Memories of Childhood

They say that particular tunes have an effect on us and trigger memories. I can't hear 'Where Ever I Lay My Hat(that's my home) by Paul Young without harking back to one Sunday summer afternoon at a girl friends' house where my best friend and I were visiting and he, at the time was her boyfriend, was trying to set light to one of her shoes in her parent's back garden using a magnifying glass! Is there a particular tune that evokes memories for you?

We used to set light to anything with a magnifying glass from plastic soldiers to toy cars, you name it.

Also did anyone make stink bombs in school?

(02-07-2019 19:05 )babelover48 Wrote:  We used to set light to anything with a magnifying glass from plastic soldiers to toy cars, you name it.

Also did anyone make stink bombs in school?

We did something during one science lesson, an experiment which had absolutely no effect on us whatsoever, but woe betide those who happened to be walking along the corridor past the laboratory we were in...you could hear the choking, coughing and dry retching sounds coming through en masse...was really a strange experience, given that we were at the very epicentre of the stench, and the direct cause of it, but we were completely oblivious to it.

I think this has been metioned before, but I remembder the Vesta packet meals and honestly think the resdy meals today would probably be seen as a welcome relief from those. I don't think there was any real taste in them. I don't what msde rhem so tasteless bjuti certyainly do think I was sick once or twice.

I also loved the Cresta drinks then "It's frothy man!!" anyone remember the flavours? my biggest excitement was taking thr empties back to the off licence on a Friday night and then gettin the fish and chips for tea, then spending the money in the sweet shop next day. Think the most I ever made was just over a pound and boy hylou could get a lot with a ;pound then. A good comic, a drink and a few sweets made up a pound pretty well. i think the most pocket money I had then was ablout £3-5 a week. Anyone got more than me with either empties or pocket money?

I remember Cresta as mentioned on here before, being violently sick after having an orange one, then a lethal cocktail of sweets, chocolate and crisps on a binge with a friend of mine who was also violently sick-never again after that. So no music evoked memories for you?

I know someone in this forum who doesn’t like being reminded about the Cresta ‘it’s frothy man’ adverts

Talk of the Vesta stuff...god I must have ate so much of that stuff in the mid-late 70s. Sitting in front of the telly eating the Chinese Vesta with the crispy noodles while watching ‘Kung Fu’ or ‘The Water Margin’ on BBC2..why we watched Oriental style shows while scoffing Chinese Vesta stuff I don’t know...whether it was by a strange sort of coincidence or whatever I don’t know.

At least I was behaving myself, not terrorising my neighbours by lighting bangers and leaving them on their window sills, or going on my bike and firing raw eggs at old biddies

I think we had a short flirtation with the Soda Stream stuff think that was just a bad as the original Lucozade!!
I know we used to have tradition of going out for a Chinese on the Sunday before Christmas, and wasn't 'Water Margin' on considerably later than 'Kung Fu' on BBC2 I think it was, a Friday or Saturday night, due to it's violent content level? All in Japanese I believe, (or dubbed English? ), but either way you had subtitles I think as well!!

(02-07-2019 22:20 )Carl-Gen X Wrote:  I know someone in this forum who doesn’t like being reminded about the Cresta ‘it’s frothy man’ adverts

Talk of the Vesta stuff...god I must have ate so much of that stuff in the mid-late 70s. Sitting in front of the telly eating the Chinese Vesta with the crispy noodles while watching ‘Kung Fu’ or ‘The Water Margin’ on BBC2..why we watched Oriental style shows while scoffing Chinese Vesta stuff I don’t know...whether it was by a strange sort of coincidence or whatever I don’t know.

At least I was behaving myself, not terrorising my neighbours by lighting bangers and leaving them on their window sills, or going on my bike and firing raw eggs at old biddies

You little tearaway!!

Couldn't eat that stuff anyway as it wasn't kosher and whenever I saw it on screen it looked grey!
I remember The Water Margin, my Dad liked that and also Monkey! My cousin had his own Sodastream in his bedroom which was pretty cool back then. I remember watching said Monkey eating my strawberry Angel Delight(no matter how well you mixed it, it never looked like the picture on the packet-of course we didn't know that it was coloured mash potato! My parents had a Goblin Teasmade which was a bit like being in a hotel room with tea-making facilities.

Remember all that, seems like centuries ago