General Chat

Will be without electric for hrs, queue up for petrol, bread etc.

Who remembers them days i do

I do I was very young,I also remember my Mum having ago at my Dad once when he told her she was on strike the next day.

I was thinking more of being like the early 80's when no one was in work or it seem like no one, even TV programmes were about people being unemployed its getting very worrying I must say.

I remember the power cuts etc of the 70's.........as a kid they where such fun.

Oddly enough I happened to buy an old Giles cartoon book yesterday from a charity shop , it was the 1972 one.........lots of cartoons about the power cuts ( and the politics that went with it )..........a blast from the past .

But I agree with Hayley that " things " in general are starting to feel like the 80's again ( employment wise ).

Amanda

Amanda we did think it was such fun sat huddle round a candle with blankets wrapped round us...

thats very true.

I remember my step dad working a 3 day week. we hated each other. i was terrible at school if i could bunk off i would but not then i wasin full attendance could stop at home hehe.

I remember my mum doing her nut as the electric went off just before oppitunity knocks she loved that show

The very moment that the light went off my Mum would be busy shoving a copper kettle on the open fire ( we didn't have gas and cups of tea where her main aim in life ) mind you it usually took at least two hours to come to the boil...........lol

Happy hours spent round a candle making funny shapes in shadow form on the walls............and joy of joys being sent to bed with a night light candle in a saucer of water............I'm becoming most nostalgic here.

We all you used to have to do a turn, we had long curtians , 1 by 1 the curtains would open and there we would entertain...I was about 4 or 5 and would sit praying for it to be my turn, my sisters would moan tell a joke , then I would stand there asking for any request thinking I was Cilla Black..lol

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I tink your right and it will take years to turn as well...but I shall worry about it when it happens...Now any requests ?

it was a bit before my time the 80s

Thanks Hoffy

make me feel old i was born in 61

so was i


1861 lol

Hayley how about step inside love

Step inside, love, let me find you a place
Where the cares of the day will be carried away
By the smile on your face,
We are together now and forever, come my way.

Step inside, love, and stay
Step inside, love
Step inside, love, step inside, love.

You look tired, love, let me turn down the light,
Come in out of the cold, rest your head on
My shoulder and love me tonight,
I'll always be here if you should need me, night and day.

Step inside, love, and stay
Step inside, love
Step inside, love, step inside, love.

When you leave me, say you'll see me again
For I'll know in my heart we will be not apart
And I'll miss you till then,
We'll be together now and forever, come my way.

Step inside, love, and stay
Step inside, love
Step inside, love, step inside, love,
Step inside, love...

very good Hayley.


No i'm not that old Hoffy

pmsl

** runs off to find skipping rope **


I know them all......every single word....

I remember listening to radio Luxembourgh in the transister radio under the bed clothes ( no duvet back then).


what will our kids do with electric?

No tv
No Computers
No Game consoles

HOLD ON WHAT WILL I DO ? NO FACEBOOK NO GR HELP!!!!

yes I remember that .....my parents where in America and my grandparents were looking after us all 8 of us !!! so 6 kids and 2 adults ......grandparents didnt realise what was going on !!!!!! So I sent each child into every shop in the town to get bread !!!!!
nanny thought it was so funny and said she wouldnt have thought of it !!! but at 15 what else was I ment to feed 8 of us on for tea!!! LOL

Roll on labour , wasnt they the cause of in the 70's and now ?..just my opinion I know naff all about Politics ....did I hear someone shouting more or was it door...lol

The question is

Can we do it again???

LOL