)

Drought of 1976.

I can remember when there were only TWO tv channels!

Walking to school alone from 5 yes old

Yes, our infant school was around half a mile away along a busy road and my Mom would walk with me in the morning and she would go shopping afterwards but I always went home for lunch so would walk with my friend who lived nearby.

There was one day in junior school when the snow became really heavy and school decided to close and we were just sent home, there was no calling parents or anything, we were just told to get our coats and go. I remember walking home with my friend (junior school was over a mile away) and the snow was over our wellies and coming down so heavily that we could barely see where we were going.

@BlackeyedSusan I can still remember an episode of ‘How we used to live’. A colonel- type chap went horse riding (hunting?), jumped a hedge, fell and got lockjaw.

@MadisonAvenue I used to go home for lunch as well, but in secondary school. Not sure schools allow that now. Used to watch ‘Crown Court’ or ‘The Sullivans’.

Do you remember when you could buy a packet of sweet cigarettes? So you could practise for the real thing. You could also get licorice pipes 😃

Putting four old pennies (4d) into a dispenser on the side of a post box and getting stamps out in return

Di you remember before TV, painting animals and hunting scenes on the wall of your cave and having cold, leftover mammoth for breakfast?

Queuing up at the ABC cinema for Saturday morning pictures. You'd get a little paper ticket when you paid and the cinema smelt of fags from the night before.

Do you remember when London bus fares were a flat 5pm for children (early 80s)?

London dialling codes went from 01 to 071/081 then changed again to 0171/0181.

Children’s TV on BBC1 -

PlaySchool
Longer cartoon such as Captain Caveman or Scooby Doo
Jackanory
(sometimes) Cheggars Plays Pop
John Craven’s Newsround
Blue Peter (Monday and Thursday), Grange Hill (Tuesday and Friday), E Nesbit adaptation (Wednesday)
Short cartoon - Paddington, Willo the Wisp, The Perishers, Rhoobarb

Oh wow, are you me?! It was exactly like this in our house. Tea was only ever allowed in front of the TV to watch Ski Sunday - and definitely because my Dad loved to watch it! 😅And yes proper tea with bread and butter!

The blocks of icecream were wrapped in newspaper to keep it insulated until you got home. And then put it into the tiny icebox in the fridge. Pretty sure it was Walls icecream and it was advertised by a portable metal sign put outside the shop.

Edit: sent to the newspaper shop to get Dads cigarettes daily. From age 8 onwards. And the note was used to wrap up the cash.

Spangles.

Available in many flavours.

That is all.

Yes we’d eat them with a spoon, used to keep us quiet for hours. Mum would wrap a tea towel around them otherwise we’d get frostbite on our fingers 🤣 good times

Cola flavour was top tier.

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles I was vegetarian even then, so no mammoth for me. Just hazelnuts and berries

I wasn’t keen. They were always the last thing left in the selection box.

I remember my Mom buying paté by weight from the deli counter in Woolworths and it was delivered to the store and displayed in the large decorative ceramic dish that it had been cooked in. On occasions you’d get the last portion so you could be cheeky and have the dish for free.

Yes I remember getting stuck to the seats of cars ( which were always boiling anyway when one sat in them.
The rectangular shaped ice cream was just called a wafer I think ie… “do you want a wafer?” It was implied that some ice cream would be inside it!

@Ilovemychocolate They were Golden Wonder in those days!

@Thanksforyourlackofthought
They were definitely called party lines… when you went to make a call, sometimes two random people would be chatting

Is that only if the ice cream came in wafers as opposed to a cone?
I can't remember what we used to call them. But in the early 90s, I got stupidly excited when there was an ice cream van in Woolacombe selling them. 😂

Do you remember:

1. Being able to stand up out of a seat without making some awful groaning noise?
2. Being able to get dressed with ease, and without t-shirts getting rucked up all up your back?
3. Having shoelaces that don't get mysteriously knotted every time I undo them?

Loving this thread, full of memories. Ironically, there seemed like there was more to watch on the 3 channels of my youth, now there are 200 channels of nothing to watch.

Oh, and I have a car with no air conditioning.

The last thing left in the selection box was the Turkish delight!