The old days

[ali]

I remember 'spangles', curly whirly's and wagon wheels bieng huge, bag puss and crystal tips and Alister, Tiny tears dolls and Sindy being better than Barbie ... what do you remember from the 'old days'

[LaneyOOO]

LOL my sister and I were just talking with my Mum the other day, having a laugh about only ever having Sindy's and not Barbie's lol.
Agree wagon wheels seem smaller.
I remember all going shopping as a family for our New Clothes for Christmas and Boxing day and then having dinner somewhere, doing the same for Easter and the Long weekend in May.
I know it sounds silly but we thought they were great days as kids.
Getting our first VHS player LOL it was HUGE hehe.
First movies we saw on it were ET and Grease lol.
My first record was Blondie hehe.
alright I could go on but I will bore you all

Elaine x

[LaneyOOO]

Thinking Bros was the best thing in the world and begging my Mum and Dad to let me stay in Ireland till the 23rd December 1988 as Bros were playing in Dublin, but no they would'nt let me so of we left for Oz on the 25th November 1988 heartbroken I was and still am baahaaa

Elaine x

[ali]

The Grolsh things they had on their shoes

[LaneyOOO]

yeah wearing Doc Martins with bottle tops and different coloured laces.
Perms everyone having one lol.
Leg warmers
Knee high socks for school (aarrgghhhh)

[ali]

We've turned into our parents ... ahh the good old days

[jackboots]

Fame on tv ,skintight jeans .. pastel coloured long boots(slouch style) and leg warmers, and wham and nick kershaw.. oooh and spangles , lol

and eighty's eye make up you would have a heart attack if your daughter wore now ! , i love Ashes to Ashes the tv drama its 80's heaven .

[LaneyOOO]

Wham were the best though:-))
Top of the Pops, my fav:-((
Ready Brek YUMMO lol
Grange Hill


LOL the eye make-up I remember my pink (I know) eye shadow and blue eyeliner/mascara, and the perm baahaaa xx

[jackboots]

Top of the pops , and tizwaz ( is that how it was spelt ?) swapshop , oooh i used to have readi brek .. Friday afternoons down the coop sweeets after shopping yeahhh

[SusieQ]

Black jacks!!!

[ali]

Big Hair!!

[Littlem]

10p buying a huge bag of black jacks and fruit salads and piping on my jeans.

[jackboots]

Ha Ha i remember piping on jeans was red or white etc .. oh boy this is memory lane .. fish and chip crisps and sherbert fountains ...

[Littlem]

Another favourite of mine was my puff ball skirt and striped blouse with a grandad colour....I was sooooo cool! Plus big hair and accessories.....it makes me smile thinking about it :)

[The Frets]

ALL OF THE ABOVE!!!
And going to youth club on a thursday night and watching TOTP, The Young Ones.......and whatever happened to be on tv....playing my Madness Albums on a record player.....Good times!!!!:biggrin:

[The Frets]

Walkers crisps for 7p!!!!!!!

[ali]

forot the youth club ... do they still have them, ours was great and open 3 nights a week ... junior and senior youth club .. my mum was one of the leaders so I always got dragged into helping.

[Liz B]

Morning all,

I remember pushing my tiny tears in a pram, the one that wees and pretending with my friend that we were smoking those candy cigarettes. Most adults I knew smoked back then. Also remember my best mates parents giving us a small glass of blue nun when we had a Sunday roast beef after sleeping at her house. My mum used to cook leg of lamb mostly and I loved roast beef and yorkshire pudding, YUM!

Also buying chock a block of pick and mix sweets, shrimps and bananas especially.

Enjoying a peaceful day today, how very mean of me!

Liz:jiggy:

[Guest4182]

Caramac Eggs at Easter (caramel coloured chocolate). Mothering Sunday going to church on a sunday and coming home with a flower for mum. Street parties at the Jubilee. Playing out till 10.00pm on the 'front'...!!! Playing L.O.N.D.O.N. SPELLS LONDON!!!! Coming home at lunchtime from school and watching Pipkins and Rainbow and then at tea time watching Rentaghost!!! Noel Edmunds on Swap Shop and Keith Chegwin on Cheggers Plays Pop......Mike Read on Runaround!!!! Having warm milk from a carton at primary school!!! Being a Milk Monitor and a dinner time server (if you were a server at lunchtime you always could baggsy the biggest bit of cornflake cake or manchester tart)!!!!!!!!!! HAPPY DAYS......:wubclub::wacko:

[The Frets]

Walking home from school,with my mum and brother, after going to the newsagents and getting some "Parmaviolets" and he always had "Refreshers"!!!!
Oh this is bringing back good memories!!!!

[The Frets]

forot the youth club ... do they still have them, ours was great and open 3 nights a week ... junior and senior youth club .. my mum was one of the leaders so I always got dragged into helping.

I don't think they do, not where I'm from anyway.....it used to be on a tuesday and thursday night, 7pm til 9.30pm.
Jane

[scottishkiwi]

Thanks for the memories guys; I remember all of the above with such fondness. :)

[fiona1975]

perms, bros, big hair, caramac, 5p highland toffee, baggy jeans and lumberjack shirts, desert boots, doc martins with the grolsh lids, perrier if you were trying to be 'cool' youth club, watching prisoner cell block with me mum, my first ever gig to watch EMF in Sheffield with my bezzie, thought we were it on the coach there.....

[Cerberus1]

A little random, but Chorlton & the Wheelies and Walnut Whip's just kinda popped into my mind.

http://www.perthpoms.com/images/chorlton-the-wheelies.jpg

http://www.perthpoms.com/images/Walnut-Whip.jpg

[jackboots]

yum you can still get the walnut whips from the brit shops and some IGA shops .. though they seem smaller nowadays:huh: or was it we had them when we were smaller ?

[fiona1975]

Walnut whips alwyas looked better than they tasted I thought. It was all over once you'd eaten the nut and bitten the top off......

[jackboots]

bit like a cream egg !

[fiona1975]

I am eating a galaxy caramel egg from england

[jackboots]

What now ? how did you manage that ?

[fiona1975]

What now ? how did you manage that ?


I have a stash in my wardrobe....brought over by rellies:jiggy:

Trying to make it last.....but not doing very well:embarrassed:

[jackboots]

So when my parents come over in Aug they can bring me Thorntons continentle .. in their baggage ..:jiggy::jiggy: wooo hooo didn't think you could bring food in .. now im really excited ..

[jackboots]

can everybody remember the madness days ... suggs

[jackboots]

and Dallas ...

[fiona1975]

So when my parents come over in Aug they can bring me Thorntons continentle .. in their baggage ..:jiggy::jiggy: wooo hooo didn't think you could bring food in .. now im really excited ..


As long as they declare it. Get them to pack in their checked luggage at the top, when they go through customs theyll just have a quick look and theyll be through faster than everyone else....they usually only look in your bag with the goodies in and you dont have to lug all the heavy bags onto the x ray machine

I think my family had a case full!

[jackboots]

lol mine will now i know that :wubclub: thanx

[Guest4182]

In line with this thread....I thought I would do some cooking/baking that brought back childhood memories...sooooo.....I made the following:-

Golden Syrup Cornflake cake - does anyone remember that.....Pastry with jam on then a layer of cornflakes that are coated in syrup and butter and put in the oven to set.....NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED!!!!

Lancashire Hotpot - made with leftover lamb (that has been slow cooked in a bottle of red)....shredded and layered with potato and carrot then a pastry lid

Bakewell Tart.....with a topping of icing and cherries!!!

Did I mention I'm a chunky monkey:wacko:

[jackboots]

oooh i love chunky monkey ice cream Ben & Jerry's yummmyy

[NeilEB]

Hmm let's see....

Penny sweets
Tomorrow's World - I was sure we'd have flying cars and domestic robots by now - what a swizzle!
Space Dust (the popping candy thing)
Eldorado :D
Ulyses
Dungeons and Dragons
Jayse and the Wheeled Warriros
Terrahawks
Creme Eggs only being sold at Easter time
Easter shopping only being available for a few weeks, rather then 6 months
Ditto for Xmas
Bagpuss
TMNT (or Hero as they were over here)
Go-Bots! - and of course Transformers (before Megan Fox made them all yummy)
Twin Peaks

Edit:
Lol, just realised what I typed.....not sure why Megan Fox lead me to think about Twin Peaks - Freud would have a field day

[ali]

Lol ... there's no such thing as a fruedian slip Neil. Fond memories of a lot of the things you mentioned

[Guest4182]

Hmm let's see....

Penny sweets
Tomorrow's World - I was sure we'd have flying cars and domestic robots by now - what a swizzle!
Space Dust (the popping candy thing)
Eldorado :D
Ulyses
Dungeons and Dragons
Jayse and the Wheeled Warriros
Terrahawks
Creme Eggs only being sold at Easter time
Easter shopping only being available for a few weeks, rather then 6 months
Ditto for Xmas
Bagpuss
TMNT (or Hero as they were over here)
Go-Bots! - and of course Transformers (before Megan Fox made them all yummy)
Twin Peaks

Edit:
Lol, just realised what I typed.....not sure why Megan Fox lead me to think about Twin Peaks - Freud would have a field day

OMG forgot Terrahawks.....they used to remind of me nanna!!!! (sorry nanna) remembering Monkey the chinese series....with men dressed as Pigs and monkeys...loved it!!! Thanks Neil

[ali]

Monkey - then there lips moved at rapid speed for 5 mins and the dialogue said "yes" - loved it

[Guest4182]

Monkey - then there lips moved at rapid speed for 5 mins and the dialogue said "yes" - loved it

Ahhhhhh Monkeeeeeyyyyyy.......

Just going off the thread AGAIN.....Good to see you are a Manc fan too....glad you are not a city fan.....we will be watching on Saturday FA Cup final....friend of ours is a City fan and going home for the game......!!!!

[jackboots]

I used to love Monkey .. hehe forgot that one , Wonder Woman ... loved that ..

[jackboots]

:biglaugh::biglaugh::biglaugh: somebody had to do this .....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wJDI67VQFo&feature=related MONKEY>YEAHHHHHH

[NeilEB]

MASK crudaders working all the time, fighting crime, fighting crime!
Secret raider who will neutralise as soon as they arrive
Trakker's going to lead the mission
And Spectrum's got such super vision
M-m-m- MASK! Is the mighty power that can save the day
M-m-m- MASK! No-one knows what lies behind their masquerade
M-m-m- MASK! Always riding on Venom's trail
Come see the laser rays
Fly Away!

And:


Ulysses, Ulysses, soaring through all the galaxies, in search of Earth, flying into the night!
Ulysses, Ulysses, fighting evil and tyranny with all his heart and with all of his might!
Ulysseee-eee-eees, no-one else can do the things you do!
Ulysseee-eee-eees, like a bolt of thunder from the blue!
Ulysseee-eee-eees, always fighting all the evil forces, bringing peace and justice to all!

It's me Nono, small robot you know, friend of Ulysses!
Uly-eeessseess!
It's me Nono, small robot you know, friend of Ulysses!

Ulysses, Ulysses, could not find his destiny, leaving earth such a long time ago!
(air guitar bit!)

Ulysseee-eee-eees, like a mighty warrior in the sky!
Ulysseee-eee-eees, with the small companions by his side!
Ulysseee-eee-eees, like a king is now protected by the gods from every foe in his way!

It's me Nono, small robot you know, friend of Ulysses!
Uly-eeessseess!
It's me Nono, small robot you know, friend of Ulysses!

Ulysseee-eee-eees, no-one else can do the things you do!
Ulysseee-eee-eees, like a bolt of thunder from the blue!
Ulysseee-eee-eees, always fighting all the evil forces, bringing peace and justice to all!

[NeilEB]

And whilst I'm on the subject of cartoons:

Jamie & the Magic Torch
Fraggle Rock
Denver the Last Dinosaur
He-Man (how has no-one mentioned this?)
Thundercats (Thunder, thunder, thundercats - Hoooooo!)
Muppet Babies
Superted
Shoe People
Poddington Peas
Raggy Dolls

I think maybe I watched too much tv as a child......

Mind you I do have the dvd box sets of Dungeons & Dragons, and Ulyses....

[NeilEB]

Oh and if you're mentioning Wonder Woman, how about:
A-Team
McGyver
Streethawk
Knightrider
What was the helicopter one called?

[keith73]

One banana, two banana, three banana, four
Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more.
Over hill and highway the banana buggies go
Coming on to bring you the Banana Splits Show


Tra la la, la la la la.........

Four banana, three banana, two bananas, one
All bananas playing in the bright warm sun,
Flipping like a pancake, popping like a cork,
Fleagle, Bingo, Drooper and not forgetting Snork

Tra la la, la la la la, Tra la la, la la la la

[keith73]

I also remember my football team (Dundee United :notworthy:) being very good, and Scotland all ways being in the World cup finals :biggrin: then getting humped by diddy teams and going out on goal difference!!:arghh:

[keith73]

Oh and if you're mentioning Wonder Woman, how about:
A-Team
McGyver
Streethawk
Knightrider
What was the helicopter one called?


Was It called Airwolf Neil !!

[NeilEB]

Airwolf - that's the fella!

[NeilEB]

One banana, two banana, three banana, four
Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more.
Over hill and highway the banana buggies go
Coming on to bring you the Banana Splits Show


Tra la la, la la la la.........

Four banana, three banana, two bananas, one
All bananas playing in the bright warm sun,
Flipping like a pancake, popping like a cork,
Fleagle, Bingo, Drooper and not forgetting Snork

Tra la la, la la la la, Tra la la, la la la la

What have I started here......

It can't just be me that thinks the people who made 80's cartoons were probably taking illegal substances fairly regularly...

"I know, let's like make a program about banana's that are men, and we can have them coming downstairs in their pj's! That would be like totally radical!"

And now you've mentioned banana's.....


This is 29 Acacia Road...
And this is Eric - the school boy who leads an amazing double life...
For when Eric eats a banana, an amazing transformation occurs...
Eric is Bananaman! Ever alert for the call to action!

Which leads fairly nicely onto:




This is a story about an ordinary teddy bear...
When he was made, they found something wrong with him...
And threw him away like a piece of rubbish into an old dark storeroom..
Then, from outer space, a spotty man, brought him to life with his cosmic dust!
He took him to a magic cloud where Mother Nature gave him special powers...

That bear became SUPERTED!

[n00dlz]

this thread is taking me back to many happy memories, bagpuss, jim'll fix it, spira bars, dungens and dragons, thundercats, he-man and she-ra, lots of snow during winter, hot sunny summers, big bags of penny sweets, girl guides, brownies, MTV when it first came on tv, mighty mouse and plenty of others