Things we used to do

[Illaveago]

Do you remember what his "System" was called? Radio Luxembourg was on AM, I think, and it was always fading in and out in a fog of heterodyne whistle.

It was called "Infadraw method". Keynsham that's spelt. K E Y N S H A M.

 

[Dirk]

It was called "Infadraw method". Keynsham that's spelt. K E Y N S H A M.

TMN to me, I think.

 

[Illaveago]

I can remember going to the sports shop in the town and buying Keilkraft balsa aeroplanes, making them and stinking the house out with the lovely smell of dope.

 

[Illaveago]

TMN to me, I think.

Sorry I didn't get round to reading your post.

 

[Illaveago]

Listen with Mother!

 

[Slioch]

Watching the Benny Hill Show and thinking there was nothing inappropriate about a middle aged man in a dirty mac chasing after scantily dressed young girls.
My, how we all laughed.

 

[Profpointy]

Watching the Benny Hill Show and thinking there was nothing inappropriate about a middle aged man in a dirty mac chasing after scantily dressed young girls.
My, how we all laughed.

mmm, but the dirty mac character he was portrayed as a a something of a pathetic loser, a figure of contempt who would never actually get the girl, so perhaps not so bad morally? maybe?

 

[Mrs M]

Stay up late in the holidays with my gran to watch "Come Dancing" (before all that Strictly stuff).

 

[sight-pin]

Saturday morning pictures.....cheap as chips and a good time

 

[Padraig]

I can remember going to the sports shop in the town and buying Keilkraft balsa aeroplanes, making them and stinking the house out with the lovely smell of dope.

Takes me back to the sixties, when I had a radio control licence. I was seriously into substance misuse. That dope was excellent, as was fuel proofer, which you painted on as the final coat. Another favourite was Radiospares switch cleaner, used to correct noisy variable resistors and deposits of oxide in valveholder sockets. That stuff was the absolute business. The rest of the decade passed in a haze.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Do you remember what his "System" was called? Radio Luxembourg was on AM, I think, and it was always fading in and out in a fog of heterodyne whistle.

Yes I remember Radio Luxembourg, and Radio Caroline, Radio London and a few others the names of which I've forgotten, wasn't there one on a Fort offshore, Themes estuary somewhere?

 

[screenman]

Working in a green grocers as a 14 year old, taught me selling skills I still use.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Listen to small transistor radios like these.

http://50.22.11.21/~elmphoto/radios/radio22.htm

 

[Philh]

Listen to small transistor radios like these.

We used to make Crystal radio sets, listen to Radio Luxembourg all night.

 

[Padraig]

No sawn off bit from the end of one of the candles your mum kept in case of power cuts (in your case, an altar candle perhaps...)? Nah, doesn't count...

My mother was a part-time housekeeper at our local presbytery. They had a full-time live-in housekeeper in those days, but she filled in on days off, as well as counting all the Sunday collections. The candles used on the altar were very high quality. It was specified that they should contain a certain percentage of beeswax, and they were very aromatic as they burnt. When they'd been partly used up, they were replaced with new ones, and we got to take them home, where they were useful during the frequent power cuts in those days. There was one really bad series of power cuts, during some crisis or other. To supplement the ex-church candles, we tried to buy some more, but the shops had completely sold out because of the demand. On the corner nearby was a butcher's shop. We bought packs of their own beef dripping in wax paper. These were pierced with a knitting needle, and a length of string inserted down the middle. During power cuts, they burnt very well, but with a strong beefy odour. Dripping was not as refined in those days as it is now, and it had a much stronger yellow colour than the present-day product. It was much better in your chip pan too.