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Ha ! Remember the magic comb. Lethal if the kids got their hands on it. " look mummy, no hair! "

The Andy Williams Show . Guess what ?? It's on tonight at 10.30 pm BBC 4 if you want to watch it. What cheek. It finished in about 1971 , when the licence fee was £1.5.0d (£1.25p) Now what are we paying for the same old crap.

Bbc must be scraping the bottom of the barrel now that harris saville and others cant be shown any more.trying to play safe with andy. Any more misdeamenours coming to light with tv stars and it will just be andy pandy and looby loo.

They'd have to re-invent and get the ratio's right. Far too many Christian guidlines ?

remember it well and wish we could have those days again.........


Checking out at the supermarket, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologised and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."

The young cashier responded, "That's our problem today - your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

She was right -- our generation didn't have the 'green thing' in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, lemonade bottles and beer bottles to the shop. The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilised and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.


But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.

Grocery shops bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we re-used for numerous things, most memorable besides household bags for rubbish, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school), was not defaced by our scribbling. Then we were able to personalise our books on the brown paper bags.

But too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have a lift in every supermarket, shop and office building. We walked to the local shop and didn't climb into a 300 horsepower machine every time we had to go half a mile.

But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's terry towel nappies because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 3 kilowatts – wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids had hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.



But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.

Back then, we had one radio or TV in the house - not a TV in every room and the TV had a small screen the size of a big handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of Scotland in the kitchen. We blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We pushed the mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then.


We drank from a tap or fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razorblades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

But we didn't have the "green thing" back then.

Back then, people took the bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their Mums into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's £40,000 ‘people carrier’ which costs 8 times more than a whole house did before the "green thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances and we didn't need a computerised gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pub!

But isn't it sad that the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then?



Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart arse young person.

We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off.. especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartarse who can't work out the change without the cash register telling them how much it is!

Here endeth the lesson - but SEND IT ON first.

Well said granny a brilliant read and so very true thanks for that.

You're so good at getting points across Granny its yet another well said from me too.

True though isn't it girls ?

AND...another thing. Straight out of the Victorian era.

I got one of these last week. Bloody marvellous! If you've got room it saves a lot of energy on tumble drying, and no need to have the radiators on all day to get it dry .

There you are chaps, a great Christmas present for the wife. Keep your bills down.

http://www.castinstyle.co.uk/product.php/285/pulley-clothes-airer

Miss our pulley in old house. So that's not a bad idea granny. Risk life and limb fitting it. Gone for the wire racks you hang over radiators. Sheets over the stairs. House like a Chinese laundary with all kids still at home.
Whip the knickers and bras off............the radiators when guests call round.
Remember the twin tubs that would chase you round the kitchen when the spinner was on. At least we don't get smogs today.

You don't want knickers and bras on when the vicar calls, Fish. For goodness sake !

Was thinking yesterday, about how 'green' we were , how few cars there were on the roads, how old the Liver building is (100 years)and how flipping filthy it was before it was cleaned, which must be about 15 years ago at the same time they changed the lighting on it and made it look like a dolls house. (I hope that didn't come out of the tax payers money. Bloody hell ! ) How did it and St. Georges Hall get so filthy ?

Still got one-had it 20 odd years and would be lost without it.