Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[Rod Paradise]

This is a cast mangle. You can see the big round "handle" part they used as a barrow wheel.

Wow - I remember this - we had one of these and even when we got a spin dryer my mother kept it in the garage just in case. I got my first gold fish called Herbert from a rag and bone man. I remember shouting at my mum to get something to give to him so I could get a fish. She had to find something to give him and then we had to go to the pet shop to buy a bowl and fish food, I hate to think how much that free fish cost us...

What wonderful innocent childhood memories you have evoked Tom - thank you x

Tom, I don't have the same child memories, only moving to Scotland in 1980, but you make stories I've read, or been told a bit more real for me,

Thanks,

Rod

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This is a cast mangle. You can see the big round "handle" part they used as a barrow wheel.

Wow - I remember this - we had one of these and even when we got a spin dryer my mother kept it in the garage just in case. I got my first gold fish called Herbert from a rag and bone man. I remember shouting at my mum to get something to give to him so I could get a fish. She had to find something to give him and then we had to go to the pet shop to buy a bowl and fish food, I hate to think how much that free fish cost us...

What wonderful innocent childhood memories you have evoked Tom - thank you x

Tom, I don't have the same child memories, only moving to Scotland in 1980, but you make stories I've read, or been told a bit more real for me,

Thanks,

Rod

Perhaps not the same Rod, but in another 20 or 30 years, I guarantee that you're memories will be just as poignant to you as mine are to me.
 

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For the sake of clarity though, my generation had the best music, and we were the ones who invented rebellion and sex. Right?

[Rod Paradise]

This is a cast mangle. You can see the big round "handle" part they used as a barrow wheel.

Wow - I remember this - we had one of these and even when we got a spin dryer my mother kept it in the garage just in case. I got my first gold fish called Herbert from a rag and bone man. I remember shouting at my mum to get something to give to him so I could get a fish. She had to find something to give him and then we had to go to the pet shop to buy a bowl and fish food, I hate to think how much that free fish cost us...

What wonderful innocent childhood memories you have evoked Tom - thank you x

Tom, I don't have the same child memories, only moving to Scotland in 1980, but you make stories I've read, or been told a bit more real for me,

Thanks,

Rod

Perhaps not the same Rod, but in another 20 or 30 years, I guarantee that you're memories will be just as poignant to you as mine are to me.
 

They already are Tom - I work with a guy from Bermuda- we have mutual friends & we spent a good hour yesterday reminiscing about kite flying day - on Good Friday the whole of Bermuda closes down &  flys kites - the cross of a old style kite representing Jesus ascending to heaven. Those memories are gold, as are the time I poached my first trout & my first salmon etc.

What I meant was I've always loved the old books of a different time, of rag and bone men and the brewer's dray etc. And then I've been lucky enough to live in an area where we still listen to the old boys with their stories of the poaching & the coal wagon's horse that made it's own way home when the driver got pissed on a Friday. I can sit happilly for ages listening to them & reading your stories adds something to them.

You'dlove a Sunday afternoon in the Glendyne Tom  -they'd love it too.

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For the sake of clarity though, my generation had the best music, and we were the ones who invented rebellion and sex. Right?

PS- karabiner thinks it was his lot (Just humour him)

[Dingdell]

For the sake of clarity though, my generation had the best music, and we were the ones who invented rebellion and sex. Right?

Absolutely goes without saying - Visage was the best band ever - Steve Strange was and is still my pop icon - (allowing for the Osmonds which were obv just a teenage crush), I was the first girl ever to wear black lipstick and leather and I invented sex in the 1980's.

No one could possible disagree with that surely? 

[Rod Paradise]

For the sake of clarity though, my generation had the best music, and we were the ones who invented rebellion and sex. Right?

Absolutely goes without saying - Visage was the best band ever - Steve Strange was and is still my pop icon - (allowing for the Osmonds which were obv just a teenage crush), I was the first girl ever to wear black lipstick and leather and I invented sex in the 1980's.

No one could possible disagree with that surely? 

 

[Karabiner]

For the sake of clarity though, my generation had the best music, and we were the ones who invented rebellion and sex. Right?

Absolutely goes without saying - Visage was the best band ever - Steve Strange was and is still my pop icon - (allowing for the Osmonds which were obv just a teenage crush), I was the first girl ever to wear black lipstick and leather and I invented sex in the 1980's.

No one could possible disagree with that surely? 

Please stop it, the glam' rock '80's, aka the worst ever decade for popular music, need I continue ?

Okay I bit 

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I agree. The 70s were where it was at!

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(Lol @ Ralph)

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Free drink at the bash for the first person to guess what sort of poncey, hippy, tree huggy food these girls have got me eating at the moment.



EDIT: Thats "A" free drink Kev.  Singular.

[Karabiner]

Free drink at the bash for the first person to guess what sort of poncey, hippy, tree huggy food these girls have got me eating at the moment.

Tofu ?

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Free drink at the bash for the first person to guess what sort of poncey, hippy, tree huggy food these girls have got me eating at the moment.

Tofu ?

No fu.

[ifm]

lentils, cous cous?

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lentils, cous cous?

Correct. Cous cous.

The worst part is, it's nice!