General Chat

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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