Isn't this very true....done in two parts!

[Bobbisox]

WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER!!"And we never had a whole Mars bar until 1993"!!!
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930's 1940's, 50's, 60's and early 70's !

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonald's , KFC, Subway or Nandos.

[LoftyLottie]

Channel!

[LoftyLottie]

In the wilds of North Norfolk Peri!

[Bobbisox]

lol@LL
the News presenters were very posh wern't they?

[Dris]

Nice one Joy :)

I remember when it was only hotels who could open on a Sunday !

O and going into the chippie for a bag of scraps (the hard chips and bits of batter which had fallen into a tray) -they were delish....yip I had a brill childhood !!!

lol@ milliezoe -we were chased by the Police when we were on a Norton Commando -we outwitted them by going up a cul de sac with bollards at the bottom -they just flashed their blue light as they went past -conceding defeat lol

[Bobbisox]

Morning Dris, ta for the FB message, I was done in yesterday pet after the fateful Coach Trip..lol
I had a Vesper scooter, I was a mod..lol

[milliezoe]

Dris
Do we not mellow my trips to the cavern rolling stones long hair blue jeans leather jackets twinkle toes etc I am currently enjoying listening to Rhapsody in blue !!!!!!!

[Bobbisox]

millie excellent taste might I say

[Dina73]

People used to burn their own rubbish either in the fire under the hearth, or you were even allowed a fire in your garden! My brother used to collect rubbish and have a fire outside every 3 days or so.

[Bobbisox]

and how many bins did we have...ONE!

[LoftyLottie]

We can still have fires in our gardens. They also do in the local town.

[Dris]

Joy -forgot about your coach trip-hope you had fun!! x

milliezoe -cant believe how wild I was -can believe its still there bubbling under the surface tho although i do have my sensible front on at times !! Ive still got my bike jacket -cant bear to part with it and I still have all the badges on the lapel -the jacket could now stand on its own but its just full of happy memories :)

[Bobbisox]

and put a straw up them vibes to send them scooting across the lake, hands up I did that too
ohhhh the shame of it..lol

[craft1948]

My daughter regularly accuses me of cruelty citing some of the reasons you have put.
BTW she is 40 on Wednesday so I anticipate being well p!ssed and probably abusive that night................

[milliezoe]

Four of us after a few jars went into Heaton Park in Manchester Sunday afternoon stripped off and dived in the boating lake !!!! we were of course thrown out but not prosecuted in fact we got a round of applause when I think of it now ohh the shame I certainly did not tell my Dad !!!!!!!

[annie0000]

Anyone remember having coin meters fro everything - including the tv!? if you had no money or correct change, you couldn't watch tv and we always watched tv in the dark to save on the electricity.

The only time we got pocket money was when one of the meter men came and there would be some left over which my mum would share out.

[Bobbisox]

craft I hope you be on top form pet..lol
mines 38 and still gets on about the day she took a slap on the back of her legs off me, she always wonders where the thumb mark was as it was only the three fingers mark..lol

[Bobbisox]

Hya annie, yes I do remember that, it was great excitement when the leccy or gas man came to empty the metre, you lived like kings that day..lol

[annie0000]

I am the youngest of 7 bobbi - so we would come home to 7 little piles of cash - straight up to the newsagents for a bottle of american cream soda, a packet of potato puffs and a quarter of cola cubes and a comic if there was enough left.

[Bobbisox]

my point exactly annie, how happy we all were then