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Post by Patrick on Nov 30, 2009 17:39:31 GMT
Thing is, Pat, that in the 60s (and 50s) people ate very fattening foods: bacon and eggs for breakfast (my mum almost had hysterics if I tried to get out of the house without eating a full english), sandwiches made with cheese and white bread for lunch (you could only really have salad in it in the summer) followed by a Kit-Kat or Penguin), steak and kidney pudding and Instant Whip for afters for dinner (or tea, whatever you want to call it). But we had to walk to school. I did lots of walking. My dad didn't have a car so I couldn't cadge a lift and didn't always have the money for a bus fare. So I walked. No wonder my mum was always having to get my shoes mended. I knew that!  We used to walk everywhere too! Until we got our first car - for free - a hand-me-down 18 year old Austin Somerset with rust holes in the bottom of the doors so big you could watch the road go by! |
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Post by everso on Nov 30, 2009 17:48:33 GMT
Thing is, Pat, that in the 60s (and 50s) people ate very fattening foods: bacon and eggs for breakfast (my mum almost had hysterics if I tried to get out of the house without eating a full english), sandwiches made with cheese and white bread for lunch (you could only really have salad in it in the summer) followed by a Kit-Kat or Penguin), steak and kidney pudding and Instant Whip for afters for dinner (or tea, whatever you want to call it). But we had to walk to school. I did lots of walking. My dad didn't have a car so I couldn't cadge a lift and didn't always have the money for a bus fare. So I walked. No wonder my mum was always having to get my shoes mended. I knew that! We used to walk everywhere too! Until we got our first car - for free - a hand-me-down 18 year old Austin Somerset with rust holes in the bottom of the doors so big you could watch the road go by!At the risk of boring the pants off Aubrey ;D, lots of cars used to have damn great holes in them before the MOT became the thing. Our Ford Anglia regularly had the chicken wire and plastic padding treatment on a Saturday afternoon, and I remember my mum telling me how she travelled all the way down to Devon in a car with a bloody great hole in the floor. She had to sit on a biscuit tin too (something about a seat missing, I think). Ah, the good old days! |
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Post by aubrey on Nov 30, 2009 21:08:41 GMT
I don't agree with that Look-back bores thing (it is what Mark Smith calls people who are interested in any line-up of the Fall other than the current one). And I like Vimto as well. Probably not Spangles though (maybe Old English Spangles).
Nostalgia's OK, as long as you know that that's what it is - I can quite like hearing records that I used to hate, for eg, but I know I'm enjoying them for purely nostalgic reasons.
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