It was till he sussed us and got solid tyres, bastard. Then we reverted to plan B and stuck a tattie up his exhaust
That shows you were always going places pal. Remember the video man, who used to come round in his van... or was that just my street? Ours used to have sweets as well, I can't imagine they were the most hygienic thing to put in your mouth, he looked like sort of a cross between Worzel Gummage and Rab C Nesbitt with a wasting disease.
I'll tell you what hasn't changed!! Geordie lasses!!! My wife and daughter have flown 5,000 miles to a family wedding and was almost attacked by a geordie lass who didn't like not being the centre of attention!
Maybe you should start a thread for what hasn't changed Blunham, this is a thread for what HAS changed.
There was a bloke on our estate with a swap shop, it was my favourite place in the world. You could take anything in there and he'd swap it for something of significantly less value but you'd be buzzin for about an hour that you had something new until you realised it was ****. We once gave him a VCR to fix (he did repairs as well) and he swapped it for a snorkel and divers gear with somebody.
Going to work on a wet cold freezing morning, talking to your car and offering all kinds to the gods above praying it would start? now they plug laptops into them to find out what's wrong.
Bogey's made from a plank of wood and some old pram wheels. We used to spend days making them and go looking for the steepest bank we could find and race them. Great fun.
Frost was about an inch thick back then and you'd be scraping like a bastard, my car defrosts fully in about 45 seconds nowadays.
Cricket in the back lanes with bin lid propped up on bricks for the wicket. Loved the noise it made when you bowled somebody out Footy in the back lanes, playing doors and generally annoying folks Knocky nine doors Down the the on the allotment after tea drinking Gaymers Olde English and playing brag Waiting till the draymen went into the club for lunchtime bevvy and "borrowing" some botles from the curtain-sider Playing "Japs & English" down the burn Going to the scouts, playing Montakitty and British Bullddog Smoking when you were'nt old enough. Usually Woodbines or Park Drive (you could get tabs in packs of 5) Makinf a bogie with old pram wheels and scrap wood Palying muggles in the gutters on the way to school Playing the nick from school Looking back it was fantastic and kids today do not know what they are missing, great times great mates plenty of corporal punishment when you crossed the line
Aye and the heater never worked either or you'd blow a gasket cos the radiator had frozen up. Or worse, h you had to heat the key up just to get it in the door lock.
Our key had a little button that heated it up it was like they'd invented the solution to all of the world's problems until they figured out that it didn't ****ing work!
