General Chat

I can remember all of them. The worrying thing is yesterday in the middle of talking to a friend I completely went blank when I went to say someone's name. :-(

All of the above plus

Tea, sugar and biscuits all sold loose
Milk and bread delivered by horse and cart
Tripe and chitlins from the cook shop
Rationing
A coal house
Using a newspaper as a draw tin when lighting the fire
Clearing the ashes from the grate

And so many more.

We were poor but we were happy.

Think I am old, no I know I am old, remember most !!
:-D

Waiting for the valves to warm up on the radio & come to that on the tele, then after it went off watching the little white dot disappear off the screen.

I remember dad buying our first colour TV. It was red.

Ok - I'm going!

Yep remember all them,
And cold lino to jump out of bed onto on a frosty morning then scrape the ice off the INSIDE of the windows.

I can remember all those easily Col except we didn't have an outside loo and di have hot water on tap.
Not sure about the Pearly and Dean adverts though.

You are old when you can remember:

Black and White TV as the norm
Mothers 'walking' their children to school
The excitement at the arrival of BBC2
Children playing in the streets
Christmas starting in November not the middle of summer
The milkman, breadman and pop man all delivering to the door
Money back on empty pop bottles
TV closing down at 11pm with the National anthom and a reminder to ''please remember to turn off your set...good night'
Pearl & Dean cinema ads
Sundays with the shops closed and people sitting down together for lunch
Remembering to buy the dog licence
Outside loos
No hot water on tap
Red phone boxes
Party lines if you were lucky enough to have a phone at home
BT being part of the GPO and a 3 month waiting list to have a phone installed
Cigarette advertising being glamourous
Shops with a chair by the counter to sit on
The rag and bone man - he would give you a balloon as a kid if you gave him something
Summer holidays being days out or a trip to the seaside - abroad? you must be joking
Tin baths in front of the fire
Utility furniture
Radio grams
Mono
Men wearing suits and ties just to go shopping
Playgrounds in the parks (pre Health & Safety police)
Open air lidos
Police phone boxes
Buses with conductors and no door at the back!
Footballers appearing only on the sports pages not in the gossip columns
Footballers shaving their faces not their legs!
The Pathe newsreel at the cinema
Circus's with animals
Gay meant happy
Working mens clubs 'no women allowed'
BlackBerrying was fruit picking not playing with a smartphone
Bacolite being a modern marvel
Weekly pay in cash (the lovely little brown envelope)
Sweets by the ounce from big jars
Same scales used to weigh everything from sausage to cheese without cleaning!
Fish & Chips on a Friday evening from the chippy
Forces Favourtites on a Sunday lunchtime radio
and Sing Something Simple before bedtime
School milk - frozen in winter curdled in the summer!
Plus Adders - not calculators
No VAT
Half a Crown, Sixpence, Threppeny Bits and Farthings
Ten Bob notes
Out of town meant countryside not retail parks
Hospital Matrons ruling with a firm hand
Britain being Great
Britain having an Empire

Ah memories...what are yours?