When I was a kid........................................................

[waterfalls]

My mum often put my hair up with elastic bands and it hurt like hell getting them out....................and awful cheap plasters that became part of your skin, could only be forced of after a long soak in the bath while painfully peeling them off with a knife.

anyone else

the pig was from birmingham wasn't he (on pipkins) he liked to eat food

Betty - Tales of the Unexpected starts on ITV2 on Friday!

Armchair Thriller - where the Thames TV Logo was at night and a shadow sat down in an armchair. Spooky even now!! and the one with the faceless nun was really cr@p your pants sort of stuff.

Furball -I won't be here though will I !! Its our meet up.

Must video it and see if its as good as I remember (I take it its the repeats rather than a modern version?)

no not the nun with no face argh!!! that gave me nightmares for years!

i'm pleased to see tales of the unexpected is coming back.

2shoes i can't see your brother, is he in the highchair?

i must switch off my pc and go and do something more interesting instead (why don't you) is that right??

I need to catch up.

Green Shield and Pink Shield stamps. We got loads because mum worked on a petrol forecourt. If the customer didn't want them, she got them. I loved using the stamp dispensing machine.

I actually did part of my Duke of Edinburgh Award working on a ward in the 'mental' hospital. Can you imagine the panic on Health & Safety grounds if that was suggested now?

Remember the cards in tea and cigs too.

Smelly rubbers! I had loads but the smell of them make me vomit now. Not banned because I bought some for me niece recently.

I used to love the cards in PG Tips! Had forgotten them...

And who's mum used to put their hair into ringlets for parties. Long hair was washed and twisted around long pieces of torn up old bed linen. You wore it like dreadlocks in bed overnight and the next day had wonderful ringlets when it was taken out.

Do you remember the Milly Molly Mandy rag dolls?

oh god, every saterday night! Ready for Sunday school the next day.

Saterday night was bath night. Used to have a bath and then eat sweets watching TV. Then the torture of the hair thing (My hair is dead straght!)

Then brushed out in the morning.

Sunday morning was always the sound of mum making sunday lunch, listening to 2 way family favorates, and then sunday school. Sunday tea was sandwitches, cakes and friut salad with evaporated milk and bread and butter (barf!)

Sunday school was lovely. Colouring in pictures of St Francis of Assisi etc. Then home to sunday lunch.

Sunday nights were horrible knowing it was school next day. Sing Something Simple on the radio was my signal to get in the bath.

Our Sunday School gave out coloured picture stamps that you licked and stuck...somewhere...don't remember that bit!

I haven't read all the thread so forgive me if I am repeating it but does anyone remember "Charlie says....." the little boy with the striped top who had a cat who spoke gobledidook he was used as a warning to kids.

crazydays - yes i remember that. and I was a grown up. You are making me feel old.

my cousin used to call Sing Something Simple 'One septic pimple' The Mike Sam Singers!

Gawd!

And songs of praise on TV

It totally struck home with me.

There was that other advert too with the cloak and the water danger - scared the shit outta me I can tell you.

There are no adverts like that nowadays, can you imagine it???

Oh wow all these lovely lovely memories. Anyone remember Swap Shop? I used to fancy the pants off Keith Chegwin and french skipping at school with about 8 elastics around the foot of the bench in the playground. All bumping in to eache other trying to do all the tricks. The R Whites lemonade advert with the man creeping down the stairs for a glass of lemonade. As if it was something realy naughty. He he

Was it the Mike Sam singers? Are you sure? I thought it was the King Singers.

Oh god, it really was the tedious depressing end of the weekend, wasn't it?

Sing something simple...just you and I...
Sing something simple...as cares go by...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH

And doing big skipping at primary school. A massive long rope with one person at each end 'winding'. Everyone had to 'run-in' as the rope turned. We were a little village primary school and could get almost the whole female population of the school within the one rope.

There were rhymes - one i remember - I know a bubble car, its number's 48, I took it round the corrrrrnnnner, and SLAMMED on the brakes'!!

Right - i'd better get off, much as i love this thread. Am off to a BBQ. Wonder if I should get everyone skipping instead of the karyoke

...those toys that you put round your ankle and jumped over ( a plastic ring with a cord with a ball attached to the end IYSWIM).

Does anyone remember the Daz advert with the guy on the horse, and then what you thought was the next advert would come on, and this guy on his horse would ride through holding a packet of Daz.

I dont know anyone else that remembers it, please someone tell me I did'nt imagine it.

BettySpag, my DDs had those

Thats the one and Grannys in the kitchen doing a bit of stitching, how many stitches can she do? 1,2,3etc. and the other one was salt,pepper,mustard,vinegar and it used to get faster and faster. Something like that anyway.