Fancy a touch of nostalgia?

[tiderus]

If like me you remember, those days when a radio was a luxury.

And Saturday evernings was spent sitting around a friends danset, listening to real melodius music.

Then try the link below for one of the "then and now" rendering, from the fabulous Diamonds.

Link.... Little Darling - The Diamonds 1957 & 2004 - YouTube

Sixpence a week pocket money, and planning to buy the world.

No drugs, no booze, just the occasional fag off a mate that nearly choked me.

How about you?

Rgd's Graham.

 

[MartianTom]

Oooo.... I'm not very old (except to a teenager!), but I can remember the good old days when:

Maps were used for navigating.

Nobody had mobile phones - and didn't miss not having them (and then, when someone did have one, they were considered a tosspot).

The BBC used to have decent dramas (Play for Today, etc.)

Being a celebrity meant being famous for something other than simply being famous.

Mum could send me down the shop with a pound, and I could get a 5lb bag of spuds, a jar of coffee, a bag of sugar, 2 pints of milk, a decent bit of steak, a pound of sausages, a bottle of tomato sauce... and still come home with a couple of bob in change. Can't do it now. Too many CCTV cameras...

 

[donkey too]

My weekly wage in the army at age 15 was ten bob, and five of that had to be put in the post office savings bank. still able to get a couple of packets of 'illegal' fags and egg and chips in the NAAFI along with cleaning stuff for your kit and have some left over for rest of week.:lol-053:
Mum used to send me a two shilling postal order which I used to change and lend the cash out at double back next pay day.

 

[Rubbertramp]

My weekly wage in the army at age 15 was ten bob, and five of that had to be put in the post office savings bank. still able to get a couple of packets of 'illegal' fags and egg and chips in the NAAFI along with cleaning stuff for your kit and have some left over for rest of week.:lol-053:
Mum used to send me a two shilling postal order which I used to change and lend the cash out at double back next pay day.

You had it easy!.....When we were five my dad sent me and my fifteen brothers and sisters off to join the French Foreign Legion.....we'd get up every day, half an hour before we went to bed, muck out the camels with a teaspoon and have to scrape the desert clean with our tongues. At the end of the day we'd get fed bits of dried bird droppings and have to beg to get beaten with a pointed stick.....then we had to pay them half a crown a day for the privilege.........And you try telling the youngsters of today that you had it hard....They never believe ya!

 

[MartianTom]

You had it easy!.....When we were five my dad sent me and my fifteen brothers and sisters off to join the French Foreign Legion.....we'd get up every day, half an hour before we went to bed, muck out the camels with a teaspoon and have to scrape the desert clean with our tongues. At the end of the day we'd get fed bits of dried bird droppings and have to beg to get beaten with a pointed stick.....then we had to pay them half a crown a day for the privilege.........And you try telling the youngsters of today that you had it hard....They never believe ya!

Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen - YouTube