LOL the things you remember

[Booldawg]

Someone at work reminded me of birds pecking the lids off milk bottles. I remember my mum leaving empty yoghurt pots for the milkman to place over the bottles to combat this.

I now have to tenuously turn this into a question.

What other things have you recently be reminded of from your childhood recently?

[pastafreak]

School being cancelled because the snow was too deep.......and we could see the school from our front windows..!

[phillipa.d]

yeah - remember? we had SEASONS then!!!

[rabbitygirl]

...we are always led to believe tis only Brit kids who stay home when snow comes.....

[20SilkCut]

When the snow was too deep we had to be brought to school on the tractor........oh how embarrasing that was!!! my cheeks burn as i remember hheheh

[phillipa.d]

holidays in our caravan - and my dad could never light the gas lamps!!!

[pastafreak]

We used to buid a 'snowtrain' out the back......and lie in the snow and make 'angels'

[Lil O'lady]

bez - it was called San Izal! Sort of disinfectant treacle.

Anyone remember real pea-souper fog, when you got dirty circles round your eyes and soot all up your nose, and got lost between your house and the post-box?

Television not starting till ten past five in the afternoon?

Mums always wore big corsetty-things and dads always had a woollen overcoat.

Then I think the wheel was invented and everything changed.

[fredpuli47]

The nit nurse. She would attend the village school, to inspect the children's hair for nits. Those who had them were treated by having their hair cut and the application of some chemical (sulphur? ). I remember it because I was a farmer's son and considered too posh to have got nits! I and the vicar's son were excused, our great indignation. We wanted to be inspected, like everyone else. Nowadays, children in all schools, including posh Sloaney ones, happily have nits,and the thinking has changed.

Studs on shoes and boots. Almost every child in my infant school had metal studs on their shoes and boots, so the footwear lasted longer without being soled or heeled.

[Schutzengel]

Stick on rubber soles, to make shoes last longer. Horlicks tablets, and chlorodine lozenges. Does anyone remember liquorice root.

[Schutzengel]

Perlon ladies stockings, worn with a suspender belt, about the most uncomfortable thing you could imagine.

[Schutzengel]

forgot to say, liquorice root was like small twigs of wood which you chewed, until the end looked like a small brush, and it made your teeth yellow. Also locust beans.

[sqad617]

Dashing home from school to go to the toilet and grandma hadn't left the key to the locked outside toilet.

The smell of paraffin lamp in the toilet in the winter and using cut up newspaper for toilet paper.

[paddywak]

Really enjoyed reading this thread its brought so many memories back, when there was always seemed to be snow in the winter and summers were always seemed endless and hot and we could go out in the morning with a bottle of water and a pack of sandwiches and play in the local woods all day "fighting" with the other local gangs (when a gang was the kids from the same school but who lived in another street, not a bunch of hoodies trying to shoot you) I sometimes wonder what happened to the world, now a days kids aren't safe in their gardens let alone wandering about like we used to.

[tiggerblue10]

Tizer tasted good when I was a kid in the 70s/80s. Banjo bars and Counters. My uncles were always buying Vesta beef curry and for some very strange reason I liked it back then. I tried one a few years ago and it was disgusting! Lol

[missnemesis]

I remember saving my pocket money to buy bags of different coloured rubber bands so that at school we could tie them all together and play 'elastics'.

Some of the girls would put the bands around their ankles to stretch them out and others would jump on them, sometimes with feet over the bands, sometimes under. If you got it wrong then you had to hold the bands while someone else jumped and on it went.

I also remember the girls all lining up in the playground singing songs which had actions to them. Kinda like karaoke meets linedancing. Ahhh the 70's.

[Daisho]

The shops being closed on a Sunday meaning the main street was almost deserted.

[elcee45]

Liberty bodice and syrup of figs