boaty
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Post by boaty on May 8, 2019 21:32:15 GMT
nowt wrong with a bit of carbolic soap You know what? I would happily buy a bar of carbolic soap just to sniff it! That and the smell of a paraffin heater are two of the defining smells of my childhood Yes ! Also, the Wrights Coal Tar Vaporiser, the smell of an inflatable camping bed and scorching hot vinyl car seats. |
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Post by bernie on May 9, 2019 6:02:38 GMT
You know what? I would happily buy a bar of carbolic soap just to sniff it! That and the smell of a paraffin heater are two of the defining smells of my childhood Yes ! Also, the Wrights Coal Tar Vaporiser, the smell of an inflatable camping bed and scorching hot vinyl car seats. Smells are so evocative, they take you right back like a time machine. Vicks vapour rub still reminds me of my childhood coughs and colds, two stroke exhausts, the smell of a steam locomotive going under the bridge I crossed to go to my primary school each day or the slightly musky smell of an old car |
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Post by cornishharry on May 9, 2019 7:06:33 GMT
ah the aroma of a old car with leather seats and wool carpets
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Post by bigbear67 on May 9, 2019 7:46:13 GMT
Every time I pass a dairy farm I'm right back to being 7yrs old when we used to run our own dairy herd. I can still see my grandad putting me up on a cow's back so I could sit there while he milked them....
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orthio
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Post by orthio on May 12, 2019 0:54:52 GMT
You guys really are oldschool hippies hehe; that sounds like such a sweet memory!
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Post by bigbear67 on May 12, 2019 9:27:15 GMT
Got lots of memories like that. Sadly it's all in the past now but good times while it was happening....
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Post by cornishharry on May 12, 2019 9:36:50 GMT
yeah i remember the dairy herd, getting up at five am to help with milking, feeding the pigs and collecting the eggs and this before school. no wonder i ran away to sea at 15
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Post by bernie on May 12, 2019 10:16:34 GMT
yeah i remember the dairy herd, getting up at five am to help with milking, feeding the pigs and collecting the eggs and this before school. no wonder i ran away to sea at 15 And that was better?  |
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Post by cornishharry on May 12, 2019 10:44:31 GMT
at the time yes, fairly regular hours, good food and plenty of it and a decent wage
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Post by givingitsomethought on May 19, 2019 18:20:46 GMT
at the time yes, fairly regular hours, good food and plenty of it and a decent wage Amazing how things have changed, Harry, we were in a cafe today and the lad that served me had to get someone else to come and take the money because he's 15 and apparently kids aren't allowed to take payments until they're 16 now!!! There's you going off to sea at that age and this lad (who was very sweet) isn't allowed to take money from me. Really bizarre. I'm all for kids having a childhood but I think they're so restricted in some respects now that it does more harm than good. Bonkers. |
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Post by cornishharry on May 19, 2019 19:00:55 GMT
in my day most people left school at 15 and started earning very few went on to further education
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Post by givingitsomethought on May 20, 2019 3:51:14 GMT
in my day most people left school at 15 and started earning very few went on to further education Yes, same here. The posh kids and the exceptionally clever went to college but most of us just left and started work the following Monday. It was easy to get work then as well, and they just trained you on the job. I spent my first summer on leaving school in a hut in a strawberry field weighing people's pick your own  Probably not as exciting as running away to sea |
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2019 9:21:55 GMT
Pretty much straight to work in my day when you left school , school was so bad , why the hell would you want to extend it! There was an option of getting a prpper apprentice ship too . I got one in engineering but only lasted about 9 months. All my mates that had jobs were earning twice what I earned in a day than I got in a week . I chose life , droped loads of acid, went to stone henge , and became full time hippy/wrong un . 40 years later , so far so good .
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Post by VanWoman84 on May 20, 2019 10:56:04 GMT
I technically left school at 15, as my birthday is in the school holiday and to leave when I was 16 would have meant I would have had to go back at the end of the holidays for another term.
I can't help thinking the later leaving age and push to get kids into college, is a construct to keep most school leavers off the unemployment numbers.
Unemployed? Noooo! They are still in education...
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Post by bigbear67 on May 20, 2019 12:26:00 GMT
Left school at 15 but I'd only been part time for 18maths or so by then. Would have stayed for my exams but we were planting potatoes at home! Went round all my classes to get my leaving certificate signed, & the first teacher I went to said "who are you?"....Left on the Wednesday & didn't even get the rest of the day off, straight home & 120 cows to feed. Started on 15quid a week, & my mate signed on & got £16.10! Lasted 6 yrs then fell out with pa & ducked off to Milton Keynes spreading lime. Drew 50quid as my last wage at home, following week I drew 435quid! Lived in my caravan behind my bosses dad's pub. Was down there for 4 1/2 mths & came home with 28quid to my name! Glory Days....
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Probably not as exciting as running away to sea 
