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[twyngwyn]

[nicnacs_4u]

Imo your comment back at Erica was rude..hence my comment..and definitely doesn't warrant a lol which you seem to enjoy doing....

[bushies.girl]

My care factor of your opinion is  ....... lol lol lol

[*tippy*toes*]

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@ten*teeny*tiny*toes wrote:

Coles Cafeteria in the city. What a treat 🙂

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Oh, YEESSS!! It had THE best chocolate milk I've ever had and the chips were to die for. Thems were the days.

To add more to the list:

Lift operators, plus those lifts where the doors had to be manually closed. The outer door was wooden slats.

Having to pay 5c to use the toilet in big department stores like DJ's.

Having a home made thrown together birthday cake that consisted of cake, icing, sprinkles and silver cachous. None of these fancy, very expensive cakes you see today. The ones where the 1yo child will suffer lifelong trauma if they don't have it. Plus you got the choice of what was for tea that night.

Being allowed to sit on the lounge for tea on Sunday nights.

Sardine cans that had the key to peel the lid off

Braces on teeth being a major embarrassment for the wearer, as opposed to today where they are a fashion statement and you are the odd one out if you don't get them.

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes]

Just happen to have this one in my Gallery. Remember monkey bars, maypoles, the spinning one where you just had to be the oldest and see saws where your big brother or sister jumped off and let you crash to the ground.

[esayaf]

The Cafe in Kmart at the back of the store near the firearms and well the range that was in store in those days (80's). Kmart had everything. Good items at good prices now Kmart is the same as BigW, Target

[lloydslights]

The pogo stick......I recall a serious accident at school with one of these.  

The rubber safety cup at the top of the stick was missing.

The girl slipped while playing kangaroo,  and the pipe cut her chin.  Lifelong scar.

DEB

[*tippy*toes*]

I was a monkeybar champion. Me and Donna King were. We ruled the bars! Funny how only one kid in school fell off and broke their arm. Now they're banned in schools I think, just in case. Parks have those plastic things where you can't do anywhere near the stuff we could as kids.

That also reminds me of the shiny, steel slippery dips, that got scorching hot in summer. You'd still try to slide down, even though you knew you'd get burnt. You knew it was hot when you'd get halfway down and stop because your skin had stuck to the slide. Sometimes when it was really hot, one of the boys would take off their t-shirt and we'd take turns to slide down on that.

We never spent much time on the see saw. We both wanted to be the one that jumped off first so the other would drop to the ground, so a lot of the time we'd just sit there. I don't even know if you can still get see saws. They're probably considered child killers now too (like the rest of the fun stuff).

[twyngwyn]

I can't remember the chants....anyone??

[imastawka]

Is that another Pommie thing?

Cos I don't even know what she's doing

Ok - I googled the pic, Twynnie - does any of this ring a bell?  Two balls against the wall

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John next door neighbour carry on, next door neighbour got the flu so I pass it on to you.

Please miss, my mother miss, come to tell you this miss, I miss won't miss, be at school tomorrow miss.

Please keep off the grass sir, to let the ladies pass sir, you know the rules, you silly fat horse, please keep off the grass sir.

When I went to Dover, saw a birdie flying over, up, up, up and over, when I went to Dover.

I've never heard of any of it.

[lloydslights]

Cinderella dressed in yella,
Went downstairs to kiss a fella,
Made a mistake and kissed a snake.
How many doctors did it take
1, 2, 3, . . . .]

Skipping with  l-o-n-g  rope(s) held by two girls.  

The ropes had been supplied to the school by the local greengrocer who used ropes to tie down his purchases on the old Dodge truck.

DEB