FUN:- You know when your getting old.........when

[mothhawk]

Black-leading the grate.............

Don't folk black lead their wood-burners then? I always did...made it gleam. Don't have one now.

[mothhawk]

Gas lighting, and reading by candle light

Doing homework by candle light during the miner's strike. The teachers wouldn't allow power cuts as an excuse for homework not handed in on time.

[Dorothy rouse]

When you can't remember making such a comment!

[Nicos]

After a day on yr feet your ankles are as big as your knees!!!

yup- tis the first time that's happened...and I REALLY don't like that!

[Nicos]

I still remember my nan sending me to the butchers for 6D od scragg end for my grandads stew

I got sent for a 'nice bit of tripe ..ie small honeycombed if you don't mind... to soak in a drop of vinegar and then simmer in a bit of milk'

[Bal]

My brother being sent to the local pub with a jug to get the beer

[teakdesk]

My brother being sent to the local pub with a jug to get the beer

Last year, whilst visiting Muswell Hill we wanted draft beer so I emptied the posh filtered water jug from the frig and went down the pub for a pint... and four pints poured into my "take-away"... staff had to consult the landlord and EVERY local previously sat down crowded round in disbelief!!!

[bearded bloke]

The Levi Strauss & Co belt you brought in 1974 no longer fits

But the one you brought in 1976 when the belt loop size on the jeans changed still does & it's only 2" longer than the older one

[Greenleaves]

I got sent for a 'nice bit of tripe ..ie small honeycombed if you don't mind... to soak in a drop of vinegar and then simmer in a bit of milk'

My granddad used to eat that.....funny how I never stayed for tea on those occasions.....nasty stuff, but I did enjoy stuffed hearts

[Greenleaves]

Remembering my Mum polishing the floor boards between the carpet and the skirting board

[DannyRam]

When a pregnant lady offers you her seat on the bus!!
And when there is more hair in your ears than on your head!!

[Greenleaves]

When you repeat posts already made

[Bill HH]

Remembering my Mum polishing the floor boards between the carpet and the skirting board

Oh we were posh we had lino round the edges.

[Bill HH]

Before rcd circuit breakers. The day I unrolled 40 feet of cable and ran it though from my bedroom to my sisters via the landing, wired in a 12 volt bell and in my bedroom fitted a plug (the old round pin 15 amp). I had two motives, to contact my sister in an emergency, and to annoy her at the flick of a switch.
The flick of the switch went without incident but the entire 40 feet of cable melted in a nano second destroying three new carpets. oops.

[BigV]

When your first born is looking forward to her sixtieth birthday !


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