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

Very evocative, nostalgic and completely foreign to me.

Good work. I was caught up and it ended too soon!

Ah! Thanks TR, I am glad you enjoyed it
maybe I could have added a bit more onto it, as there was still a few more years left to cover
Smudger,

Smudger,

The toffs in our road with a telly invited the whole street to see the Coronation here. And I remember people going out with a shovel to pick up the horse manure for their rhubarb. The milk, and other things too, being delivered by horse drawn cart.

But I tell you what I really miss - the lovely smells in shops. Coffee, tea, bread, cheese, a real grocery smell. Oh, and if I ever smell Quink ink, my mind goes straight back to school with little wooden desks, with initials on, and ink wells.

Funny the things we remember. Thanks for reminding us.



Websailor

Hey! WS, I can remember the horse drawn milk float as well

You mentioned the smells, funny thing, I was in a supermarket and they had deliberately put the smell of apple pie out in the desert isle to encourage us to buy!! (I asked the staff where it was coming form)
It just goes to show how these researchers know how to manipulate us Eh!
Smudger,

Do any of you remember the ice-cream man? He would peddle along on his bicycle towing a box trailer full of extremely hard ice cream and ringing his bell to attract all of us to buy? The wet fish man did the same!

Later on the ice cream became the soft variety (the Italians must have come back) and us kids would be sent with a glass pint bowl to have it filled to the brim. If I happened to be at my grandma's it would join the bowls of jelly in the zinc bath until it was time for tea.

As time moved on (and sweet rationing stopped ) the bikes were replaced with rickety vans. As we lived in the country and had no car we would bus to the nearest Co-op and place an order ready for it to be delivered on a Friday. There seemed to be an awful lot of messing about with little books and excitement when the divvie was due as that meant a few extra treats.

shazz

Ah! Shazz, good to hear from you again
Yea! my Dad had his own ice cream van, and he covered a vast area with it. I used to go out with him on the weekends, where he used to cover a lot of the remote farms. For this he would stock all the items they requested including groceries, I well remember us being pulled out of snow drifts by the farmers tractor, as he was only too pleased to help after my Dad had come out all the way to their farms

My God, when I think back on it now we took some risks It was long hours for my Dad though, and seven days a week
Smudger,

wow!

You really brought back memories about my childhood when you remembered being invited to watch the Coronation on a neighbour's telly.It was our next door neighbour who was the first to become the proud owner of that new- fangled alternative to the good old radio.We and others were invited to watch the Coronation- the only part of that event, I remember that I didn't like very much,was that I was sent to the local off licence to fetch cider- my Dad's favourite beverage! Other attractions on the box were Muffin the Mule and Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men!

"Weeed"!!!! Oh, such simple pleasures.

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I used to get sent to the off licence by my Dad for the fags that eventually killed him. It was illegal for minors to buy fags or booze even then but nobody said a thing!! Cider was my favourite too, till I found how much weight it put on. I only get to have Apple Cider Vinegar these days

Ice cream I haven't had any for years. *Goes away and sulks* Such simple things were such treats, and I never heard a word about this food or that food being bad for you. We were just so darned glad to have food on our plates, and the odd luxury. I still feel as if buying fruit is a guilty luxury

I am looking forward to some more memories.

Thanks Smudger and all,
Websailor

Yea! WS, How true that is, "we never got told that this or that was bad for you" We were just lucky to have anything to eat at all.

Mind you, I was brought up with good food as my folks owned a cafe

I personally think that all this P/Correct rubbish, along with all this "healthy eating" stuff, has just gone a bit too far
and as for this "hygiene" trip they are all on,
I mean Hey! remember the state we used to be in, and what we eat and how, and we never heard of bad stomach's or bugs (as they call them now)
Smudger,