getting all excited at seeing a bit of skirt on the front page of the daily star from a distance. Getting a closer look and realising she's not to nice after all, but still thinking "if I could maintain an errection I'd be all over her like a dog eating hot chips" without actually thinking "as if she wouldn't give me the time of day" mind you 20 years ago.......then going home seeing the wife and setting down to watch the great British bake off.
Director's Bitter came out when I was about 18 - it was the beginning of my love for real ale and I still enjoy a new, untried brew with eager anticipation to this day, given the opportunity. Used to love Fuller's ESB.
Talking of (un)real ale - Party 4 or if you were really flush a Party 7. I used to take a Party 4 to a party, say 'here's my contribution', then hunt out the whisky!
The Party 4 used to go flat so quickly - zero fond memories of that pish.
You obviously didn't have a Sparklets Beer Tap. And remembering those is a definite sign you are getting on a bit.
Remember going on a lads holiday to Benidorm back in the day, 17 of us and me and my mate ordered a bottle of Blue Nun thinking we were real posh, the waiter took it from a beam in the roof space dusted it down and poured !!!! went back to San Miguel after that
Remembering Tescos was a small one single shop in Cotmandene Crescent, St Paul's Cray. Public toilets being open. Woolworths.
Got me thinking now MOG. I'm trying to think if it was always Tesco or was something else before, like a Fine Fare or similar. And Woolworths - that Cotmandene one was a blinder. Could get virtually everything I wanted there as a kid - as well as stuff my mum decided on, like 'Lofthouse' football boots for me, when what I'd set my heart on was 'Bobby Charlton' boots from Barnetts across the road (the bloody embarrasment and I was school goalkeeper to make it worse!). BTW the toilets down there have been demolished.
Cars I used to work on as an apprentice mechanic being restored as "classics".
Vauxhalls and Opels I worked on. Things like the PA cresta and one or two Victors I understand. Can't get my head round a Chevette or HC Viva being classics.
Remembering dialling 160 to hear the latest Number one record.
....when you was allowed to use the phone, and, other people in the street were not using it.
*A phone line used to be shared by many houses in a street.
Having to go to the public phone box to be able to use a phone.
Jamming a lollystick in the return coin slot, trying to get a few pence out. Not that I ever did that of course, that would wrong. But did hear it could be done............
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*A phone line used to be shared by many houses in a street.
Jubblies
Such is progress.