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Who remembers when kitchen matches were the size of small torpedo' s?

To quote Bill Bryson ' In those days kitchen matches were heavy-duty implements—more like signal flares than the weedy sticks we get today. You could strike them on any hard surface and fling them at least fifteen feet and they wouldn’t go out. Indeed, even when being beaten vigorously with two hands, as when lodged on the front of one’s sweater, they seemed positively determined not to fail.'

Not really reading a novel when I should be updating SEF....

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Not really reading a novel when I should be updating SEF....

Yay! You can join the SEF avoidance gang!!! xD

Matches has made me think of 'spills' - think that's what they were called - my 'aunties' (they weren't really my aunties but always known as that) had an old cannon shell thingie on their fireplace full of 'spills' for firelighting - oh they were lovely - I spent many a happy hour playing with those! :1b

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SEF Avoidance Group - SAG? Is sagging really something anyone needs to be thinking about?! ;):ph34r: :blink:

No! :oxDxD

 

Could be worse than sagging - what about Group Avoiding Sef.

GAS anyone?

Right - we need to give this some further thought :blink: I will put lots of effort into this - obviously so that I don't need to think about my SEF :ph34r:xDxD

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The 'pop' man, a baker with a basket of goodies, the potato man too.......(our dog bit him he wasn't so keen to call after that :blink: ), an indoor 'coal hole'..........

I need to think about why we had a 'salvage sack' into which mum put newspapers, mags, cardboard........what was that all about - early recycling or some left over thing from the war years?????

One of my favourite children's books is 'The Tiger who came to Tea' - love the page.......'it can't be........' pictures of boys on bikes, milk floats...... :1b

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Hubby came home the other day with a jar of black jacks and fruit salad sweets... a freebie he got in a hotel celebrating 40 years.. they were delicious.. we fought over them!

Nan always had a man with a suitcase call selling dusters, polish, shoe brushes etc... he used to give me tiny tins of lovely smelling lavender furniture polish.. for my dolls house.. along with mini dusters... think they were his samples.. I loved them...

Tights with knickers were never long enough.. always been a lanky one and the crotch always reached mid thigh.. in fact early tights were all too short for me...

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we had retro sweets at our school reunion last April - black jacks, parma violets, sherbert bonbons, cherry lips, fruit salads, sherbert dibdabs, licourice wheels, gobstoppers, love hearts, fizzers, tom thumbs etc complete with paper bags and sweet jars with scoops. No wonder I had a mouth full of fillings by the age of 13

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Saturday morning pictures!

we still have saturday morning pictures in our local cinema and it is still called pictures and is always well attended by children

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