A Bit of Levity in these Dark Times…

[Brett Hayes]

The Good Old Days.

“When I were a lad,
I’d be lucky if I got
A whole cornflake for breakfast —
And that were once a week!”

“That’s nothing!
When I were a lad,”
Said the other,
“I had to make do
With half a cornflake
Once a fortnight —
And share it with my brother!”

Brett Hayes R863743

[happy daze john in oz]

We had the empty box and we had to use it to light the fire.
Bread and milk for breakfast but the milk man and baker arrived after I left for school.

[Tony Taylor]

The Good Old Days.

“When I were a lad,
I’d be lucky if I got
A whole cornflake for breakfast —
And that were once a week!”

“That’s nothing!
When I were a lad,”
Said the other,
“I had to make do
With half a cornflake
Once a fortnight —
And share it with my brother!”

Brett Hayes R863743

We were so poor I did not have any clothes until I was three.

On my birthday I was given a hat; so I could look out of the window.

[James Curry]

We were so poor we lived in a hole in the road eat the cardboard box that had the cornflakes in , luxury. If you tell the kids that today they would not believe you.

[happy daze john in oz]

We were so poor I had to eat school dinners YUK!!!!!

[j.sabourn]

#3 . I lived at one time where the clothes off the backline used to disappear Tony you didn’t live in Hillheads did you. They were usually women’s clothes and the purloiner of such got the name and reputation of “ The Scanty Panty Man”. JS

[j.sabourn]

#1 when I was a lad I got a spoonful of Codliver oil for breakfast . Courtesy of a wartime government. JS.

[Tony Taylor]

#3 . I lived at one time where the clothes off the backline used to disappear Tony you didn’t live in Hillheads did you. They were usually women’s clothes and the purloiner of such got the name and reputation of “ The Scanty Panty Man”. JS

ha ha John, I was like the Scarlet Pimpernel, usually stayed at Churchill, or Pinetree but also known in Dowling Ave, and Monkseaton

[j.sabourn]

You must have been a frequenter of the Black Horse, the Monkseaton Arms, and the Ship in Monkseaton then ?
Cheers, although Dowling Avenue would have been handier to Tiddly Bay. Churchill Avenue was just around the corner from my parents house.my younger brother still gets in the Black Horse. JS

[Tony Taylor]

You must have been a frequenter of the Black Horse, the Monkseaton Arms, and the Ship in Monkseaton then ?
Cheers, although Dowling Avenue would have been handier to Tiddly Bay. Churchill Avenue was just around the corner from my parents house.my younger brother still gets in the Black Horse. JS

unfortunately no John, they wouldnt serve minors.