17-11-2019, 01:26 PM
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Re: Things from your childhood that no one will know now
Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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Didn't they make great toast though when you finally got it going Button....Yum yum....
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17-11-2019, 01:40 PM
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Re: Things from your childhood that no one will know now
Originally Posted by Ray Cathode
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Lucky Tatties with a toy inside.
17-11-2019, 02:38 PM
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Re: Things from your childhood that no one will know now
Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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I bet they look great Longdogs, we should start a 'Budgie Smugglers Club' I think fashion took a turn for the worse when blokes started wearing those flappy down to the knee swim shorts...
To get your badges did you have to save a drowning brick from the bottom of the pool in your pyjamas?
If I had been in bed and the brick got into difficulty, I would have let it drown......
Serves it right for thinking it could float...
Yep, and shoes.
17-11-2019, 02:40 PM
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Re: Things from your childhood that no one will know now
Originally Posted by Button
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Coal fires that had to be lit each day using newspaper spills to start them and sheets of newspaper across the front of the fire grate to pull the air up and feed the flames. Many times it caught fire!
17-11-2019, 03:58 PM
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I used to make the fire like that it’s used to roar up the chimney .The other thing was the coal hole - a cupboard near the back door for the coal man ( who wore a leather protector on his back to come in and dump the coal.
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