Can any one remember O/T

:surprise:    :surprise:  Ooooops I can remember 11!!!!
Can I join the oap club!!!

Ha Ha
I can even remember the milk man delivering milk with his horse & cart! I used to feed the horse with an apple. The corona man also with the dandelion & burdock pop!
I also used to have a wooden mangle -brilliant for doing the eiderdowns!
What about Woolworths when you could ladle up the different couloured sherbit into little triangular paper bags! Use to have half a crown pocket money which use to enable me to buy loads of sweets which would last a whole week.
OMG the list is endless but alas my memory is fading ………….. :embarrass:

Hi Val I don’t think any of the “youngsters” on this forum are even bothering to read this thread!  ??? lol

I do remember playing hop scotch with the chalk on the pavements (we were allowed to play outdoors in the street in those days!) ‘cos there was hardly any traffic! And jacks and marbles and hoola hoops! Also had a den in the hedges in the local park.. Played there for hours undisturbed (NO MOBILES!)
My fav thing was swapping beads in the playground during the school lunch break! Beautiful glass jewels as big as my hand!! Even Crunchies were huge in those days.. The summers were always sunny & warm too.. 
Ha ha Memories!  ::)

I have fond memories of the electric man coming to empty the meter and hoping my mum got some money back for a treat.
I remember the “rag and bone man” coming for all the old clothes and toys and you being allowed to chose a toy – a skipping rope or a yoyo or some clothes pegs.
I remember going to sleep with lots of knitted blankets (by my gran) because there was no central heating and the windows were frozen with ice and you could see your breath in your bedroom!!  We had a tv with a dial and a aeriel that you didnt dare move or “whoy be tide” !!!
You didnt get snacks you got a jam sandwich and butter was Stork SB!!  and you were posh if you had lasagna!
Yep positively ancient but there wasnt the crime or drugs that there is now.  You could leave your front door unlocked and we all played in the street instead of in front of a computer.  Rounders, chinese ropes, hopscotch – life was way mudge better then.  Apart from your one bath a week and you had to share the water  :yes: YUK YUK YUK

Mum would leave the insurance money on the back kitchen table with the door unlocked, the butcher’s money on the stairs where he would leave the meat, the butcher’s van called twice a week. Johnnie call weekly van who sold everything from paraffin to plates to chairs. The fish and chip van, you could get potato scallops – not many chippies do them now.
Doing the times table parrot fashion,
French skipping
half penny bread rolls still warm from the oven with plenty of butter,
black jacks and fruit salad chews
reading Tom Sawyer out loud in class and being in trouble for being a chapter ahead of the rest of the class.
Doing proper cooking in domestic science class, learning to sew and starch a shirt and balance a weekly budget for a housewife.
GOD I FEEL OLD :surrender: