Things you don't see anymore


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You would be surprised what I have been offered by way of tips Margie !

I once got £40 for lifting a hot tub over a garage, only way poosible it was. The HT owner had been quoted between £750 min to £1250 max !

Took me less than five minutes.

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Some folks only request information, which is fair enough by me. Maybe they don't want discussion, chat, banter etc. Different people want different things from a forum, and that's fine.  If

Things you don’t see anymore (times 2) A 1945 photo of my aunt, wearing a turban and scrubbing her front door step on Queens Grove, Meadows. She dug her heels in and refused to move when the

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Is there a hidden language going on here, BW?

Catfan, I presume you lifted the hot tub mechanically (don't know the name of the swivelling crane thingy on the back of a lorry) or did you just get angry, turn green and lift it yourself

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Ernie,the song Margie.

I'm quite big on manners..not perfect, but I try to treat people how I would like to be treated. A smile costs nothing..nothing worse than a scowl. I think being polite to women is very important.. and if I get things wrong.I own up ..is the wife always right?.......YES.

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So.........back to the title of this thread about things you don't see anymore. I have got an old photo of me aged about 6 wearing a KNITTED bathing costume and slip-on rubber shoes for paddling in the sea ( and that photo is definitely staying in the album - it's not finding its way on to here!).

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#3216. Margie, There are several photos of me in the family album wearing knitted bathers too. In fact my little brother was put in the same ones a few years later. My Mum knitted everything in those days! Don't think I ever had any rubber shoes though, I must have been tougher than you!!

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We still have chimneys on new houses up here in Scotland Tomlinson. Much of Scotland is not covered by the clean air act of nineteen hundred and frozen stiff.

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My wife's family constantly use it. It makes me cringe..... Our mam, me mam.

Exasperating!

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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?

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