Nowadays with almost everyone having a mobile phone we've become used to being able to make contact at will or make or receive a txt after even the shortest journey!but it wasn't always like that...... In 1972 our family went on a two week camping trip in Europe visiting France,Belgium,Luxembourg.Germany and Austria. My Mum and Dad,Brother and Sisters were in the Ford Zodiac towing our Sprite Major Caravan and I followed on my red and chrome BSA C15 250cc motorbike. My motorbike ran ok except for a couple of incidents....a puncture/split tyre as we approached the border of Luxembourg and a massive concrete pipe falling off of the back of a lorry just in front of the bike which luckily bounced over me,as we attempted to scale a hill to go into Switzerland. After the two weeks were up we eventually got back to Ramsgate where we would catch the Hovercraft back to England.When it was our turn to board,probably around midnight,my chain and sprockets were so worn that I only just...
I've got no lawn,don't need a mower I'm not "old-school" like Percy Thrower I've got no hoe or noisy blower I'm not a rose or hosta grower I only trim when limbs get lower I'm not a garden-centre goer The birds have been my wild-seeds-sower My gardening pace is so much s-l-o-w-e-r I've let it all grow WILDddddddd ......
School and viruses....... If we'd have had this Coronavirus outbreak when we were at School,I suspect we'd have all been wiped out within a week! If cleanliness and hand-washing is the key to survival then we'd have all been doomed and social distancing was unheard of. We'd often share a bottle of Tizer and a bag of crisps and if you missed out on a crisp you'd definitely get some when it was your turn for a swig out of the bottle! Not many people had running hot water and we'd have a bath once a week and if you were last in the bath you'd come out grubbier than when you went in and washing in between wasn't high on our list of priorities,nor was changing our clothes. We used to hope that if the Nurse was doing a feet inspection it'd be on a Monday as we'd be slightly cleaner than if it happened on a Friday. Most of us had pretty permanent coughs and colds and tissues didn't exist,or if they did,none of us at school had ever seen one a...
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