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Forum: General Chat 01-08-2020, 08:56

Replies: 77 Let's Reminisce. Views: 78 Posted By dotti34 Re: Let's Reminisce. As a teenager, dancing to Big Bands such as Ted Heath and Joe Loss. Famous bands and singers would come to local dance halls and the price of admission would be the same as if it was an ordinary...

Forum: General Chat 01-08-2020, 01:43

Replies: 77 Let's Reminisce. Views: 78 Posted By dotti34 Re: Let's Reminisce. Inkwells in desks, pens with nibs – and a slap on the hand if the pen wasn’t held correctly. . Girls with plaits were fair game for having these dipped in the inkwells by the horrible boys who...

Forum: General Chat 01-08-2020, 01:37

Replies: 77 Let's Reminisce. Views: 78 Posted By dotti34 Re: Let's Reminisce. More memories. The weekly bath in the little tin bathtub. Friday night was bath night for me. Afterwards my mother would comb through my hair with a fine-tooth comb and vinegar to make sure that...

Forum: General Chat 01-08-2020, 01:30

Replies: 77 Let's Reminisce. Views: 78 Posted By dotti34 Re: Let's Reminisce. Oh, Margaret, thank you - that certainly brought back some good memories. Mind you I doubt my dad knew more of the song than the first few lines because he never seemed to get past those. Yes,...

Forum: General Chat 31-07-2020, 09:11

Replies: 77 Let's Reminisce. Views: 78 Posted By dotti34 Re: Let's Reminisce. Monkey Hanger, my dad swore by Sloan's Liniment for all his aches and pains, but he wasn't very happy the day my mum was rubbing some on his back and it went right down and under....I hadn't realised...

Forum: General Chat 31-07-2020, 03:54

Replies: 77 Let's Reminisce. Views: 78 Posted By dotti34 Re: Let's Reminisce. I said earlier that I encouraged my own children to be adventurous – well they were and they did build go-carts and went off for the day with them, and when they came home I never asked……

Forum: General Chat 31-07-2020, 03:53

Replies: 77 Let's Reminisce. Views: 78 Posted By dotti34 Re: Let's Reminisce. More things that come to mind. Liberty bodices (don’t ask!), camphor square hung round neck, Fennings Fever Cure, Malt and Cod Liver Oil, Cod Liver Oil on its own – yuk!, thick pink square of some...

Forum: General Chat 31-07-2020, 03:51

Replies: 77 Let's Reminisce. Views: 78 Posted By dotti34 Re: Let's Reminisce. Okay, Margaret, so here’s another one. My brother (7 years older than me) was called William, and he often went searching for conkers so the school’s headmaster called him William the Conkerer...

Forum: General Chat 30-07-2020, 01:59

Replies: 77 Let's Reminisce. Views: 78 Posted By dotti34 Re: Let's Reminisce. More memories – a train ride to the illuminations with my mum every year, coach trips to the seaside, the many street parades, the celebrations when war ended (the second World War that is, not the...

Forum: General Chat 30-07-2020, 01:56

Replies: 77 Let's Reminisce. Views: 78 Posted By dotti34 Re: Let's Reminisce. My mum and I would listen to really enjoyable plays on the radio on a Saturday night. However, you could guarantee that just before the play finished my dad would come home after having had a pint...

Forum: General Chat 30-07-2020, 01:54

Replies: 77 Let's Reminisce. Views: 78 Posted By dotti34 Re: Let's Reminisce. Margaret you really have started something. My mind is now buzzing with memories. We also had a mischief night but it wasn’t until years later that I associated it with Halloween even though...

Forum: General Chat 29-07-2020, 06:49

Replies: 77 Let's Reminisce. Views: 78 Posted By dotti34 Re: Let's Reminisce. My brother used to go tickling trout and then would have to hide his spoils in his towel as it was illegal to take fish from the river – don’t ask me why because whoever owned the reach of that part...

Forum: General Chat 29-07-2020, 06:48

Replies: 77 Let's Reminisce. Views: 78 Posted By dotti34 Re: Let's Reminisce. Gosh, I wouldn’t know where to start, so many memories. I grew up in a village and looking back I’m not sure what sort of a wish we all had but it just seemed like having fun at the time – and no we...

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