Foreveram Posted April 26, 2023 Share Posted April 26, 2023 4 hours ago, ziggyram59 said: Greasy cafe's where you could get a great fry up. Little Chef's on the same line, Bernie Inn restaurants which you would take your girlfriend and think it was posh. Prawn Cocktail, Steak with chips mushrooms and a tomato, Black Forest Gateau. I know nothing and Miggins 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ziggyram59 Posted April 26, 2023 Share Posted April 26, 2023 4 minutes ago, Foreveram said: Prawn Cocktail, Steak with chips mushrooms and a tomato, Black Forest Gateau. Yes brings back great memories I must admit there Black Forest Gateau was my favourite. Miggins 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gee SCREAMER !! Posted April 26, 2023 Share Posted April 26, 2023 8 minutes ago, ziggyram59 said: Yes brings back great memories I must admit there Black Forest Gateau was my favourite. Do people eat Choc Ices anymore ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FindernRam Posted April 26, 2023 Share Posted April 26, 2023 4 minutes ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said: Do people eat Choc Ices anymore ? Yes. Have one as dinner Dessert most days. Gee SCREAMER !! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ziggyram59 Posted April 26, 2023 Share Posted April 26, 2023 4 minutes ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said: Do people eat Choc Ices anymore ? I do you can buy them Iceland shops I love them. Usually come in bags of 10/12. Gee SCREAMER !! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angieram Posted April 26, 2023 Share Posted April 26, 2023 10 hours ago, AndyinLiverpool said: Quite a lot of that stuff you don't have to miss at all - it still gets shown on those nostalgia channels. Recently I have watched episodes of Randall and Hopkirk, Alias Smith and Jones and Space 1999. I think the point was about how we all watched them together, at the same time. They were talked about at work, school etc. There weren't tucked away on multiple channels. These days something comes out on Netflix or similar and someone's bingewatched the entire series and posted spoilers all over the Internet. Also, unless you're a real saddo (or confined to home for whatever reason) you can't possibly watch even a quarter of the content that is out there. It dilutes the experience in a big way. sage, Miggins and Elwood P Dowd 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miggins Posted April 26, 2023 Share Posted April 26, 2023 11 hours ago, AndyinLiverpool said: Quite a lot of that stuff you don't have to miss at all - it still gets shown on those nostalgia channels. Recently I have watched episodes of Randall and Hopkirk, Alias Smith and Jones and Space 1999. It's great to have them on demand, Andy, I agree. However it's the excitement and occasion that I miss as much as anything. You had a favourite tv programme and you had to wait a whole week until the next episode. It was the excitement and anticipation that was all part of the experience. There was mum, dad, my sister and me all sitting in the snug living room round the fireplace, sleepy dogs on our knees, sharing our enjoyment of these programmes together. 40 years on, Mum now has borderline dementia, Dad died in 2008, my sister obviously has her own family and no longer lives at home. I can sit and watch these programmes on demand with my husband and thoroughly enjoy them but I guess what made them so special at the time and what I miss most are the memories of watching them with my mum and dad and sister when we were all together, snug and cosy round the fire in our pyjamas and a mug of hot milk, feeling safe, secure, happy and loved. X cstand, sage, TimRam and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mucker1884 Posted April 26, 2023 Share Posted April 26, 2023 Sunday night bath night (after my 3 bigger sisters had been in the same bath water... and a single-use sachet of vosene... between us! God, we must've been right mingers! 🤣 *PS... If @Henrycav81 comes on spouting his mouth off about that last comment, it's all lies! 👀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henrycav81 Posted April 26, 2023 Share Posted April 26, 2023 4 minutes ago, Mucker1884 said: Sunday night bath night (after my 3 bigger sisters had been in the same bath water... and a single-use sachet of vosene... between us! God, we must've been right mingers! 🤣 *PS... If @Henrycav81 comes on spouting his mouth off about that last comment, it's all lies! 👀 I thought your sisters where ok you were a minger there couldn’t have been any vosene left in the sachet when you got it because you never looked liked you’d washed your hair😀 Mucker1884 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miggins Posted April 26, 2023 Share Posted April 26, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, Foreveram said: Prawn Cocktail, Steak with chips mushrooms and a tomato, Black Forest Gateau. Keith took me to the Berni Inn in Wimbledon for his 21st. birthday. It was 1977 and I thought we were going because we were best friends. I think I was very innocent. Menu as above and delicious! (Pre-vegetarian days!) Edited April 26, 2023 by Miggins cstand and Foreveram 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mucker1884 Posted April 26, 2023 Share Posted April 26, 2023 9 minutes ago, Henrycav81 said: I thought your sisters where ok you were a minger there couldn’t have been any vosene left in the sachet when you got it because you never looked liked you’d washed your hair😀 See! Lies! I knew it! 🙄 uttoxram75 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted April 26, 2023 Share Posted April 26, 2023 Company, and solitude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramit Posted April 26, 2023 Share Posted April 26, 2023 i miss simpler times, when we were fewer and the land bigger. Today it is just over a four hour drive up north to Akureyri, when i was a boy it took 11-13 hours depending on gravel road conditions. You could find beautiful spots and stay there for days without meeting another human being, just birds, flies and fish, if that was on the agenda and perhaps a few sheep in the distance. What, pay to plop down a tent? Never. Farmers or not, this was our land. Tourists were few and far between, usually French or Germans on bicycles with backpacks. The rest of the world seemed to not even notice that we existed at all. We laughed as we passed them on potholed gravel roads in the rain and shook our heads. What pleasure do these maniacs get out of subjecting themselves to our harsh landscape and weather? Oh but i understand it now, we still had what they had lost. sheeponacid, cstand and Miggins 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 Being able to order boxes of beer from Germany and Belgium. Bloody unicorn fanciers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elwood P Dowd Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 14 hours ago, Foreveram said: Prawn Cocktail, Steak with chips mushrooms and a tomato, Black Forest Gateau. And a bottle of Blue Nun. it was compulsory 😂😂 Miggins, cstand and FindernRam 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mostyn6 Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 FA Cup final day, and the pomp, build up and helicopter coverage and the charity games with Daley Thompson, Rod Stewart and a bunch of actors playing. Coverage also free to air on both BBC and ITV, with 3pm kick off. I used to love the roar when the winning captain raised the trophy. The losing fans would also stay behind and watch instead of rushing away. Wolfie, Tamworthram, Miggins and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foreveram Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 50 minutes ago, Elwood P Dowd said: And a bottle of Blue Nun. it was compulsory 😂😂 Sophistication personified. Elwood P Dowd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FindernRam Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 When Tennis courts were smaller and the net lower! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cstand Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 2 hours ago, Foreveram said: Sophistication personified. Blue nun what else would you want to wash down your chicken n chips in a plastic basket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foreveram Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 1 hour ago, cstand said: Blue nun what else would you want to wash down your chicken n chips in a plastic basket. We used to go to paddy’s restaurant and have soup in a basket, but I don’t think it’s allowed anymore.😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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