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

hi there sheryl..and everyone else of course!!!Im glad you have your daft head on sheryl,it's better than been a miserable s@d!!!!Have a on me love,and thanks for making me xx

mornin' all....
i'm here again, and still daft...
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sal... thanx for the luv.... pleased that i made you laugh... i try not to be a miserable s*d... i like a good old chuckle to blow away the cobwebs of gloom.....
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let's all take a deep breath and have a good old belly

Hi Folks, Remember back in the old days when shops used to close for lunch hour??

Some still do I know, but not the larger shops

and remember when we used to have Sunday Best clothes??

and the old style Grocers shop, that had a chair so you could sit down while he sliced your bacon, or ground your coffee beans?

Ah! dont worry about me, Im just in one of those nalstagic moods
Smudger,

and wot about half day closing... (used to be wednesdays here).... and you'd never see anywhere open on a sunday...... x

evenig all.those are the times i recall from my childhoodI know ive sai before my mother had a shop,and closed half days wednesdays,and sunday afternoons.We had a bacon slicer,and massive cheeses that she cut with a cheese wire ,they were kept on a round marble tray,and a big,lined flour bin ,as she weighed flour out by the pound.And hand pumps for the beer she sold,in jugs that people brought,usually with a tea towel over the top!!!She used to weigh out sugar as well,in little blue bags!!!What games we used to play,anyone recall tin can squat,whip and tops,hop scotch,...anymore????s to all.x

chinese elastics..... ouch.......

sal luv before bedtime calls....

hi sal how are you? yes i remember whips and peery ,jacks or five stones,
diablo, pogo stick, stilts. had an ace scooter that had a brake at the back that i ripped my dresses on we also played hopscotch on the paving slabs, skipping -ordinary and bumbs did you do bumbs? seems like an eon ago. we used to put the poker in the fire and put it into a dish of sugar to make rather crap toffee this took place when my mum went to the paper shop for the edinburgh evening news about a mile away we also used to try to make tablet from milk and sugar whille she was out as well . we used to open all the windows to let out the smoke and smell. god know how she didnt detect it oh i could go on forever
speak again soon carol

hi badger
yes i remember sunday best oh god it was awful. my mum bought me this hidious coat complete with inverted pleats top with cloth bows at the top of each one it= was mustard and had a fur collar think of the worst cenario and youve got it . i used to go out the front door of our prefab supposidly to sunday school duck under the window and go into the coal cellar where i had a sloopy joe (tee shirt) and shorts and plimsols on standby take of the worship gear and head for the local burn and canal on my bike stashed at a friends house
got away with this for a few weeks until i arrived back in one suday redress in god clobber and shot in the back door only to be invited into the front room where the lovely miss ramsay sunnday school teacher was sitting - she thought i was ill and had called to see. the rest is history. was a good attender of sunday school after that .complete with THE COAT.

Ah! Yes! Astro, the old Sunday best!! clothes that were new were for Sundays only!
Then after a while they were everyday clothes. Same went for shoes, or sandals.

I can still remember the smell of that grocers shop! lovely smell of coffee and tea, that was served lose from a tea box.
Sawdust on the floor of the buthers shop, all these and many more happy memoeies of days gone by
Smudger,

sorry smudger i call you badger well it sounds sim but i think im a dyslexic reader .can any one remember their parental unit buying wallpaper and how they used to re roll it to take off an inbiuilt border on a sort of hand operated machine????

Nope Astro, I dont remember that , maybe they never took me when they bought wall paper

I do remember hanging rolls of the stuff when we were restoring that big house that my folks bouhgt! (full story in Regency, one of my Snippets at the bottom of my home page)

If you ever have time, pop in and read a few!
Smudger,

Hi astro nice to see you joining in.
We could use some fresh *old* memories

I met you at the De Myelin Nation and stopped by your page.

Hi smudger and sal and all *waves*

GOOD MORNING all,well i agree abbi,more old memories!!!
carol.i remember having to hit the end of the rolls of wallpaper,as there was an edge to it that was plain white!!!!i wonder why they used to put that on???And i recall having to re-roll it,seems a bit silly when you think about it now!!!!

hello all sorry not been on for awhile haveing trouble with my teeth and gums waiting to go dentist in lots of pain so am grummy as hell and got no paitents for anything hope to be back to normal soon ? hope things are well with you all xxd

Nice to hear from you again Helena9, to hear about your tooth probs, I hope it all works out well for you
Youve got a lot to catch up on, so I will leave you to it
Smudger,

Last fall thru Christmas I had dental pain and work so I sympathize helena9 I hope there is a plan to resolve the problems soon.

OHHH Dentist,, i ave never liked the dentist, but one i go to now, is great,, he knows i dont like them, so he makes you feel at ease,, now when i go, i am ok,, i leave the jitters in the car,,, only prob i have now, is he talks to me, but cant answer, if he is working on any of the teeth,,, still it keeps me quite for 5 mins or more,,hope helena as now got her dental probs sorted.. and she is now ok

hi all,DORIS,sorry you're feeling under the weather luv,hope you soon get the dental problems sorted out.toothache is awful,and i know abbi went through a lot of problems with hers.Hope it doesn't last too long,and i wouldn't have much patience either if it were me.Have a to make you feel better.HAZEL,,i hated the dentist as well.i've always been scared of them!!it's good to know i aren't just soft,and that other people feel the same!!!

oooooooh nooooooooo... hate the bloody dentist.... well i did... had all mine taken out years ago and never looked back.....
had probs with 'em all breakin' and gum probs... told the dentist i was phobic and insisted they took the whole lot out.... after an xray he agreed that my teeth were crumbling in my gums so it would be best all round to give me a gummy.....

never have been able to wear me bottom set but hey, no more aches.... ouch....
s to all who are suffering.....

I have not been back to the dentist since 1969 when a R.N. dentist literally knocked my broken tooth out, so he could get back to his wardroom party!!!!!!!!

I broke my tooth in the morning of that day while on the assault course,it was 9 pm before they sent me for treatment??????

Never went back since then
Smudger,