BiddyGrotto

[Robinia]

It seems we're not getting any changes on AB 'til after xmas so I've set up a grotto for us. Sorry it's a bit like a scene from Great Expectations but I've sprayed a few cobwebs silver & blown the dust off me doileys so please come in & sit down.
What do all the biddies/grumps want to find in their wrinkly stockings this year then? Do you like all this festivity or will you be the grumpy gran/grandpa from hell this year?
Please feel free to take a present out of the bran tub as you leave by the way. Contents may be unidentifiable....oops sorry...be varied.

[Jude123]

I wouldn't dream of throwing anything at you Robinia but I cant say I was a fan of SWW. I liked Buddy Holly, Billy Fury and so on....

[Jude123]

P.S. I did get to Baileys a few times...The last time I did a pub crawl in Derby was about 15 years ago. When I came home my friend opened her front door and I fell in!! Whoops! Been down since to restaurants. A bit more reeefiineed these days. :o)

[jno]

goodness, what a lot of youngsters. I was far too old when discos came along. (Mind you, I was probably too old for Crosby.)

[Robinia]

yes I thought you'd be an originals only. I love Billy Fury - I've got most of his songs but on tape - must get some cd's. I didn't really appreciate him until about 15 yrs ago from hearing a lot on radio trent/gem - he had a great voice , such a shame he died so young.

Just had a look at Billy Fury.com & my favourite song of his is on the player!!!! :-)

[VINNY100_2]

I use to love all the rockers in the fifties jude.My sister pauline use to play her records in the kitchen on her dansette record player,and my dad would play along with his Harmonica(after a few pale ales)and we would all be up dancing(after nicking a bottle off me dad and drinking it under the table..)gene Vincent was my fav cos we shared the same name..I use to have a quiff tight jeans,winkle pickers and leather jacket.As for the Sixties,Are tell you later......(:)

[Jude123]

OOOOh Vinny you're really taking me back. Now don't get carried away!!!

I had a d.a. hair cut and on a girl in those days it was considered cool. I had a drape jacket maroon with a black velvet collar. A skirt with splits at both sides. (not thigh High splits). And to finish the look off black suede crepe soled shoes. I probably looked a prat but I thought I looked the dogs wotsits!!

[Robinia]

oh we had a Dansette Vinny, red & cream, dead posh!my brother is 11 yrs older than me & bought lots of singles which we used to pile on altogether - they played about 10 didn't they? ...always one that slipped tho ..... my favourite was Palisades Park ....I've got that on my comp I'm going to listen to it now...

there can you hear it?

[VINNY100_2]

Run run runnin' all the rides are runnin'
Run run runnin' all the rides are runnin'

Last night I took a walk in the dark
A steamin' place called Palisades Park
Turned around to see what I could see
That's where the girls are

I took a ride on a shoopby shoo
The girl I sat beside was Robinia cool
And when we start I gave that girl a hug
My heart was flyin'
Up like a rocket ship
Down like a roller coaster
Left like a loopdy loop
And around like a merry go round

We ate and ate at a hot dog stand
We danced around to a rockin' band
And we we quit I gave that girl a hug
In the tunnel of love

You never know how great a kisser Robinia can be
Until you stop at the bottom of a ferris wheel
In the tunnel of love down at Palisades Park

Run run runnin' (:)

[Jude123]

We're really walking down memory lane now aren't we? Does anybody remember those flared skirts with piles of underskirts which you had to soak in sugar to make them stick out!! I bet I've gone too far back now!

[Robinia]

lol Vinny - I used to think he said "we ate a nail at a hot dog stand" - hahaha.... thought they must have needed the iron.....

Jude I had a few net underskirts when I was very young, why did they always slide down? I've still got an original satin scarf and a brooch with poodles on.

[Jude123]

Bless yer Robinia they kept falling down because we didn't have tummies to hold them up!! Mind you , I was the typical bean-pole, like a lat. Didn't have any shape until I started having children. And with all that dancing there was no way I was going to put on weight!!

[Robinia]

oooh now I've got BJK trains boats and planes - memories of first boyfriend....

Have to say my all time favourite song is a sixties one - Good Morning Starshine - very hippy and they knew how to write lyrics then.........nibby nabby nooby

[Robinia]

oh poo - not won the lotto :-(
must be nearly time for Casualty - I have to have a weekly fix of tracheowhatomies - I think it means removal of shell suit
ttfn

[VINNY100_2]

Where I lived,There were loads of tonup boys. motorbike gangs..the one down my road were called the" el,dragoes"They use to meet over sids cafe on the christchurch bypass.This one lad use to fancy my sister,So i said to him,Are put a good word in for him,if you do a ton on the bypass with me on the back.he had a 1000 Vincent black shadow.ohmygod...and i didnt even wear a helmut..my sister didnt fancy him,everytime they came reving up outside my house..i would hide...(:)

[Jude123]

Scary Vinny! My husband was a bike well not a ' leather boy' or anything. He had a Featherbed Norton and we used to go the Manx Grand Prix and racing tracks in England like Malory, Brands Hatch etc....I used to have a helmet with a brim - rubbish. But we had some good times.

[VINNY100_2]

Just for you jude,What a brill looking bike...(:)

norton

[netibiza]

Well I'll be 62yrs (going on 16) in October, there I've said it.

[Jude123]

That's really Brilliant Vinny. I'm saving that. It was a good bike. We only fell off it once at the Tewkesbury Roundabout. We were heading to Worcester to pick up some genuine scrumpie.(4p a pint) and we slid off. I went one way, hubby the other and the bike another. I ran over to him to ask him if he was ok and he "said are the cider flagons still ok" They were on the back of the bike. Typical!! But we were ok.

[Jude123]

Actually Vinny it was 4d a pint. It's my age again!!

[Robinia]

Feather bed? That sounds like a good idea & a cue for another song.....

It was nine feet high, six feet wide, soft as a downy chick.....

sweet dreams all....x