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Was that the stuff that came in a box of single sheets? yes it did make great tracing paper, but it could also form very sharp corners and cut the ass off you, no health warnings on the box either.

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Sorry guys, they really were the good old days for me. I was an only child and lived with Mum and Dad in quite a large house. Plenty of food on the table and I could never understand why my mates would want to steal apples from the local orchard when there was always a bowl of fruit on the dining table. No homework to do in those days and spare time was spent out in the fields exploring. Holidays every year, and I could even take a friend. Dad was only the second person to have a car in the neighbourhood (the first being the district nurse) and I could have virtually anything I wanted, I just had to ask. But make no mistake, Mum and Dad worked very hard and it rubbed off on me. My priorities have never been material things, and I never took advantage of my situation. At fifteen I took a paper round and earned my own spending money and was able to save for my first motorcycle, although Dad wouldn't let me buy a bigger bike when I passed my test, instead he bought me my first car.
Since then, I've worked every day of my life until retiring at sixty. Every day is a good old day!

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The Izal we used came on rolls - it was supposed to be good stuff because it was `medicated` Just like wiping your backside with greaseproof paper

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That reminds me. we used to go out nicking apples.
Me and my mate were up an apple tree when the owner came out.
My mate bottled it and jumped down trying to escape and got caught.
I stayed up the tree until the fuss died down.

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Good luck to you Bob, I'm glad you had plenty to eat and places to go on holiday, we never begrudged anyones good fortune, especially from hard work and good planning.
One chap on our Street had the only car on the Street and he would take as many kids as he could fit into it on a Saturday morning then take us all off for a spin in the country and an ice cream cornet on the way home, just a kind decent man and everyone loved him, I suppose doing that today would raise all sorts of suspicions and wouldn't be allowed, sad how we can't trust folks anymore.

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Izal Bog Roll is responsible for all these alien sightings, if it weren't for greaseproof Bog Roll, we would not have this infestation of "Klingons".

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Ah once it said 'Medicated' on it you could practically eat the stuff.
The Romans had the right idea, they used a recyclable sponge and everyone was happy, except the poor buggers who had to wash the sponges.

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When my family first came to live in England in 1953, our family of six lived in two rooms in a house that had a demolition order on it! I remember my mother bathing us in the sink and she would add Jeyes Fluid to the water! When we protested it was stinging us, she would say, 'Shut up, it's killing the germs'!
When my mother had a miscarriage and had to go into hospital, the family that lived in the other part of the house looked after us four children. They had a tin bath and the mother bathed her three boys first in the water, then us four after in the same water! One of her children had done a poo in the bath water and I remember my horror as it floated around me!

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Ooh yes, I hated that stuff. It was more like pieces of greaseproof paper, not at all absorbent.

I too, remember my nan and grandad's loo having newspaper too. When you think of it, it's a wonder it didn't block the pipes.

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Ah, happy days ey Arti.