For the oldies from wherever..just for laughs!:
So what stands out in your memory?
Left my secure job in the Post Office Telephones and my little green van at the age of 21 when me and my best mate boarded the S.A orange at Southampton for Port Elizabeth South Africa.
Some of the stuff I remember:
Whelks, shrimps and cockles as a Sunday night looxury supper with bread and marge or even butter sometimes
Rag and bone man giving a goldfish for a few old clothes
Digging potatoes and turnips on dad’s allotment in the freezing cold rain.
Borrowing dad’s car coat to put the dustbin out in the rain and finding a 3/6d (liberating it of course)and a packet of three with only two..Announced the fact over dinner. Strange how the house was so quiet for a few weeks?
M&D buying me a Morse code and buzzer key for Xmas and dad teaching me …
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My sister (15yo) coming home with lipstick on..Mum nearly killed her!!
Fishing for anything in the river Lea.
Eating garlic sausage at my Polish friend’s house and my dad threatening to kill me for smelling like a wog.
At 15 Buying and restoring a Lambretta LD, new paint and refurbishing the engine...at 16, first time out, flying off the road and bending everything… then taking it to friend’s house to make it better to avoid getting the shit beat out of me or getting banned from driving it.
Hearing my dad saying the word “fuck “for the first time ever when he sheared off a bolt on the big end of his Hillman Minx after replacing the white metal bearings.
So just as a bit of fun ...bet you have some stories and memories..anytime anywhere?