Words and phrases you don't hear any more.

[Tuearts right boot]

Weren’t they one and the same?

Wasn't Fablon the stuff your grannie used to put on her kitchen work surfaces or am thinking of something else...

 

[denislawsbackheel]

I remember DIY shows saying the same for Fablon for the same reasons.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

'Sticky back plastic' was the BBC phrase for 'Selotape', which they used on Blue Peter to avoid accusations of advertising.

NOOOOOO !! that was 'sticky tape '. Sticky back plastic was the stuff they covered Fairy Liquid bottles with to turn them into space ships or advert calenders.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Fablon

 

[KS55]

NOOOOOO !! that was 'sticky tape '. Sticky back plastic was the stuff they covered Fairy Liquid bottles with to turn them into space ships or advert calenders.

Too long ago for me to remember correctly. I bow to your superior knowledge and memory.
Now, here's one I made earlier........

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Too long ago for me to remember correctly. I bow to your superior knowledge and memory.
Now, here's one I made earlier........

That's the trouble when you're ' middle aged ' you remember every episode of Blue Peter and how to make Tracey Island with papier mache, chicken wire and sticky backed plastic but ask me what I did this morning and I'm fucked.

 

[Bill Walker]

Haven't seen him for donkeys years.

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Haven't seen him for donkeys years.

Who??

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Who??

You see The Who all the time on the telly

 

[RadcliffeRick]

You see The Who all the time on the telly

Who are you??