The Oldies Thread

[Littlesue]

What the internet is for, all the sweets Quality Street has produced.

• Purple One (the original 'Purple One' with Brazil nut, replaced with hazelnut version)
• Chocolate Strawberry Cream (now replaced with Strawberry Delight)
• Chocolate Toffee Cup (now replaced with Caramel Swirl)
• Hazelnut Cracknell (red wrapper)
• Hazelnut Eclair
• Honeycomb crunch (discontinued in 2018 to re-introduce Toffee Deluxe)
• Chocolate Nut Toffee Cream
• Malt Toffee (replaced with Toffee Deluxe as a "new" flavour)
• Milk Chocolate Round (now replaced with Milk Choc Block in green wrapper)
• Peanut Cracknell (blue wrapper)
• Almond Octagon (purple wrapper, replaced with Vanilla Octagon, but the latter is now discontinued as well)
• Gooseberry Cream (green wrapper, light green fondant with a touch of Gooseberry Preserve covered in milk chocolate)
• Fig Fancy (light brown wrapper)
• Apricot Delight (blue wrapper, square chunk, apricot flavoured jelly covered in milk chocolate)
• Toffee Square (metallic pink wrapper, a small square of very hard toffee)
• Chocolate Truffle (brown square chunk, a soft truffle filling covered in milk chocolate)
• Montelimar Nougat
• Harrogate Toffee
• Fruits of the Forest Creme (pale purple wrapper)
• Smarties (ordinary cardboard box of Smarties, a 2004 promotion only)
• Coffee Cream (brown wrapper, same size and shape as the strawberry cream)
• Mint Fondant (pale green wrapper, same as strawberry crème but with a mint crème filling)
• Toffee Deluxe (replaced by Honeycomb Crunch, reintroduced and then replaced by Chocolate Caramel Brownie)
• Crispy Truffle Bite (John Lewis stores only, black and gold recyclable foil)

And discontinued Roses' goodies :

• Brazilian Darkness (a chewy toffee square coated in dark chocolate, red wrapper with gold edges)
• Praline Moment (silver wrapper)
• Chunky Truffle (blue wrapper)
• Bournville (moved the brand to Heroes)
• Almond Charm (blue wrapper)
• Coffee Creme
• Montelimar (chewy nougat encased in milk chocolate, green foil-twist wrapper)
• Marzipan (red foil-twist wrapper)
• Turkish Delight (dark purple wrapper)
• Nutty Truffle Log (emerald green foil-twist wrapper)
• Orange Crisp (orange wrapper)
• Chocolate Bite (pink wrapper)
• Noisette Whirl (green and transparent wrapper)
• Lime Barrel (green wrapper)
• Black Cherry Cream (pink/purple wrapper)
• Caramel Velvet (green wrapper)
• Almond Caramel Bite (light brown

Orange crisp please

 

[gonetomorrow]

…..of course it was.

Bit of scandal, was checking to see if Val Singleton is still alive and was pleased to discover she is but also she revealed once having a ‘one night stand’ with Peter Purvis. Things you do for a Blue Peter badge.

I don't believe it. Rumour used to be she was living with Joan Armatrading. Love and Affection.

 

[Littlesue]

I don't believe it. Rumour used to be she was living with Joan Armatrading. Love and Affection.

Well both could be true. The Peter Purves "romance was back in the 60's. Joan was 80's onwards

 

[gonetomorrow]

Well both could be true. The Peter Purves "romance was back in the 60's. Joan was 80's onwards

I'm impressed. You obviously know what you're talking about.

 

[summerisle]

I don't believe it. Rumour used to be she was living with Joan Armatrading. Love and Affection.

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For his part Purves had a whale of a time, particularly off camera, getting smashed on duty free Jack Daniels with Noakes while filming in Morocco (“I was convinced the next day I was going to be fired”), knocking back homemade hooch in Norway and perusing sex shops in Copenhagen with the camera man. Oh, and flirting with Valerie Singleton, with whom he had a brief fling. Singleton revealed the affair in 2008, saying she liked “the pirate type. And men who give me what I call BSE – a big sexual experience.’”

‘To be honest I don’t know where TV’s place in society is anymore,’ says Purves, pictured on Blue Peter with Buttons the dog in 1975 Credit: BBC
Purves beams a bit at this, like a Cheshire cat. “To be fair it was only one night,” he says. “And there was never any sexual tension on screen. We’ve remained great friends. Although we also used to fall out all the time. Val was/is extremely high maintenance. She always expected people to do things for her. She’d be sitting in the studio writing letters and call an assistant to ‘get me an envelope’. Occasionally she would get under my skin. We were in Mexico once and we weren’t speaking. We only spoke to each other through John, I can’t remember why.”

 

[Littlesue]

I'm intrigued, whats "the pirate type" ??l

 

[RufusCat]

I don't believe it. Rumour used to be she was living with Joan Armatrading. Love and Affection.

She clarified that, it was a member of Joan Armatradings band (male). She got most uptight about this rumour apparently.

 

[Eggs]

…..there’s a story in our family of me painting the coal in our back yard when I was 3. I’d be quite sure it’s accurate;

 

[Joey66]

…..there’s a story in our family of me painting the coal in our back yard when I was 3. I’d be quite sure it’s accurate;

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Looks like steam coal that - good stuff - Ed Miliband would love that on his multi fuel burner .....

 

[paultheblue]

I know this might be the wrong thread but i have just finished watching series 1 of Kokak.
It was a brilliant show in its day but i would recommend a rewatch Telly Salvalas was made for the part.

 

[summerisle]

I know this might be the wrong thread but i have just finished watching series 1 of Kokak.
It was a brilliant show in its day but i would recommend a rewatch Telly Salvalas was made for the part.

I'd love to see a rer-run of Kung Fu. David Carradine was fantastic, seems to have disappeared into the ether, never to be seen again.

 

[Eggs]

 

[Cels]

I'd love to see a rer-run of Kung Fu. David Carradine was fantastic, seems to have disappeared into the ether, never to be seen again.

Have to admit, Kung Fu is not how I remember it...

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