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Topdog wrote:Please do not keep posting to just get to 20000, it is a bit like bumping.

We don't mind a bit of bumping either (sorry thought you said humping)

Cruella de Vil wrote:I remember coming home and seeing our first black and white tv, never mind the colour it was probably about 1970

1953 black and white, got it for the Coronation (not Corrie) and some important football match - all the neighbours came in to the house to watch it. We got it from Radio Rentals.

Gosh, I was'nt even born

Gypsy wrote:

1953 black and white, got it for the Coronation (not Corrie) and some important football match - all the neighbours came in to the house to watch it. We got it from Radio Rentals.

Don't laugh, but we didn't get electricity in 'til I was 6. (1961, it was for the birth of my youngest brother).

Was he Frankenstein, because you needed electricity for his birth.

Topdog wrote:Was he Frankenstein, because you needed electricity for his birth.

Yeah! Bolts through the neck and everything. (Feckin' dump was built in 1824, gone now thank *uck!)

Me, 1st post and 20,000.

Hurrahhhh! 20,000 and counting. (It was Howard I think).

The Lone Ranger wrote:

Don't laugh, but we didn't get electricity in 'til I was 6. (1961, it was for the birth of my youngest brother).

. sorry cam i couldnt resist.

cunningham wrote: . sorry cam i couldnt resist.

I remember getting a thumping from my mum when I was wee. She sent me to get a new mantle for the lamp and I broke it. She didn't have anymore money for a new one 'til dad's next payday. Had to sit at night by the light of the fire. ( I used to love a flickering coal fire in the dark).

So here's TD's new avatar

Gypsy wrote:So here's TD's new avatar

It's got a copyright watermark...I'll see if I can find another.

i remember them days cam,long drop shithouse. never roughed it some folk eh?

cunningham wrote:i remember them days cam,long drop shithouse. never roughed it some folk eh?

Life's a dawdle now Howard! We've got everything now we didn't have then!

cold though our fire was out doors. Still remember Rose next door getting a twintub, whole street looked in, then used it. 6weeks later club book took it back coz she didn't pay.

cunningham wrote:i remember them days cam,long drop shithouse. never roughed it some folk eh?

Scraping the frost off the inside of the windows to see out on a morning.

The Lone Ranger wrote:

cunningham wrote:i remember them days cam,long drop shithouse. never roughed it some folk eh?

Life's a dawdle now Howard! We've got everything now we didn't have then!

bloody right mate.false teeth glasses hearing aid, arthritic knees. a wife 5 grandkids 5 greatgrandkids. and a power washer that wont bloody start.

Topdog wrote:cold though our fire was out doors. Still remember Rose next door getting a twintub, whole street looked in, then used it. 6weeks later club book took it back coz she didn't pay.

Did it have one of those little mangles on the side? I remember having to wring out sheets with my mum, she'd grab one end and I'd grab the other then we'd twist the sheet in opposite directions 'til the worst of the water was out then we'd go down the landing to hang them on the clothes line. (Hurt my little hands it did!)

Yep, how about polishing Kitchen floor with thick socks on. Mum and neighbour scrumping.

Topdog wrote:Yep, how about polishing Kitchen floor with thick socks on. Mum and neighbour scrumping.

Couldn't polish the kitchen floor...all the linoleum was cracked and broken! I remember one year we replaced the linoleum in the living room and Dad was all excited 'cos the newspapers lining underneath were so old. (They carried stories of WWII).

Blimey how wasteful changing it so soon, mine was ww1 news.

No computers in those days, although my Dad had a forum. It was in his bed side cabinet with Penthouse and Playboy, little magazine, all stories, never understood them but used to make me wee myself, I think.
These days Comics are more explicit (oh I was 15 then)

I remember Forum, readers wives! and

Perfectspecimen wrote:I remember Forum, readers wives! and

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Naked badminton.......now we know........