I used to delve down for the free toy when no one was lookingAw man I remember doing that all the time!
I used to delve down for the free toy when no one was looking
I used to delve down for the free toy when no one was looking
And that was the game................................involving the toy with ones imagination.
TBH and as much as it pains me to agree with Nod, iirc they were like little steam boats that ran off baking sodaPS does anyone remember the small toy (not if ever in a cereal box?) that you could put baking soda in and then play in the bath with it?
IIRC the baking soda ones were basically jet propelled boats and the divers/submarines were things you stuck in an water filled Coke bottle (pretty much the only plastic bottles available back then!) with the lid on and they sank when you squeezed the bottle and rose when the pressure was released.
Rarely got to the toys - younger sister would tip all the cereal out onto the table and grab it before I had a chance!
TBH and as much as it pains me to agree with Nod, iirc they were like little steam boats that ran off baking soda
You are never too old for toys in a bathdepending on how old I was when I gave up toys in the bath)
You are never too old for toys in a bath
A quick google reveals that there are / were both subs and boats
I can remember making steam powered boats for the bath , a balsa wood plank /strip with a balsa block glued either end and a cigar tube glued on top half filled with water and a pin hole pierced in the end .. light a small candle under the cigar tube and it would happily chug up and down the bath for ages , or until one of the nasty German pretend bombers dropped a wet sponge on it from above . Them were the days
Did you ever try one of those Jetex engines on a model (water or land)? I tried a few land based....................but boy was the lighting & fuel finicky to get a reliable start.
Oh yea the ones that the fuel pellets looked like thick brown washers , god knows what I tried them on but never reliable if I remember rightly .... one thing I did discover as I grew up was airfix model boats weren’t waterproof .Did you ever try one of those Jetex engines on a model (water or land)? I tried a few land based....................but boy was the lighting & fuel finicky to get a reliable start.
Jeeze yeah I had a helicopter powered by two, getting them both to light roughly at the same time, was a bit challenging to say the leastDid you ever try one of those Jetex engines on a model (water or land)? I tried a few land based.
PS I certainly don't readily remember plastic bottles........ everything I thought was in glass but no idea when the first plastic bottles appeared.
It was all glass when I was a lad, and not many empties around either, as you could get a few old pennies deposit back for returning them to the shop! Corona was a well known name in Northwest England, and you got money back for their empty pop bottles. I used to like Tizer too, particularly when eating fish and chips, but I'm not sure it tastes the same these days.
Also, do you remember the yellow cellophane wrapping on Lucozade bottles? You only ever got given Lucozade when you were ill in those days, and my mum could always tell when I was getting better as she'd catch me looking at the room through a piece of yellow cellophane! Perhaps that's why I like to use a yellow filter when shooting black and white film!
Corona was a well known name in Northwest England, and you got money back for their empty pop bottles
I think I recall hearing that that was Elvis Costello's father singing in that advert.
It was all glass when I was a lad, and not many empties around either, as you could get a few old pennies deposit back for returning them to the shop! Corona was a well known name in Northwest England, and you got money back for their empty pop bottles. I used to like Tizer too, particularly when eating fish and chips, but I'm not sure it tastes the same these days.
Also, do you remember the yellow cellophane wrapping on Lucozade bottles? You only ever got given Lucozade when you were ill in those days, and my mum could always tell when I was getting better as she'd catch me looking at the room through a piece of yellow cellophane! Perhaps that's why I like to use a yellow filter when shooting black and white film!
I used to buy a bottle of Tizer from the village shop on the way home from my Saturday job to accompany the cottage pie while watching The 6 - 5 Special followed by Wagon Train.
Deposit on the bottle was 3d.
Same in the South East
And South West. Corona for orangeade and cherryade but R White's (I'm a secret lemonade drinker...) for lemonade. There was also Cresta but that was too frothy (man).
Yes, Ross Mcmanus is Elvis costello's father.I think I recall hearing that that was Elvis Costello's father singing in that advert.
It was all glass when I was a lad, and not many empties around either, as you could get a few old pennies deposit back for returning them to the shop! Corona was a well known name in Northwest England, and you got money back for their empty pop bottles. I used to like Tizer too, particularly when eating fish and chips, but I'm not sure it tastes the same these days.
Also, do you remember the yellow cellophane wrapping on Lucozade bottles? You only ever got given Lucozade when you were ill in those days, and my mum could always tell when I was getting better as she'd catch me looking at the room through a piece of yellow cellophane! Perhaps that's why I like to use a yellow filter when shooting black and white film!
Another blast from the past was one of those pyramid shaped blocks of frozen orange juice wrapped in some sort of waxed paper tetra-pack, which I think were called a Mumbo or something like that. I seem to recall they were quite cheap but I was never sure how to eat one... you'd have needed teeth like a beaver to bite bits off it! The other thing I used to avoid was a sherbet fountain... it seemed to go from burning the back of your throat out to completely blocked in about three goes! One of the great mysteries of life, like whatever happened to white dog poo?!I remember Lucozade being a drink you had when you were ill but I a had forgotten about the cellophane wrappers - just tumbled back in time there, Mr B.
Dave
It gets put in a bag and thrown up a tree before it has a chance to change colour.One of the great mysteries of life, like whatever happened to white dog poo?!
Another blast from the past was one of those pyramid shaped blocks of frozen orange juice wrapped in some sort of waxed paper tetra-pack, which I think were called a Mumbo or something like that. I seem to recall they were quite cheap but I was never sure how to eat one... you'd have needed teeth like a beaver to bite bits off it! The other thing I used to avoid was a sherbet fountain... it seemed to go from burning the back of your throat out to completely blocked in about three goes! One of the great mysteries of life, like whatever happened to white dog poo?!
No, and I wasn't keen on Milky Bars either, although I did have a Milky Bar Kid sheriff's badge at one time!Did you eat that as well
Another blast from the past was one of those pyramid shaped blocks of frozen orange juice wrapped in some sort of waxed paper tetra-pack, which I think were called a Mumbo or something like that. I seem to recall they were quite cheap but I was never sure how to eat one... you'd have needed teeth like a beaver to bite bits off it! The other thing I used to avoid was a sherbet fountain... it seemed to go from burning the back of your throat out to completely blocked in about three goes! One of the great mysteries of life, like whatever happened to white dog poo?!
brings back great memories of my nans up in scotland, me and my brother talk about it all the time
Ah yes I remember those, we used to keep squashing them until they were soft enough to drink. I guess that would be the original "Slushy"Another blast from the past was one of those pyramid shaped blocks of frozen orange juice wrapped in some sort of waxed paper tetra-pack
Jubblies are still going strong.Another blast from the past was one of those pyramid shaped blocks of frozen orange juice wrapped in some sort of waxed paper tetra-pack, which I think were called a Mumbo or something like that. I seem to recall they were quite cheap but I was never sure how to eat one... you'd have needed teeth like a beaver to bite bits off it! The other thing I used to avoid was a sherbet fountain... it seemed to go from burning the back of your throat out to completely blocked in about three goes! One of the great mysteries of life, like whatever happened to white dog poo?!