Bam! And then you realise how old you are

[Mark Bolam]

We still didn't have mains leccy when I left to go to uni.

 

I loved haymaking, 'stooking' little square bales so they could get picked up by the clamp from when I was about 9 (or at least trying).

 

The best bit was at the end, working in 'the hole' at the top of the elevator.

 

On the last night when it was all in, me and my brothers would be allowed a can of McEwans Export, and we'd sit and force it down, while my Dad and the farmer drank and chatted away. Magic times.

 

 

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[Gary Prentice]

  TimberCutterDartmoor said:

I found some old cassette tapes in the loft recently so have been listening to them in the truck cassette player.

 

This song (on one of the tapes) sums up my sorrow:

 

 

Modern times suck

 

Cassettes:001_rolleyes: they were modern. fancy cars had eight tracks from what I can remember.

[5 shires]

  Joe Newton said:

I never had a tumble dryer or broadband til I was about 20...

 

Character building though.

 

Made me the man I am today.

 

Tumble dyer, you must have been the rich family in your road.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

  btggaz said:

Cassettes:001_rolleyes: they were modern. fancy cars had eight tracks from what I can remember.

 

Sure, Fuji Cherry Reel to Reel was my time too

[felixthelogchopper]

  Mark Bolam said:

We still didn't have mains leccy when I left to go to uni.

 

I loved haymaking, 'stooking' little square bales so they could get picked up by the clamp from when I was about 9 (or at least trying).

 

The best bit was at the end, working in 'the hole' at the top of the elevator.

 

On the last night when it was all in, me and my brothers would be allowed a can of McEwans Export, and we'd sit and force it down, while my Dad and the farmer drank and chatted away. Magic times.

 

 

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My, how times have changed.

[White Noise]

Playing Conkers Having them threaded onto a long shoe lace .

[5 shires]

  5 shires said:

All of most of what you said, and can't remember it ever raining in the summer hols,or for that matter anytime must have blanked it out. Tele programmes. Love thy neighbour,till death do us part,on the buses.

 

God could anyone of us my age imagine love thy neighbour on the tele now. Not a chance. I'll have half is about what would be allowed.

 

Watneys party cans of beer.jimmy Seville ,Gary glitter, Rolf Harris, Stuart hall. Great names then but not now,who would have guessed.part of our time shattered. We were so blind or just so young:confused1:

[difflock]

I am 55, I do remember taking dinners up to "Stephen" who lived in a very primitive "cotter" house about 15m from our back door.

Only afterwards did I find out that

(i) "Stephen" had been a tramp(and probably as a result of his experiences in the First WW) that my father had taken pity on/taken in and accommodated in this then derlict house.

(ii) That he used to babysit us to allow our parents to go out!

Bloody Hell, try and run both those ideas past Social Services today.

A lister diesel generator plant provided the electric, so even when we got a TV(2nd hand B&W set), there was no TV in the Summer cos the engine was not started if not needed.

And

Sleeping between sheets sewen together from "Morton's" flour bags, the text still being visible.

Not to mention the indignity of ONCE being made to wear my big SISTERS knickers, dont recall how old I was, but old enough to be mortified.

cheers

marcus

And

PS

Attempting to explain, to the collective children, with the aid out our then neighbour, that houses did not use to have inside toilets!

The neighbour had grown with an outside toilet btw.

Edited September 4, 2014 by difflock

[5 shires]

  difflock said:

I am 55, I do remember taking dinners up to "Stephen" who lived in a very primitive "cotter" house about 15m from our back door.

Only afterwards did I find out that

(i) "Stephen" had been a tramp(and probably as a result of his experiences in the First WW) that my father had taken pity on/taken in and accommodated in this then derlict house.

(ii) That he used to babysit us to allow our parents to go out!

Bloody Hell, try and run both those ideas past Social Services today.

A lister diesel generator plant provided the electric, so even when we got a TV(2nd hand B&W set), there was no TV in the Summer cos the engine was not started if not needed.

And

Sleeping between sheets sewen together from "Morton's" flour bags, the text still being visible.

Not to mention the indignity of ONCE being made to wear my big SISTERS knickers, dont recall how old I was, but old enough to be mortified.

cheers

marcus

 

Good old days though Would't you say? I'd have them back right now if I could turn back time:001_rolleyes:

[wisecobandit]

Lol til death us do part - with Alf Garnett

And "in sickness and in health" with Marigold that got banned in the end lmao. Cant see why...

 

 

Hell tumble drier? What was that? It was all twin tub washing machines back then...