Valderma and Noxema that Dad used to put on his 'bump dem'.
Also when did Kim live in the pantry. Notice I didn't ask why.
- Making rocking chairs out of clothes pegs.
- Burning plastic bottles on a bonfire and hearing the sound
- The scum on the bath
- The Carpenters' tortoise.
- "Get A job with a costume."
- 'B.E.D. wid a cyapital B!'
- 'Help me find my buspass!'
- 'I like you, Johnny Denver!'
- 'I tell you leave me plenty SOUP!'
- 'It eat good!'
- 'Makeson' and ice cream
- 'Muss come get a clean up'
- 'Muss come go up'
- 'Picnics' at the rec
- 'Sheila, lowe?' (God bless him!)
- 'Stump' and the easter eggs
- 'Thank you JEHOVAH!'
- 'Up the wooden ladder and down sheet street'
- 'Walk with an umbrella.'
- 'Well tell me sumtin'
- 'What a lowely dowe!'
- 'Who hit you, Sheelow?'
- 'Who is 'Russ'?'
- 'Will do.'
- 'Ya mudda is a crazy woman, she is'
- 'You cryin' Sheilow?'
- 25 HOH
- Ace Value shop
- Action man and Sindy sitting round the electric blanket switch 'campfire'
- Ashbank the Dog
- Auntie Sheedee
- Auntie Sheeelure, Roobina vants the poddy!
- baking potatoes on bonfires
- Being chased by Patch
- being chased with bogies
- Bernie Carcrash
- Black leatherette and purple cushions
- Blackouts and candles
- Candlewick spreads
- Catherine Table Legs (wasn't it Janet?)
- Cherry Bees
- chicken head+beak in the soup
- Conning Ervin Drakes with the TV remote
- corned beef hash and rice
- crispy Canadian
- Dad bringing home Dundee biscuits
- Dad carrying all three of us up to bed
- Dad dancing to Johnny Nash
- Dad drinking One Cal, while eating a Nutty bar
- Dad getting up at 4 am for work
- Dad rubbing a lemon onto his face
- Dad taping over every video with hours of cricket
- Dad's 'Hermasetas'
- Dad's chair - jumping out of it when he came in the room
- Dad's chicken wings
- Dad's Christmas cakes and his equipment
- Dad's cricket bag
- Dad's pillow full of cut up shirts
- Dad's pockets
- Dad's stocking
- Dad's waves
- Dean in laederhosen
- Dean singing at the launderette
- Dean's folding bed
- Dot from across the road
- Dougie the sailor
- dropping a sparkler on the kitchen floor, scarring the lino
- Eugene and Maureen Caby
- finding the glass in the corned beef hash
- Friday night Super Seven ice lollies
- Frightening the children in the middle room
- Gary Playford
- Getting paraffin from the shop at the bottom of Passey Rd
- Going to the assembly with Mom's catalogue money
- golden Oxo, buying 1 from the VG
- Grading of pocket money
- Grammer school sandwiches c/w ash
- Green Shield Stamps
- Heating the kitchen with the oven
- Heinz sponge puddings
- Hiding behind the setee when Dr Who was on
- Hiding porridge lumps in mother's pride bread paper
- Ironing Dad's uniform with brown paper
- Johnny Trevalino
- Jublees
- jumble sales
- Kashif, the nice crier
- Kentucky chicken - dad style
- Kim living in the pantry
- Kim's Teddy bears
- Lee 'Short Legs' Bailey
- Lego
- Locking the back door
- London Pride
- Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty
- Mandy sitting on the radiator with Dad in the room
- Margueritte Doofell
- Martin Brandy
- Max the cat
- Mom choking on the liqueurs
- Mom creeping upstairs to catch us talking
- Mom leaving the room at any hint of a TV bedscene
- Mom listening to the radio
- Mom smashing milk bottles
- Mom trying to kill a rat with a baseball bat
- Mom whistling to call us in
- Mom's nylon pinnies
- Mom's precious Gold Top milk
- Monolith radiators, hot in the day, freezing at night
- Mr Boyle's Apples
- Mr. & Mrs. Carpenter
- Mr. Morgan's Cup
- Mrs Kent's book
- Mrs Natter's bread & having to fetch it on Saturdays
- Mrs Seacole
- Napow-leon
- National Express journeys
- Opening the garage across the road so Dad could park the car
- Pixie Dino
- Playing in the Moseley sandpit
- Pluck de pack/Go to de pack
- Polishing the lino with rags
- Polystyrene ceiling tiles
- pork in juice (quality meat) and dumplings
- Pulling Dad's grey hairs
- Purple 'jaffa cake hat' cushions (there's orangy!)
- Robbie
- Scum on the bath water
- Sending down a note to ask to watch a film
- Singing 'I see the moon'
- Spider's Web
- Sue and Salma
- sweaty salami sandwiches at the assembly
- That blue fibreglass curtain
- That Cinema board game we invented
- The Anderson Shelter
- the back of Keith Terry's hair
- The black vinyl pooff
- The black, white and grey fleck on the kitchen walls
- The blackboard wall in the middle room
- The brush and comb drawer
- The clicker
- The dodgy light in the pantry
- The dressing up box
- The gas meter by the front door
- The gram
- The light across the big room ceiling
- The lock on the pantry
- The long walk to Cotton Lane
- The midnight movie
- The Mild Moustached Betterware Man
- The orange light of the immersion heater
- The pet mice
- The polystyrene under the wallpaper
- The rat who lived in the shed
- The red and grey settee in the front room
- The semi-circular, detachable end of the black 'leather' sofa
- The smell of the steam iron in the kitchen while Mom irons and listens to Terry Wogan
- The Smith's corner shop
- The sound of Dad's wedding ring on the front door glass
- The Sunday afternoon film
- The tin roof of the wash house in summer...
- The trickle-trickle-trickle-lots-none, trickle-trickle-trickle-lots-none of the bath tap
- The two big kettles
- The VG
- The washhouse
- The Wedding Lady
- The Wedge
- The white £300 TV complete with clunky remote
- The WMPTE Christmas party
- Those orange, Asian sweets we got from the family who took over the Smith's shop
- Three in a bed
- Tracey Brothers
- Tracey falling through the glass front door.....splinters in her hair.
- Watching 'Roots'
- watching films in the afternoon with the curtains drawn
- Watching the dot disappear on the TV
- weak orange squash in Sparkhill park
- Weavo
- Willie Whelan
- £5 charge for the curling tongs
