Good Old Days

In response to:Hands up if you had....

2009-11-06T21:12:25+01:00

Looks like it was BS

scul·ler·y (skl-r)
n. pl. scul·ler·ies
A small room adjoining a kitchen, in which dishwashing and other kitchen chores are done.

Middle English, from Old French escuelerie, from escuelier, keeper of dishes, from escuele, dish.

In response to:Whatever happened to Ladybird Books?

2009-11-02T00:54:42+01:00

That's a good question - I'd forgotten about them till you mentioned it! Mind you I'm not in the habit of perusing the shelves in the childrens section of bookshops and libraries, so I don't know if they're still around or not

In response to:Whatever happened to Ladybird Books?

2009-11-01T21:38:19+01:00

he has a way with words doesnt he hehe

In response to:Whatever happened to Ladybird Books?

2009-11-01T12:17:16+01:00

i have a few, somewhere I have 'The Old Lady and Her Pig' but mine are only the storybook ones. I might have to look online for some more. thank you for the reminder!

In response to:Hands up if you had....

2009-10-27T12:08:35+01:00

I had to remove it from the bathroom wall in the first flat I bought. Used some stuff that was like highly corrosive snot. Scraped the stuff off and it fell in the bath, it was late at night so I went to bed. Next morning the stuff in the bath had set like concrete and stuck, so I had to remove it again. I hasten to add that I have had interesting things happen as well.

In response to:Dinner party cheese

2009-10-27T11:35:06+01:00

I remember the adverts, didn't James Robertson Justice do the voice over for them?

In response to:Have you ever had/used?

2009-10-21T19:06:12+02:00

Hello
Please advise where you can buy Victory V lozenges..packages or bulk...have been trying for months to find someone in Canada(I found WESTONS.com in England will ship but expensive.
Thanks in advance
Ron
Prince George, B.C.

In response to:Fanites, Vanites, Veynites Veinites

2009-10-17T15:40:38+02:00

Yes!! When I was a kid we always used to say Vanites if things got a bit out of hand between pals, and we used to follow it up by linking each others little fingers and "shaking" on it

In response to:Fanites, Vanites, Veynites Veinites

2009-10-17T14:16:17+02:00

I can remember "injected" - I suppose it was something about being immunised, immune from playing for a few minutes.

In Birmingham we used to say "arley", which was short for "arley barley". A quick google search tells me that it too comes from French - "allez parler", or go and talk it over. So there you go.

In the village in Wales where my grandparents lived the kids said "clicking clogs", which we found as funny as they found "arley barley".

In response to:Dinner party cheese

2009-10-11T22:42:07+02:00

Very very vaguely :yes: Must have not made much of an impression on me :no:

In response to:Dinner party cheese

2009-10-11T10:58:38+02:00

You can still get it - it is still being made:

http://www.kraftfoodscompany.com/Brands/largest-brands/brands-C/cracker-barrel.aspx

In response to:Dinner party cheese

2009-10-11T10:45:12+02:00

tis ringing a bell.
late 60's very early 70's.
tho i cant ever remember eating them.

love+light to you+yours

In response to:Top TV Theme

2009-10-10T23:17:23+02:00

♪CHAMPION, THE WONDERHORSE!!♪

In response to:Was comedy funnier in the 70's

2009-10-10T22:38:08+02:00

Stand up comedians were generally funnier I'd say.
Comedy series are funnier now - such as The IT Crowd and Father Ted - well anything by David Linehan really.

In response to:Top TV Theme

2009-10-10T22:35:55+02:00

Is the Flashing Blades the 'You've got to fight for what you want' song?

In response to:Dinner party cheese

2009-10-10T22:33:44+02:00

Yes I remember it. But I remember the package with more black than gold on it. My parents used to buy it but not for dinner parties, and I think I remember it came in individual portions for catering 'solutions' - so you could end up with a little plastic packet of Cracker Barrel cheese with your cream crackers in the Berni Inns after your prawn cocktail, steak peas and chips and bottle of red wine.

In response to:Dinner party cheese

2009-10-10T20:32:29+02:00

No I cannot, sorry!

In response to:Dinner party cheese

2009-10-10T19:13:47+02:00

Not sure..........thinking about it.

In response to:Top TV Theme

2009-10-10T08:18:19+02:00

Casey Jones steaming and a rolling......

In response to:Top TV Theme

2009-10-09T23:15:21+02:00

Seems to be 50% The White Horses and 50% Casey Jones at the moment - does that mean that only two people have voted so far....myself and A.N. Other?

In response to:Was comedy funnier in the 70's

2009-09-02T16:31:36+02:00

I cast my vote for the contemporaries...

Give me Bill Bailey, Mitchell & Webb, Lucy Porter, Sarah Silverman, Jack Dee, Andy Hamilton, Armstrong & Miller etc etc any day

( notable exception - Bob Monkhouse....)

(notable 1980's - 1990's exception - Bill Hicks )

In response to:Was comedy funnier in the 70's

2009-09-02T00:04:09+02:00

I really enjoyed watching that.
There were certainly some jolly good comedians around then, and Jasper Carrot is one of my all time favourites

In response to:Was comedy funnier in the 70's

2009-09-01T12:22:47+02:00

Simple...YES! :) GBHs...XXX

In response to:Retro sweets

2009-08-16T17:15:26+02:00

Have you looked at www.britishcandy.com ? I got my brothers birthday present from there.

In response to:Playing my tune

2009-07-27T23:06:24+02:00

Only got to play a triangle a couple of times in infants - after that nothing! I feel deprived now after reading everyone else's experiences :))

In response to:Playing my tune

2009-07-26T22:09:08+02:00

I played the recorder, then mum made me try piano lessons with a family friend, followed by the violin.

My musical finale was in the first year of senior school - I played the Bassoon for a month or two. I bit through about 5 reeds and they were expensive to replace, the Bassoon was sooo heavy and cumbersome on the school bus and I really wasn't any good either!

In response to:Playing my tune

2009-07-26T21:59:27+02:00

We were all given the recorder at school as well but I also got to learn the tenor recorder, but awkward cause my hands are quite small.

I gave the clarinet a go but didn't have the puff for it and I taught myself the flute when I got to high school but I started going to piano lessons in primary school so I didn't get pushed to learn any other instruments.

In response to:Playing my tune

2009-07-26T21:58:40+02:00

I learned the violin. My experiences added to that of having to listen to my husband who decided at one point he wanted to learn to play the violin led to me writing this short poem.

What the music teacher really thinks.

The devil makes work for idle hands – thus the violin was born

from whose tortured throat, screaming notes are torn.

The world is full of wickedness debauchery and sin

And as a fitting punishment – we have the violin.

In response to:Bring back the donkey

2009-06-27T13:09:53+02:00

Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin have said they would do the scripts again but it's a matter of getting the acting talent together. Haven't managed it yet!