For those of a certain age

[mick]

Originally Posted by MOUSEMARSH

Mick
I'm a contract manager and it's an absolute nightmare these days, in fact I was kicked off one of my contracts recently when the client was arguing about compliance certs being out off date. I politely pointed out that they had closed sites and wouldn't allow us in due to covid so it wasnt our fault! He had an absolute meltdown.

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In the middle bit of my career I'd spent time on site "debating" face to face with 25 stone groundworkers the rights and wrongs of their excessive claims for extra cost. I was only about 15 stone and wouldn't have survived a decent chinning easily. But I survived.

No hiding behind a keyboard in those days.

Mick

[floridasarah]

We had the Corona van come round and mum got 4 bottles of 'pop' each week.

We made go carts and rode down hills with no helmets on.

Penny for the Guy.

Secret seven clubs or famous five picnics. (the cat never quite measured up to Timmy)

2p bag of grits from the fish and chip shop. Wow the cholesterol

Once a week youth club with Top of the Pops on TV and the tuck shop.

[WhereIBelong]

Originally Posted by cartoonp

And bath night was Sunday in our house... THIS REALLY DID HAPPEN TO ME and I’d guess to a few of you!
When I grew up I walked to school and our Dinner time was at a regular time, Sunday’s was a Roast dinner and all the trimmings
Eating out was not heard of, we only had a take away on special occasions, only received a toy on birthdays and at Christmas 📷.
Fast food was fish and chips and having a bottle of coca cola from the shop was a real treat.
You took your school clothes off as soon as you got home and put on your 'playing out' clothes. Children looked like children, we didn't pout, wear makeup or have anxiety. There was no taking or picking you up in the car, you walked or rode your bike!
Our house phone had a cord attached, so there was no such things as private conversations or mobile phones! Ours was out in the hall.
We didn’t have Now tv, Sky or Netflix, we had only 3 channels to watch. Channel 4 was an exciting addition! We had to watch all of the adverts unless you switched to BBC.
We played Army, Bull Dog, Outings, Kerby, Hide & Seek, Tag, Football, made mud pies and rode bikes.
Staying in the house was a PUNISHMENT and the only thing we knew about "bored" was --- "You better find something to do before I find it for you!"
We ate what mum made for our dinner or we ate nothing at all. If we rushed our dinner we weren't allowed to go back out and if we didn't eat it we weren't allowed back out either 📷
Bottled water was not a thing; we drank from the tap, and sometimes from the hose-pipe.
We watched cartoons on Saturday mornings, and rode our bikes for hours and ran around.
We weren't AFRAID OF ANYTHING. We played till dark... street lights were our alarm.
If someone had a fight, that's what it was and we were friends again a week later, if not SOONER.
We watched our MOUTHS around our elders because ALL of our aunts, uncles, grandpas, grandmas, AND our parents' best friends were all extensions of our PARENTS and you didn't want them telling your parents if you misbehaved or they would give you something to cry about. Everyone had respect.
I did my research by borrowing books from the library. There was no internet and no Google! 📷
These were the good days. So many kids today will never know how it feels to be a real kid . I loved my childhood and all the mates I hung around with. Good Times! The Best Times of Our Life!

I know things are know different for the children of today

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you had a nice childhood.

No telly, no phone, no bike (remote Scottish Island so no sunshine either), few kids around, precious little food. Plenty of bruises though. If someone had told me those were the best times of my life I'd have jumped off the cliff at the bottom of our beautifully picturesque garden. Different eyes, different view...

[Tinkerbell]

Used to get told to go out at about 9am supplied with jam sandwich and a bottle of pop, told to come back at 5 for my tea!

Sunday school and church every Sunday, unless dead!

Told what to wear, no choices
Told what to eat no choices

Played outside whatever the weather and rarely allowed to watch TV

[Mr Tom Morrow]

Every Morning on the way to school pop in to the corner shop
1 No 6 fag and 2 matches. I think it was 9d maybe a 1/-

Great times.

[Johnnyp]

You could play conkers and ride you bike without all this h&s nonsense.

Shops were half day closing on Wednesday and closed all day on sun apart from the places like newsagent and mini marts.

School didn’t hold your parents to ransom over school uniform.

Winters were winters.

[MOUSEMARSH]

1/2 penny sweets.
Ice ball fights when it snowed.
Sliding down the hills on cardboard or an old TV Screen😁

[Melvin Pearce]

Both Melvin and I are 66 years old.

Remember Odeon Saturday Morning Pictures
Getting pennies back on empty bottles
Throwing stones at each other gang on the bomb sites next to our home and staying out until the sun went down
Walking miles
Looking forward to seeing the next Carry On and Bond films at the cinema
All happy memories with not a lot of money involved.

Lesley and Melvin

[Elmhurst 5]

Well to add to these -
3p a day for my bus fare, saved that to buy sweets and walked. Had chores to do when I got in from school fom my Mum, my brother had to clean all the family shoes every evening.
Days out in the summer school holiday, catching the bus and going to Teddington lock fishing, grub for the day jam or sugar sandwiches and water. Playing in the park all day or all day in the open air swimming baths up the road to us. Had to be home before Mum got home for the chores.
Sunday lunch was at 3pm and a roast every week listening to the radio. You had to ask to leave the table and eat whatever was given to you on your plate if not you didnt get fed. Money was tight for my parents. My Mum baked every Sunday morning, pies and puds for the week. We were lucky as a south london family, my Dad was a bus driver and insisted that we all had a summer holiday. /We were the only 2 kids in the street that had a holiday and at the seaside. We stayed in an old fishermans cottage by York Gate. The best holidays ever, simple pleasures.

[Mrs Red C]

Sitting in the car with a bottle of pop and bag of crisps in pub car park.

No house telephone, had to use neighbours in an emergency

Having cold rice pudding for tea if I'd not eaten it at lunchtime, YUK, still won't eat rice now!

School lunches, tables of 8 with pink, blue or green metallic cups so water tasted funny.

Small bottles of milk were warm and rank, always swapped mine with a greedy kid. 🤮

Watching wrestling on a Saturday afternoon if Nan visited.

M4 starting at Maidenhead to go to London.

Old money, loved a sixpence

Never watching tv on Christmas Day was a big thing in our house. Alwsys cards and games plus toys.

No trick or treating, no Christmas Eve Boxes etc no chocolate advent calendars