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Playing with wooden toys. It seems that today's kids don't know what to play without a tablet, laptop or TV
Sorry can't allow that one, my two will happily spend the day playing with mere sticks (7 and 11 years old{the girls not the sticks}). Whittling them, burning them, hitting each other with them or playing a bizarre version of street hockey with a stone as the ball and a chalked court on the lane.Playing with wooden toys. It seems that today's kids don't know what to play without a tablet, laptop or TV
Getting rid of the Nit Nurse is another one of those cost saving cuts that I wish they hadn't done. It's not like kids don't get nits any more and not all parents are 'on the ball'.How about...
Recording with Dolby on compact cassette.
Or
The Nit nurse at primary school.
BCG vaccinations which gave you an arm you thought would drop off ! And, got to mention, Polio oral vaccine. Hopefully I'm amongst the last generation to go to school with mates who had to drag themselves round with metal leg braces as a result of this terrible curse. I never see, or think, of the very word Polio without breathing a silent prayer of thanks to Dr. Salk and his team, God bless them.
JohnnyO. o/
If you forgot, all you had to do was to look on the front door frame, under the doorbell where the milkman had written it.I can remember much of the above. To this day I can still do mental arithmetic in £sd.
As children, we had to memorise the family Co-Op divi number as we were often sent out to get fags for our parents. Another of our jobs was to collect the coupons from the cigarette packets and bundle them up for when Mum and Dad wanted to get something from the Embassy catalogue.
We were also in charge of sticking the Green Shield stamps in the books, too.
Top Loading VCR'S anyone?
I had a BetaMax top-loading VCR.
I can remember much of the above. To this day I can still do mental arithmetic in £sd.
As children, we had to memorise the family Co-Op divi number as we were often sent out to get fags for our parents. Another of our jobs was to collect the coupons from the cigarette packets and bundle them up for when Mum and Dad wanted to get something from the Embassy catalogue.
We were also in charge of sticking the Green Shield stamps in the books, too.
LED calculators. Those red LEDs had something magical, especially when they were flickering while the machine was computing.
Not to mention those 1st, battery guzzling, LED digital watches of the 1970s. Still recall the ist one I saw on someone's wrist.
JohnnyO. o/