General Chat

Well, thank goodness for that, we can now all get on with talking to each other in our ill-mannered, uncaring way without being taken to task by someone whose opinions we neither asked for nor wished to hear! I don't think any of us are even remotely interested in any of the messages you have received, supportive or otherwise. My advice to you is to clear off and leave us ALONE and take yourself and you extremely BAD manners elsewhere, if indeed anywhere else will put up with you or them.

Some old posts you may like to read through again.


25th April 2008 13:28
Spangles - loved the mustardy yellow ones!

Parma Violet sweets

Jamboree bags

Seeing policemen walking the beat (and feeling guilty!)

25th April 2008 13:30
Clackers, spacehoppers and chopper bikes

25th April 2008 13:37
the first time I rode a two wheel bike,
pulling legs off grasshoppers then tell to jump,
riding billy cart through large bullant nest,
big red fire truck for xmas,
my first girlfreind at age 7.

25th April 2008 13:40
I too loved the yellow mustard coloured spangles. Buying a bag of crips for 10p and it was a larger bag than now - or my hands were smaller :)

Old pound notes ! it was paper not coin you felt rich some how!


25th April 2008 13:40
OMG Virol,
When I saw that name just my stomach went quite peculiar.
Yuk.Mil Par.I was obviously a constipated child and had many a spoonful of that.Gripe Water was a favourite of mine.I used to climb up to the bathroom cabinet for a quick swig!!Think that's where my liking for alchohol came from.
Yes Pan Yan Pickle.
Oh you have got me started,I'm going to have to have a good think about this.I do remember with my thruppence pocket money I bought barleysugar sticks with chocolate down through the middle.I always look if I come across an oldstyle sweet shop but have never found them.
Junket if I was ill again Yuk,but my sister loved it.
This is fun I will try and make list of things
Helen



25th April 2008 13:41
Doc...age 7!!!...blimey you started young lol x

DD....I had some clackers lmao....bruised wrists as well!!!



25th April 2008 14:00
Jill in East Kent Thats one I had forgotton. Yes Spangles. But you must be talking about the OLD ENGLISH ones that came in black paper with the mustardy yellow one in.

As to Parma violets you can still get those today and yes I do still buy them. My mum 84 likes them too.

Jamborie Bags yes 3d each always with a little toy in it with the sweets. We used to have a good feel of the bags to see wich we thought would be the best.



25th April 2008 14:07
Devon Dweller

My son had those things.



25th April 2008 14:15
Aahh Doc you an old softy!!! \My first boyfriend was Phil Bull and I was 9. Did'nt have my own two wheeler byke but learnt to ride one at my cousins. I can remember haveing my first three wheeler byke . It was red with huge mud guards that covered most of the back wheels. these had a silver wing pattern on them.

My first walkie talkie doll one Christmas sticking out of my stocking at the top. Called her peggy.

My dad made me a trolly when I was about 11 or 12. we lived on quite a nice soft hill then and we used to ride our carts down the road. Not that much traffic then!!

In fact when I walked to school with my friend Terry he would always bring two racing cars with him and we would play races, once again in the road all the way to school.



25th April 2008 14:15
I GOT MY GRANDCHILDREN CLACKERS ONLY A FEW MONTHS AGO.
WE HAD A VAN IT WAS BLUE THAT CAME AROUND OUR STREETS WE USE TO GET ARE SWEETS AND LEMO OF IT WITH ARE POCKET MONEY. THEN THE WAS THE FRUIT VAN CAME OF A NIGHT WE GOTG OUR POMEGRANETS OFF HIM. IT WAS 7PM AND 9PM THE BLUE VAN WOULD COME EVERY NIGHT THIS WAS IN LIVERPOOL 25



25th April 2008 14:18
Sarah I think the mustardy Spangle was the only one I liked in those packets. Did'nt eat many sweets when I was young.

But your 10p packet of crisp..............We could have had 3 packets of Smith's and an arrowroot biscuit for that amount!!!!



25th April 2008 14:28
Helen you are really lovely!! I did'nt like Virol much I preferred the other one.

I gave my son Mil Par because he was bound up a lot as a baby.

My mum asked me for some of that the other day.

I too would buy that twisted stick with the choc centre................................now what was it called. It was more like the sweets you get today called Choc Eclairs.

My grandfather Beech would always have a white paper bag of sweets in his pocket and they were pink fondant with a hazel nut on top called something about madelanes...............His wife, my gran always had a pocket in her apron with White mint toffees in it.



25th April 2008 14:33
T O B

The clackers
They were vicious things were'nt they!!

Son had those too.



25th April 2008 14:35
blimey
I had a chopper (bike) big an orange it had a cb radio
taped between them big ool handle bars and a car
battery on the back rack
peddled for miles on that old bike
I think its still in my mothers garage in london
had a nasty accident on it as well biy did that make
my eyes water cryed for days.


25th April 2008 14:43
Legs of Liverpool.

WE had a green grocser van that came round once a week on a Friday I think, and the man that ran it was called Len. He used to let me go up the road in the van and help him wiegh out his orders. He sometimes gave me a carrot to eat. Skin and all!! Lovely.

We also had the Bread cart come when I was young and the man would come to the door with a HUGE basket on his arm filled with breads of all sorts and cakes and biscuits.

Then there was the milkcart with Jo the milkman at the reigns of a lovely bay horse. When he came I would go out with a carrot or apple for the horse and then Jo would give him his nosebag which always hung under the milk cart at the back.

The rag and bone man came round the streets too. He would sometimes give us a 1/- or a goldfish for giving him rags and things.

Nearly every year the gipsey's would call selling lace doilies and pegs and flowers made out of wood like big Chrysanths. In the spring it would be little baskets made from ash twgs with a primrose planted in it. They were my favorite.



25th April 2008 14:46
Surf

eaten all that cake you baked yesterday yet??



25th April 2008 14:49
no not yet it came out nice and fluffy
hi mel
just reading the above post then

we had every sunday lunch time about 2.00pm every week a man with a barrow come around street it was the winkle and cocckle man
how I loved them jellied ells yem yum
tried to get them down here but there not the same.
how I miss the good old days



25th April 2008 14:55
collecting up all the R Whites bottles to get the money back lol



25th April 2008 14:58
ddweller
when I was young had a good scam with them
use to get them from around back of shop
take in front for the 10p refund
shhhhh



25th April 2008 15:03
lol Yes so did we ! the lady at the off licence was about 100 years old so she never noticed lol



25th April 2008 15:03
snap lol

we also spent the 40p refund in the shop

on sweets so shop keeper never really lost out



25th April 2008 15:09
Surf
We used to have a man come round on a byke with strings of onions handing on the handbars. My mum would buy a string.

My nan and grandad Beech would aways had kippers for tea on a Saturday and their children had winkles and bread and butter. I never liked shellfish of any kind except at Southend when down there with my mum and uncle Les onday mum gave me some of her cockles from a small white dish. These I liked because they were covered in vinigar.

25th April 2008 15:12
Lyn and I used to do that with the Redhouse pub. Go round the back and take the bottles out of the return crates back to the front offy and get the money back that way.


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25th April 2008 15:30
Hi, all jellied eels ugh ! Surf


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25th April 2008 15:37
hi ho
wild cat
just thinking about you

wondering when you would pop up



25th April 2008 15:43
Hi,Surf sorry been busy I had chopper bike & remember Haliborange tabs



25th April 2008 15:48
I remember Boots Chemist sold Calf's Foot Jelly, (it tasted of Lemons), Orange in Bottles from the welfare they looked like medicine bottles. I remember Tar Blocks that the road was made from, and having Jacko Skates.
I remember eating Bread and Sugar, 3d bags of Chips. Broken Biscuits and stale cakes from Guilfords Bakers. Pie and Mash and Jellied or Stewed Eels. Going to Tubby Isaacs!
Mum making spotted dick or Jam Roly Poly, lovely school dinners.
Also remember a man coming round selling muffins and the man with newspapers who shouted Star,News or Standard. The rag and Bone man would give you a goldfish in a plastic bag.


Having a pork chop with kidney in or a stuffed heart.


25th April 2008 15:54
Surfmonkey , glad you clarified description of your chopper.
WildCat I had Haliborange tabs everyday I think during the winter months.
What with VIROL yuk yuk yuk,MIL PAR and Haliborange I sure was a healthy little girl.
Dad made me a garage with car park on top and petrol pumps and everything.It was my favourite for ages

I had a best friend called Jesusand we used to have tea parties together.!(my imaginary friend)



25th April 2008 16:16
Belair

I never tasted Calfs foot jelly but remember seeing it in the chemist shop.

I too had Jacko skates and many a bloody knee trying to master them. We used to have a caravan at St Osyths near Clacton and would go down each weekend. on Saturday night it was a walk to Jawick to go on the last session of the roller skating rink which was outdoor and you got 1 and a half hours for the price of an hour. My dad taught me to skate there and I was about 9.

Never liked pudding when young but mum or nan would always make a roly poly or spotted dick or suet pudding in a basin with loads of jam in the bottom which ran down the sides when the pud was turnes out.

I loved the welfare orange juice. The bottles had blue screw tops. Mum used to get those and Col Liver Oil. I never had this but our alsatian had a lovely shinny coat!!

Pork chops with kidneys in only seemed to disappear a few years ago here in Devon. I suppose if I looked in the butchers shop I would still find them.



25th April 2008 16:18
Wild Cat

Think you can still get Haliborange tabs!!




25th April 2008 16:20
Virol yukky!!!! Fishing for sticklebacks and tadpoles in the sewer stream NICE!!!



25th April 2008 16:23
Helen

I was an only child and had a friend called pong who I used to take for walks. Obviously a dog. The next Christmas Skippy arrived from father Christmas. He was a little plastic dog jointed in front and back legs with red collar and lead. When you lifted his head by the collar his legs moved so he walked along. Still kept Pong though too.



25th April 2008 16:25
Hi La

Fishing for stickle back and tiddlers and carring a jam jar with string on the top to carry them around.

Tadpoleing too. Bringing them home to take to school for the nature table and feeding them on pieces of roar meat tied on string.



25th April 2008 16:27
Pegs

I had Bunty from the 1st issue. I think it had a ladybird pin in it on the first one.



25th April 2008 16:31
Hi Mel
3d for the pictures house on a saturday morning
1d bag of tiger nuts
noise in cinema deafening
toast done in front of the fire on a long fork
lashings of butter Bliss
Tea on sundays; tin fruit with ideal milk



25th April 2008 16:35
jenpen relive your past
they still sell ideal milk at tesco`s
and tined fruit



25th April 2008 16:36
I know Surf
but without my mam to put it for me its not the same

Nice one Mel !!!!!!!!!!.
I am just going to have another read through them.

Just seeing the one about the pork chops with a kidney in.My Dad always had the one with the kidney.I haven't seen them for many years now.I wonder if you can still get them.

Yikes It is nearly mid-day and I am still in my nightie !!!!!.Off to get dressed.

Afternoon all,
Well what a to do !!!

Glad you liked the flowers Mel ,their just to let you know that we are all thinking about you xx

Lovely and sunny here now
Just going to read through the old posts after lunch .

BBL

Glad you liked the flowers Mel,can't wait to see them!!!! Does anyone remember 'Honeycombe Crunchy'? You could buy big slabs of honeycombe (like the inside of a crunchy bar) for 3d (!), and they were really yummy, very very bad for your teeth, also barleysugar twist, which you could suck into a point before it broke in your mouth, who could get the longest point before it broke won ??!!!! I can't remember, too long ago!!!! Can remember belonging to 'Dog Spotters', you had a badge and a sheet of paper with dog breeds on it, and you had to tick them off when you saw them, then send it in and get a prize!! I once saw a dog tied up outside a shop, and felt sorry for it and bought it home!!!! Luckily my mother made me take it back, and this poor person was looking up and down the road for their dog!!! Apologies all round! I didn't do that again!!!!

Piers I think a lot of your comments are justified and I being the one who took some abuse after I made a comment to Frank that I did not mean I do appreciate your comments

You are entitled to think what you like there are a couple of people on this web that ignore my messages and it does hurt. they know who they are and I was told to leave
but chose to stay because there are also some nice people.
However Piers it is just a thread and people can say what they like but I agree abusing people is not on but it does not happen very often and I think it is nice that Mell started the web we have shared lots of memories and had some good laughs also. Nobody is perfect .

However I do not agree with abuse you should not be told to sod off but you cannot expect with due respect to get good comments when your running this thread down . Its only a thread for goodness sake.

Since I lost my dear son in law suddenly I realised life is just too short to argue lets get on with being happy and forget this .

Some people are very friendly to each other some are not
I decided the threads not that important in my life its just there if I need it anyone who answers me thats fine I reply
But have a nice day Piers.

Oh was I too late to contribute to the flowers did get message the but did not get it until yesterday not everybody can get on aol .

Anyway it was my intention Mel my message is on the genes reply message system.

Also please stop going on about the book I was the first one to say I wanted that book and then Frank fell out with me and I did not get it how do you think I feel when you keep passing it on and saying so on air.

The probation officer knew where I was Frank because I was taken to the house where the children lived by the little boy and left a note on the door.They live about fours doors from us.

You can get audio cassettes on Amazon a few also Waterstones book shop Frank very expensive they vary I think my mine are seconds from my friend. Just tap in Gilda O Neills name. All her books seems to be there
even saw a Casette of Ebay my mate said.
I have my Eastend and The Good Old days. ABK books
very cheap Gilda o neill

i said I am dreading Christmas because will miss Matt it was to be a special one this year. April I am sure will cope
kids do but will miss her dad.
Have a nice day.
Oh by the way my brother had prostrate cancer and recovered did say but perhaps you all forgot there was little fuss made over it but hope the other gent is ok and I
hope its good news for Niggley.

Hello Piers,

I have read through all your comments and can also see where you are coming from. You will probably see that I've only been contributing a short while. However, I no longer feel able to do so for many of the reasons you outlined. Since leaving this thread, I have heard from only 2 of the group. Enough said.
You are entitled to your opinion, but if anyone is unhappy with the way things are - they should just walk away - as I did.

The computor is playing up now.
sorry deleted twice.
I wanted to apologise my name was added just found
Janes message was shocked when I saw Niggleys message saying the flowers were delivered already when I only managed to contact Jane yesterday.

SORRY JANE AND MEL DO APOLOGISE.

MESSAGE ABOUT GLIDA BOOKS PREVIOUS PAGED
REQUESTED BY FRANK.

CATIE you are very sweet and caring will miss your threads xxxxx

Well, it seems as if I have stirred up a hornet's nest, but that was never my intention. I haven't any further comment, but would like to thank Sheila and Catiel for their input.

Afternoon All,

Mel, I'm so glad you liked the surprise flowers!! Bet you wondered who it was knocking at your door. Look forward to 'seeing' them too.

What an afternoon !! really heavy showers at times
Yes i'am looking forward to seeing the flowers too Mel.

Off out to sisters for a while just untill she goes to work ,then we're having a Chinese takeaway.

Afternoon everyone.
Sheila don't worry about it.I just picked your message up this morning.
Well had a massive downpour a little earlier.It chucked it down,but now there seems to be a fair bit of blue up there.
My crumble looks good but I think I could have made more crumble topping.Did I say I was making apple and blackberry? Not sure I did .

Liz,I don't know that I remember slabs of honeycomb thingy.But I did love the Crunchy Bars even though it would always give me a dreadful toothache lol.I was a glutton for punishment.

What an ill wind has blown through the thread! Someone has trawled all through it to give us their opinion. So, the thread started with childhood memories , which are bound to peter out a bit as time goes on and has ended up being a group of friends who still want to chat. I find the same has happened with other lengthy threads too......nothing wrong with that.

All people are welcomed to the thread, but as with any established group, it is normal for it to take a little while to feel a true part of it isn't it? I also think people on here have been very supportive of others even though it is not a specific support thread like others on GR.

Some people are not on here every day and others are too busy to read all of the posts so it is not fair to criticise people for not responding to posts. I have put up many posts, as have others, that have had little or no response.........do I feel excluded? do I feel it is a 'slight' or a 'snub'?.....NO, NO and NO!

I just try to be thankful for the good things that come into my life and the friendship on this thread has been one of them. I try to have no expectations of anyone, either in life or on here. Just be disappointment as soon as they weren't lived up to if I did!!!

My final comment is that it isn't very caring people who start all this up again when Mel is going through this difficult time.

Save me some Crumble Jane ,is there Custard too?

Well said Ann !!

Oh Yes Mandy.Not home made though.I don't think I have ever made it!!!!!
Did I just admit that.I should be ashamed lol