Things kids will miss??

The Knickerbocker Glory - squirty cream, tinned fruit cocktail, vanilla ice-cream, nuts, choc sauce etc...

The local place where I would get one of these as a treat "when I were a lad" has been replaced by a  Paddy Betbrokes, or some such establishment......

Do you think 'Hot Gossip' would be approved of as prime time viewing in our modern world?  As a young teenage lad they certainly made quite an err....'impression' shall we say.  G

Thanks!

Aaaaaaaahhhhh.... Pan's Cripples.  

Leaving school to a full time job (with or without a good pension plan)

Olde English 'Spangles' next .....

plus...

Owning their home.

Disposable income

A happy retirement at a sensible age

Life expectancy past 70 years old

           shiny beer mats

At 48 I still remember the feeling I had when Debbie Harry appeared on the telly to sing Heart of Glass. No woman has done it since...... Tony

I was right up the front at a gig when she had thigh length boots mini skirt and no nickers.

Oh the good old days.

One from Debs on another thread

It all started on a dark lonely road 

The NHS - Free at point of delivery...

Jesus Debs, sometimes you can be so bloody depressing

Jesus Deb?

Wow, I’ve never been called that before, I feel so holy…

But thif be not so, tif not i that be depreffing but the bleak dark most foreboding future that doth aproacheth our preciouf young peoples.

Merely doth i bringeth appropriate balance to thy jolly rofe-tinted noftalgic dogma, and speaketh real pudh worldly forecasting’s of fituations fo fhit dire indeed for vast majority of kids betrayed by minds more evil than normality could mufter but thou art well minted and over privileged swankerkind with greedy intent ongoing wheelbarrowing plunder of untaxed criminality unto fullsome off fhore vaultf, and whom heartless bequeath of venomous debt remaineth to burden thy good young honeft folk of this milk and honey land.

Pitchforks may be missed by the kids

Debs

Going out in the morning and returning home in time for tea WITHOUT phoning, texting, BBM, tweeting or letting anyone know where they are every 5 minutes.

Thanks to George for reminding me about this one. Him on a pony all day aged 10 and me in the local open-air swimming pool.

Jono