Boxing day at my Granny's flat in Salford always involved lots of these.
Boxing day at my Granny's flat in Salford always involved lots of these.

Mmmm. The smell of these and the thrill of dropping a house brick onto a full roll and BANG
BMX!

(Not mine btw.)
Smell of caps...can kids still buy guns and caps now?
And after a ride on sunny hot Saturday; Chips-on tv!
proper naff ice lollies like those Lyons maid Haunted House things, and other ones with jokes on the sticks. There seemed to be a huge selection of weird lollies when i was little. Then coming in to watch this at tea time on a saturday
a chippy tea sat in front of

or

or
Col. Wilma Deering. the best arse on telly, ever!

My 5th form English teacher who never wore a bra. Did wonders for everybody's peripheral vision trying to get a glimpse down her shirt when she was bent over talking to another student.

my dad's car
Going to Hayling Island in my Granddad's

and doing a "Cades County" over the bumpy beach road
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8X0Ooe7DWc&feature=player_embedded
Wow, can't believe I found that!!
snorkel coats

the ones you wore on your head like a cape whilst riding your Grifter off a wooden ramp.


it's all flooding back now
Grumble mags dumped on the field behind our house
Chocolate cigarettes.
Terrahawk you scare me-described my viewing habbit and our Dad's had the same car...but 200E with square headlight in British racing green mint.
Daisy Duke! ye har! Monkey Magic was a classic!


spud guns. Wandering around with rotting potatoes in our pockets. We stank.
Grumble mags dumped on the field behind our house
I used to procure mine from a local electrical substation.
Norweb Porn

I was really lucky to have an engineer dad who created "Drag n Fly" happy days.
He also helped with this some years later.

Terrahawk your dad's car's great !
I have lots of tv / food connection kind of memories - some of them really vivid ! If i imagine the theme tune to 'loveboat' i can taste my mums homemade meat+potato pie. Give me the theme tune to crossroads and i can taste findus crispy pancakes . Happy days eh !!!!
Jeebus!!!! Tank Command!!! Had completely forgotten...my lucky barsteward mate had it. He was unusually popular.
When the game got dull we would "dress" the battlefield with Airfix kits and 1/72 soldiers, then flip them off the board or shoot at them with air guns.
Another game ripe for adapting.

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