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Quite agree about the tights. I stopped wearing them
Either tights or leg warmers were great under a pair jeans for winter bike riding before all this CE armour malarkey came in.
Quite agree about the tights. I stopped wearing them
I well remember my dad carrying a shovel full of fire upstairs into the big bed room
The heavy army coat over the bed
Or the chippy mat
Fried up Sunday dinner leftovers for Monday lunch.
Bubble and squeak we had it every Monday and I loved it.
I once made it when we had a lot of Sunday dinner left due to guests not turning up, gave it to the Grandkids and I am sure they sneaked out and phoned childline for dietary abuse.
Quite agree about the tights. I stopped wearing them
We had one of those, an English Electric Ritemp if I recall the name correctly. My mother used it for donkeys years, it used to grind away in the corner like some old medieval machine. I think it got changed for a new one in the early 70s, well past its sell by date.My mum had a washing machine it was a big single tub made by English electric no less. It had a great big mangle with hard rubber rollers to squash the water out of the washing. One day aged abut 6 i was helping feed it & i got dragged in & it ate my right arm up to the shoulder before mum could hit the spring loaded release bar. Didnt half hurt. My arm was black & blue for weeks. Years later a mate got caught in an older version washing white weed & had to be extracted by the fire brigade. Lucky he never lost his arm.
Didn't anyone tell you, your supposed to take them off. Tights, the devils work, nearly as bad as the pantie girdle, remember them, next best thing to a chastity belt! For the younger people, like a pair of strong elastic knickers, supposed to hold it all it in, flatten stomachs etc. The adverts said. In reality, just stopped any form of access.I found that they made her toes twitch.
Standard government office toilet paper until late 80's !That Izal medicated toilet paper was the forerunner of Teflon!!
Yes they were really long on our guttering (we lived downstairs)Can anyone else remember when you used to be able to lean out of the bedroom windows and pick those stupidly long icicles from the guttering too?
You were overpaid thenI started on 3 quid a week and as a kid got sixpence pocket money and had to earn it