Remember the days when...

[Robbi]

when the Thames and Mole flooded in 1968

 

[dave53]

i am with welsh wizard on this one came back from singapore that year in shorts and shirt strait to the rhondda valley gelli mum had to by 4 of us all winter clothing happy days
whittler key thanks for the vids made my hairs on my neck stand on end great days regards dave

 

[cave_dweller]

Royal Scot biscuits

Ah... Royal Scot biscuits. I'd forgotten. They were bliss.

I liked Lincoln too, but the recent attempt at the 'original recipe' I found in Tesco was definitely NOT the recipe I remember - not even close!

 

[Barn Owl]

Lincoln I remember but Royal Scots?

Any links?


Found a link, never really was into those.

 

[bilmo-p5]

Barmouth biscuits ...

 

[Toddy]

There's another forum, rather specialised subject matter, that would go down nicely with some here

It's called, "nice cup of tea and a sit down", and it doesn't have a bushcraft section.....yet after all, a brew up in the outside is kind of special, no ? needs just the right tea, just the right biscuits
http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/

Could only happen in the UK and Ireland


Tam, I forgot about Golden cups , how about Caramac ?

cheers,
Toddy

 

[R.Lewis]

When you could walk in the town centre of Matlock with your scout scarf round ya neck and a sheath knife on you belt without getting stopped or funny looks!

 

[British Red]

I used to find it fascinating watching the ice designs grow on the window, day after day
Toddy

Just for you


Ice Sculpture by British Red, on Flickr

 

[Barn Owl]

caramacs were a bit too sweet for me Mary.

 

[joejoe]

There's another forum, rather specialised subject matter, that would go down nicely with some here

It's called, "nice cup of tea and a sit down", and it doesn't have a bushcraft section.....yet after all, a brew up in the outside is kind of special, no ? needs just the right tea, just the right biscuits
http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/

Could only happen in the UK and Ireland


Tam, I forgot about Golden cups , how about Caramac ?

cheers,
Toddy

caramac heaven on earth

 

[Toddy]

BR that's beautiful

Tam and joejoe, I don't eat much sweet stuff, but a bit of caramac, oh now that was glorious
Couldn't eat a whole bar; too, too sweet; but a bit of it, now that's indulgence

cheers,
M

 

[Welshwizard]

Does,nt it make you wonder as you read this thread - why has everything changed so much over the years , and a lot of it is NOT for the better , all these products out of production even where the parent companies still exist ,and the laws that have changed - when I was a kid we made our own catapults ,dutch arrows ,bows and arrows even spears along with our trusty pocket knives ,airguns and fishing tackle and bikes that was all we had to play with and grow with all year round ,we lived in a street of about 40 houses that backed onto a large field and if we were,nt off fishing on our bikes we used this field as our target range for all our home builds ,we never had one complaint or report of anything we did (none of it illegal ) most of it would cause an armed response team now ,but I brought all my children up doing the same things (eldest is 30 this year) one of them fishes still ,all three still shoot and two of them are still keen walkers (one was local mt rescue until his girlfriend)most of our friends are into at least one of the same .
So why has everything gone t*ts up and biggest common denominator is our goverments over the years -It seems sometimes that the minority has been able to change things for the majority and it definately has not always been for the better .