The realisation you're getting old

[Ming the Merciless]

You remember the days when kids were capable of walking to school.

 

[DCBassman]

You remember the days when kids were capable of walking to school.

You remember the days when you walked to school during the winter of 62/3, didn't miss a day, and there was snow in dark corners of the playground well into April...

 

[Accy cyclist]

You remember the days when you walked to school during the winter of 62/3, didn't miss a day,

Can you remember that particular winter? I lived through it in our Esso Blue paraffin, coal fire heated, single glazed windows house, but being only 2 years old at the time I don't have any memories of it.

 

[DCBassman]

Can you remember that particular winter? I lived through it in our Esso Blue paraffin, coal fire heated, single glazed windows house, but being only 2 years old at the time I don't have any memories of it.

Yes, very cold indeed! Esso Blue very much to the fore.

 

[Threevok]

When you swipe left on your phone and that clicking effect you feel isn't the phone.

Did I already say that ?

That's another two - memory loss and repeating yourself

 

[Accy cyclist]

Yes, very cold indeed! Esso Blue very much to the fore.

We'd get ours from an ironmonger's on the high street. In very cold weather there'd be a queue outside his shop waiting to buy paraffin. Are there any traditional ironmongers left I wonder? 🤔

 

[DCBassman]

We'd get ours from an ironmonger's on the high street. In very cold weather there'd be a queue outside his shop waiting to buy paraffin. Are there any traditional ironmongers left I wonder? 🤔

Not seen one in decades...

 

[Accy cyclist]

Not seen one in decades...

Just remembered there's one near to me in Whalley Lancs.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

You remember the days when you walked to school during the winter of 62/3, didn't miss a day, and there was snow in dark corners of the playground well into April...

Yes I remember that, making slides in the playground and seeing how far you could slide, great fun. Going sledging, walking up a local lane to the hills behind the town and realizing there were cars underneath you.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Can you remember that particular winter? I lived through it in our Esso Blue paraffin, coal fire heated, single glazed windows house, but being only 2 years old at the time I don't have any memories of it.

I remember that winter, I was about 11 and in my last year at primary school, I failed my 11 plus.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I remember that winter, I was about 11 and in my last year at primary school, I failed my 11 plus.

I was 7 and 'helped' my father dig his Austin 1800 out of the snow at the rear of our house.

Mrs SD was born during that winter in the front room of an old, cold house - allthough I wouldn't meet her until almost exactly 25 years later, which is just as well as I'm not keen on babies...

 

[Dag Hammar]

I was 7 and 'helped' my father dig his Austin 1800 out of the snow at the rear of our house.

Mrs SD was born during that winter in the front room of an old, cold house - allthough I wouldn't meet her until almost exactly 25 years later, which is just as well as I'm not keen on babies...

An Austin 1800, the BMC model that was launched in September 1964 ?

 

[SpokeyDokey]

An Austin 1800, the BMC model that was launched in September 1964 ?

Ah... thanks for that. That's me getting old!

Just checked with my brother and it was an Austin A40 - the 1800 arrived a year or so later .

Us kids thought we were dead posh when it turned up. 😁

The A40 stirs up memories of picnicking by the old A2 roadside on the way to a rare treat visiting Broadstairs.

 

[Beebo]

Some just told me that we are 22% of the way through the 21st century. It still feels new to me.
Made me feel very old.

 

[gavroche]

You had to wear your best clothes as a kid when going on annual holiday with your parents.