It's Yesterday Once More...choo Bee Doo Lang Lang

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Compelled and inspired from the 80's thread, thought I'd start one that would list things/places/people/items/memories/brands/etc... that makes you recollect the good times when things were much simpler and wholesome!

Now keep them numbered kiddies!

1) Vinyl records

2) Icee Drinks, not the ones at 7-11, the original stuff baby...

3) Riding your bike with friends at dusk during summer break

4) Fresh sea breeze in the morning

5) Fog horns, even though at times eerie....

[Gazza]

Now keep them numbered kiddies!

1) Vinyl records

2) Icee Drinks, not the ones at 7-11, the original stuff baby...

3) Riding your bike with friends at dusk during summer break

4) Fresh sea breeze in the morning

5) Fog horns, even though at times eerie....

Numbering them will cause confusion when two members post simultaneously.

*Swimming in the River Mersey.

*Cars like Escorts, Zephyrs, Populars, Minis etc that had chromed bumpers, grills, hubcaps and badges.

*Homemade Bread, Yorkshire pudding, Apple pies, sauces, Stews etc.

*Listening to the ships sirens lessen each year from the nearby docks at New Years.

*Feeling proud that my mum was a 'time traveller' cos she had the ability to knock me into the middle of next week.

*My mum giving me threepence to see if my dad was down at the pub. Being given sixpence by my dad to tell her he wasn't there.

*Being hit on the back of the head with a corgy (cricket ball)

*Collecting golf balls from prickly gorse bushes on golf courses then selling them to teachers.

*Riding back and forth all day on the Mersey ferry when playing truancy.

*Detesting having to go to bed at night. Detesting getting out of bed the next morning.

*My grandmothers house always smelling of furniture polish.

*Listening to old pendulum clocks tick-tocking.

*Playing football in the streets.

*My dad was always bigger than anyone else's dad when in a showdown for a fight.

*Jumping in and out of bed quickly so that the monster underneath there couldn't grab my ankle.

*Turning the lights on in every room even on a bright summers day because ghosts feared light.

*Feeling the warmth of a glowing coal fire and being transfixed watching the mesmerising embers.

*Dressing up my younger sister in old clothes, placing a paper bag over her head, then pushing her around in a pram asking 'Penny for the guy'.

*Always leaving a small amount of tea in a cup because it contained small bits of tea leaves.

*Having to be home before dark otherwise my dad would come looking for me with 'his belt'.

*Walking to and from school everyday and spending the bus fare on sweets.

*Copying my mums handwriting and making my own school sick notes.

*Getting a visit from a truant officer after being two weeks absent from school.

*Going to see a testimonial football game at Tranmere Rovers for Stanley Matthews, only to realise that it was the name of the groundsman and not the football legend.

*Having to get a crew cut everytime I got nits or 'biddies' in my hair.

*Sneaking downstairs on xmas eve to check out the presents. Anything that felt soft would be a jumper with big snowflake or reindeer patterns on it from Auntie Lil.

Presents in boxes were always the best.

*Wondering why old folks had old sounding names like Lil, Peg, Dolly, Maggie, Mary, Dot, George, Bill, Joe, Alf, Charlie etc.

*Feeling my legs turning to jelly when getting chased by bullies.

*Not having a care in the world about wars, politics, famines, diseases, work, or.......the future.

[lemon]

#hitch-hiking to school cos i was too lazy to ride my bike there

#riding my bike endlessly round and round the house

#going fishing at the local quarry

#going ferreting at the local quarry

#kicking a football endlessly against the garage door

#watching blakes 7

#going shopping and not being the one who has to shell out all the money

#making 'death jumps' out of the hay bails in the local farmers barn

#getting hopelessly plastered on concoctions borrowed from the old man's liquor cabinet...