GM
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Morning all. This especially for Paul at 1.44.....
The Retirement Thread
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Morning all. A chill day today with not much planned.
Now here's a thing. I got a novel from the library. Its a 'new' book and I am first to read it. Page 3, someone goes to the chippy and buys a bag of chips for 30p**. I thought "hang about" that cant be right......and looked at the fly leaf. Published 1993.
Anyway, this person finds a deep fried finger in the bag of chips!!!! In comes Detective Slider.
** I remember 6 old pence (2p??) For a bag of chips.
I can go back to the mid 1960's and 4 old pence for a bag of chips, the same as my St Johns Ambulance subs at that time, if the old fella who ran it forgot to ask for the subs it was a bag of chips on the way home.
Drago
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Doctors again. Going to ride across today and screw the pain.
Actually I just recalled.....it was 3 old pence for chips and 6 for a fish. I will edit that.
🤢Good morning peeps. Gray, wet, windy ( just like dragos Y fronts).
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Mr WD bought a bag of chips the other day. They cost £2.00 and that wasn't a large portion either. What a rip off. I don't even like chips that much.
My local chippy in about 1967 used to charge 6d for chips, no large or small portions, and 1shilling for regular Cod or Haddock
GM
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That reminds me, it's Fish Friday at Waitrose 20% off. A nice big lump of Cod loin for dinner
I am going back to the mid 50s.
We got 9 old p pocket money which got us into the pictures and a large (4 oz) bag of sweets.
Drago
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Who can remember the saturday morning flicks at the cinema?
I used to get 2/6 pocket money in 1967, which was the exact amount to go to the Saturday morning flicks. 6d each way on the bus, 1s to get in, and 6d for a hot dog with onions from the foyer. Happy days. Laurel and Hardy, and other silent films, Buck Rodgers, and the Lone Ranger.
Sadly I do
Hopalong Cassidy, Tom Mix, lash Larue. Running home, slapping my aris like I was on a horse..... .. ahh them were the days😊
numbnuts
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And fingers
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You did better than I did, I got a shilling pocket money and had to save sixpence of it. I got a paper round when I was fourteen and got the princely some of fifteen shillings a week, but my Mum insisted I save five shillings of that.
