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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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So seen the chat about tinned fruit what other childhood memories have ye got.
Corned beef sandwiches - why like !
The Xmas tin of biscuits and sweets and them fancy shortbread biscuits only get at Xmas
The milk been delivered to the gate
We had a phone in house and to use it you put money in, we weren't long finding the key used to open the drawer and just feed the money back in.
Bacon and cabbage dinners
When the English cousins would visit in their fancy cars |
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By *ustBoWoman
over a year ago
Somewhere in Co. Down |
Going to bed with a coat over the blankets to stay warm as no central heating. No duvets either until I was in my teens.
Going to the cousin's house and they had the posh room no one was ever allowed in at all .
Picking potatoes on summer holidays to have pocket money.
Going into the local shop with 10p and getting a bag of tayto and a load of half penny sweets.
The house phone having a lock on the dial but we found a way to pick it and still make calls on it when our parents were out. |
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I remember meself and the brother batin' the heads of each other with pick handles pretending we were playing in the All Ireland hurling final. We didn't even bother with a ball of any kind.
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"Going to bed with a coat over the blankets to stay warm as no central heating. No duvets either until I was in my teens.
Going to the cousin's house and they had the posh room no one was ever allowed in at all .
Picking potatoes on summer holidays to have pocket money.
Going into the local shop with 10p and getting a bag of tayto and a load of half penny sweets.
The house phone having a lock on the dial but we found a way to pick it and still make calls on it when our parents were out. "
Picking potatoes was a horrible job. The earlies were grand as it was warm and dry, generally. The main crop potatoes that had to be hot out of the ground in October or November were cruel though. Cold wet ground, no gloves and your fingers sinking into a rotten one... Your hands were so numb that you didn't even realise it until the smell got you. Jaysus. The consolation was the boxty that we'd have a feast of when they were all dug. |
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My favourite memory was when I was really little I planted apple pips wanting to grow an apple tree. Went back 2 days later and there was a massive apple tree. I thought it was amazing! |
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"My favourite memory was when I was really little I planted apple pips wanting to grow an apple tree. Went back 2 days later and there was a massive apple tree. I thought it was amazing!"
Are you sure it wasn't a beanstalk? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Our house being the only one besides the local gossip which had a phone, neighbours bypassed her and came to us to ring the hospital to see how family members were doing. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Getting new clothes at Christmas
All the rest were hand me downs from brothers and cousins "
As the second youngest of my generation, I feel your pain!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Frost on the inside of the bedroom windows
Angel Delight being an incredibly exotic treat
One channel on the (black and white) telly
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Actually having to get up to change channel |
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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago
somewhere |
Sound like old Mr Brennan at this stage but having no technology wasn't all bad.
If youre mate's went out and you were having dinner you'd catch up by walking miles asking people that you knew vaguely did they know where your mates were
No phones meant if you were meeting a girl you turned up at the meeting place on time
You didn't have money but you left your house early every morning on your school holidays and didn't get back till the evening and you didn't need the money
A wooden spoon was the biggest threat you faced at home
Getting into your weekly bath after your ma,and elder brothers |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Disappearing early in the morning with our bikes - a packed lunch, a frozen bottle of diluted orange and a stolen box of cigarettes. Gone for the whole day with no mobile phone in sight.
Riding with my cousins in the boot of a car on the way to the beach.
Playing ‘war’with friends after school....hurling stones at each other (and no one ever lost an eye!).
Building dodgy go karts and ramps and half killing ourselves in seconds.
The old crisp packets before foil.....’Fives’ crisps..5p Bean flavour or Pickled onion if or ember right?
Secret bars! ...mmmmmm
Ice cream between 2 Rich tea biscuits in my great grannies kitchen...concrete floor with sand from the beach on top of it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My favourite memory was when I was really little I planted apple pips wanting to grow an apple tree. Went back 2 days later and there was a massive apple tree. I thought it was amazing!
Are you sure it wasn't a beanstalk? "
Was so cute. A relative planted an apple tree to make me think was me burying pips. I was all biz  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Building go carts with pram wheels and joining them together to form a train... Then careering down a steep hill with the only brakes being the heel of your ROMS. God help any elderly person coming uip that hill.. Against a 10 man go cart snake they never stood a chance. |
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By *ustBoWoman
over a year ago
Somewhere in Co. Down |
"Building go carts with pram wheels and joining them together to form a train... Then careering down a steep hill with the only brakes being the heel of your ROMS. God help any elderly person coming uip that hill.. Against a 10 man go cart snake they never stood a chance. "
Neither did those on the go kart. I don't think I ever made it fully down any hill in one  |
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By *j47Man
over a year ago
limerick |
Kerbs - where u had a football and tried to bounce it off ur opponents kirb on the other side of the road if u hit the kerb the ball came back to u giving u a score
Racing wheels - u had a bicycle wheel without a tyre and a stick u used the stick to propel the the wheel down the street in a race against ur opponent
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By *j47Man
over a year ago
limerick |
"Dod anyone ever hammer in these little steel plates to the heels of your shoes
When you walked you could make sparks..can't think of what they were called "
Tips we used get then in the heel of ur shoes to prevent u wearing the heels to fast |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My nan collecting sticks for the fire.outdoor toilet.my family lived with my nanna till the mid seventies when we moved. It was great to have a home with an indoor toilet and bathroom. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Corned beef sandwiches ... absolute gold! It had many other names like "kilkenny steak" but names aside there was a time where lunches just wouldn't be the same without them. Beaut! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Corned beef sandwiches ... absolute gold! It had many other names like "kilkenny steak" but names aside there was a time where lunches just wouldn't be the same without them. Beaut!"
Still eat them now occasionally. Toasted. Absolutely delicious |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Corned beef sandwiches ... absolute gold! It had many other names like "kilkenny steak" but names aside there was a time where lunches just wouldn't be the same without them. Beaut!
Still eat them now occasionally. Toasted. Absolutely delicious"
S1ren... are you trying to seduce me with beef sandwiches ??? |
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By *j47Man
over a year ago
limerick |
"Corned beef sandwiches ... absolute gold! It had many other names like "kilkenny steak" but names aside there was a time where lunches just wouldn't be the same without them. Beaut!
Still eat them now occasionally. Toasted. Absolutely delicious"
Oh jayus toasted with some onion |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Corned beef sandwiches ... absolute gold! It had many other names like "kilkenny steak" but names aside there was a time where lunches just wouldn't be the same without them. Beaut!
Still eat them now occasionally. Toasted. Absolutely delicious
S1ren... are you trying to seduce me with beef sandwiches ???"
Yes. I'm not subtle |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Corned beef sandwiches ... absolute gold! It had many other names like "kilkenny steak" but names aside there was a time where lunches just wouldn't be the same without them. Beaut!
Still eat them now occasionally. Toasted. Absolutely delicious
Oh jayus toasted with some onion "
Brown sauce? |
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By *j47Man
over a year ago
limerick |
"Corned beef sandwiches ... absolute gold! It had many other names like "kilkenny steak" but names aside there was a time where lunches just wouldn't be the same without them. Beaut!
Still eat them now occasionally. Toasted. Absolutely delicious
Oh jayus toasted with some onion
Brown sauce?"
Opps i may have just cum a little in my trousers  |
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OK, cow shit fights, dens, meeting at the tennis courts. Buying single fags at the local shop for 10p.
Dinners, my favourite was liver, onions and gravy. I know ughh but I loved it. A treat was anything other then a sparkler ice pop.
Big time bars that'd remove fillings.
Camping with friends in the back garden and waiting for the parents to fall asleep and we'd go for late night walks.
The cousins in Dublin were always so cool and you just wanted to impress them.
A few memories that made me smile  |
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By *j47Man
over a year ago
limerick |
"OK, cow shit fights, dens, meeting at the tennis courts. Buying single fags at the local shop for 10p.
Dinners, my favourite was liver, onions and gravy. I know ughh but I loved it. A treat was anything other then a sparkler ice pop.
Big time bars that'd remove fillings.
Camping with friends in the back garden and waiting for the parents to fall asleep and we'd go for late night walks.
The cousins in Dublin were always so cool and you just wanted to impress them.
A few memories that made me smile "
Jayus single fags sold out of the shop straight across the road from the school 2p each when I went to school so I walked to school and saved my bus fare 5p to buy a fag at lunchtime |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"OK, cow shit fights, dens, meeting at the tennis courts. Buying single fags at the local shop for 10p.
Dinners, my favourite was liver, onions and gravy. I know ughh but I loved it. A treat was anything other then a sparkler ice pop.
Big time bars that'd remove fillings.
Camping with friends in the back garden and waiting for the parents to fall asleep and we'd go for late night walks.
The cousins in Dublin were always so cool and you just wanted to impress them.
A few memories that made me smile
Jayus single fags sold out of the shop straight across the road from the school 2p each when I went to school so I walked to school and saved my bus fare 5p to buy a fag at lunchtime "
O feck now I remember doing that  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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*Earliest memories*
I would rise with the sun,
and creep to fetch the parer,
Pick a fat apple for sacrifice
And offer it up as prayer.
My grandfather, in bed.
Chained like Prometheus
With stolen knowledge,
and a wink for Pomona's Citrius.
I thought it magic,
With a practiced flourish
He would unwrap the apple
Quarter it, and hand the nourish
I was five when he died,
I'm told before the coffin,
I had to be dragged off him
A parasitic needy urchin
He lived a long full life,
And reared fourteen children
On little more than bog and stone
But to me, most of it's hidden.
A life in a child's memory,
Less than a fragment,
Sunlight on an apple peel,
A kind mans segment.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"OK, cow shit fights, dens, meeting at the tennis courts. Buying single fags at the local shop for 10p.
Dinners, my favourite was liver, onions and gravy. I know ughh but I loved it. A treat was anything other then a sparkler ice pop.
Big time bars that'd remove fillings.
Camping with friends in the back garden and waiting for the parents to fall asleep and we'd go for late night walks.
The cousins in Dublin were always so cool and you just wanted to impress them.
A few memories that made me smile
Jayus single fags sold out of the shop straight across the road from the school 2p each when I went to school so I walked to school and saved my bus fare 5p to buy a fag at lunchtime
O feck now I remember doing that "
You smoked?! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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So many memories growing up in the southwest during the 80's.
Ballybunion for the beach, listowel for the races.. going to the cousins in dublin for a weeks holidays...
Getting a haircut for £1 and the barber giving you back 10p for sweets.
Never taking a lunch to school because we went home for it...
Going out to play and coming back late.
Don coburn on the news, aenghus mcnally and his gammy shoes.
Where in the world, seeing thriller for the first time.
Robbing orchards, knock a dolly, cycling everywhere... |
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By *j47Man
over a year ago
limerick |
"OK, cow shit fights, dens, meeting at the tennis courts. Buying single fags at the local shop for 10p.
Dinners, my favourite was liver, onions and gravy. I know ughh but I loved it. A treat was anything other then a sparkler ice pop.
Big time bars that'd remove fillings.
Camping with friends in the back garden and waiting for the parents to fall asleep and we'd go for late night walks.
The cousins in Dublin were always so cool and you just wanted to impress them.
A few memories that made me smile
Jayus single fags sold out of the shop straight across the road from the school 2p each when I went to school so I walked to school and saved my bus fare 5p to buy a fag at lunchtime
O feck now I remember doing that
You smoked?!"
Haven't you or have u just not looked |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"OK, cow shit fights, dens, meeting at the tennis courts. Buying single fags at the local shop for 10p.
Dinners, my favourite was liver, onions and gravy. I know ughh but I loved it. A treat was anything other then a sparkler ice pop.
Big time bars that'd remove fillings.
Camping with friends in the back garden and waiting for the parents to fall asleep and we'd go for late night walks.
The cousins in Dublin were always so cool and you just wanted to impress them.
A few memories that made me smile
Jayus single fags sold out of the shop straight across the road from the school 2p each when I went to school so I walked to school and saved my bus fare 5p to buy a fag at lunchtime
O feck now I remember doing that
You smoked?!
Haven't you or have u just not looked "
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By *anabecdTV/TS
over a year ago
Limerick/ tipp |
The big day of when we had to bring home the turf from the bog, all 4 of us piled into the back of a van going, came home sitting on top of a full trailer of turf because there was no room. |
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"OK, cow shit fights, dens, meeting at the tennis courts. Buying single fags at the local shop for 10p.
Dinners, my favourite was liver, onions and gravy. I know ughh but I loved it. A treat was anything other then a sparkler ice pop.
Big time bars that'd remove fillings.
Camping with friends in the back garden and waiting for the parents to fall asleep and we'd go for late night walks.
The cousins in Dublin were always so cool and you just wanted to impress them.
A few memories that made me smile
Jayus single fags sold out of the shop straight across the road from the school 2p each when I went to school so I walked to school and saved my bus fare 5p to buy a fag at lunchtime "
Bloody hell CJ 2p !! Nope we were 10p and we'd bunce to buy a pack of 10 between us |
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"So many memories growing up in the southwest during the 80's.
Ballybunion for the beach, listowel for the races.. going to the cousins in dublin for a weeks holidays...
Getting a haircut for £1 and the barber giving you back 10p for sweets.
Never taking a lunch to school because we went home for it...
Going out to play and coming back late.
Don coburn on the news, aenghus mcnally and his gammy shoes.
Where in the world, seeing thriller for the first time.
Robbing orchards, knock a dolly, cycling everywhere..."
Don and Angus !!! Anguses hair  |
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Walking through a heavily fortified army checkpoint twice a day going to and from school.
Cycling for miles on a bike with no brakes and bald tyres and getting a puncture every time and having to walk all the way back pushing the bike.
A 2 hour drive to Dublin to stand in line for Santa in Clerys with the animatronic displays. |
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By *j47Man
over a year ago
limerick |
"OK, cow shit fights, dens, meeting at the tennis courts. Buying single fags at the local shop for 10p.
Dinners, my favourite was liver, onions and gravy. I know ughh but I loved it. A treat was anything other then a sparkler ice pop.
Big time bars that'd remove fillings.
Camping with friends in the back garden and waiting for the parents to fall asleep and we'd go for late night walks.
The cousins in Dublin were always so cool and you just wanted to impress them.
A few memories that made me smile
Jayus single fags sold out of the shop straight across the road from the school 2p each when I went to school so I walked to school and saved my bus fare 5p to buy a fag at lunchtime
Bloody hell CJ 2p !! Nope we were 10p and we'd bunce to buy a pack of 10 between us "
Jayus a pack of ten ye were rich |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The summers when the hay bales were being made, just as you were starting puberty and were playing kiss and chase and dares with the girls your age. So horny but not knowing what you were at.
Jesus the smell of warm hay on a summer evening brings back those innocent times |
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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago
somewhere |
"And then you said brown sauce and ruined everything .... why s1ren... why why why ???
No man, brown sauce and hornydog beef is only savage"
It's true..chef brown sauce on the corn beef sandwich was amazing |
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"And then you said brown sauce and ruined everything .... why s1ren... why why why ???
No man, brown sauce and hornydog beef is only savage
It's true..chef brown sauce on the corn beef sandwich was amazing "
Only time I ever have brown sauce |
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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago
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"Walking through a heavily fortified army checkpoint twice a day going to and from school.
Cycling for miles on a bike with no brakes and bald tyres and getting a puncture every time and having to walk all the way back pushing the bike.
A 2 hour drive to Dublin to stand in line for Santa in Clerys with the animatronic displays. "
And waiting on the toy to come down the chimney while you were talking to Santa |
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"Walking through a heavily fortified army checkpoint twice a day going to and from school.
Cycling for miles on a bike with no brakes and bald tyres and getting a puncture every time and having to walk all the way back pushing the bike.
A 2 hour drive to Dublin to stand in line for Santa in Clerys with the animatronic displays.
And waiting on the toy to come down the chimney while you were talking to Santa"
Took my kids 20 years ago and couldn't believe how crap it actually was in comparison to what it had been. Only half the displays and Santa in a bin bag alley in the basement  |
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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago
somewhere |
Your dad having the only family car
One bench type seat in the back with no seat belts
Seat made of pvc...ice cold in the winter
Burn the legs of you in the summer as you only wore shorts
Your dad having a few pints on a sunday afternoon in a pub in Blessington while we had a bottle of TK red lemonade and a couple of packets of tayto pub crisps between us ....and then he'd drive us home
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
Listening to Radio Eireann's agony aunt, Frankie Byrne, and the sponsored programmes such as Glen Abbey show and Walton's Music.
Staying with the cousins in Dublin and going to see the worst film ever, Song of Norway.
Watching the lions in Dublin Zoo pacing in tiny confined cages.
Seeing Nelson's pillar the day before it was blown down.
Watching Juke Box Jury every Saturday afternoon, just before the Monkees.
Watching the annual Corpus Christi processions.
Compiling a handwritten list of my sins before heading to confession.
Realising at a very early age, that many Christian Brothers were violent lunatics!
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By *dfabMan
over a year ago
Dunboyne |
Sandwiches with exotic ingredients like salad cream or sandwich spread.
Ambrosia creamed rice from a tin, heating optional.
Building multi room palaces in the hay shed.
Unfiltered, unpasteurised milk from cooler before it was collected by dairy tanker.
Everywhere beyond your fence was your playground.
Innocent times  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Sandwiches with exotic ingredients like salad cream or sandwich spread.
Ambrosia creamed rice from a tin, heating optional.
Building multi room palaces in the hay shed.
Unfiltered, unpasteurised milk from cooler before it was collected by dairy tanker.
Everywhere beyond your fence was your playground.
Innocent times "
What was that spread that you put on bed had bits in it, some kind of salad dressing? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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When the most exciting thing in your life was what's behind the magic door on Bosco
Wham Bars and Desperate Dan bars that would take your teeth out
Your Mother telling you not to open the door to the TV License inspector it was her greatest fear
Weekly wash in the old tin bath beside the turf fire as we had no bathroom only a outdoor toilet. The poor 7th child that got in came out dirtier
The excitement the day we got our first washing machine and we all gathered around watching it spin! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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An uncle of mine used to take the orange plastic from the old glass lucozade bottles and put it on his headlights when foggy, said it was the best, anyone else hear of this? |
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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago
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"An uncle of mine used to take the orange plastic from the old glass lucozade bottles and put it on his headlights when foggy, said it was the best, anyone else hear of this? "
I thought it was when you were bringing the car to France |
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"Did anyone have older brothers or sisters who were meant to mind you when you all went out to play
Except they fecked off and left you to you own devices for hours "
I was the older sister, I did this |
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