General Chat

Hi GlasgowLass,
We did exactly the same then after we had our tea we would meet again and play out until it was dark then back home to bed. This would definitely never happen today.

GP

Remember going out to play and never returning before tea time?
How come no one ever came looking for us?

Indeed GP, one time Dad fell over in a shop and they got hold of me because I was the first name in his phone, he put me in as A1 daughter, he ended up in Hospital but ok, another occasion Mum was lost (she had altzimers) luckily the shop she was in knew her so phoned Dads mobile.

Hi ZZzzz,
When they first came out they were the size of a brick but now they are very small.
My daughter persuaded me to buy one in 2005 and I didn't really want one but now I cannot do without it and it has been a godsend at times. :-) :-) :-)

GP

GP, I passed my driving test in 1998 and my husband bought me my first mobile phone, it was bigger than my pocket but I can't imagine life without one now.
I bought one for my Dad when he was in his 70s it was literally a life saver for him.

If someone had said to me in the 1950's that instead of using the telephone box at the end of the street you will sometime in the future carry a small phone in your pocket and be able to phone anyone in the world, I would have said they were bonkers. :-0 :-0 :-0

GP

"When you were old enough you could ride a moped at 16, any size motorbike at 17 and drive a car after passing yor test as fast as it was safe without worrying about speed cameras. "

But it wasn't safe and serious fatal road accidents were more than twice as high as they are today.Indeed the worst year for fatal road accidents was during the 1930s when relatively few people owned motor transport.

Bristol is in the process of reducing the speed limit to 20 mph on all roads except for a handful of principal routes. Mind you much of the time 20 mph in Bristol is something to dream of.

Makes me wonder how future generations will cope/survive having no sense of danger etc, it's bad enough now IE schools having a 20 mph limit because the children have no road sense because not many walk to school anymore. :-(

I agree with every word of the posting, well done.

However, we don't know we're born today. Apart from the fact that we would be young again and surrounded by older loved ones, few people would actually swop.

If you don't agree with me, think of the reality of some of the above and all the draw-backs invisible to the rose coloured eye.

Happy days

And you knew the Local Bobby, and he knew you and your family,woe betide you if you were caught Scrumping Etc a clip round the ear and another when you got home. :-)

When you werte old enough you could ride a moped at 16, any size motorbike at 17 and drive a car after passing yor test as fast as it was safe without worrying about speed cameras.
Traffic wardens hadn't been invented either.

I agree with all of this. I remember when I was little and my brothers climbing on a wall. Mum shouted, if you fall off that wall, don't come crying to me or I will give you something to cry for.lol

I agree with so much of it and NO I wouldn´t change my upbringing either, the only thing that I am strict about now is my kitchen BUT I do not have coloured boards. I would like to say I have 1 but I have 3 and I use them all the same but I do clean them and I do keep an eye on my fridge, I used to date dot everything for awhile. !!

No harm came to me for climbing trees and falling out of them ! Nor did the slipper harm me

Our Geography teacher was the only one among all the teachers who made you bend over to administer the strap. I always wondered about him. :-0 :-0 :-0 ;-)

GP

But the headmaster did, GP! :-D :-D I remember him putting iodine on the Chinese burns we'd all given each other - ouch!! :-D :-D ;-)

I can't remember giving you any form of punishment GinN. :-D :-D :-D ;-)

GP

GP - As we were born at brought up in the same place , all this rings true for me, too! :-D :-D ;-)

See, a learning curve :-D :-D :-D

Hi Kitty, :-) :-)
The first time I received the strap for being naughty I told my mother and she gave me a hiding so I never told her anything after that. :-D :-D ;-)

GP

Good days on the whole GP, plus if someone was being a ..... *searches for suitable word*..... silly billy and getting on your wick, you could give them a slap and that would be the end of it.

As my husbands ex-employer found out when I paid him a very short visit one day

:-D :-D :-D