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[Andrew_P]

Goddards White oils embrocation, really worked and I loved the smell.
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The smell would take me right back to football changing rooms and formed part of my and my peers pre match rituals have no clue how or why.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Noticed some Angel Delight in Aldi this morning... not seen it for years but can't say I miss it... i did buy some though, for old time's sake.

I used to prefer Instant Whip. One thing you had to be careful of was that Angel Delight took a pint of milk and Instant Whip only half a pint.

 

[Yellow Fang]

That's one way of describing it.
Having to decline sales to anyone underage & then have their parents come and have go at you got annoying .

I think I had a cap powered spud gun, but I had the wrong type of caps for it. I had these sort iirc

I kept emptying the power into the firing mechanism, then taking it into the lounge to shoot my brother with it, who was sitting down on an armchair. It kept misfiring until the time it didn't. Cue my outraged father storming back to the newsagent with it,

 

[Wixsteman]

Tudor crisps/ canny bag of Tudor.! Gammon flavour

 

[Yellow Fang]

My granny used to like frame spirographs on her wall.

She also liked bottle gardens.

 

[classic33]

My granny used to like frame spirographs on her wall.
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She also liked bottle gardens.

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Pin & Cord art or those from the spirograph?

 

[DCBassman]

Always gave out a fantastic sound didn't they.

Why is that?

Largely due to the way thermionic valves deal with harmonics. Which is why electric guitarists still buy valve amps.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Pin & Cord art or those from the spirograph?

Pin and card.

 

[classic33]

Pin and card.

How'd they get the card round the pins?

 

[Yellow Fang]

How'd they get the card round the pins?

I don't know. IIRC they were sort of black felt background with pins stuck in them and threads of different colour wound around the pins.

 

[Oldfentiger]

Yep, actual guards vans were on freight trains, but there used to a guards compartment in passenger carriages which could take parcels, bikes and such like.

Red Star Parcels
I lost count of the times I waited for the train to pickup an urgent consignment, only to find it had overshot and was now heading for Edinburgh. I was in Peterborough.

 

[Profpointy]

I dimly remember a split iron ball about the size of a walnut that was loud.

I do remember something like that. One version was a split iron casting in the shape of a rocket held together with clips; much better that the plastic version upthread (which of course, was the version I had)

 

[SteveF]

 

[slowmotion]

I do remember something like that. One version was a split iron casting in the shape of a rocket held together with clips; much better that the plastic version upthread (which of course, was the version I had)

It wasn't this, but it was pretty close. Fun and dangerous toys were always made out of cheap metal. It all went tits up when wimpy plastic stuff came along. You could seriously injure yourself on Meccano......no chance of that with Lego.