Some one told me I think it was J, that shoes over a phone line meant gang member had died.
on another note,
Kicksart - www.youtube.com/watch?v=pja9Y7JIJBg
and junior kickstart - www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4OosFHsjjo
one series of why don't you was filmed at perch rock light house in the island of wirral
Stuart Hall not only commentated on It's a knock out but also read the news on BBC1 North West.
Cheggars Plays Pop?? Keith Chegwin went the the same school as my dad. cheggars was in the year below.
All happens up north you know
My comic the BEANO cost 3d (pre-decimal) and I got 2/ 6d (aka half a crown) for pocket money.
The programme I watched a lot was 'Vision On' for deaf and hard of hearing kids.
The bakery van used to come round every Saturday and I always got an individual trifle. Yummy
Now I feel positively ancient lol
What do I miss? Not having any responsibilities, they were all my parents. Alas youth is wasted on the young.
If I had my time over again, and I knew what I know now, I'd have been more appreciative of my health and got stuck in more to the activities I enjoyed.
I miss the school xmas party were u had to bring food from home and a plastic plate, bowl etc all with ur name cellotaped to it so you knew it was yours :)
And being in top class at juniors and being able to sit on chairs instead of the floor in assembly and thinkin we were the nuts lol
No Bj my claim to fame is that I am related to Tony Blair (well Mrs Blair via her dad Mr Booth) and my great great cousin assassinated Abraham Lincon. My dad is researching the family tree and i stood still for too long and got the tour of the tree so far.
"remember seeing the old cassette tape all over the hedges"
For those under the age of 25, music used to be provided and sold on two normal forms of media.
One was a plastic disc in two normal sizes (12 inches and 7 inches) which you scraped a needle around to play the music. These were generally called 12 inches discs or 7 inch discs. Imaginative hey?
The other was a small plastic case roughly the size of a cigarette packet, with a double spool of magnetic tape inside. The tape was then wound from one spool to the other whilst being run over a device (called a tape player) which detected the positive or negative charge in each section of tape and in so doing was able to re-create the sound.
Eventually a portable tape player was invented that kick started the revolution of earphones and annoyed grannies on buses.
Each tape was capable of storing approximately 90 minutes of music, or two albums. To listen to additional music, further tapes required carrying.
Eventually a tape would stick or get pulled into the rollers of the player. The owner would deal with this by pulling the tape out from the case by hand with the aim of manually rewinding it onto one of the two spools within the case. Invariably however, this would simply result in mile after mile of tape in bushes, hedges, across roads and wrapped around car drive shafts.
I do remember Weebles fondly however, talking serious for a second.
I suppose in many ways my career as an engineer of some kind was always set. I used to play for hours in the bath with my weebles!! My favourite game was shaking them under the water so they filled up and then shaking them carefully out of the water so that just enough water would fall out to allow the weeble to hang mysteriously no matter at what depth.
weebles wobble but they dont fall down, on our record player we used to have to put coins on the arm with plastacine to try to stop the scratched records jumping
My earliest memory on television was "space patrol"
then fireball xl5( I was Venus)
(singing ringing tree)............under sofa now
Stingray(I wasMarina)
crackerjack
tinger and tucker
pinky and perky
black jacks,aniseed balls,rainbow kayleigh,3d lucky bags,collecting stickers of "The Monkeys" Band...sigh..all good stuff.
Oh and the game with an enormous elastic band wrapped around your legs we knew as:- Inky pinky ponky :-
Inky pinky ponky
daddy bought a donkey
donkey died
daddy cried
inky pinky ponky
skipping games:-
I'm a little bubble car
number 58.turn around the corner,
pull on the brake.
all in together girls
never mind the weather girls
when is your birthday
please run out
jan
feb etc...
pattacake
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the goose drank wine
the monkey chewed tobacco on the sweet carline
the line broke
the monkey got choked
and we all went to heaven in a little rowboat
my mum singing to me
lulla lulla lulla lulla bye bye
do you want the moon to play with
or the stars to run away with
they'll come if you don't cry
lulla lulla lulla lulla bye bye
in your mommys arms a creepin
soon you'll be a sleepin with a
lulla lulla lulla lulla bye
lulla lulla lulla lulla bye
little boy kneels at the foot of the bed
resting his little hands little gold head
hush hush, whisper who dare
christopher robin is saying his prayers
god bless mummy i know thats right
wasn't it fun in the bath tonite
the cold so cold and the hot so hot
god bless daddy i quite forgot
if I open my fingers a little bit more
i can see nannys dressing gown on the door
it's a beautiful blue but it hasn't a hood
got bless nanny and make her good
now mine has a hood and I lie in bed
and I pull the hood right over my head
and i shut my eyes and i curl up small and nobody knows that i'm there at all
thankyou god for a lovely day ,
now what was the other I had to say?
i've said god bless daddy
so what can it be
now I remember, it's god bless me!
little boy kneels.....and so on
sang all those songs to my children too ( they begged me to stop!!) lol
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*My favourite game was
shaking them under the water so they filled up and then shaking them
carefully out of the water so that just enough water would fall out to
allow the weeble to hang mysteriously no matter at what depth.)
Geoff you missed out big time there mate, you obviously invented the submarine!!