A Child Of Our Time

[Enid]

Anyone else watch this last night? Was anyone else left with the feeling that the experiments they do are trivial and random and that they only show the ones that work? I suppose I want it to be a straightforward developmental show (probably selfishly as dd is the same age as the kids on it), but I always find it disappointing.

I used to get Jackie and Jackie annual at Christmas. I got turned down for Jim'll fix it. I wanted to go and dance with the London Ballet.
Being able to go the the shop with 10p and come back with enough sweets to last all day, Mojo's 4 for a penny. Being able to go to the shop on your own.

Every saturday I used to cycle to the shop and buy 4 yorkies ready for us to sit and watch the saturday afternoon film with our piece of chicken with tomato sauce, bread and butter followed by our yorkie.

Well this is my real claim to fame - I WAS on Jim'll fix it at the age of 14. I walked on stilts (I hardly dare say it) and I was on the same programme as St Winifred's school choir singing 'Grandma', someone who wanted to be on Call my Bluff, Roxy Rollers (who later became The London Boys) and Cliff Thorburn who won the snooker the same year. I am blushing like mad and digging a hole in the ground to hide in right now!

Re Jackie and photo love stories, my drama group once featured in a story called Opposites Attract and my heart throb was 'the boyfriend'. I treasured that copy for years.

Pam T, we are all very jealous. Of course, I remember Jackie pre-photo love stories when they used to do cartoon biographies of pop stars. I rememeber the David Essex one particularly. And I bought Anne French. However clean your face, the cotton wool ball was always pitch black. I think it was a chemical reaction with cotton wool... Oh, and adverts for wart remover, saying nobody would marry you if you were covered in warts. Who had all those warts?

Cathy & Claire's Problem page - how "sophisticated" were those problems! (Were they all made up?) I loved the Brownies, even became sixer of the Fairies, but hated the camping though. Still do to this day. Stayed up to watch Monty Python every week with my father rolling on the floor laughing and my mother not "getting" it. Knew I'd "grown up" when I ditched Jackie for Skoolkids Oz.

Aloha, you are RIGHT! The cotton wool WAS always black. Yugh. What was in it??? There was also another cleanser, more for spots, I think it was a sort of brown liquid, but cant remember its name, but would have been cheaper just to buy pure paint stripper!

Aaah, Jackie. I used to spend every Saturday with a copy, with Duran Duran on the record player and a packet of refreshers (school friends all lived out of town). My sister thinks I'm sad.

thumper, surely you mean ten-o-six, I had bottles of the stuff, dettol probably would have been more effective - or a decent course of hormone pills.

anyone remember Misty magazine? I once had the star letter on the Write to Misty page and literally fainted from joy.

Enid, Yes it was. Thanks.

Has Bunty been mentioned yet, or is that really showing my age?

I remember Bunty and Mandy and If go even further Twinkle. Especially those cut out dolls and cut out dresses with tabs on them, that lasted 5 secs! Sorry if I repeat anything also totem poles (lime lolly ices) monkey bar (strawberry and banana lolly ices). Does anyone remember spanish tobacco (they looked liked hairy worms in I think an imperial leather soap packet - cocunut flavoured). I never got barbie but i did get Tracet - her hair grew!!

Sorry that should be Tracey

I'd forgotten about Twinkle!

I used to read Mandy, my sister had Twinkle as she was younger than me. I used Ponds cold cream.

I remember getting our first colour television four days after Princess Anne's wedding. Great timing Mum! But watched the highlights in glorious colour! Actually, Mum hadnt told us we were getting one and we came home from school on a Friday night to the surprise. We were beside ourselves with joy! First ever programme watched in colour - The Clangers!! Amazing!

Ooooh I loved the Clangers. Also Herb Garden, Magic Roundabout, Crystal tips and Alistair, Belle & Sebastian and Mr Benn. Does anyone remember where Cabbages & Kings is from? Also I've got a tune going round in my head about White Horse possibly sung by somebody called Jackie - was this a tv programme?

I was once featured on the reader's page of Twinkle dressed as a rabbit. The photo was then selected to appear in the annual (swank, swank!). How proud was I?

White Horses was Follyfoot, wasn't it? What about Windmills of My Mind? Also, does anyone remember Tarot, my very favourite programme about a psychic photographer who lived in a windmill (?) and investigated spooky psychic problems.

Also does anyone remember a paper cut-out-and-dress policeman, or am I hallucinating?

Isn't 'Windmills of my Mind' from a film.. Steve McQueen was a bank robber, they recently remade it.... oh whats it called?

The Thomas Crown Affair!

Aloha (superbunny model - jealousy jealousy)I remember cut a out policeman and a fireman. I don't remember the psychic photographer but do remember Randall & Hopkirk deceased (original version) The champions. The persuaders, The saint, Man in a suitcase, Jason King. You know I hardly watch any tv now! Snugs it's annoying isn't it when you can't remember.

Oops you remembered

Jendy, you mean Tressie - she had a pony tail that grew. I had a pippa doll that did the same. That white horses programme used to be shown in a morning during the school holidays, it wasn't a patch on Follifoot and Black Beauty. There was Skippy and Flipper too. Oh happy days.

That's right silly me it was Tressie. Yes I remember Black Beauty, Skippy and Flipper too. The only thing that really sticks in my head is the tune of the White horse I also like the Belle & Sebastian theme.

You know this just goes to show that we may all worry about what we're doing is right or wrong or best (current) practice and at sometime we may need info or advice, but most of whats printed expert or lay, media or research is often just a theory or an opinion. And these are subject to constant change - as I well know working in Health.

Sorry back to the important issues did anyone like flying saucers, aniseed balls, gobstoppers, ufo, The tommorrow people and those big orange bouncy things - spacehoppers? which I constantly fell off.

Very nearly bought the Tomorrow People on video recently, but didn't because I knew I'd be disappointed. I loved the episode where people were taken over by giant balloons from outer space that became clothing and controlled them (honest!). You could tell they were balloons because you could see the knots - the special effects budget wasn't up to much, I expect.

well I remember the very first episode of Doctor Who (I'm THAT old) which was totally hyped (not that we knew that word in those days) as being very space-age etc. But that's when we believd that we'd all be wearing silver spacesuits with flying backpacks in the year 2000. And that all the world's problems would be solved, ha ha. Anyway to get back to the important thing, Doctor Who (William Hartnell) and his 2 young assistants (one male, one female) got space-age food from a vending machine which looked like a Mars Bar but was breakfast with one bite tasting of eggs, the next of bacon, etc!!