Things you don't see anymore

[Bubblewrap 3,810]

#3344

That's a big cup

Is that for the "first" one of the day?

[Michael Booth 7,359]

Yes, Bubblewrap, but try and do it quietly.

[EileenH 491]

Kids with a long skipping rope stretched across the road. If you wanted to join in you had to 'take an end' until somebody was out. There were so many skipping games and rhymes to learn - usually from the bigger girls. (Sorry, usually girls). Many of the rhymes involved 'actions'. One that springs to mind is -

'I`m a little girl guide dressed in blue.

These are the actions I can do.

Salute to the King

Bow to the Queen

Show my knickers to the boys in green.

Dunno who the boys in green were supposed to be. Boy scouts perhaps?

[MargieH 6,668]

I remember skipping to that rhyme!

[loppylugs 8,172]

Michael 3344. I seem to remembr me mam referring to the "Po". As a Guzunder. As in guzunder the bed. :-). Anyone else come across that. It sounds like Nottinghamese.

[benjamin1945 13,923]

Romantic times back then..............using a Guzunder and eating Pickled onions in't Tin-Bath..........eeh our Grandparents knew how to 'Woo' one another......

[loppylugs 8,172]

You could even use the guzunder to pour hot water int tin bath. They were the days alright!

[benjamin1945 13,923]

LOL...........ALOT.............i can see you have my humour Loppy......................did you ever see that episode of ;Steptoe' when the old man was eating Pickled onions in't Tin Bath,kept dropping em then fishing em out and carried on eating em............lol.

[TBI 2,351]

I can remember that, also the episode where Albert's on his cart and Hercules stops and does a dump. He jumps off, picks it up and sticks it in a bucket, pushes it down with his hands and gets back up on his seat. He then fishes out a sandwich and starts eating it. Harold's sitting next to him, looking in disgust. 'You diiiiiirty old man!'

[loppylugs 8,172]

I didn't see that episode but I could just imagine him doing that.

Rarely sit in a bathtub anymore. Ever since we moved here its been a shower everyday.

Remember when we went back to the inlaws. The FIL liked our Canadian showers so much he had one installed. Only problem was that there was not much head of water with the tank being in the airing cupboard. We used to refer to it as taking a trickle. :-0 Never told him though. He liked his shower.

Hot water is at mains pressure here so you tend to get a good pressure washing.

[TBI 2,351]

Must be at least ten years since I had a bath, lol.

[Beduth 199]

Uncle Bill would hang his coat on the nail behind the 'doorfastair'.

[Chulla 4,941]

In that case, TBI, don't come to the meet-ups.

[TBI 2,351]

It should be all right Chulla, I'm thinking of getting a shower installed

[mary1947 1,477]

Fish and Chips wrapped in Newspaper and the smell of vinegar on the newspaper.

Was this not recycling of newspaper?

[Compo 8,659]

EileenH: I have been looking for some skipping and two-ball rhymes for a while. Do you have any more?

[Compo 8,659]

[PeverilPeril 2,792]

Manager of men's clothing shop with tape measure around his neck, like a docs stethoscope.

[Chulla 4,941]

PP. That was for measuring inside-legs. "Which side do you dress, sir?"

[DaveN 1,114]

If you want to see things that we no longer have then have a look at the website below. I found the old ads etc fascinating.

http://historyworld.co.uk/

[loppylugs 8,172]

Looks like a good site Dave. I'll spend a bit of time there later.

[crankypig 450]

Marks and spencer used to have cardigans and jumpers folded nicely on a wooden counter,if you fancied one they would look in a drawer for your size.So much nicer,I think and they don't all get mucky and out of shape like they do on hangers.A lot of shops were like this .Now some of them resemble jumble sales,stuff on the floor,make up on the clothes,bring back the old ways ,some of us would like that.

P.S, went in marks the other week and walked by a trolley with reduced bakery items in,saw a woman opening the bags of buns/cobs and handling them then putting them back in the bags.yuk.You wouldn't have seen that in an old shop where you had to ask for what you wanted (like open all hours)

[Kendaldrac 40]

Local Hyper Supermarket and 1\2pence coins along with ancient manual tills and the local co-op at the end of the day deli section sweeping up all odds and ends of cold meats into a bag and selling it cheaply.

[BilboroughShirley 1,112]

#3371 Crankypig you have reminded me about when I worked in Farmers. In the upstairs underwear department they had a glass topped counter with drawers in where all the lace up corsets were kept. As a student working there I was amazed when I first saw them! If a customer asked we got out the size they asked for. There were front laced ones and back laced. Before I worked there I hand heard of laced corsets and I thought the laces were to fasten them like shoe laces and I found out the laces are adjustments. I used to wait until I got home and have a good laugh about them.

[Compo 8,659]

Ted Moult