Memories of Childhood

(25-01-2019 14:20 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Oh yes my first crush was Kathy Smallwood the 100 & 200m athlete a stunning brunette and I was very aware of her at 8 yrs old especially when I went to athletics meetings(brought up in an athletics environment rather than football) my film crush was Kim Richards child actor in Escape To Witch Mountain and Return From Witch Mountain. I also remember one assistant Tegan(Aussie air stewardess) played by Janet Fielding in Doctor Who-man she had lovely legs.

Yes, Kathy Smallwood was my crush too. She was head and shoulders above the other British sprinters of the time (both metaphorically and literally - she was a tall girl) - her UK records lasted for over 20 years. I think she went on to become a teacher in Wolverhampton.

The Cinzano Bianco one, I could hear Leonard Rossiter’s voice in my head as I was reading it, he had the utterly gorgeous Joan Collins sat next to him (lucky barsteward)

(04-02-2019 11:26 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Yes but I am after the name of the dairy. Spike Milligan and Sidney James were also,in the ads in the early days.
Not quite in the right order but you got 8 Carl. Anyone else want a try? No cheating now

Back to school for extra Maths Greeny. I only answered 7 questions

PG Tips
Cinzano Bianco
McDonald's
Unigate milk
Homepride
Kia-Ora
Frosties
American Express
The Sun
Sugar Puffs
Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles
Hamlet cigars

Well done andyjb full marks there.
Carl-it was late at night that's my excuse and me back hurts!!
milfspotter-yes she was head and shoulders our best athlete and the prettiest thing on two legs-very sexy brunette and a lovely smile. I don't think she ever posed for pictures but I did manage to get her autograph once-I might still have it somewhere.

I was thinking, you know these days ripped jeans are the in-thing, in fact anything with holes is supposed to be a fashion-or laziness at not bothering to get a new pair. When we were young if you got a hole develop in anything you wore you patched it up!! How times have changed.

Here's another-do you remember the Televison Detector vans? These unassuming brown-coloured COMER vans with aerials on the top and some sort of radar system would roam the streets looking for people who hadn't got a television licence. I remember the advert for it and a sinister voice said "...they;re in the front room, and they're watching Columbo!" You need to get a licence or face a fine of a £1,000 or even a prison sentence and there was no hiding, they could find you anywhere. In The Young Ones episode 'BOMB' they haven't got a licence and the man(Roger Sloman) from the BBC licencing is sent round-after trying to stall him Neil has to let him in whereupon he discovers that the 'old trick' has been done by Vyvyan; he has eaten the tele.!

They were just empty vans with a couple of guys just checking through records. They were checking for TV ariels and if you were sat there watching Coronation St.

(04-02-2019 17:28 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Well done andyjb full marks there.
Carl-it was late at night that's my excuse and me back hurts!!
milfspotter-yes she was head and shoulders our best athlete and the prettiest thing on two legs-very sexy brunette and a lovely smile. I don't think she ever posed for pictures but I did manage to get her autograph once-I might still have it somewhere.

I was thinking, you know these days ripped jeans are the in-thing, in fact anything with holes is supposed to be a fashion-or laziness at not bothering to get a new pair. When we were young if you got a hole develop in anything you wore you patched it up!! How times have changed.

I look at teenagers today walking around with holes in the knees of their jeans and think to myself..’it’s been done’ I was wearing jeans with holes in (until my Mam patched them - usually using the back pockets!) before they became fashionable.

Those days ended when I got my first Lee Coopers in 1979 after seeing the Lee Cooper ad which had ‘Don’t be a Dummy’ - sung by Gary Numan as the soundtrack, and me being a real Numanoid, well, I had to have them : Them with my Ben Sherman shirt,Harrington Jacket and Doc Martens and I thought I was the real dogs bollocks

I always thought Nick Kamen looked a berk when he took his off to wash them-mind you old pretty boy should have stuck to adverts because then Madonna took hold of him and let him sing-bad move! I had a Harrington short jacket but never wore DM's or Ben Sherman but then I wasn't a Mod but I did like the mod music.

(04-02-2019 20:33 )GreenMachine Wrote:  I always thought Nick Kamen looked a berk when he took his off to wash them-mind you old pretty boy should have stuck to adverts because then Madonna took hold of him and let him sing-bad move! I had a Harrington short jacket but never wore DM's or Ben Sherman but then I wasn't a Mod but I did like the mod music.

It was a really smart, sharp look, after having long hair for most of the 70s, my hairstyle suddenly going through a drastic change (if you can remember the style that Suggs from Madness had in the late 70s - although I was trying to model myself on Jerry Dammers from the Specials) must have made my Mam wondering what was going on my head to which my response would usually be a loud sigh quickly followed by ‘I’m being fashionable’ The stuff we come out with..we really think we know it all at that age.