General Chat

Jokes from school.
There was a time when you collected gifts with things,washing powder would give you a plastic flower with each packet, so.........


What do you get from Surprise Peas?

Yes,you guessed it,wet legs.

What has four bums and is blue?
Bum,bum,bum,bum Esso Blue.(The tune in the advertisement.)

Sharron,

In my button box is a key ring "Blee Dooler" - the little man from the Esso Blue advert. His head was like a flame with sticking up hair. That keyring must be about 45 or 50 years old!

Elisabeth

Hi all,
Sharron, I knew that joke re. surprise peas, and was wondering if i should say it.!!!
Thanks to you ........ ha ha ha :.>)

Julia, yes the Vesta curry was also a treat (beef) especially. I could not even look at it now.!

I remember Surprise Peas, and Vesta curries ........... regular parts of meals at uni and in digs!

Well we have travelled a long way from the Germolene query, but it is a fascinating thread.

My Mother gave me a whiff of sal volatile or a sip of brandy each month! She carried a tiny aspirin bottle of brandy in her handbag, and I still have it!!

Zubes, Zubes are good for your Tubes.

Vesta paella was briill, could eat one right now. Probably overladen with salt.

Oh Yeah, Duraglit.

Fennings Little Healers. For the lungs?

Pinot Grigio - oops, sorry, wrong generation.

Wasn't THE wine of the 70's Mateus Rose???

Linda :o) XxX

OR, was Blue Nun the 70's favourite. Certainly in the restaurants that I worked in.
Julia in Derbyshire

hi everyone
i also remember the esso blue advert
does anyone remember the crisps with the salt packet in
i think they may have bought them back
when i was a kid mum used to take me to baldwins a herbalist shop in walworth road london still there now to get sarsperella from there pumps great stuff
dorothy teresa

Anyone remember Drene shampoo, or Stayblonde? Mum always rinsed my white hair with vinegar and water to keep the shine.

Gordon Moore's toothpaste that made your gums pinker.

Rita

we have a pumice stone!


OH had a vey painful hard skin area form on top of a toe last year ..... could possibly have been a wart, doctor wasn't sure


recommendation ........ buy a pumice stone and use it every time you have a bath!

i still use soda around the house
and my gran allways used sunlight soap smelt like carbolic
dorothy teresa

Jean
I remember Drene, - the shampoo of the stars, wasn't it? and then the curls and waves were fixed with Amami setting lotion.
Mum had some viscious-looking spring clips with crocodile-like teeth for putting in waves and metal Dinkey curlers for rolling up the hair.

In the same era were the tins of solid pink Gibbs toothpaste, which we scrubbed our toothbrush on.

Gwyn

Gwyn in Kent, I was going to mention those.
Amarmi gave way to the expression of Friday night being 'Amarmi night' Also 'not going out, I'm washing me hair tonight ' when asked by someone you did want to go out with.
Who remembers Izal toilet roll. It was like greaseproof paper.
And, in more recent years, Napisan, and the nappy bucket, with a lid.
Julia in Derbyshire

My grandmother had a kitchen range which we used to black lead together every Friday morning. I can still smaell that black lead.

From the International delivery man she once bought a box of Energen rolls.I have not had one of those since the sixties but I do remember that they were kind of light and crunchy and delicious.

Tried to get a tube of Germolene is T.....'s this morning. They only had the cream, which was disappointing. Didn't have time to go to a chemist.

We have a fireplace which has to be black leaded - my OH kindly does it for me!

Izal toilet paper was dreadful, but my auntie with an earth closet used small squares of newspaper, and a friend's mother used the tissue-type paper which bread was wrapped in.

my mum used to scrub her red steps with a red polish, cant remember what is was called
dorothy teresa

Cardinal red I think Dorothy. (My Mum was Dorothy too)

Our council house which was newly built in 1949/50 so I would have been about 2 when we moved in, had concrete floors overpainted with something that Mum would polish with Cardinal Red floor polish, and then we had rag rugs down till they could afford carpeting. The red polish would come off on our things if she didn't rub it all off to a shine. The front doorstep was the same finish but I don't know if it got polished as much.

Lizx

The red polish was called Cardinal. it used to tread everywhere if you trod on it before it was dry! There was a corridor in an army hospital where I was stationed, and it was polished with red cardinal. As the nursing staff also did the cleaning, I well remember swinging a bumper to shine it up, good for the waistline1 For those who dont know, a bumper was a heavy block used with a cloth to shine up, it was on a broom handle length handle and had a hinge at the business end so that you could swing it back and forth.