Hi everyone. I must be really old. I can be a reallly old stroke survivor. My most vivid memory is of the relief when the air raid sirens sounded the all clear. Lilian
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The winter of 1963…and we still went to school!
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I was a big fan of How & Magpie & yup I always had to hand a bit of sticky back plastic for
Blue Peter
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It was Alpine by us Ann, cream soda and dandelion and burdock were the best flavours!!!
Dandelion and burdock i liked but cream soda was yuck 
Greedy guts me asked my mum to get one of each pretending one was for my brother!!!
Whereas the kids of today will be reminiscing of taking photos of real food on a plate while their children eat virtual food in cyberspace 
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Have we had conkers and marbles yet? We used to spend hours on playing those games.
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That sounds dangerous @Loshy but lits of fun 
i’d have stabbed myself. We used to play British Bulldog & hopscotch.
Who watched in 1969 the 1st man on the moon … (ALLEGEDLY) <<
N.A.S.A . = Never A Straight Answer .
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@Jordan not me…I wasn’t born then
Trust me you didn’t miss anything
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@Loshy i loved British Bulldog. Maybe because I was good at running so won quite often…not that I was competitive
Telephones that were hard wired into the house where dialling 999 woukd have taken forever as you had to wait for dial to return to original position before you could dial next number.
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@ Loshy I’m less than a month older than you
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I’m guessing you had a Barbie doll
I remember my Action man . With all his accessories & yup I got on my 10 Birthday a helicopter that my Action man could sit … 
You can imagine the glee & many a time told to hush as I was making to much helicopter noises
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Car telephones & mobile phones that came with their own utility belts for the batteries enormous they were looking @ my I-phone now
Just WOW … 
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it was a toy helicopter not the real thing sadly . You can imagine my utter annoyance
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I remember My 1st bike was a Vindex speedster with 3 gears & all the rich kids had a Chooper bike thankfully not laughed at in front of me that is
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Oh loshy I had a Tressy doll press a button and her hair grew but I cut her hair and couldnt understand why it didn’t grow anymore anyone use to play 2 ball against the wall ? 123 O’Leary 456 O’Leary 789 O’Leary 10 O’Leary . Can’t remember the end . Jacks was something else I loved 
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Coal fires, coal bunkers, watching the coal man carrying the coal sack on his back. Watching the winding gear going round and round at the village coal pit. Oh yes, the warmth of the coal fire with us all huddled round it! Those were the days when ‘Coal was King’!
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In my secondary school way back in 1974 skegs on the soles of your shoes which were small metal plates/tacks that made your walking loud on the pavements & could slide a good few yards
… ( ohh it’s metres 2day ) keep on forgetting
& then there was the must have Barathea Blazer
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