Random things from childhood.

[Alan Whittle]

Blackjacks, 4 for a penny when farthings were still a thing.
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Down south it was 2 Fruit Salads & 2 Blackjacks.
We had a more sophisticated palate

 

[arch stanton]

Isn't it the calcium in the bones that turns it white? Dogs rarely chew bones from the butcher's nowadays its all designer dog treats for Tarquin and Tilly.

mine have white poo but they scran on local kids

 

[marnie]

The FA Cup Final being SPECIAL. An all day event starting on the Telly at 9 am .

 

[Joey66]

These took a while to make off a perfect tree branch & a old innertube of a bike & a lether shoe tounge from an old pair of shoes - powerful weapon -

 

[goldfinchmule]

These took a while to make off a perfect tree branch & a old innertube of a bike & a lether shoe tounge from an old pair of shoes - powerful weapon -

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Used to buy a yard of 1/4" catty elastic from that shop that sold absolutely everything.

 

[Joey66]

Used to buy a yard of 1/4" catty elastic from that shop that sold absolutely everything.

Posh hey - we improvised

 

[ClausThomsen]

Myself, my brother, and my two cousins finding a stack of Hustler magazines under my much older cousins bed, when we all stayed over at my aunt and uncle’s house on the weekend.

Then developing a ‘one lookout, while three checked out the magazines’ system, and when someone was coming, we’d all pretend we were playing ‘G.I. Joe’s’ in the hallway.

My dad had two heavy duty cloth kitbags that were full of army gear as he'd stayed on as a reservist after he left. They were about 4-5 foot tall and to the casual observer full of boots, uniform etc.

On closer inspection removing the boots and a box from the second one revealed that it was about 60% jazz mags crammed in so tight that it was difficult to force one back in should I take it out for....reasons.

Teenage me 'enjoyed' a very decent revolving collection of quality British smut from my newly discovered lending library. A huge step up from the lingerie section of the Kay's catalogue.

 

[coollino]

 

[JLW]

Programmes like fraggle rock, Minder, Tizwaz (Saturday morning) The love boat (Sunday afternoon), knightrider, Saint and Greavsie

 

[kev]

Programmes like fragile rock, Minder, Tizwaz (Saturday morning) The love boat (Sunday afternoon), knightrider, Saint and Greavsie

That one must have broke too early for me.

 

[JLW]

That one must have broke too early for me.

Thanks mate got my edit in just in time

 

[Kurt.]

Thundercats

 

[evertony]

The old 'put a dog turd in a bit of newspaper on someones front step, set it on fire, knock and hide over the road watching the home owner stamp it out in his slippers' prank. Always good fun.

 

[evertony]

Playing 'split the kipper' with a bowie knife the size of a meat cleaver whilts wearing pumps.

 

[msb]

Dodging the broken glass whilst playing footy in the school yard at collegiate, was always a good way to teach ball control and body swerving.

Jumping off the shed roof as a very youngster, it was a council house with an outhouse we used as a shed, flat roof, about 9 foot tall.

Street sports, footy all year, cricket and rounders in the summer.