• 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

Saturday, 22 June 2013

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.

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