08-07-2010, 02:56 PM
I remember our old news-agents where penny sweets actually only cost you a penny (£1 a week's pocket money stretched remarkably!) and Wednesday was the best day of the week because it was Beano Day. Calpol was about 90% sugar and we used to nick the bottle and drink spoonfuls of it when mum was out because that stuff was ~delicious~ and my elder cousin accidently overdosed on it and had to have his stomach pumped. Greedy so-and-so.
I dunno, lots of things, really. I grew up in the country side so i didn't see an actual computer until High school and it was an Acorn one. Yeah, the sort with the GIANT floppy disks and the green text and the print-outs with the holes down the side. Yeesh. And my family weren't flush, although we scraped and saved and got a pony eventually, so lots of memories of building dolls houses in the gaps in the dry stone wall and playing with the farm kittens and conkers and taking the horse out riding. Playing British Bulldogs.
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