Things we used to do

[Deleted member 1258]

Earning extra pocket money by mowing the lawn, if I remember right it was sixpence, if I cut the hedge as well it went up to tenpence. Going round the local shop for my Dad and being told to keep the change. Finding an empty pop bottle and handing it in at the local shop to get the deposit then getting the third degree of my Mum who had been told about the bottle and wanted to know where it came from.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

My dad always had a pot of Isopon P38, some wet and dry, and a can of spray paint around. A 10 year old car was basically a rust heap with the arches, door seams and cills gone, and potential for holes in the floor pan. Now 15 year old cars can look immaculate.

My thirteen year old Hyundai looks nice for an old car, just don't look to closely at the rear wheel arches.

 

[vernon]

These days we all carry a bulky mobile instead of a few coins. We struggle to find a decent signal and hope the battery has enough power. It's bonkers.

Your coins would be useless as the phones are card only - if you can find a phone box containing a working phone.

 

[vernon]

I got a CSE Grade 1 and an O Level Grade B in TD.

I loved the interpenetrations.

 

[TVC]

I loved the interpenetrations.

Oh God yes. O Level TD grade A for me. I started my career as a Mechanical Design Engineer on the boards. Working on film is so much more satisfying than CAD, you got a real feel for what you were inventing.


Edit: just for the record, nobody has ever designed a cylinder to pass through a conic section off axis, it's mad, and the fabricators would slap you.

 

[vernon]

Edit: just for the record, nobody has ever designed a cylinder to pass through a conic section off axis, it's mad, and the fabricators would slap you.

No one needs Latin but the rigours of learning it leaves you undaunted by the challenges of using English.

 

[Illaveago]

Having to pop along to the local garage to buy a gallon of parafin to put in the heater. I used to like watching the gauge rocking back and forth as it was filled up. It's strange how little things please little minds!

 

[MontyVeda]

Your coins would be useless as the phones are card only - if you can find a phone box containing a working phone.

this isn't Yorkshire... us (north) Lancastrians respect our public phones, unlike that bunch from Chorley. southerners. (or Leeds )

 

[cyberknight]

Oh God yes. O Level TD grade A for me. I started my career as a Mechanical Design Engineer on the boards. Working on film is so much more satisfying than CAD, you got a real feel for what you were inventing.


Edit: just for the record, nobody has ever designed a cylinder to pass through a conic section off axis, it's mad, and the fabricators would slap you.

I think i had one term to try TD at school, i always ended up in woodwork and metal work and never had a go at art or pottery .

 

[ianrauk]

Having to pop along to the local garage to buy a gallon of parafin to put in the heater. I used to like watching the gauge rocking back and forth as it was filled up. It's strange how little things please little minds!

We had to buy it from a local hardware store. Would they sell a gallon of paraffin to a 10 year old these days? I think not.

 

[raleighnut]

I think i had one term to try TD at school, i always ended up in woodwork and metal work and never had a go at art or pottery .

I was forced to do TD as my only 'craft' subject by my father, never got any good marks as all my projects were covered in fingermarks (probably from 'fettling' my bike and messing about with field motorbikes all the time)
I'd have loved to do metalwork and woodwork at school as in my 'working' life I spent 4 years as an apprentice car mechanic (SAAB Main Dealer) then 8 yrs as a 'Green Sand' Foundry Moulder (mainly ornamental Brassware but a couple of years doing aluminium engineering castings) before going to college full time for 2yrs (Southfields in Leicester) and qualifying as a Cabinet Maker and going on to build bespoke cabinetry for shops.

 

[midlife]

No one needs Latin but the rigours of learning it leaves you undaunted by the challenges of using English.

I still write prescriptions in Latin, annoys the hell out if other people but perfectly legal

Shaun

 

[midlife]

I was forced to do TD as my only 'craft' subject by my father, never got any good marks as all my projects were covered in fingermarks (probably from 'fettling' my bike and messing about with field motorbikes all the time)
I'd have loved to do metalwork and woodwork at school as in my 'working' life I spent 4 years as an apprentice car mechanic (SAAB Main Dealer) then 8 yrs as a 'Green Sand' Foundry Moulder (mainly ornamental Brassware but a couple of years doing aluminium engineering castings) before going to college full time for 2yrs (Southfields in Leicester) and qualifying as a Cabinet Maker and going on to build bespoke cabinetry for shops.

Just out of curiosity which SAAB dealer was it?

Shaun

 

[raleighnut]

Just out of curiosity which SAAB dealer was it?

Shaun

Status Garage (formerly Broad St Garage) in Leicester, the service manager (who happened to be my next door neighbour) set up his own specialised SAAB repair workshop when they closed, still going today although it's now run by his son, Jason and his other son and grandson work there.
They are Malcolm Miles Motor Engineer.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...miles/&usg=AFQjCNHcc1JEZSRy_Y2jYRYcsbxZv-eKKg

 

[midlife]

Hi

I was just curious as I used to take my Subaru down Nottingham way to a place called TSL Subaru, they used to be a SAAB Dealer = Trent SAAB Limited.

Shaun