EileenH

If we left the door open Dad would say, 'Put the wood in the `ole.'

We certainly did!

Really? Thanks F2, I didn`t imagine it then.

I vaguely remember a paper called 'The Pink One' or similar - or perhaps I`m imagining it. Was it some sort of girly paper?

Too right, LL. There was a waiting list for prospective rounds when I was a kid. When my brother got to first on the list he had to turn up at the newsagent every morning in case anybody didn`t turn up. He only got paid if he had to take a round and he did the 'first reserve' job for many weeks until he got a round of his own.

Teenage paperboys/girls. Our papers are delivered by a pensioner with a trolley or a young bloke in a van. My 14 year old granddaughter was saying she didn`t get enough pocket money so I suggested she got a paper round. The utter horror on her face! 'OMG! What if any of my friends saw me? I`d be shamed! How could you suggest that?' Oh - - - sorry.

Yes - I remember that one c-p!

Funny really - when I was little we lived in a two up two down terraced house with no bathroom or hot water system and the lavatory across the yard. Funny really - we didn`t know it was a slum. We just thought it was our house. Mam kept it spotless with elbow grease and hot water from a gas boiler. We were certainly crowded. Privacy was at a premium! We didn`t know it was a slum, though.

To continue with the footwear theme - socks don`t seem to get holes in the heels any more. I remember getting knocked down on Mansfield Road on the way home from school and lying in the gutter absolutely mortified because my shoe had shot off and I had a great 'spud' in my sock. (Sensitive soul, wasn`t I?) However, I was chuffed to be carried into the Jaguar showroom to await the ambulance. Dead posh! Funny that the main memory was the hole in my sock.

Just finished the last of the pork pie for my breakfast this morning. Healthy eating starts tomorrow! (Honest!)

#3233 Fly? (You replied while I was writing.) I wonder why you dislike it so much?

I`ve noticed that very few children say, 'Mam', nowadays. It`s usually, 'Mum'. Do people think it sounds more southern and therefore somehow more posh? Or is it a sign of the homogeonisation (sp?) of the language? Woddya think?

When we found that a child had 'visitors' we had to write to the parents of ALL the kids in the class saying that 'there could be an outbreak of headlice in the class' so that the lucky child wasn`t identified and embarrassed. As most of the letters ended up thrown away on the way home - or languished in the bottom of a school bag - it was once again down to the vigilant parents to sort it out. Although I had long hair I never actually got the little crawlers - they obviously didn`t fancy my scalp.

#7 Thanks for the reminder Margie. I remember snobs but I was really rubbish at it - too slow.

Now several hundred wallflowers, Delighting in the chance, Are twirling gaily by themselves And sharing in the dance.

When it was time to get a move on, Dad would sigh and say, 'Well, this won`t buy the baby a new bonnet.'

At Junior School in Calverton the teacher said we should say 'Carve-ton' because it was the village of calves. However, everybody else said Cal-verton and my mates back in the Medders said Cal-vitton.'

Only the Lonely - Roy Orbison

Don`t know about new glasses. But I remember when I worked behind a bar for a while many years ago you had 'Men`s glasses' and 'Ladies` glasses' for beer. I remember going to the landlord on his idle seat in the lounge chatting up the gentry to say there were no ladies` glasses in the Public bar. He sneered and said, 'You don`t get ladies in the Public Bar.' and his mates all sniggered. I know. Nothing to do with new glasses but it came to mind. I really despised that landlord. All his staff did, too, and he was robbed blind. (Allegedly)

Like Terence, I would have loved to learn the piano. About twenty years ago I was cleared after a cancer scare and I decided to do two things, to learn the piano and learn to swim. I bought a piano and went in for lessons but the piano was in the same room as the telly and I had two stepchildren and a husband so I couldn`t practise regularly. Eventually I got level 5 in me theory tests and level 1 in the practical. Enjoyed it though but got rid of the piano in the end. I then took swimming lessons and succeeded in getting my 25 metre backstroke and a width breast stroke. Never go swimming no

#20. Many of the Barton`s buses had this arrangement upstairs, Cliff. It was really uncomfortable and inconvenient for getting on and off as you often had to trample over people`s knees and shopping bags.

Hello Annie #12, Our Sunday School went to Trentham Gardens one year. We were quite disappointed as we really liked Wicksteed Park near Kettering with its swings and slides and roundabouts - all free. Weren`t really interested in gardens. Other brilliant trips were to Belle Vue near Manchester and, of course, Skeggy!

Do you think it was something to do with Sunday School Anniversaries? Do you remember them? Where we had to sit in front of the congregation and recite and sing and had a special tea afterwards?

#1864 Oh dear, . They probably pointed and sniggered behind your back. without telling you. Cruel!

Oh yes - 'Your petticoat is showing below the hem of your skirt.' Don`t know if it was just Nottingham but it was a common saying in the early sixties.