Sunday mornings when I were a lad
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raleighnut
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Me too,
FrankCrank
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My paper round was Mon-Fri. Xmas was the best - so many tips. The low point was the Queens silver jubilee 1977 - special edition meant lugging round double the normal load - near killed me. All the dosh I earned was blown on Doc Martens, shrink fit Levis, Harrington jackets, Brutus shirts, high waisters - nothing was squandered 
gbb
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I blame my Sunday paper round, even before the days of supplements, for my lifelong bad back. Heavy bag, causing you to walk unnaturally kiltered over to one side.
Mushroom picking on our airfield, gorgeous field mushrooms, up at maybe 5 or 6am, walk a few miles, home for a fry up.
Mushroom picking on our airfield, gorgeous field mushrooms, up at maybe 5 or 6am, walk a few miles, home for a fry up.
tyred
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Same here. We had a Sunday School teacher who did the whole fire and brimstone routine.
Accy cyclist
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Before my teens it was bacon butties and tinned grapefruit (God bless mum!
) for a late breakfast,then a walk around the 'hen pens' with my dad, smelling the newly applied creosote.
In my teens it was British Leyland rust bucket out the back, being patched up by dad with fiberglass resin.
If i get a whiff of creosote or fiberglass resin these days i automatically go back to the 1960's and 70's.
) for a late breakfast,then a walk around the 'hen pens' with my dad, smelling the newly applied creosote.In my teens it was British Leyland rust bucket out the back, being patched up by dad with fiberglass resin.
If i get a whiff of creosote or fiberglass resin these days i automatically go back to the 1960's and 70's.
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Accy cyclist
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Brutus shirts,
I have one of those.
FrankCrank
Old layabout
Amazed the brand still survives. I'd need the porky fit though 
Accy cyclist
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I remember my flared Brutus jeans in the 1970's. I had a pair of bleached one's that must've been a foot wide at the bottom!Amazed the brand still survives. I'd need the porky fit though
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FrankCrank
Old layabout
Heh heh - I need them flared at the waist now.I remember flared Brutus jeans in the 1970's. I had a pair of bleached one's that must've been a foot wide at the bottom!
Accy cyclist
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FrankCrank
Old layabout
Another one back then I remember were Oxford Bags - bit like clowns pants. They had to cover your platform shoes, but leave the sole and part of heel still showing. All was well till you got drenched in the rain, and they just collapsed like a wet sack
