h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I can remember eating lovely, yummy, bright pink strawberry jam just overloaded with artificial colourings!! not to mention full fat greasy chips from the chip van, ahh, pure heaven, skimmed milk had not been invented, eggs for breakfast, (at least 2) every day was considered the optimum healthy meal!! Orange squash, that had never seen an orange, was the norm, as well as white, sliced bread!!

Yes, the dumplings made with full fat suet brought back memories!!

Jane

yep, my dad INSISTED that chips were fried in nothing but beef fat or they just didn't taste the same!!lol
n i remember going with my friends into bush upon bush of blackberries, supposed to b picking them to take home for a pie,needless to say not many reached home,but we did with
blackberry juice all over our faces! mmmmmmm they were gorgeous!

and on bonfire night we would wander round all the 'bonties' to c who had the best one(no adults accompanied us) n we took a few potatoes each so we cud roast them in the biggest bonty!!

Yeh we used to go blackberry picking as well, and blackcurrant picking in the school holidays, we used to get paid on weight, well I used to pick just enough to buy a packet of No,6 and a box of matches

Bonfire night was just so much fun, wow we used to have a HUGE bonfire in our garden, and my darling brother used to let off bangers to scare me!!

Jane

lmao OMG!! i remember No.6 (n sovreign) n a box of matches!!


dunno about where u live, but on the l8 60's 'BrandySnap' tights
were all the rage n if u wors ne other colour u just weren't in the fashion!!
my mother had the audacity to but me American tan n expect me to wear them!!! FOR SCHOOL!!
heehee


Trish

OMG!!
have u read Farlander's post about this on the other thread?????

Hi Trish

American tan tights eh, my mum used to make me wear them for school as well, and sometimes, being very trendy I used to wear white socks over the top!!!

I also remember the lovely, armpit skimming, big and baggy navy knickers we used to wear for sports outside on the playing field in subzero temperatures

Do you remember crimpelene dresses?????

How do I get to the other thread?? (Newbie you see)

Jane

lol oh i was lucky in that respect, no navy knickers!!
PHEW!!

but OMG!! tes i DO remember the crimpelene dresses!! pmsl
(although i neve had one i hasten to add!!) sheesh!!
i'd really 4gotten aboit them!! lol

erm,only way i know is to get to it thru my space,(think it's the last msg)it's A1016704 smiley>


Trish

lmao OMG!!
i just read ur post to Farlander!! heeheehee go get'im girl!!

have u noticed today how many younguns just ain't got ne humour in them???
they take life far too seriously
n end up burnt out long b4 they shud b!!

well done tho, u got my admiration

PS can i put u on my friends list??

Trish

Hi Trish

I just posted a message via your space to Farlander, I too objected to the sarcasm involved in being a 40+ geriatric I need a now!!

Talking about when I grew up in the 70,s we used to get drunk an awful lot, usually with a half a pint of lager and 3 "babychams", and of course we all smoked!!! this all seems relatively harmless in comparison to the youth drug taking culture of today. I worry for my kids, they are still small, (I started at a relatively "geriatric" age to have kids - 35 for the first one, and 37 the last one) but who knows what kind of kicks will be "fashion" by the time they reach their teen-age years...

regards
Jane

Yes please Trish, put me on yr friends list!!!!



Jane

lol yep! i just sent u a post about it!! lol ur a

oh how i remember babychams!!lol
i wasn;'t into drinking much in my teens(still not) but smoke like a chimney!!....but as u say everyone did!!it was sicially acceptable n u were considered a bit of an outcast if u didn't!!lol

n i had my first baby wen i was 30 (well a month b4 i was actually) but that makes me a l8 starter too!

n yes we worry about very different things nowadays, my pet hate r body piercings n tattoos!!
but then again,they have become the socially acceptable norm now(doesn't stop me hating them tho!!)

i looked on his site n he's only 26!!!!! jeez! he hasn't even started living yet!!!
n soooo opinionated!!
oh well, he'll learn!
mabye one day he'll even learn to chill n cultivate a sense of humour.....(although i won't be holding my breath!!)

well this hot, sexy geriatric's away to bed cos i'm up early to get mine ready for school n i don't wanna end up looking like he must THINK i look,thru lack of sleep!! lol


night jane
really nice chatting with u
Trish

got to get mine up for school too, I can,t believe how long I have spent on the internet tonight, tomorrow I will suffer, oh bye the way, don,t think that I am a raging alcoholic, I enjoy a beer every night, and yes, afraid that I too smoke like a chimney!!! but that,s about it on the vices front!!! BORING!!!

p.s. I can still get drunk on one babycham and a half of lager!!



Jane geriatric!!!

ur not a raving drunk?? n got no more vices than me?? aaawwwww so no goss there then!

it's been distinctly hectic this morning because it's 'non-uniform' day! OMG! we've had to go to school 'perfect' 2day!!
the clothes were no problem,but the 'bits n pieces' that r a MUST have magically been moved or lost!!
'where's my this?' n 'has neone seen my that?' but we got there in the end!! phew!!

neway, have u noticed we have been blessed with a reply to our posts? lmao

hope to chat soon

Trish

Hi Trish

Finally got my kids off to bed!! My daughter is going on an excursion tomorrow, and is so excited about it!!!!

Yeah, we have very mornings also, and I turn into a raging and until the bus comes to pick the kids up!! Then I am all contrite and worried and think what a horrid mum I must be!! . Trouble is, I am so bleary eyed at 6.30am and can,t do anything until I have my first a good injection of caffeine is essential to my ability to function as a human being, the kids get up an always plonk themselves in front of the telly and I have trouble peeling them away once I convert into a person, after the first I am less .

Do you think we may have been too harsh on Farlander??? I would strongly advise Farlander that to reach our advanced age with our super-human energy levels and abilities, a sense of humour is essential!!

By the way, I may have a few more vices I would hate all these "young-uns" to think that 40+ means "past it plus"!!!


and

Jane

lol i've got totall empathy with u there!!

i don't drink but i'm no good b4 my n ciggie!!
n we've all had mornings like that,that leave u worrying all day n wen they come home they'd forgotten about it just after it had happened!!


i most certainly do not!!!
i'll chat to neone who knows wot they r talking about and can hold a decent convo,but i draw the line at someone who only THINKS that he knows!! he cudn't even get his facts str8,he just jumped in there with no knowlege of wot i was talking about,but decided to give his opinions neway!!

aaahhhh they days of youth n total self confidence in everything no matter wot!! ....but he'll learn

well so have i!!! ....but i'm not telling u on here!!


Trish

Yre absolutely right Trish!! a little knowledge is a dangerous thing!!!

Let me just load the washing machine and I,lle be right back!!

Yeah, done that now I am ready for an and a fag!! My husband is now in front of CNN, Very romantic I must say!!

Did you used to play netball at school??? at our school we played as if our lives depended on it, wearing of course the obligatory "navy knickers" I have a confession to make to you now, I was, in the 70,s a great David Cassidy and Donny Osmond fan later in the 80,s I progressed somewhat, to................ Julio Iglesias



Jane

morning jane

just having a breather with me n fag <cough,splutter) aaahhhh that's better!

yep! we did netball at school n we were very competitive!lol it was i must admit it was the only sport (ie PE session) i really liked!
but we got on pretty good as a team so that helped as well!!

erm i quite liked david cassidy wen he was in the partridge family but wasn't mad on him! n but donny didn't nowt for me either!lol
my heart throb was David Essex n Mike Nesmith (Monkees)lmao OMG can't believe i'm admitting that in public!!

then l8r on Eric Clapton (especially 70's to the 90's)
just thought he was sex on legs!
however he's not looking that good today, but then again i still wudn't say 'no'!!

fraid i'm still into rock music in a big way, i like other kinds of course but mainly rock!!

Trish

I really fancied David Essex as well !!! I also adored Roy Wood and Wizard in 1974, and my friends and I used to dance around our handbags with ciggarettes in the hand at the local village - please don,t tell anyone. Then the local leather clad boys on their mopeds used to come and take over the dancefloor doing some kind of ritulistic type manic movements to Slade!! I still think Noddy Holder was brilliant back then!!

It was at those where we used to slip off to the pub next door to get on babychams, cider and lager!!!

Monkees???? I used to dream about them!! I used to love the little English one, name escapes me at the moment.

Nowadays, I like latin, salsa, well living here I would need to!! after admitting to being a "Donny" fan (I was 12 at the time) I guess I don,t have much credibilty on the music front!! oh and of course Julio Iglesias that is one secret vice I have,

My mother was much worse than me though, she used to like Englebert Humperdinck so you see it,s not my fault

going to have a now and a ciggie!!


Jane

i STILL love roy wood!lol
n the one ur thinking of is davy jones!!how on earth cud u 4get THAT name?

lol yeah, wen they were called discoteques???

oooh by the 70's i was well into heavy metal, with a bit of jethro tull, mott the hoople,n others thrown in!!
hippy days, jossticks n bells!!
.....but i d it!!lol

but OMG!! englebert????
so u stood no chamnce really then did ya?



Trish

Peace & Trish!!

A pity we don,t see more of that hippy philosophy today!!

I wasn,t one, but I used to spend a lot of time burning jossticks in my bedroom so my mum wouldn,t smell the No.6, (no, not Chanel No.6, but cigarettes), I did used to try rolling my own, it was at that time, but they always used to fall apart and I ended up spitting out the tobacco , I did wear long Indian type cheesecloth dresses at one time remember cheesecloth???

How could I forget Davy Jones!!! yes I just d him, and Janice, my best friend, just d Micky Dolenz.

Wow, Roy Wood, he was with The Move before Wizard, right???

I used to have my hair in a David Bowie style and put food colouring in the front to make it nice and red, on top of the henna, it was fine until it rained!!! I used to look a bit like a manic carrot with a topping!!!



Jane