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At CH I Felt I had no connection with the outside world.
My knowledge of ongoing matters during the 70's is very poor except for rock music and sport.
Firstly I would like to thank the following boys for their musical tastes .
Tony Price (Supertramp) , Guy Bohane ( Stevie Wonder) and Steve Barrett (Pink Floyd).
However back to the topic:
When I was in Barnes A , We were only allowed to watch TV in the day room when an important rugby or football international was on, curtousy of Bob Sillett or Mr Ormanroyd.
In Lamb B rocker Rae would let us watch the wimbledon final in his study but I cannot remember anything else.
Because I was a friend of John Farrar sometimes we would hijack his dads house but not often,( ENG V SCOT 0-1 RAY CLEMENCE DISASTER AT WEMBLEY )
Anyway we had hardly any tv, no newpapers unless there were some in the library ?, which i do not remember.
Presumably with computers / iphones etc these days ar completly the opposite.
Does letter writing (emailing) ones parents still happen on sunday morning ?
My knowledge of ongoing matters during the 70's is very poor except for rock music and sport.
Firstly I would like to thank the following boys for their musical tastes .
Tony Price (Supertramp) , Guy Bohane ( Stevie Wonder) and Steve Barrett (Pink Floyd).
However back to the topic:
When I was in Barnes A , We were only allowed to watch TV in the day room when an important rugby or football international was on, curtousy of Bob Sillett or Mr Ormanroyd.
In Lamb B rocker Rae would let us watch the wimbledon final in his study but I cannot remember anything else.
Because I was a friend of John Farrar sometimes we would hijack his dads house but not often,( ENG V SCOT 0-1 RAY CLEMENCE DISASTER AT WEMBLEY )
Anyway we had hardly any tv, no newpapers unless there were some in the library ?, which i do not remember.
Presumably with computers / iphones etc these days ar completly the opposite.
Does letter writing (emailing) ones parents still happen on sunday morning ?
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Not so different from Hertford in the 70's then!
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In Maine A, we had the Telegrpah, The Sun, The New Scientist, Just 17 (!!) and The Beano on subscription...
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What was TV ---- ? but in Barnes B we DID have the Illustrated London News -- so there !
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Great Plum wrote:In Maine A, we had the Telegrpah, The Sun, The New Scientist, Just 17 (!!) and The Beano on subscription...
THE BEANO ???
ALL comics were banned in my day, though we did used to secretly buy the war 'trash-mags' from the market stalls in Horsham in what is now Pires Place.
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I seem to remember that in Barnes B we got daily the News Chronicle and then the Daily Mail, as well as the Telegraph. The monitors always read them first, so it was a question of scaling up the pecking order.
To begin with my mother sent me the Children's Newspaper, and maybe the Eagle. I had graduated to it via Robin and Swift. This stopped about the LE, and came back when my brother arrived. The problem was that they were tightly rolled up and very difficult to unfurl.
Once I discovered the Dominions Library, there were lots of magazines to be read.
TV was for occasional sporting events for the chosen few, which I wasn't.
To begin with my mother sent me the Children's Newspaper, and maybe the Eagle. I had graduated to it via Robin and Swift. This stopped about the LE, and came back when my brother arrived. The problem was that they were tightly rolled up and very difficult to unfurl.
Once I discovered the Dominions Library, there were lots of magazines to be read.
TV was for occasional sporting events for the chosen few, which I wasn't.
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Maine A still had Just 17 in 1995? Awesome! Thought that was just a "tradition" from my time! No idea who started it but everyone seemed to enjoy reading itGreat Plum wrote:In Maine A, we had the Telegrpah, The Sun, The New Scientist, Just 17 (!!) and The Beano on subscription...
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Yes indeed - I think we may have still had it when I left in 1999!Tommy wrote:Maine A still had Just 17 in 1995? Awesome! Thought that was just a "tradition" from my time! No idea who started it but everyone seemed to enjoy reading itGreat Plum wrote:In Maine A, we had the Telegrpah, The Sun, The New Scientist, Just 17 (!!) and The Beano on subscription...
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"Presumably with computers / iphones etc these days ar completly the opposite.
Does letter writing (emailing) ones parents still happen on sunday morning ?"
Think you'll find it's completely different now, thank goodness. Communication between parents and children is completely seemless.Unless you have a boy. It still remains that however many forms of communication parents have with their boys you still have this type of conversation.
Mother (text/phone/email/etc) What are you doing?Where are you going?
Son (text/phone /email/etc) Nothing. Out.
Next day.
Mother : What did you do yesterday? Wher did you go?
Son: Nothing. Nowhere.
Mother: Good at least that's what you said you would do.
Similar with daughter takes three hours and inolves every word everyone said during the day. Mother who previously thought son was ungrateful monosyllabic uncaring article feels suddenly blessed and understands why men think women talk too much. They really do.
Does letter writing (emailing) ones parents still happen on sunday morning ?"
Think you'll find it's completely different now, thank goodness. Communication between parents and children is completely seemless.Unless you have a boy. It still remains that however many forms of communication parents have with their boys you still have this type of conversation.
Mother (text/phone/email/etc) What are you doing?Where are you going?
Son (text/phone /email/etc) Nothing. Out.
Next day.
Mother : What did you do yesterday? Wher did you go?
Son: Nothing. Nowhere.
Mother: Good at least that's what you said you would do.
Similar with daughter takes three hours and inolves every word everyone said during the day. Mother who previously thought son was ungrateful monosyllabic uncaring article feels suddenly blessed and understands why men think women talk too much. They really do.
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Yeterday evening, we were visited by my younger son, Marcus.(53) on his way back from a job at Heathrow, via Dorset to Birmingham (Sorry KNOWLE !!)
Why this convoluted route ? -----to collect his Satnav which he had loaned to HIS son Kerry(22) some months ago !
Kerry is about to become a Father in April, but we are glad to know that Darcey, will be a girl.
I realise from previous posts, that Girls are less trouble than Boys----------- ????
Why this convoluted route ? -----to collect his Satnav which he had loaned to HIS son Kerry(22) some months ago !
Kerry is about to become a Father in April, but we are glad to know that Darcey, will be a girl.
I realise from previous posts, that Girls are less trouble than Boys----------- ????
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I love it!!!!dinahcat wrote:"Presumably with computers / iphones etc these days ar completly the opposite.
Does letter writing (emailing) ones parents still happen on sunday morning ?"
Think you'll find it's completely different now, thank goodness. Communication between parents and children is completely seemless.Unless you have a boy. It still remains that however many forms of communication parents have with their boys you still have this type of conversation.
Mother (text/phone/email/etc) What are you doing?Where are you going?
Son (text/phone /email/etc) Nothing. Out.
Next day.
Mother : What did you do yesterday? Wher did you go?
Son: Nothing. Nowhere.
Mother: Good at least that's what you said you would do.
Similar with daughter takes three hours and inolves every word everyone said during the day. Mother who previously thought son was ungrateful monosyllabic uncaring article feels suddenly blessed and understands why men think women talk too much. They really do.
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Whatever made you think that?NEILL THE NOTORIOUS wrote:Yeterday evening, we were visited by my younger son, Marcus.(53) on his way back from a job at Heathrow, via Dorset to Birmingham (Sorry KNOWLE !!)
Why this convoluted route ? -----to collect his Satnav which he had loaned to HIS son Kerry(22) some months ago !
Kerry is about to become a Father in April, but we are glad to know that Darcey, will be a girl.
I realise from previous posts, that Girls are less trouble than Boys----------- ????
"If a man speaks, and there isn't a woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"
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Daughter: how did you break your arm?
Granddaughter Chloe (13 years old); I was rollerblading on the trampoline
Daughter: why on earth did you do that?
Granddaughter: Issy (younger granddaughter 11 years old) told me to do it.
You just couldn't make that up - and I didn't. Issy is now on crutches for 6 weeks but their sensible brother (10 years old), after innumerable trips to hospital with concussion etc has decided to give up diving.
Girls are easier?????
Granddaughter Chloe (13 years old); I was rollerblading on the trampoline
Daughter: why on earth did you do that?
Granddaughter: Issy (younger granddaughter 11 years old) told me to do it.
You just couldn't make that up - and I didn't. Issy is now on crutches for 6 weeks but their sensible brother (10 years old), after innumerable trips to hospital with concussion etc has decided to give up diving.
Girls are easier?????
What happens if a politician drowns in a river? That is pollution.
What happens if all of them drown? That is solution!!!
What happens if all of them drown? That is solution!!!
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I can only quote personal experience ------
I am shaving,by myself, in the upstairs Bathroom --------
Voice from behind me ------ "Hey Grandad --- how do you work this shower ?"
I turn, to be confronted by a naked 13 year old young woman !
I mumble something about the controls--- and leave -- part shaven.
When I complained to my son, he said "But when we were young, we all went about the house, at times, in the Nuddy !"
I said "Yes-- but I brought up BOYS -- girls are different ! "
He replied "Oh Dad --- you have a lot to learn !"
I rest my case !
BTW the girl concerned is now 33 with a boy and a girl of her own !
I am shaving,by myself, in the upstairs Bathroom --------
Voice from behind me ------ "Hey Grandad --- how do you work this shower ?"
I turn, to be confronted by a naked 13 year old young woman !
I mumble something about the controls--- and leave -- part shaven.
When I complained to my son, he said "But when we were young, we all went about the house, at times, in the Nuddy !"
I said "Yes-- but I brought up BOYS -- girls are different ! "
He replied "Oh Dad --- you have a lot to learn !"
I rest my case !
BTW the girl concerned is now 33 with a boy and a girl of her own !