General Chat

remember kaleidoscopes too - used to spend hours shaking them for different patterns and saying "Mum, look at this one" or "Dad, what d'you think of this one" until they were fed up to the back teeth with it all!!

I always got the Daily Mail Annual which lasted me for days, a Rupert Annual which I absolutely loved - I was mad on film stars and usually got a film album too

I remember the tangerines in tissue paper

Some had some really nice design logos on them from the growers . We had an apple and tissue wrapped tangerine in our Father Christmas pillow cases together with our pressies

Brings back loads of family Christmas memories :-)

What about blood oranges ?has anyone seen them about?....not very big..but...
They were really sweet .
I have to be careful with citrus now,but this has reminded me of the smell of a real tangerine!

Tangerines...memories :-)

The ones you get nowadays have no smell and by the time you peel
them they are the size of a pea. :-(

clementines are not nice - bought some in M & S - it said "sweet and juicy" on the pack and they were neither - so I took them back and had a refund

satsumas are much better

OH! Thanks for that Ann I was just saying to OH half an hour ago how we used to enjoy them thingy's and could we remember their name this was after we had peeled a Clemantine and found them Sour. At least I won't be thinking about the name now. :-D :-D

Oh yes I remember that smell. We just seem to see clemantines these days. I can't eat oranges but could eat tangerines.

oh,,,,when you crept into the room on christmas moring and smelt tangerines the tree lit and the decs all put up ,,,,,""it was christmas,and magical""" ,,,,,,,it was the only time we had them,,,,,and always dived in the pillowcase for the nuts,,,,,,,,oh, russett apples from grandads trees that had been stored for a few weeks,,,,,,,,, :-D :-D.
plus christmas eve the smell of mincepies baking,

you can still get tangerines,but they lack the same smell.

just been thinking about the tangerines we used to get at Christmas time when I was a child - they were individually wrapped in tissue paper which had gold writing on it - they had the real smell of Christmas - wonder why we don't see them anymore?