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[gillberry]

Our Childhood in Black and White.
I think you'll enjoy it. Whomever wrote this, described childhood to a T.
Hope you enjoy it.........





Black and White
(Under age 40? You won't understand.)


My Mum used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread butter on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.

My Mum used to defrost burgers on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in coller box with an ice pack, but I can't remember getting e.coli.

Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the river instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.

The term cell phone would have conjured up a telephone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school tannoy system.

We all took PE not "Gym Class". and risked permanent injury with a pair of cheap plimsols (only worn in PE) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries, but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.

Failing PE was not an option, even for stupid kids! I guess Gym must be much harder than PE.

Speaking of school, we all said the lords prayer, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.

We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.

I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.

Oh yeah ... and where was the Benadryl and sterilisation kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!

We played 'The A Team' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mum pulled out the 48pence bottle of Dettol (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our arse spanked.

Now it's a trip to the casualty, followed by a 10-day dose of a £4.90 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mum calls the "accident helpline" to sue the builder for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.

We didn't play up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we got our arsespanked there and then we got arse spanked again when we got home.

I recall Danny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front step, just before he fell off. Little did his Mum know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and smacked him for being such a prat. It was a street gone wild!

To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that?

We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive?

LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA, AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T; SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING.

[Dirty Habit]

Going on holiday with a girlfriend and signing in as Mr & Mrs ------ The only thing that drew attention to us was our
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1964 International Harvester

[pigtin]

Have a Met' motorcycle cop stop me while speeding on a rickety illegal pre-war bike. But mainly for a chat about bikes, and as he left, gently pointing out that unless I put my chainguard and 'L' plates back on he, or one of his mates, might have to nick me next time.
I had respect for the guy and took his advice. That was in the mid-1950s.
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Due to the onset of my mid eighties I'm no longer sprightly and rarely seen in my Austin special. I have written a book though. https://amzn.eu/d/7rwRRqL

[Roverron]

Happy days, when common sense ruled.
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To Hell with ambition, it drives a man mad, I can scarcely wake up to be fed.

[Giggles]

I remember black & whote tv and I'm not 40! (well ok we had a b&w portable tv in the dining room if that counts)
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1953 Humber Hawk
1955 Ford Fairlane
1960 & 1963 Humber Super Snipe's