The Summer of '76

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drivin_me_nuts

17,949 posts

210 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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Eric Mc said:
Cruelty to polystyrene.
... taking a hot pin and making small holes in the wings and body of a Lancaster or a 111 and trying to 'land' it with one wheel down. Most definitely, plastic toy planes were meant to be made, painted and then destroyed in a melting boiling blob of billowing fire.

WinstonWolf

72,857 posts

238 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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drivin_me_nuts said:
Eric Mc said:
Cruelty to polystyrene.
... taking a hot pin and making small holes in the wings and body of a Lancaster or a 111 and trying to 'land' it with one wheel down. Most definitely, plastic toy planes were meant to be made, painted and then destroyed in a melting boiling blob of billowing fire.
'Melt' ants with a magnifying glass...

With these feet

5,728 posts

214 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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WinstonWolf said:
Ah yes, we used to play a game called "shooting each other". Small unripe berries hurt far more than lead pellets irked

And they wonder why we're not that health and safety conscious biggrin
The estate we lived on was still being built, but they landscaped the underpasses with a strange spikey plant that had hard bulbs with furry seeds. Trick was to split then and throw them, resulting in much humour as they were known as "Itchy buds" - one down the back of the neck was horrible!

WinstonWolf

72,857 posts

238 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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With these feet said:
WinstonWolf said:
Ah yes, we used to play a game called "shooting each other". Small unripe berries hurt far more than lead pellets irked

And they wonder why we're not that health and safety conscious biggrin
The estate we lived on was still being built, but they landscaped the underpasses with a strange spikey plant that had hard bulbs with furry seeds. Trick was to split then and throw them, resulting in much humour as they were known as "Itchy buds" - one down the back of the neck was horrible!
I remember them... And don't forget, building sites made excellent playgrounds paperbag

With these feet

5,728 posts

214 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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WinstonWolf said:
I remember them... And don't forget, building sites made excellent playgrounds paperbag
I do recall losing a welly due to playing on a nearby building site. I was stuck fast and couldnt move, about 6 or 7 at the time and my Dad was not impressed he had to walk through it to remove me.

Other disgusting things we did was play in the storm drains, again the stickiest grey mud you would ever see, stuck like glue and stank! Got covered from head to toe by the older kids, it was in my eyes, ears and mouth. Dad then dragged me round their houses asking for an explanation!

Oh the joys of childhood! Well it was spent in St.Evenage.....

Rower

1,378 posts

265 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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On holiday in Bude.........and the weather broke ! It hosed down and we just stayed in bed and got up late hoping the weather would return to normal !! I did not bother shaving and grew a beard which I only took off 2 years ago!

Morningside

24,110 posts

228 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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WinstonWolf said:
I remember them... And don't forget, building sites made excellent playgrounds paperbag
yes there was a house being built at the bottom of the road and we were always in it. It was totally empty with no floors etc. but we managed to climb all over it.

And these make fantastic frisbees.

The builder must have been well pissed off with the about we sent flying across the yard.

NormalWisdom

2,139 posts

158 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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WinstonWolf said:
I remember them... And don't forget, building sites made excellent playgrounds paperbag
Oh yes - It probably was about 1976, hot-wiring a couple of dumper trucks and racing them unti the fuel ran out.......driving

Johnniem

2,660 posts

222 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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O-level year. Revising on playing fields for most of the evening (well a bit of it; and not enough if my results were anything to go by!). Wrangler jeans, cheesecloth shirts, gaudy t-shirts and very, very high waistbands with 3 belts, rounded off with unfeasibly high heeled shoes (er, stacks we called them!) for a fella!

It was so hot for so long that many houses in the SE of London suffered from subsidence due to the clay shrinkage. One fella was asked by a builder I did labouring for as to what he should do about the 1" gaps he had above his ground floor doors and walls. Johnny Mac, for that was his name, suggested that the family had a two week holiday and when they got back it would all be fine. Cut to holiday time and Johnny got a few long hoses and a manly drill. Put holes in 1m spaces round the house, stuck hoses in and turned the water on, every day.

Eventually the house re-levelled itself and the problem was solved. Nowadays it would be an insurance claim and we would be told that underpinning was required, at vast cost to us and the insurers. If it were me? I'd go along with the Johnny Mac way of remediating subsidence.

As you were Dudes......