- Taping the Top 30 off the radio
- Watching Top of the Pops on the telly
- Buying singles
- Handwriting thank you notes
- Having pen friends
- Waiting for photos to be developed
- Watching Saturday evening TV with the family (that would, no doubt, include The Generation Game!)
- Making solid plans which do not change as a result of mobile communications
Yeah, they all featured in our house too back then, those and a few more that immediately spring to mind like: waiting for the late edition of the Evening Press on a Saturday and the late results that were over-printed on the front page margin; or buying an ice-pop as much for the joke on the stick as for the clump of frozen hydrochloric acid that was the pop; or maybe pegging a piece of Corn Flakes box to the back fork of your bicycle so that it touched the spokes of the wheel and thus sounded like a motor bike when you pedaled; or maybe adding a spoon of Andrews Liver Salts to your orange squash to make a fizzy drink that lasted all of two seconds. Or maybe ... Gott in Himmel ... Lord Peter Flint! Or maybe Simon Groom and Goldie. Or maybe even Terry Scott and his Curly Wurly. And on and on!
Indeed, none of this seems that far off in the past until you start thinking of milkmen in electric floats or coal men like minstrels with the weight of the world on their shoulders or being told to f*ck off away from the jam tarts and the cream doughnuts by angry men in bread vans; or schoolteachers on Raleigh 20s or neighbours on Honda 50s or new tenpenny pieces the size of dinner plates or even shapers in drapes or bootboys in parallels or bluebottles in Chrysler Avengers or Double Diamond working its wonders, its wonders way back then - a lonnnng time ago!
More in a couple of days ...
Nice ta see ye!
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