beach chick Posted June 22, 2007 Author Share Posted June 22, 2007 and those chocolate buttons covered with hundreds & thousands - jazzies? my girls like them now, but the choc is HORRIBLE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 The chocolate was always horrible! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali-s Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 [pips - a quarter for 15p and there were millions! : Were they the tiny little sherberty balls? A quarter cost 2 1/2p at our corner shop I'm probably a lot older than you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beach chick Posted June 22, 2007 Author Share Posted June 22, 2007 oh blimey, cant believe you found a pic of the maggots!!! they absolutely scared the life out of me - 1973, I was 12, and still eating the cushions behind the sofa while my Dad laughed. however the recent dr. who with the kids whose faces turned into gas masks also completely freaked me out. I am a wimp. sad but true! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 My dad was an avid train spotter, he even got me my own proper book in which he underlined the trains I had seen that day, or "copped" as it is known His idea of a great day out was to go to somewhere like Crewe to stand on the station, taking me & my mum with him Him Indoors used to like train spotting when he was a lad. His Mother used to take him. She used to clamber up railway embankments with him, handbag over her arm and her stockings invariably in tatters! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cate in NZ Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 I think the most outstanding memories of my childhood were running free. On a weekend I'd be up with the lark and out with my friends running across fields, by reservoirs and climbing all over rickety piles of pallets in a local factory's "crate yard". Strictly banned of course, but no CCTV then and my parents didn't have a clue where I was or what I was doing. They just expected that i'd return when hunger drove me home, and I never let them down on that one My best friend went to pick bullrushes out of a reservoir and fell in........ I dragged her out by her hair, and she just shouted at me for hurting her We were lucky to survive to adulthood when I think back to some of our escapades I remember hiding behind the sofa to watch Dr Who, can't remember any exact episodes......... I guess I didn't see much with several inches of dralon between me and the screen Oh, and the long hot summer of 1976, doing gymnastics on the lawn, inspired no doubt by Nadia Comaneci. Oh, and tartan scarves tied around my wrist because I was a Bay City Rollers fan, and posters of David Cassidy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beach chick Posted June 22, 2007 Author Share Posted June 22, 2007 I was in love with Jones (the longhaired one) in Alias Smith & Jones... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 I was in love with Rock Hudson in Macmillan and wife. My heart was well and truly broken when I realised he could never be mine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beach chick Posted June 22, 2007 Author Share Posted June 22, 2007 you're not saying... surely you're not? that Rock was not quite the ladies' man he seemed??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 'Fraid so!...Still coming to terms with it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beach chick Posted June 22, 2007 Author Share Posted June 22, 2007 oh well... I was also in love with David Bowie, and if truth be told still have a bit of a thing about men wearing eyeliner... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 I was in love with Jones (the longhaired one) in Alias Smith & Jones... you mean Griff Rhys Jones? Ahh well I suppose he has a kind of charm If any of you are feeling nostalgic fore sweets try http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/ (n don't worry Daniel your knowledge on railways is far more greater (infinitly) than mine even if I could bell signal a Royal train through ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beach chick Posted June 22, 2007 Author Share Posted June 22, 2007 LOL! no, I think his real name was Ben Murphy, and he might have died quite young... this was a long time ago, you understand! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 ahhh I think I know who you mean and I'm sure hes still going strong personally I prefr my blokes more quirky so would have chosen GRJ over him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susanbb Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 My 11 year old has just shown me a copy of "The Green Death" EEEEEK Susan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnieP Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 I kissed Rock Hudson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 Really? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnieP Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 Yep! On holiday in Las Vegas when I was 13 (see, I meant it in the other thread about travelling with my parents), and he was there, in a casino. My mum went all weak at the knees and "oohed and ahhed" a lot. I didn't have a clue who he was, he just looked like a thin old man with a bad tan to me. Anyway, as she was too shy to go herself, she pushed me up to have my photo taken with him. He put his arm around me and kissed me on the cheek.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 Swoon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beach chick Posted June 23, 2007 Author Share Posted June 23, 2007 did you kiss him back tho Annie?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couperman Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 We used to jump off the pier onto a big pile of sand! Until they knocked the pier down. I am amazed we survived to adulthood some of the things we got up to! I find it quite scary looking back. We also used to tunnel into the sand dunes to make cave dens. Not a good idea! One collapsed once and I could have easily died buried alive Not a good experience, I was lucky my mates were around to dig me out. edit:spelling & grammar We also had a few close calls with the sea, got cut off by tide, swept out to sea in a rubber dinghy, took us ages to get back, two paddling and one with flippers on acting as an outboard motor! Growing up by the seaside is great but can be dangerous!! Kev. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Man Banned Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 Growing up by the seaside is great but can be dangerous!! I can empathise with that Couperman, in having roller skates and skateboards (i lived in the Welsh valleys and the two don't really go together with the hills) I remember once not being able to stop, so crouched down Eddie the Eagle style and managed , somehow, to go down the hill and across the main road straight through the (open) school gates, down the driveway and into the playground and finally stopped! How I didn't get hit by a car was amazing!! Another time I was riding my bike that didn't have brakes when I met a car coming up said road I had gone down before - got the front wheel over the kerb but the back wheel dragged along the edge of the kerb, threw me off the bike and into a fence.....I have a nice scar just below my collar bone from that and that was nearly 20 years ago!! oh how it comes back - going down the main road on my mates scooter and got a blowout...felt like weeks that I was getting grit out of my body A xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 PSWhilst I am answering questions that have already been answered - I have just seen that Carl correctly identified Green Death too! Sorry Bron. Sorry Carl! ...and Carl brought me the book as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 I can't be the only bloke of my age to have been madly in love with Felicity Kendall back in those days. And I can remember as an teenager watching Rowan and Martin's Laugh In - with a dippy georgous Goldie Horne. Hey, Iggie Pop and the Stooges are on the telly tonight at Glastonbury - and the Killers.... Bye Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 Hey, Iggie Pop and the Stooges are on the telly tonight at Glastonbury - and the Killers.... Bye Iggy was on the Jonathan Ross show last night, right at the end, I just caught it, he was fab Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
