buffie Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 ok I remember Screen Test Magpie (watched BP though) Joe 90 Moon base alpha (what's the sci fi prog called????) Heidi (all those progs where it was obviously dubbed) The minstral show Chalk boards in the garage Tiny tears Pippa Casey Jones (DAN) Mary Mungo and Midge Crystal tips and Alastair Pipkins The singin ringing tree (mikey's offering ) Mini Kilts Carmen rollers Hair in rags on a sunday night And... I can still hum the screen test music Banana splits (arabian knights) Love that sshow Fuzzy felts (will bring it next time kate) Sherbet pips Soda stream First microwaves Schools progs on ITV, they would wheel in the TV to watch 'How we used to Live' The sullivans ITV going on strike (think it was ITV) Power cuts, lots of them The Tufty club, still hae my badge My naughty little sister and Enid Blyton books Twinkle and spellbound magazines for girls Phew Worn out BBxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Gabardines! Balaclavas for boys! That horrible 1/3 pint bottle of sour school milk which had been festering in the sun all morning! Mums' in hair rollers with a chiffon scarf to cover and the tiniest knot under the chin!. Spam! Luncheon meat! Comfifolder Sprog puschairs!! Coach built Silver Cross Prams....and babies safely left outside shops! NHS Orange Juice....delicious....and full of sugar!! Children wearing plastic rain hoods!! Imagine trying that today!! Little girls playing out in lovely starched and ironed dresses! The words to some of those playground games.....Oh my....so unacceptable today!! This thread will reach 100 pages in no time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallina Posted April 23, 2007 Author Share Posted April 23, 2007 Playground rhymes: here's one for starters: Nebuchadnezzar, King of the Jews Bought his wife a pair of shoes; When the shoes began to wear Nebuchadnezzar began to swear When the swearing had to stop Nebuchadnezzar bought a shop When the shop began to sell Nebuchadnezzar bought a bell When the bell began to ring Nebuchadnezzar began to sing: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall (etc.) Most of them were sung to two-ball rhymes. Here's another: One two three and PLAINSY Four five six and PLAINSY Seven eight nine and PLAINSY Ten and PLAINSY, catch the ball. (Followed by the same, substituting UPSY, OVER, DROPSY, and WHAMSY) I reckon we can overtake the Children of the '90s with our reminiscences -- but perhaps that is because we have more of them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Looney Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 I feel a bit young for this post though am enjoying reading it! Some of the things are quite familiar as my Gran used to collect hand-me-downs from her sister's grandchildren (who were up to 10 years older than me) and save them for me and my brother......so I had a crochet poncho (delightful orange and brown) and other 70's clothes and used to read their old annuals too. My grandparents used to feed us bread and dripping (delicious with a bit of salt on top yum!) and also pease pudding. I loved going to stay with them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Playground rhymes: here's one for starters: Nebuchadnezzar, King of the Jews Bought his wife a pair of shoes; When the shoes began to wear Nebuchadnezzar began to swear When the swearing had to stop Nebuchadnezzar bought a shop When the shop began to sell Nebuchadnezzar bought a bell When the bell began to ring Nebuchadnezzar began to sing: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall (etc.) We sang this in Manchester....but the last line was Doh Re Mi etc. Some of the other rhymes are unrepeatable now...not because they are vulgar...but because they are unacceptably racist...I blush to think of them....but in a gentler world it did not mean what it might today...to children at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twiglet Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Anyone remember Tinga & Tucker with Aunty Jean Morton or do you just have to be from the Midlands? I can even remember the club song: Woomerang Boomerang, this is our song, merrily merrily we sing along Woomerang Boomerang look over there It's Tinga & Tucker the two little bears! Also - when drunk - my party trick is an impression of Marina!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 - I'd forgotten Tinga and Tucka Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Skippy the Bush Kangaroo! Animal Magic with Johnny Morris! Zoo Time with Desmond Morris....Hey I've only just spotted that they have the same surname...are they related or was it just a coincidence??!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffie Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Trim phones, thought we were really trendy. NO MOBILES! Benny Hill Monty python's flying circus The sweeney The professionals Dick Emery BBx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallina Posted April 23, 2007 Author Share Posted April 23, 2007 I don't remember any racist rhymes (unless you are thinking of "Eeny meeny miney mo", which isn't too bad). This was an age where Enid Blyton could write story about Golly, Woggy, and Nigger without anyone flinching (we even had the Enid Blyton songbook, and sang about them). Our made-up rhymes tended to be a bit revolting, such as: "Ooops, word censored!"ody likes me, everybody hates meJust 'cause I eat worms, Long ones, short ones, fat ones, thin ones, See them wriggle and squirm Bite their heads off, suck out the juices, Throw their skins away, No one knows how I exist On worms three times a day! Or else rather odd, such as: On top of spaghettiAll covered with cheese I lost my poor meatball When somebody sneezed. It rolled off the table And on to the floor And then my poor meatball Rolled out of the door. It rolled in the garden And under a bush And then my poor meatball Was nothing but mush. I have made a collection of rhymes I remember from primary school, but will try not to inflict too many on you. Mine all originate from Plymouth, Devon. ------- Trimphones? I didn't even know anyone who had a phone. And three TV channels? We only had one in Plymouth. But we were streets ahead in that we had cable television (Rediffusion, which broke down almost every night). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina C Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 I loved school milk (and being milk monitor) I remember Tinga and Tucker (being a Midlands girl?) I got some Enid Blyton books out of the library for Layla a few weeks ago - the Fabulous 4 - she loves them (seem to have been updated a bit though). I don't rember the Fabulous 4 but I read all of the Secret Seven and Famous Five books and I loved Mallory Towers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallina Posted April 23, 2007 Author Share Posted April 23, 2007 They weren't called the Fabulous Four in my day. The group had no name, and the books were all entitled "The ......... of Adventure". They were the best stories by Enid Blyton. The word "Fabulous" in this sense didn't even exist until around the time that the original "Fab Four" (the Beatles) started to emerge from their cavern. When are any boys going to join in this forum? I have especially included them because I would like to know what they got up to while we were busy at our skipping games establishing the name of our sweetheart. Or did they just play football? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Everyone's remembered the one's that I can think of, but does anyone else still have their Blue Peter badges? Jackanory Ask the Family Bazooka Joe sweets and all the old fashioned ones you can't get any more Delrosa Rose hip syrup a gas boiler to boil up the nappies My mother's great big top loader washing machien (now was it Hoover or Hotpoint?) - had a big paddle inside, was filled from a hose and had a wringer on the outside too. Go karting down the hill into the hedge at the bottom Clangers.... I met Johnnie Morris and Dottie the lemur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 I don't remeber the Fabulous 4 but I read all of the Secret Seven and Famous Five books and I loved Mallory Towers. I loved the Secret Seven and the RubaDub, Rilloughby Fair, Ring O Bells, Rat a Tat and Rockingdown Mysteries, with Snubby and Loony. I noticed when re reading the Famous Five to my children, that they had started to wear Jeans instead of shorts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Rosie has been readign all my Famous Five and Secret Seven books - she loves them. Another favourite is Follyfoot Farm and Swallows and Amazons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina C Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 I remember the washing machines and the wooden tongs to pull the washing out with. Anyone else have a spin dryer that danced around the kitchen? Re sliding down hills - we had a plastics factory near the woods and we used to go and retrieve plastic dustbin lids (no handles strangely) from a sort of pit they used as a dump and slide down what we called 'the mounts', which were slag heaps. I was only 7 when we moved from there - can't imagine Layla going off to the woods with a group of mates. CAN imagine how horrified I would be if she did! It was strictly forbidden to go to the plastics factory but it wasn't fenced off and we all did it. Until one of the boys in the year above me suffered facial injuries in an explosion. We all kept away after that (still wasn't fenced off though). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Yup, I remember the tongs, and the gas boiler for boiling nappies.... I was threatened with the boiler stick when I was naughty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 My mother had a butter pat for when (as if!) we were naughty! How things have changed! I don't think it has made me a violent person and as long as I had 'done the crime' it seemed fair enough to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffie Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Trim phones, thought we were really trendy. NO MOBILES! Benny Hill Monty python's flying circus The sweeney The professionals **** Emery BBx I've been modded I can't type. d.i.c.k Emery BBx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 You naughty girl Buff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 My mother had a butter pat for when (as if!) we were naughty! How things have changed! I don't think it has made me a violent person and as long as I had 'done the crime' it seemed fair enough to me. Hear hear Ginette! We got the hard side of the hairbrush! I can remember some brutal teachers punishing children ( of course it goes without saying that I was never strapped).....the nuns were the worst! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JellyB Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 Haha...just been reading through this thread, it's fab. I remember ALL the Dr Who's I loved the Double Deckers but I especially loved Robinson Crusoe, it was always on in the summer holidays along with White Horses and Belle & Sebastian but RC was my fave and I love the music Me & my sister had some purple hot pants that my mum made and my brothers also had matching shirt & tie combos made by my mum. She made nearly all our clothes. Jackie comic with the Cathy & Clare problem page Disco 45 magazine with all the song words way before things like Smash Hits Cilla Black, Val Doonican, Lulu & Cliff Richard all had shows on a Saturday night Ohhhh I feel old - 46 in June Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 Don't know whether it's already been posted, but I loved the Partridge Family, On the Buses, and the Brady Family Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard T Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 but I especially loved Robinson Crusoe, it was always on in the summer holidays along with White Horses and Belle & Sebastian but RC was my fave and I love the music Oh yes! I was going to mention Robinson Crusoe. I don't think I ever saw the whole series through in one school holiday mainly because our school holidays never coincided with the BBC's school holiday scheduling so I'd miss the beginning or the end, but also because (usually) on the day of the last episode my brothers and I would get dragged off on some boring day trip. The music was brilliant. Someone asked what we boys got up to, well, me, Douglas, Henry and Ginger would meet at the Old Barn in Farmer Jenks' field and pretend to be pirates and harmless things like that and there was this horrid girl called Violent Elizabeth ... oh hang on ... that wasn't me. That was someone else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 I especially loved Robinson Crusoe He was especially gorgeous as I recall! Anyone remember Stranger on the Shore...the theme made Acker Bilk (what a name) very famous ...and rich I expect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
