Lovebitesandeveryfing
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Shy friendships with girls sometimes. They were strange creatures, but they generally smelt nice.
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My Childhood
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Bill Walker
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Shit, I must be older than you..If you are not an FOC then best jog on.
We are seven. We spent the night in a bed with blankets, a counterpane and an eiderdown. Luckily the sheet did not rip and mean we had scratchy blanket all night. We have just got our spends, a shilling (5p) and it is school holidays so we will have a good supply of black jacks, fruit salad, rainbow drops, swizzells, drumstick lollies and maybe even a tube of parma violets. I am having a twist with a flake when the ice cream man comes round and I have made some lollies with Tree Top orange squash in the freezer. They are the ones you suck for a couple of seconds then you have a ice cube on a stick. I might get a jubilee later. We have a bottle of Alpine Dandelion and Burdock and a copy of Whizzer and Chips.
I am wearing them jeans you get from Glasses with the big yellow stitches, held up by a snake belt (thankfully the bow tie on elastic is hidden at the back of the drawer) and I am wearing my Wayfinders I got from Timpsons that have a compass in the sole we won't get lost. My shirt is a bit snug as I have had a growing spurt and we can't afford another til Dad gets paid.
We have a few books of Green Shield stamps so we can choose either Buckaroo or Operation then we can get the other with the Embassy cigarette coupons from our folks. We also have some cards from PG tips tea that my Gran gave me.
It is your choice from a new pack of Kellogg's Variety for breakfast, stay off the All Bran, Dairylea butties for dinner and a chippy tea. There is Banana splits on TV this morning and Jackanory, Blue Peter and a new Scooby Doo episode are on this evening.
We can ride our bikes, play tag, British bulldog and hide and seek (We will get some six year old to be 'it' all the time til he gets mard and starts blubbing and says "I'm not playing any more"). Maybe do some skipping and throwing a couple of tennis balls at the wall.
We will play football til late in the evening and every time your mum asks you to come in you can pull that face and say "They don't have to go in yet" eventually when one has had enough and drags the kid in with a good few whacks on the way, no one will laugh or say anything as it could be you tomorrow.
If I have missed anything let me know.
Bill Walker
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Wasn't he the guy in Keynsham ?Listening to Radio Luxemburg through my pillow after lights out. The signal fading out, then coming back in strong, bringing me those wonderful sounds coming out of Detroit, called Tamla Motown. Mystified by periodic interruptions by a weirdo called Horace Batchelor. I didn't know what he was talking about then, and to this day I still don't.
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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Wasn't he the guy in Keynsham ?
Now you mention it. And where the hell is that? Didn't have the faintest idea, and don't. And why was it important for him to let us know it?
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Bazooka Joe bubblegum with a pretend tattoo.
Mmmmm marvellous wasn't it, jumpers for goalposts Far cry from small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. Rush goalie. Two at the back, three in the middle, four up front, one's gone home for his tea. Beans on toast? Possibly, don't quote me on that. Marvellous.
Yep great days. Just playing football all night and all different age groups involved. Rushing your tea down you to get back out. When I was eventually dragged in I could still watch my pals playing for another hour or so through the bedroom window. Kids as young as 7 or 8 out till all hours just hanging about :)
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unexpected item
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Now you mention it. And where the hell is that? Didn't have the faintest idea, and don't. And why was it important for him to let us know it?
It was Horace Batchelor and his Infa Draw method for doing the pools, I think. The advert finished off by giving his address
That’s Keynsham, spelt KEYNSHAM, Keynsham Bristol. I’ll repeat that…
Forever immortalised on the album of the same name by the Bonzos Dog Band
Grassland Blue
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My grandma donkeystoning the front doorstep.
Pegging out the washing to dry on a Monday. Sometimes it would rain and you had to grab everything and take it all back indoors.
The gypsies who sold the clothes pegs.
The coalman.
Horsemuck for the roses.
Pegging out the washing to dry on a Monday. Sometimes it would rain and you had to grab everything and take it all back indoors.
The gypsies who sold the clothes pegs.
The coalman.
Horsemuck for the roses.
I like that, sounds like a lyric from a song.Shy friendships with girls sometimes. They were strange creatures, but they generally smelt nice.
Eccles Blue
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K E Y N S H A MWasn't he the guy in Keynsham ?