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Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
I recently bought a bike.
Buying an item you owned when you were younger
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CopperBrompton
Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
- Location
- London
When I was a kid, we had Encyclopaedia Britannica from about 1907. I couldn't afford a new one, but I kept checking the car boot sales and eventually found a complete 1987 set for the grand sum of £30! I have it on DVD already, but do enjoy flipping through the paper version.
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beanzontoast
Guru
- Location
- South of The Peaks
This is the essence of it for me. Electronic versions are great for practicality, but there's no 'romance' to a pdf!
asterix
Comrade Member
- Location
- Limoges or York
I'm sure I remember that.. Very sad in places but with a happy ending.
A book I bought after reading it as a child was Masefield's 'Box of Delights'. Very nostalgic but hard to get the unabridged version.
Over The Hill
Guru
- Location
- Ridden off into the sunset
My in-laws had a complete set dating from around 1950 in good condititon complete with the wooden book shelf unit it came in (carved numbers along the front of the shef)
They did not want it now and I looked into selling it for them as I somehow thought it would be worth a lot. Going rate seemed to be £30, So they have kept it. For a laugh I look in it to see how things in a simpler time were described.
My favourite book as a kid was Enid Blyton's "Secret Island". I have a newer copy by my bed which I got for my kids to read.
I quite fancy doing an airfix model.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
I lost my blue and white paperback Methuen set of 'Winnie the Pooh', 'House at Pooh Corner' and 'Now We are Six' when I was about 11... hunted high and low for them since and would love to buy copies one day.
CopperBrompton
Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
- Location
- London
It is amazing: when I bought my set for £30, I rather rudely asked them how much they paid for it when new. They told me: £5000!
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Oh oh! was that the orange cover, with the drawing of the horse on it? I had that, loved it. In fact I'm fairly sure my Mum still has it at home somewhere.
A friend and I clubbed together and bought the game Mousetrap, when we were both about 25. I'd played with it (borrowed from our downstairs neighbours, we never owned it ourselves) the day my sister was born. I was five, and most annoyed to have to leave it and go to visit Mum in hospital.
ThePainInSpain
Active Member
- Location
- Malaga, Spain
Before they moved production to some god forsaken far eastern country, they were made in Wollaston, Northamptonshire, where my eldest daughter worked on the production line. Best footwear in the world.
Anyway, didn't actually buy this, but was from a mate whom I did some work for..........a genuine American fishtail Parka, with detachable lining. Just like what I used to wear when I was a Mod,m first time around. Now I'm a born again Mod, complete with motor scooter (unfortunately not a Lambretta or Vespa).
This year my wife bought me a Praktica MTL3 35mm camera, the same as one I had as a teenager!
Totally manual, you have to set the shutter speed and aperture using a built in light meter. By the time you've got it all sorted, whatever you were going to photograph has gone (or died).
Totally manual, you have to set the shutter speed and aperture using a built in light meter. By the time you've got it all sorted, whatever you were going to photograph has gone (or died).
Salad Dodger
Guru
- Location
- Kent Coast
This is a great thread!
Would buy a 200cc Yamaha two stroke twin in purple and cream two-tone livery, if it had the reg no. PLD 568 L
Many years ago, but long after I had sold the bike, we were at the motor museum at Beaulieu and they had PLD 568 L's twin brother on display. Really brought all the memories flooding back....
Would buy a 200cc Yamaha two stroke twin in purple and cream two-tone livery, if it had the reg no. PLD 568 L
Many years ago, but long after I had sold the bike, we were at the motor museum at Beaulieu and they had PLD 568 L's twin brother on display. Really brought all the memories flooding back....
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
I'm terrible for this... I'm constantly on the lookout for the LP's my mum used to have when I was too young to buy my own... still in need of Herb Alpert's Christmas album, and The best of Bobby Vee...but they must have the same cover (and be vinyl)... none of this cd reissue milarky!
I also recently found in a chazza 'my' Rupert Bear annual, which I clearly rember getting a bollocking after scribbling in it with biro. Fortunately this copy had no scribbles so that was snapped up... although I do still find the concept of a bear in yellow trousers slightly disturbing.
...and the best find of all... About 16-17 years ago, I'd met a woman and in turn met her friends. When clearing out one of her friends covered back yards for a party, I came across a bike... not just any old bike though, a Raleigh Tommahawk (mini chopper)... and not just any old Raliegh Tomahawk... MY Tomahawk (indentified by the badly applied stickers I'd put on as a 7 year old). Fortunately his son had grown out of it so I reclaimed my bike and it's sat in a very short queue waiting to be resurrected.
great thread BTW... just remembered my Race'n'Chase racing car set is still in Mum and Dads loft... might have to dig that out one day too.
I also recently found in a chazza 'my' Rupert Bear annual, which I clearly rember getting a bollocking after scribbling in it with biro. Fortunately this copy had no scribbles so that was snapped up... although I do still find the concept of a bear in yellow trousers slightly disturbing.
...and the best find of all... About 16-17 years ago, I'd met a woman and in turn met her friends. When clearing out one of her friends covered back yards for a party, I came across a bike... not just any old bike though, a Raleigh Tommahawk (mini chopper)... and not just any old Raliegh Tomahawk... MY Tomahawk (indentified by the badly applied stickers I'd put on as a 7 year old). Fortunately his son had grown out of it so I reclaimed my bike and it's sat in a very short queue waiting to be resurrected.
great thread BTW... just remembered my Race'n'Chase racing car set is still in Mum and Dads loft... might have to dig that out one day too.
Night Train
Maker of Things
- Location
- Greater Manchester
A dark blue mk1 2 door Escort KTB xxx K for me. My first car.
I have also thought of getting another MGB and a Land Rover, I have also been looking at a Rover P5B Coupe which my Dad had when I was a kid.
Of the toys, about 20 years ago I re started my collection of Lego Technic and the original Thomas the Tank Engine books.
I also thought about making a new version of the bikes I made in my early teens, semi recumbent and with long 'American Chopper' forks.
I stopped going to Elland Road Leeds around 1974 after the Don left .Well for some reason about three years ago my eldest who was doing football training at school wanted to go .
First shock for me was having to take out a mortgage for the tickets .Game was crap and my daughter hated the long walk back into Leeds city centre .But i bought a Leeds scarf .Still have it .
First shock for me was having to take out a mortgage for the tickets .Game was crap and my daughter hated the long walk back into Leeds city centre .But i bought a Leeds scarf .Still have it .
