Life without a Mobile Phone
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Life without a Mobile Phone
Waiting for the football echo to be delivered to the chip shop so you could check who scored for or against the city. You knew the score from the telliprinter but not the scorers.
Owning your own home. So hard for youngsters to save a deposit whilst renting a place these days. Back in the 80's there was plenty of cheap terraced houses that you could do up over time as my missus and I did.
Being openly racist homophobic against people and it's acceptable.
Getting second hand cancer from spending too much time in a pub.
1, Owning their own home.
2, Secure a non zero-hour contract job.
3, Become debt free.
4, Collect a State Pension.
5, Spend less than four hours a day on social media.
6, View photos/videos of their parents wedding.
Bob-a-job week
Apple bobbing
Vesta curry and rice
Dubbin
Brilliantine
Men on The Moon
Supersonic passenger jets
Bread and dripping
BifBaf Bingo
Gayday lemonade
Five Boys Chocolate
Nits (and Suleo)
Verrucas
Polio
Brown Split
Snowballs
Chocolate Tools
Pubs without bouncers
and
Daps.
Freedom of movement across the EU....
The corona fizzy pop lorry stopping in your street one night a week.
Subbuteo.
OMG I could type as essay ...
but sticking with the pub theme.
Lifting the barrel of scrumpy onto it's stand for the landlord and getting the first pint for free as a thanks.
Floating a coin on the surface of a pint of scrumpy.
Getting kicked out of a pub because the landlord said the chips we carried in would make his beer go flat
Driving to the pub in a Morris Traveller with split screen & 8 track
3 up on a motorbike with no crash helmets, drinking 12 pints & riding home
those we the days :)
Not sure if already mentioned but 'bread and dripping' luverly....lol
The football special from Llanishen with a steam train and a city scarf round the funnel
BERNI INNS, treat her to a proper steak meal
Bird nesting
Taking the bottles back 10p on pop 12p on cider and beer bottles
King ball
Releego
Square peg
Scrumping apples
Getting a chase off the farmer
Airfix models
Football 78's panini stickers
Playing football over the red gravel
Space invaders
Pac man
Zx spectrum
50 p Postal order off your nan for your birthday
Jusoda and Tizer
Chipmunk Oxo crisps
Tizer made in Llandaff North
A T-Bone Steak in El Grecos in a place called Caroline Street
Guildford Crescent Baths
I could go on..........
This.
And...
Baker delivering bread by van
Butcher delivering meat by van (My mam had meat & bread deliveries until about 1970, in Ty Sign, Risca.)
Coal deliveries.
Golden Goal comp down at NP.
Airfix
Meccano.
Train sets.
Playing OUTSIDE.
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
Oh for the good old days...
with rickets, polio, caning in school...
No central heating => ice ferns on the inside of your bedroom window