One for those over a certain age

[lowdrag]

I still have my lovely Cross Century but rarely if ever take it out. You have convinced me; now where do I find blotting paper in France?

[Robbo 27]

lowdrag said:

I still have my lovely Cross Century but rarely if ever take it out. You have convinced me; now where do I find blotting paper in France?

This may be a good start.

http://www.marcuslink.com/pens/storesofnote/paris....

[GetCarter]

[quote=C&C]

Oh, and I can definitely say there is no longer a Tandy shop in Kenton, as by further coincidence, I now live just down the road from the same St Mary's Church (which often hosts performances by the Stanmore Choral Society).
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When I was in the choir there the vicar committed suicide on top of the tower. (Not sure if it was anything to do with my singing!).

[Frank7]

Robbo 27 said:

lowdrag said:

I still have my lovely Cross Century but rarely if ever take it out. You have convinced me; now where do I find blotting paper in France?

This may be a good start.

http://www.marcuslink.com/pens/storesofnote/paris....

Possibly L’Ecritoire or Papier Tigre, both
in the Third Arrondisement of Paris.

[C&C]

GetCarter said:

CandC said:

Oh, and I can definitely say there is no longer a Tandy shop in Kenton, as by further coincidence, I now live just down the road from the same St Mary's Church (which often hosts performances by the Stanmore Choral Society).

When I was in the choir there the vicar committed suicide on top of the tower. (Not sure if it was anything to do with my singing!).

Oh - now that's something I never knew, (although I've only lived here for 12 years).
Looking it up, the church website just mentions his sudden death in 1973 (Fr Hedley Montague Shearing 8.5.1965 – 6.11.1973), but nothing around the circumstances (not entirely surprising). Must have been quite a shock at the time.

The people we bought the house off (and still keep in touch with) had been here over 40 years and haven't mentioned it, although they did mention that our house was one of a couple in the area that was destroyed by a bomb in the war and rebuilt in 1948.

[GetCarter]

Yep, Shearing was a good friend of my mum, and was with her a few days before he committed suicide (in tears). He had apparently 'lost his faith', so locked himself on the tower and took a bunch of pills.

My mother was in bits as she considered she 'hadn't done enough'.

Thanks Vic!

[Morningside]

Go and play in your own road.

[GetCarter]

Anyone else?

[LordGrover]

^^ Oh yes. Especially in the rock-pools at Woolacombe summer c. 1969.

[C&C]

^^^^

Something very similar - we had the PlayArt battery operated one - early '70s.

[Sticks.]

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Something very similar - we had the PlayArt battery operated one - early '70s.


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Yes, that's more like the one I had.

Anyone else have the FN rifle?

[cuprabob]

Ice Magic

https://youtu.be/GRum36tqP9Q

[Roofless Toothless]

We had a perfectly good thread for all this kind of stuff going on before the millenials started up another one all on their own.

[Dog Star]

GetCarter said:

Anyone else?

It amazes me the stuff that we all lusted after - could you imagine presenting a kid with that now? When for a tenner - a couple of pints! - you can buy an actual working remote control quadcopter these days. They'd look at you like you were some kind of simpleton.

In a way it's a good thing in my case; I'm very easily distracted, so if you were to have given 1977 Dog Star an Xbox he would have never done any studies and ended up failing school and being a homeless, drunken bum. And I don't want to be homeless.

[Timmy45]

Dog Star said:

GetCarter said:

Anyone else?

It amazes me the stuff that we all lusted after - could you imagine presenting a kid with that now? When for a tenner - a couple of pints! - you can buy an actual working remote control quadcopter these days. They'd look at you like you were some kind of simpleton.

In a way it's a good thing in my case; I'm very easily distracted, so if you were to have given 1977 Dog Star an Xbox he would have never done any studies and ended up failing school and being a homeless, drunken bum. And I don't want to be homeless.

I remember 'Big Trak' being advertised on TV. Might as well have been a private jet for all the change of getting one!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0035IZ85G/sr=1-42/qid...

[Roofless Toothless]

Shelling peas.

[julianm]

I always worried about getting a direct hit on that soft bit in the centre of your skull.

[cuprabob]

julianm said:

I always worried about getting a direct hit on that soft bit in the centre of your skull.

That looks like the North Korean nuclear arsenal

[FiF]

Back on a laundry day theme. We had a photo of the topload washing machine complete with 'luxury power mangle' earlier, now our first spin dryer was one of these Creda Debonair spin dryer.

We bought it second hand out of the paper, couple who were selling it were so anxious to demonstrate it, they soaked some towels, fired it up, but forgot to put a bucket under the outlet, see pics.Couple of gallons of water over their new carpet, didn't like to not buy it, seeing as it was so good at extracting water.

[bristolracer]

julianm said:

I always worried about getting a direct hit on that soft bit in the centre of your skull.

Stuffing as many caps as you could get in, just to see who could get the loudest bang