please empty your brain below
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(please only remember one thing each)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 02.12.19 - 12:40 a.m. | #
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Watching the Tripods and wishing they could
leave the Chateaux much sooner
Green Paperclip | 02.12.19 - 7:07 a.m. | #
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Running a marathon in a pair of Green Flash.
Running_Correspondent | 02.12.19 - 7:07 a.m. | #
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Never realised those square plastic tags they used to keep bread fresh were a different colour every day of the week.
If only I had known...
MO | 02.12.19 - 7:08 a.m. | #
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Aluminium foil milk bottle tops- silver for pasteurized, red for homogenised, red and silver stripes for semi-skimmed, blue and silver boxes for skimmed, good for gold-top, and birds pecking holes in them on the doorstep to get at the cream.
Dominic H | 02.12.19 - 7:17 a.m. | #
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Walls orange sorbet
John Styles | 02.12.19 - 7:18 a.m. | #
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The smell of freshly printed worksheets or newsletters from the school Banda Copier.
Jona26 | 02.12.19 - 7:24 a.m. | #
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I'd have thought you were more of a Windows 3.1 man myself!
Al | 02.12.19 - 7:45 a.m. | #
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Collecting up loads of old paper bus tickets and folding them together to make a long 'concertina'.
popartist | 02.12.19 - 7:45 a.m. | #
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...and a can of Top Deck shandy, for school packed lunch, and for those who don't know - it was low alcohol drink marketed to school children :)
So much nostalgia on a Monday morning,
PJS | 02.12.19 - 7:48 a.m. | #
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Trolleybuses to my grandparents & portions of toast at Joe Lyons next to the terminus...
Steve | 02.12.19 - 8:03 a.m. | #
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Using an dropper which was originally for eye drops to fill a fountain pen with ink (yes, it was Parker Royal Blue as well)
anonymous | 02.12.19 - 8:10 a.m. | #
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That's two posts now where you've ended in a downbeat way. Starting to get concerned about you.
However, this post is like the whole Memberberries thing on South Park, where people get addicted to little purple berries which speak and talk about remembering things in the past; which then makes people think how much better it all used to be, and then made people vote for Mr Garrison (Trump) as president to Make America Great Again.
Eric Cartman | 02.12.19 - 8:12 a.m. | #
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I remember them too now that you remind me!
Peter | 02.12.19 - 8:20 a.m. | #
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I remember Proust
Burntweenie | 02.12.19 - 8:27 a.m. | #
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Frank Bough
mvcvz | 02.12.19 - 8:29 a.m. | #
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This morning it is cold and frosty - in the past the road outside would regale to the sound of people attempting to start their cars.
Still Anon | 02.12.19 - 8:31 a.m. | #
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I remember watching the Coronation on a black and white, very small tv screen (9 inches). And watching the television in the evening with the living room lights switched off as though we were sitting in a cinema.
Sara | 02.12.19 - 8:31 a.m. | #
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I remember those orange plastic reflective discs given to kids going to school during the year-round BST period when it was dark until about 9.00 am in midwinter.
David | 02.12.19 - 8:41 a.m. | #
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Rabies posters at Teddington Lock
Mike D | 02.12.19 - 8:45 a.m. | #
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tearing the perforated edges with the holes in off printer output. Strangely satisfying
Richard | 02.12.19 - 8:47 a.m. | #
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Energen rolls
Roy | 02.12.19 - 8:53 a.m. | #
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Videoplus+ codes
andy c | 02.12.19 - 8:58 a.m. | #
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Corona delivered door to door by a purpose-built lorry.
mikeS | 02.12.19 - 9:01 a.m. | #
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Teachers rolling a huge tv out into the classroom to let us watch Geordie Racer
Flare | 02.12.19 - 9:04 a.m. | #
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5 star petrol
Joho | Homepage | 02.12.19 - 9:08 a.m. | #
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Buying monthly season tickets that allowed travel between South Croydon and Victoria only.
RosemaryT | 02.12.19 - 9:10 a.m. | #
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The SDP
Offshore | 02.12.19 - 9:12 a.m. | #
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Ten bob notes and thrupenny bits.
kev | 02.12.19 - 9:15 a.m. | #
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Pressing button B in phone boxes and getting someone else's money out!
Tim W | 02.12.19 - 9:17 a.m. | #
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Coal mines.
Arthur | 02.12.19 - 9:25 a.m. | #
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Going to The Tunnel to watch the trains, and the thrill when one was a 'streak' (streamlined steam loco).
Malcolm | 02.12.19 - 9:34 a.m. | #
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Paying for a pint with a fiver and getting most of the fiver back!
daveid76 | 02.12.19 - 9:34 a.m. | #
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Esso Blue paraffin and its rival Pink Paraffin. And those really dangerous paraffin heaters in the house.
Pedantic of Purley | 02.12.19 - 9:49 a.m. | #
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Golden nuggets marinated in milk...
Milo | 02.12.19 - 9:53 a.m. | #
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Buttersnap.
Suse | 02.12.19 - 10:04 a.m. | #
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Looking into the street first thing in the morning after a snowfall, to see the tracks of the only 2 vehicles to have driven along the road - the milk float and bread van (both electric even then)
Mike Roberts | 02.12.19 - 10:18 a.m. | #
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Anything that still has "Rowntree" on the label... without "Nestle" hiding somewhere near it.
Chz | 02.12.19 - 10:21 a.m. | #
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The lamp lighter coming round on his bike to light the street gas lamps every evening
Keith | 02.12.19 - 10:22 a.m. | #
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I got a cheque book in the post only last week - and have already used it.
ap | 02.12.19 - 10:28 a.m. | #
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Pickled walnuts with Christmas dinner
Johnny Topaz | 02.12.19 - 10:29 a.m. | #
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Being intrigued by x-ray specs but never having the nerve to send off for a pair because you know - pervy!
Cornish Cockney | 02.12.19 - 10:29 a.m. | #
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I remember paragraphs
Matt | 02.12.19 - 10:50 a.m. | #
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Getting ticked off at school if I used the word "and" more than twice in one sentence.
Temp | 02.12.19 - 10:51 a.m. | #
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Can we have those square plastic tags for keeping bread fresh back again? The tags they now use soon lose their stickiness.
JohnC | 02.12.19 - 11:02 a.m. | #
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DG, if you have not read Georges Perec (this post is a lot like his ‘je me souviens’) I really think you might enjoy it.
Zola | 02.12.19 - 11:03 a.m. | #
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National Savings Stamps, one bought religiously at primary school every Monday morning alongside the dinner money.
Man of Kent | 02.12.19 - 11:46 a.m. | #
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Milk vending machines that also sold orange juice in triangular cartons.
Arlo | 02.12.19 - 11:46 a.m. | #
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Playing Pinball in a cafe.
Ken | 02.12.19 - 11:59 a.m. | #
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Listserv....Archie, I know, I know 2 things that became part of The Internet (1 thing)
B | 02.12.19 - 12:04 p.m. | #
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Being excited on the 1at August when the new car Registrations came out and shouting out the LETTER! whenever you saw one on the street for about a week afer
geofftech | 02.12.19 - 12:23 p.m. | #
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Saturday wrestling on 'World of Sport'; Kendo Nagasaki, Big Daddy and Mick McManus.
Eddie Willers | 02.12.19 - 12:28 p.m. | #
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Beer at less than 11 1/2 d a pint.
strawbrick | 02.12.19 - 1:04 p.m. | #
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Locoscript......
Tony Price | 02.12.19 - 1:26 p.m. | #
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Cadbury's vending machines on the platforms of tube stations.
Capeet | 02.12.19 - 1:56 p.m. | #
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Meccano and Bayco Building sets. For the engineering project or large house you wanted to build, you always needed a more expensive set than the one you actually got for Christmas.
Martin | 02.12.19 - 2:01 p.m. | #
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Paying in books (still got mine that started in 1980).
NickW | 02.12.19 - 2:05 p.m. | #
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Butterscotch Angel Delight is both a) still very much available for purchase and b) not as good as you probably recall it.
The past is another place, and if we were able to visit it, we wouldn't want to stay long.
On the other hand, the games you mention (Minesweeper, Pacman, Donkey Kong, Lemmings) can all be found on your phone, having crossed the line from ephemera to cultural icons.
Will | 02.12.19 - 2:20 p.m. | #
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All things come to and end, one day we will remember this blog....
The Knowledge | 02.12.19 - 2:33 p.m. | #
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Starting handles
Gerry | 02.12.19 - 2:51 p.m. | #
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I remember rewiring a blown fuse, with fusewire.
Autolycus | Homepage | 02.12.19 - 2:56 p.m. | #
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I share all the 70s memories, but I think maybe our interests diverged in the 80s.
Sarah | 02.12.19 - 3:00 p.m. | #
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Just for Sarah.
Lots of real narrowboats moored at the bottom of the garden after unloading their cargo of coal at the paper factory.
DGD | 02.12.19 - 3:11 p.m. | #
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Watching Nationwide after the News...
SW8guy | 02.12.19 - 3:20 p.m. | #
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Brian Cant narrating Camberwick Green & Trumpton.
Richard | 02.12.19 - 3:45 p.m. | #
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I too remember It's A Knockout, although not being of a certain age, the Knockout I remember was the Channel 5 revival hosted by Cheggers and a constantly-laughing Frank Bruno
TheLupineOne | 02.12.19 - 3:48 p.m. | #
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Music and Movement in the junior school hall, with instructions from a posh BBC lady on the radio: “....and sit down.....and rest.”
Keith | 02.12.19 - 4:01 p.m. | #
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Prestel
ChrisMilton | 02.12.19 - 5:09 p.m. | #
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I remember swapping the price labels on Speccy games at WH Smith so I'd get an expensive one at the price of a budget game ...
Socko | 02.12.19 - 5:10 p.m. | #
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Hot Bovril at the swimming baths
Michael Kearney | 02.12.19 - 5:54 p.m. | #
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Monday's Newcomers during school holidays. This was a broadcast (which did not appear in the schedules) of all the new adverts that would be shown that week, from the longest ones to the short 15 second ones.
It seemed exciting because it was sort of 'behind the scenes' and out of context, and the adverts were new.
OverTheHills | 02.12.19 - 6:08 p.m. | #
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Regarding paraffin ...my step-dad having to rescue the alcoholic in the flat below us after he knocked over his heater and managed to melt his nylon trousers to his skin. Not pleasant.
Jona26 | 02.12.19 - 6:36 p.m. | #
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I remember when Facebook was only students...
Al__S | 02.12.19 - 7:08 p.m. | #
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How about buying a Ladybird book for 2/6?
When a half-crown was real money. A weeks pocket money for some. And 10 bob was a fortune.
jmc | 02.12.19 - 8:22 p.m. | #
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You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week-in week-out, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt.
'Michael Palin' | 02.12.19 - 8:30 p.m. | #
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Loose tea leaves purchased in packets to fill a wall-mounted tea caddy, into a teapot and once brewed thence to a cup, via a strainer.
Frank F | 02.12.19 - 9:10 p.m. | #
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Regular sex, occasional sex, sex!
Busfan | 02.12.19 - 9:22 p.m. | #
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Being able to spot that a comment was from PC before getting to the end. RIP Paul.
Ralph Ayres | 02.12.19 - 9:49 p.m. | #
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Wow, 78 comments( as of 2200). Worth having a post analysing the comments!
Wonderfully written piece, and brought back all kinds of memories.
MO | 02.12.19 - 10:01 p.m. | #
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Real winters and burst water pipes when the thaw set in.
Alan S | 02.12.19 - 10:04 p.m. | #
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..and Radio Luxembourg
Bob L-S | 02.12.19 - 10:07 p.m. | #
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Ah, Radio Luxembourg - Jimmy Savile's Decca show - the Teen and Twenty Disc Club - Elvis was member number 11321. All before paedophilia and who was that bloke on RL who advertised something to do with football pools at Keynshan, spelt K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-N, it's come to me, Horace Batchelor! Happy and innocent days.
J. | 02.12.19 - 10:41 p.m. | #
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Jimmy Savile's child abuse offences spanned 1955 to 2009, including his period at Radio Luxembourg. Hardly 'happy and innocent days'.
(also, K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M ends in M)
Keith | 03.12.19 - 8:06 a.m. | #
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ooooh, the old parents had a wall-mounted tea caddy fixed to the side of the kitchen cabinet - the type that are now considered 'chic' and desirably retro! The tea dispenser was oddly like a pub alcohol shot dispenser! Very efficient and hygienic to boot.
B | 03.12.19 - 10:04 a.m. | #
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Some of us still use loose tea and a wall-mounted tea caddy! It's called a 'Caddymatic'.
Tea drinker | 03.12.19 - 11:14 a.m. | #
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Being scared of the vortex in The Adventure Game.
E1W-er | 03.12.19 - 2:37 p.m. | #
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(not in the UK) Choosing toys from the Sears Roebuck catalogue, having my mother phone up to place and order, getting an automated phone call a few days later to say product had arrived for collection, and being driven to the nearest collection point to pick up. "Phone & Collect" many years before "Click & Collect".
MilesT | 04.12.19 - 2:15 p.m. | #
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Smoke on the top-deck of a RouteMaster ...yuk!
OnTheBus | 05.12.19 - 10:11 a.m. | #
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Renting, instead of owning, a colour TV from Radio Rentals
Chris | 09.12.19 - 6:11 p.m. | #
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Very suitable post considering I turned 40 today. The “hole in the road” in Sheffield.
Rick | 12.12.19 - 5:19 p.m. | #
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