The Oldies Thread

[peteblue]

That's the difference between our childhood and today . Like you last bit states we WERE always doing something outside . Tea was usually made when we got home from school , then straight out for football ( or whatever ) till it went too dark . The only exercise the kids get today is when they get off their fat arses to get some more crisps as they play Call of Duty

It never went too dark, there was always a lamppost to play football under.....

 

[peteblue]

A six of chips for many years - 2 & 1/2p doubled when we went metric over night to 5 p - one shilling!

And beer went from about 1s6d to about 12p(about 2s41/2d for the kids reading this), absolute scandal, bleeding Europeans.......

 

[larbert toffee]

Is that a niche service offered in Amsterdam ?

I think that's a hairy cob pie you're thinking of, so my mate says.

 

[Joey66]

And beer went from about 1s6d to about 12p(about 2s41/2d for the kids reading this), absolute scandal, bleeding Europeans.......

That's the Pound in your pocket halved under Harold Wilson lol

 

[Brisan123]

It never went too dark, there was always a lamppost to play football under.....

I remember in the summer we would play from 10 in the morning till 10 at night and then it was next goal the winner.
Never had an overweight friend or any of the girls we knocked about with were overweight either
You were afraid to go in for food in case you were kept in and not allowed out.
We drank mi wadi and ate sugar sandwiches
Collected lemonade bottles to get the refunds
Robbed orchards and collected blackberries ( they are 3 Euro for a handful in the shops now )
You had fights with purely your arms and legs and the crowd stopped it when they decided the winner , no weapons allowed.
4 TV stations 1 telly and you watched what your parents watched.
Begged your dad to watch TOTP on a Thursday
Put a small tape recorder beside the radio to tape the top 20 on a Sunday at 6
We all had part time and summer jobs at 13/14 and handed up most of the money
Fighting with your siblings for the cream of the milk for your cornflakes in the morning
My kids ( 34/32/29) used to be shocked at some of our stories.
I spent the first 7 yrs living in one room with my parents and 2 younger siblings in an old tenament house with a sink with a cold water tap and an outside toilet
The inset was taken out of the top loading washing machine and we were bathed every night in that.
Started drinking at 16 in 1976 and it was 30pence for a pint of lager
I could go on and on

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

And beer went from about 1s6d to about 12p(about 2s41/2d for the kids reading this), absolute scandal, bleeding Europeans.......

What have Europeans got to do with decimalisation? Your memory's gone Pops

 

[Woolly Blue]

Vesta chow mein was ace

'kin ell mate ... not even in jest !

What have Europeans got to do with decimalisation? Your memory's gone Pops

Are you old enough to post in here mate ?

 

[summerisle]

'kin ell mate ... not even in jest !



Are you old enough to post in here mate ?

We should get a GOT pension.

 

[Woolly Blue]

My old nan was from Scottie Road and she always but always had a pan of something on the go usually rabbit stew, scouse, ham shank soup,her only nod to anything exotic was spag bol and the only 2 things I remember her making out of a packet was Vesta meals or Angel Delight.Luvverly.......Great memories, my old Grandad used to love tripe and cabbage and the occasional pan of pigs trotters, my kids won't even eat prawns imagine if I attempted to introduce that lot to them.

Rabbit stew's ace.

I guy at my local shoots the randy buggers on a regular basis, so rabbit stew, or rabbit casserole as I like to call it to appear posh, is cooked in Woolly Towers on a regular basis

We should get a GOT pension.

Ex-mods draw a pension mate.
This mainly involves pencil and paper though

 

[summerisle]

Rabbit stew's ace.

I guy at my local shoots the randy buggers on a regular basis, so rabbit stew, or rabbit casserole as I like to call it to appear posh, is cooked in Woolly Towers on a regular basis



Ex-mods draw a pension mate.
This mainly involves pencil and paper though

Index linked to the club's position in the league ? Get that plane hired.

 

[Brisan123]

My old nan was from Scottie Road and she always but always had a pan of something on the go usually rabbit stew, scouse, ham shank soup,her only nod to anything exotic was spag bol and the only 2 things I remember her making out of a packet was Vesta meals or Angel Delight.Luvverly.......Great memories, my old Grandad used to love tripe and cabbage and the occasional pan of pigs trotters, my kids won't even eat prawns imagine if I attempted to introduce that lot to them.

My mams family were all butchers
Tripe and onions
Beef hearts , ox tongue sweetbreads , beef liver , oxtail soup ( made from real oxtail
Pigs cheek , pigs trotters ( crubeens) we called them
Nothing like a hairy bacon sandwich after a few pints

 

[summerisle]

My mams family were all butchers
Tripe and onions
Beef hearts , ox tongue sweetbreads , beef liver , oxtail soup ( made from real oxtail
Pigs cheek , pigs trotters ( crubeens) we called them
Nothing like a hairy bacon sandwich after a few pints

Homemade oxtail soup is lovely. No miniscule bits of meat, clumps I put in.

 

[Brisan123]

That’s the right way to do it
My man used to buy a broiling chicken
Old and tough
She would boil it for hours till all the meat fell off the carcass , cooked with onions carrots and spuds

 

[chrissyjack]

It never went too dark, there was always a lamppost to play football under.....

We used to play on a school field . Away from the school buildings . Coppers just let us play . Us lads from one end of the field against lads from the other end . We ALWAYS won . Good matches , first to score 10 with HT when one team had 5. Or first to score 20 . All taking a turn in goal , coming back out after conceding one . I once went in goal with us losing 12-4 , or something . They finally scored past me , and I came back out with us leading 16-13 . Good solid goalkeeping performance , if I say so myself

 

[summerisle]

That’s the right way to do it
My man used to buy a broiling chicken
Old and tough
She would boil it for hours till all the meat fell off the carcass , cooked with onions carrots and spuds

Still get them from Birkenhead market. Get a few different meal from it.