For those Born in the 40's - 70's?

[PAULW]

The women used to wash the doorstep the dress the sharp edge of the step with a donkey stone giving a yellow line, the donkey stone was a soft sandstone type material.

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[geoff]

My daughter's class had a session on drug abuse at school when she was 12 or 13,( ie, not how to do it, but how to avoid it!) and the parent's were invited to a similar session in the evening.

I made the comment that when I was at school drugs were exotic things that you only heard about in films and books, but I suspect that if anyone had been selling drugs outside the scool railings, my Dad, and a few of the other Dads would have "persuaded " them not to.....

[NOG]

When I was a kid only hippies did drugs....all you had to do was keep away from people with beards or beads.

[lez]

I wonder how we survived

Hope this brings a smile to someone.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1930's 1940's, 50's, 60's and early 70’s!


First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos..
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.


Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.


We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.


As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.


We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.


Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds , KFC, Subway or Nandos.


Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!


We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.


We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in them, but we weren't overweight because......


WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!


We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.


No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.


We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.


We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY ,
no video/dvd films,
no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!



We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
Lawsuits from these accidents.



Only girls had pierced ears!



We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.



You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time...



We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,



We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!



RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on
MERIT



Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and bully's always ruled the playground at school.





The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.

They actually sided with the law!



Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'



We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL !




And YOU are one of them!
CONGRATULATIONS!


You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.


And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.





PS -The big type is because your eyes are not too good at your age

[zazen999]

Sorry Lez, I've merged as we had this a few days back.

[Comfreyfan]

The mircrowave might be a bit dodgy.....
OH's grandad used to put lambs in the bottom of the Aga to warm up. Wonder where modern farmers/shepherds put them if they don't have an aga?

Jules

A lot still have an Aga. But a friend's dad buries them up to the neck in the muck pile and puts a bucket with a hole over their heads!!

[allotmentlady]

Aye up chuck that brought back memories, i also remember when the local bobby on the beat would deal with probs and he knew everyones name, u used to be very scared of him! i remember when 15p would buy me a kitkat, carton of pop and a bad of parched peas on a sunday, sheer bliss........

[bubblewrap]

Aye up chuck that brought back memories, i also remember when the local bobby on the beat would deal with probs and he knew everyones name, u used to be very scared of him! i remember when 15p would buy me a kitkat, carton of pop and a bad of parched peas on a sunday, sheer bliss........

15p that's three bob I can remember getting Kit-Kats for 6d that's two & a half pence.

[allotmentlady]

omg BW ! 3 kit kats!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bubblewrap]

omg BW ! 3 kit kats!!!!!!!!!!!!

No! six for 15p

[bubblewrap]

Could also get FOUR Blackjacks for 1d that's 48 for a shilling(5p)

[PAULW]

10 number 6 for two bob

[Snadger]

10 number 6 for two bob

One an a tanner roond here!

[TEB]

One an a tanner roond here!

Dad used to send me down the offie for Capstan Full Strength and if he was in a good mood I was allowed a bottle of R Whites Lemonade with a packet of crisps the ones with the blue salt bag

[NOG]

And everything was shut on sundays so 12 shopping days till Christmas ment something...and they wern't open on Boxing day.