Dinks, I’ve found a gorm,you can buy it at Ikea. - shelving
heehee, don’t you just love Ikea names!!
Found this, though, on Wikipedia:
- Gorm, or gaum, means “attentive or alert”, and is the basis for the word gormless.
Apparently Gorm also means blue in Gaelic.
I remember when Jim Davison was funny.
School wise, I remember ‘Singing Together’ where we’d have to sing along with some recorded thing and have the books too ( the song I remember was ‘Ghost of Tom’). Semolina (loved it), minty custard, learning to write in Calligraphy, Space a Invaders crisps for 5 p in tuck shop. Home wise: Sinclair Spectrum (manic miner was my favourite game), video night, radiogram at my grandparents (Missisippi bu Pussy Cat or Jim Reeves); top loading video players; 10p slot on TV ; TerraHawks; Top of the Pops; pop delivery and 10p return…ah the memories 
I remember the 10p return on Corona bottles too, Beverly. We used to save our bottles in a crate in the coal shed and, at the end of the month when dad’s pay had run out, we’d take a whole crate full down to the village shop to buy some groceries! I wish I could do that now with my empties lol!!
My son still can’t believe that we didn’t have crisps in the pantry all the time. They were a treat especially if mum had a bingo win. We’d nip to the pub and buy a couple bottles of beer and lemonade to make a shandies all round and a packet of crisps each. Mind you, I’ve only got the one kid and my parents had five so their food bill was a lot bigger than mine!
T x
I remember in 1984 when frankie goes to hollywoods single relax was banned from airplay in the uk by the bbc. This made all the schoolkids in the uk to go out and buy the single and force the bbc to play the single on radio 1 and top of the pops.
Just goes to show the power the people had in the 80s first the miner strikes, then teacher strikes and lastly scrapping the poll tax or shall I say renaming it to the council tax.
Stamp albums, who had one in the 60s?,when you could just buy them at WH Smith or local stationers, they seem quite specialised now, no more assorted packs of stamps!, My dad was in the travel business,and used to get us loads of foreign stamps (from the mail in the office) and from his overseas trips,including Russia and US…cannot remember what happened to them…not sure they’d keep kids entertained now,would they?
Someone sent a you tube link to my facebook page a few weeks ago of Andy pandy, wooden tops, bill and ben and muffin the mule. What a laugh
Not much you can do with it really is there? I remember the Franco stamps being very common,of all denominations!
I remember pogo sticks, space hoppers and chopper bikes first time round. You know you are getting old when fashions come around a second or even third time! When fruit salads and black jacks were 4 for an old penny. Happy days
Blossom,remember Basil Brush and David Nixon? when Basil was fox coloured and not bright orange like he is now! I remember seeing a lovely Basil puppet in a shop (should say ‘the’ shop) at Ringway airport,long time ago, and it was £54/10s
Thought of another good word, gumption,
Ha ha, robert_C I remember when Mary whitehouse was about and everything was banned, even my dingaling. Lol
Ha ha Too true squiffy when she was about you could not even blow your nose but it was banned.
Robert.
Hi All,
Remember when fish and chips where wrapped in newspaper?
Also the national anthem being played on the BBC when the channel closed down for the night, staying on tv…we used to sit together as a family to watch it and constantly argue over what we watched, but as an eighties kid it didn’t matter really as there were only 4 channels to choose from anyway!
I grew up in the sticks, we used to disappear for hours across the fields, nobody had a watch but we was always home in time for tea, my mum confessed to me as an adult that she used to keep an eye on us with binoculars from the bedroom window! and I always thought she trusted us!!
Wagon Wheels were DEFINATELY bigger, so were Hula Hoops cos I used to be able to put them on all my fingers when I was about 8 now at 33 they don’t fit, so somethings gone on there…
BeckyX
My dad was always saying use your gumption or use your filbert and I had no idea what he was on about. Only found out as an adult that a filbert was a nut!
I remember playing out every day, getting home from school and changing into play clothes. We played Bazooka on nearby tomato vineries, played rounders, climbed vinery walls, timed each other to run around the top of a huge water tank (SO dangerous, but we, like all kids were oblivious ) spent endless time at the farm too, helping to bring the cows in all of whom had names, watching them being milked by hand and the farmhand squirting milk at us, playing with the latest litter of kittens. We built dens there, we had assault courses to run, hung ropes from trees. In summer we’d walk or when big enough cycle to the beach on our own. Our childhood was one where we imagined and dreamed our worlds then went home for tea!
We had a bath once a week in a tin bath on the kitchen floor, no bathroom. I think youngest went first ( you didn’t want to be last, there were four kids too much scum!) I shared baths with my little brother.
School, very small, eighty kids, four classes, head teacher who wielded a cane, a nun who wielded a ruler and her hand PE in T-shirts and big green knickers, high jump onto cork matting, skipping, rounders, twoball, kiss chase British bulldogs cowboys and Indians, Germans and British.
SO LUCKY not least because I was born on an island
I can remember newspaper in outside loo and it wasn’t for reading Lol