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

[veggiechicken]

..............and you remember spending them

[Dorothy rouse]

..............and you remember spending them

Here come on, no one on here can be THAT old?

[Dorothy rouse]

What is a farthing anyway?

I'm much too young to know.

[veggiechicken]

Didn't your granny tell you about them Dotty? They had a little wren on the back. And there were thruppeny bits with lots of sides and a thrift plant on the back and silver sixpences and half crowns and ......................lots more lovely coins to jingle in your pocket.

[Dorothy rouse]

And 'ten bob notes'?

Nah can't remember nuffinck.

[Bill HH]

And five pound notes the size of tea towel

78rpm shellac records

Wind up gramophones with needles

[Bill HH]

..............and you remember spending them

I think I have just spent a penny.

[veggiechicken]

You need 10p to pee these days - that's the effect of inflation (or is it wind)

[Bill HH]

You need 10p to pee these days - that's the effect of inflation (or is it wind)

Its 20p in Torbay, takes all of my pension just to get to the post office.

[Greenleaves]

10p I'm moving to Wales, 30p in our town ......what about A and B buttons on public telephones?

[Bill HH]

Oh yes A and B buttons, cutting edge technology eh, the kids couldn't handle that nowadays,

[veggiechicken]

Ooh I remember Press Button A - was it 4d to make a phone call?
The closest we came to mobile phones was joining 2 cocoa tins together on a long piece of string and talking into them. Looked pretty stoopid in the office though

[Dorothy rouse]

You start 'reminiscing' about things you remember, from your youth.

[Bren In Pots]

I've turned into my MiL
It used to make conversations difficult when she referred to people by either their maiden name or where they used to live, well I've started doing the same thing

[Nicos]

You need 10p to pee these days - that's the effect of inflation (or is it wind)

It's free here...most blokes still take a leak by the side of the road!

Talking of phones....typing in the first three letters of your village/ town name for the area code......and dialling 100 to speak to the operator ...having to book a time to be connected to make a long distance call.....peak phoning times ( when did they stop?)....dialling a number on that turning disc with holes in it, my mother's friend used to use a pencil to do it not sure if she had fat fingers or it was a hygiene thing!.....having to sit in the cold hallway at home to use the phone cos that's where the phone was installed....oh and I nearly forgot.....the big red heavy doored phone boxes which always had phone directories inside.