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They dont do it now (thank goodness ) and anyway schools have high fences for security and to stop any would be perves leering at young girls.

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There was no such thing as 'Perves' when I was a boy Muddy...

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We had a tin bath...a horrible toilet outside in a shed...which didn't flush...a freezing cold house,with no central heating,just a coal fire...

I'm glad I had it fairly hard...I so appreciate what I have now..

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Yep, I had it much the same Pauline...But these days I go out for a run in just shorts and vest in the freezing cold rain and snow, splashing through icy water with a fierce north wind chilling me to the bone.....And as I close the door behind me, with numb legs and soaking wet kit sapping what little heat remains in this fatigued body, and walk into a centrally heated house, hot shower and honey covered porridge, I appreciate what I have more than anything in the world.....

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Indeed. We were never without a flush loo or a bath. Yes, we had a wood/coal fire in one room which also heated the water and an oven. The cat enjoyed that until one day the door was shut on it. It survived the experience .
No central heating.
No car.
No fridge.
No phone.
No television.

Somehow, we survived.

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I remember 'Dan Dare, Pilot Of The Future' being broadcast on Radio Luxembourg. My sister and I would sit right next to the radio listening to it. It was on shortwave and the signal would fade out right on the good bits ..and then come back again.

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I wonder how the youngsters today would survive without their cars, computers and mobiles phones?

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The difference is that we didn't have that expectation. My concern is what they would get up to if these devices were to be taken away from them.

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Our outside "lavvy" was like this:


the hairy spiders in there were as big as your hands .....

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That put me off milk or life. They always left the crate next to the radiator.