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

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waterfalls · 16/06/2006 15:03

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 elseGrin

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themoon66 · 17/06/2006 12:33

We used to hog the only public phone in the whole village - 4 of us crammed in the box listening to Dial-a-Disc. It was the old phone with the A and B buttons, but we could fiddle it and get Dial-a-Disk for free.

alexsmum · 17/06/2006 12:33

this is such a good thread! i don't get to talk to dh about this kind of thing as he grew up abroad and his memories of childhood are just so totally different.

alexsmum · 17/06/2006 12:34

dial a disc!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Grin

themoon66 · 17/06/2006 12:35

My DH had a different childhood to me. He was born and brought up a city lad in London. I was a typical yorkshire dales kid, roaming the moors.

SaintGeorge · 17/06/2006 12:36

We have the modern version of Dial-a-Disc in our town.

Don't know if it is just because we have our own telephone exchange.

08715 222 555 Teledisc "Your favourite hits all on one number" Smile

themoon66 · 17/06/2006 12:42

You have your own telephone exchange?? Do you live in Kingston upon Hull?

SaintGeorge · 17/06/2006 12:43
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alexsmum · 17/06/2006 12:44

why would you do this?
why would you think 'ooh i fancy listening to a good tune-i'll phone up for one!'
bizzarre just completely bizzarre!

alexsmum · 17/06/2006 12:44

dream topping.yum!

themoon66 · 17/06/2006 12:46

My mum used to make fatless sponges (like swiss roll recipe), then make up dream topping with half the milk it specified, then sandwich the cake together with it. Totally yum.

southeastastra · 17/06/2006 12:48

that's the only way you could hear your fav song, i remember calling dial a disc alot!

also taping totp on a cassette and listening to it later. oh the days before video! also taping my own radio shows.

themoon66 · 17/06/2006 12:49

Yeah - taping the top 20 on sunday night and trying to click the off button just before the DJ started talking. Nigh on impossible.

SaintGeorge · 17/06/2006 12:50

I've never rung the new Teledisc - just looked the number up in the phonebook. The kids do like to tring the 'Christmas Story' one that they run in December though. Costs me a fortune.

Anyway alexsmum - fess up your age if you can't see the utter joy we got out of dial-a-disc? Smile

JanH · 17/06/2006 12:51

Oooh, we had a patch of land for dens, bonfires etc down our road - it was called "the big hill" although it was completely flat Grin

themoon66 · 17/06/2006 12:52

Our bonfire patch was called 'down't back'.

JanH · 17/06/2006 12:53

Who remembers Brentford Nylons? (Or were they just a London thing?)

themoon66 · 17/06/2006 12:53

Brentford nylons rings a bell. Where they a chain of shops, like Rosebys or Pondon Mills?

JanH · 17/06/2006 12:54

Well they had a factory shop (in Brentford as it happens) and used to sell lovely nylon sheets etc - I'm sure they used to advertise on the telly though so maybe they did have actual shops.

myalias · 17/06/2006 12:55

Other things I remember was every Sunday mum would get the best china out for high tea. Also never could call ladies and gents of a certain age by their christian names it was always Mr or Mrs. There was alway a bobby on a bike patrolling the streets and would take down your details if you so much as stepped out of line.
Day trips were spent with poor mum ladened down with everything including the kitchen sink. There was a puppet show on the beach usually punch and Judy.
I was a brownie and girl guide and used to have bob a job week where we would run errands for our neighbours and they would pay us 50p.
Happy days.

SaintGeorge · 17/06/2006 12:55

Our play area/bonfire site was 'the bomby' - a big area where they hadn't yet rebuilt after the war.

It had old dumped cars that we loved to play in. Our parents never even gave a thought to tetanus or any of the other hazards we encountered.

SaintGeorge · 17/06/2006 12:56

JanH - we had a shop that was know as Brentford Nylons until about 10 years ago. I think it had changed hands quite a bit but the name stuck because they still sold the same stuff.

WideWebWitch · 17/06/2006 12:58

I haven't read the whole thread, just skimmed it but I remember

  • a time before remote controls, you had to get up and change channel
  • but then there were only 3 channels on tv!
  • being sent to the shop to buy cigarettes for my dad, this was the 70s
  • half pence pieces and being able to get 2 chews for 1p
  • cars with a choke
omg, we had a party line too on the phone, just imagine!
alexsmum · 17/06/2006 12:58

og god st george i was talking about now! dial a disc was a big thing when i was a kid-i was talking about the modern one!
i'm 34 so not some kid who doesn't get it!
grace on bb the other day ' i'm sick of them all talking about the 80's.i know about it already , my mum has told me!!'-oh how we laughed!

JanH · 17/06/2006 12:58

I just picked up this snippet from a google link (to competition-commission.org):

alexsmum · 17/06/2006 12:59

don't cars have a choke now?Shock