General Chat

Thanks for great replies. Maureen - hope you,re not accusing me of telling old jokes. That,s always good for a laugh, but i don,t know if it,s valid anymore as there is legislation on donkeys nowadays Happy days

Yes Harry we all know what donkeys got for their dinner? Was it half an hour like everybody else LoL Ages since I heard that one lol Mau X

true Harry, these days its ' do you smoke, and give me a fag''?

Here is one that perhaps is reserved to us oldies.. Remember when you were little and it was an 'A' picture. you needed an adult to get you admitted. We used to stand outside and say, 'will you take me in mister (or misses). You separated once you got inside unless your new 'mother' was carrying a bag of sweets. Try that in these non-trusting days. Happy days

Remember the Black & Greens tea lables? You had to cut them off the packets, save them up and then redeem them for some near useless household item. You never got a choice, you just sent them off and they would send you things like pokers, rulers, tape measure etc, to whatever the value of the coupons. I can actually remember a time when mum saved so many money off coupons, then wrote out her shopping list for the week, and they paid for most of it! Lin

i was also in the police. The best one for me was when a woman coming running out of her house and asked me if I would look after the kids while she did some shopping. It would'nt happen now would it

Thanks for the very interesting replies. As joan suggests it is allegedly a corruption of donkey,s ears which are long or possibly the fact that donkeys live a long while. Happy days

Hello Harry and your old buddies. I was in a chemists yesterday and I observed a machine that the Co-op used to use, much larger in diameter(9-10 inches) and not so silent. Apparantly when a server takes your order/prescription and cashes it, the tube delivers the goods to the till area. It seems the items come from a remote storeroom It's the 1st time in 50 years that I have seen this in operation. Name of town is Pezenas in southern France . You all have super memories. We were not rich during the war, thats certain, but we did keep chickens. One of my Saturday jobs was to take two paper sacks to Cramphorns in Queen St, Colchester to have them filled with (1)chicken food(to mix with cooked scraps) and (2) a smaller bag of shell. Not quite sure, but I think coupons were involved and donating so many eggs per week for the military. I'm sure someone will put me right. Keep the histories coming, Derek in France

Isn't it Donkey's Ears - long as... and yes - we should be able to keep the best of all ages but somehow the worst always perpetuates - Pity isn't it?

Remember as a little lad joining a mile long queue on the very first hour and day when the 'divi' was payable. Happy? days

LL, Very valid. I mention this too often. Why can,t we have the best of the old and the best of the new. ? Correct James. think most co-ops used to have them. Happy days

How about when Woolworth's had counters!! instead of shelves as now. ref above our local Co-op used to have that wires to a central cashier

Thanks for the latest replies. Harold - One of my great tragedies in life. what has happened to the Police SERVICE.? XXX James, re below. Spot on.. And some shops whizzed your money back and to along the roof'XXX Happy days

Harry ,you are talking of the days when the police were respectedand part of the community,if you did wrong as a child,you got a clip round the ear and a bigger one when you got home because the local bobby had been round, those days have long gone, the 'Beat Bobby' if you see one,Are sadly now an endangered Spiecies , Hal.

questions never asked anymore? well for me - would you like to come home with me tonight? lol!

LOL Harry............quite a hard one in those days.........poor things! Lin

Thanks for the replies. Very interesting. still don,t know what a 'donkeys year' is. XXX and i think we all know what they get for dinner XXX Happy days

RAG AND BONE What ever happened to the man with the cart that used to walk the streets shouting RAG AND BONE. He used to give you a few coppers to take them away. Now we have to pay our council about £12 to take anything away.

Harry back to the days when people had time to stop and chat xxxxxxx

Do I ever Maureen...........'Go on now......watch every bag, make sure you count them'. LOL Lin