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

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Posted : 26/02/2010 10:24 am
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Mmmm. The smell of these and the thrill of dropping a house brick onto a full roll and [b]BANG[/b]


 
Posted : 26/02/2010 2:24 pm
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BMX!

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(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!

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Posted : 26/02/2010 2:42 pm
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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

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Posted : 26/02/2010 2:58 pm
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a chippy tea sat in front of
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Posted : 26/02/2010 3:13 pm
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Col. Wilma Deering. the best arse on telly, ever!
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Posted : 26/02/2010 3:18 pm
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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.

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Posted : 26/02/2010 3:38 pm
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my dad's car
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Posted : 26/02/2010 3:47 pm
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Posted : 26/02/2010 4:11 pm
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Going to Hayling Island in my Granddad's
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and doing a "Cades County" over the bumpy beach road

Wow, can't believe I found that!!


 
Posted : 26/02/2010 4:35 pm
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snorkel coats
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the ones you wore on your head like a cape whilst riding your Grifter off a wooden ramp.


 
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it's all flooding back now


 
Posted : 26/02/2010 4:39 pm
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Grumble mags dumped on the field behind our house


 
Posted : 26/02/2010 4:40 pm
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Chocolate cigarettes.

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Posted : 26/02/2010 6:00 pm
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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!

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spud guns. Wandering around with rotting potatoes in our pockets. We stank.


 
Posted : 26/02/2010 6:10 pm
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Grumble mags dumped on the field behind our house

I used to procure mine from a local electrical substation.

Norweb Porn


 
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I was really lucky to have an engineer dad who created "Drag n Fly" happy days.


 
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He also helped with this some years later.
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Terrahawk your dad's car's great !


 
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Did anyone else here have Cascade?

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Posted : 27/02/2010 12:41 am
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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 !!!!


 
Posted : 27/02/2010 1:13 am
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Posted : 27/02/2010 9:47 am
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Jeebus!!!! Tank Command!!! Had completely forgotten...my lucky barsteward mate had it. He was unusually popular.


 
Posted : 27/02/2010 9:53 am
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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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