do you remember when...

[Mervyn and Trish]

When a Wagon Wheel was big enough for a wagon!

[Onelife]

.......................... and how fluffy it was when you took it out of your pocket next day.

We must have been a bit posher than you OBF as we used to rap ours up in our handkerchiefs

[Stephen]

Handkerchief!......very posh. What's wrong with your sleeve

[CaroleF]

Do you remember Jubbleys? They were triangular filled with usually orange drink and then frozen so when you bought one you cut off the corner and started sucking the ice. I remember getting one at the little sweet shop that was on the way home from school - along with Black Jacks (are you allowed to say that now?) and aniseed balls which us girls used as pretend lipstick!

[Stephen]

I used to like going into the local bakers as a child, when a baker was a baker with everything cooked on site, and ask if they had any stale cakes. Of course, they weren't stale just yesterday's cakes. I would get a bag of buns for one or two pence (old money) and if I was lucky there'd be a cream horn in there. Heaven

[Ray Scully]

I used to like going into the local bakers as a child, when a baker was a baker with everything cooked on site, and ask if they had any stale cakes. Of course, they weren't stale just yesterday's cakes. I would get a bag of buns for one or two pence (old money) and if I was lucky there'd be a cream horn in there. Heaven

AS a child I was sent to the local butcher/abattoir to get a sheep's head and I had to ask the butcher to leave the eyes in...So that it would see us through the week

[qbman1]

Anyone remember the good old days before Facebook, Instagram and Twitter?

When you took a photograph of your dinner. Took the film to get developed at the chemist or sent it away?

Then go around to all your friends' houses to show them the picture of your dinner?

No? Me neither.........................

I remember my parents sending films away to be developed and getting a free film back with the photos. Considering it was a long time ago, the prints were pretty good quality.
I've been having a lot of enjoyment recently printing digital photos using my new printer. Just slot in the memory card, choose the photos you want from the small screen and print away. Easier than downloading to the computer and printing from there, for me anyway, and, with buying photo paper in a large quantity and subscribing to hp instant ink it is not expensive

They even wrote a song about that - "Some Day My Prints Will Come" !!

[oldbluefox]

AS a child I was sent to the local butcher/abattoir to get a sheep's head and I had to ask the butcher to leave the eyes in...So that it would see us through the week

[Frank Manning]

I was sent shopping on my bike, with a list, and used to bring it all home on the handle bars of my bike. Mr Bardell the fishmonger, London Central Meat Co, Aris' the baker, Home and Colonial Stores, International stores, sometimes Mr Lovell. Greengrocer on the market Tuesdays and Saturdays.

What is amazing is that Sue was a couple of years younger than me but was also sent to do the shopping at most of the same shops. Our families didn't know each other but we knew all the same people. Didn't meet until I was 20 and Sue was just 18. It is the 54th anniversary of our engagement today!! 31st March 1962.

[qbman1]

I can just see you pedalling up the cobbled hill in your flat 'at and loaf of 'Ovis in the basket, Frank !!

Many congratulations on your anniversary. Wish I had your patience !!

[anniec]

IIt is the 54th anniversary of our engagement today!! 31st March 1962.

Blimey, you're not exactly a fast worker! When are you getting round to marrying?

[Onelife]

I was sent shopping on my bike, with a list, and used to bring it all home on the handle bars of my bike. Mr Bardell the fishmonger, London Central Meat Co, Aris' the baker, Home and Colonial Stores, International stores, sometimes Mr Lovell. Greengrocer on the market Tuesdays and Saturdays.

What is amazing is that Sue was a couple of years younger than me but was also sent to do the shopping at most of the same shops. Our families didn't know each other but we knew all the same people. Didn't meet until I was 20 and Sue was just 18. It is the 54th anniversary of our engagement today!! 31st March 1962.

Box of keefy chocolates on their way Frank

[Frank Manning]

IIt is the 54th anniversary of our engagement today!! 31st March 1962.

Blimey, you're not exactly a fast worker! When are you getting round to marrying?

Annie, that was the fastest I ever worked with girls. Met 23rd December 1961, away at sea Dec 30th to March 13th 1962, engaged 31st March 1962, married October 1963.

Apart from that I was renowned for being a bit shy with girls.

[Frank Manning]

I can just see you pedalling up the cobbled hill in your flat 'at and loaf of 'Ovis in the basket, Frank !!

Many congratulations on your anniversary. Wish I had your patience !!

I was a bit like Billy Bunter with my National Health specs in those days QB. I've got two flat hats now. My builders flat cap (needs a pencil over one ear! ), and another which I call "my Channel 4 racing hat". worn for cheering on Nico de Boinville on Sprinter Sacre.

[anniec]

IIt is the 54th anniversary of our engagement today!! 31st March 1962.

Blimey, you're not exactly a fast worker! When are you getting round to marrying?

Annie, that was the fastest I ever worked with girls. Met 23rd December 1961, away at sea Dec 30th to March 13th 1962, engaged 31st March 1962, married October 1963.

Apart from that I was renowned for being a bit shy with girls.

Aaah, there's something terribly touching about that; she must have been a marvellous catch.

The complications of weddings now seem to involve the couple spending donkey's years arranging the wretched thing before they actually do it!

Annie
(bankrupt mother of 3 daughters, third wedding in September)

[kaymar]

.............this, and its P&O predecessor was a forum for cruisers or would-be cruisers asking questions, offering advice and generally discussing cruising? Do you remember HK phooey, Dennis the Menace, lioness,The Monocled Mutineer, jackparrow, paultheeagle, even John the Dog, to name but a few? What happened?

[Silver_Shiney]

There's still a good deal of that going on!

[wolfie]

There's still a good deal of that going on!

There certainly is SS, and this thread is in exactly the right section of the forum: General Chat/Non Cruise Related Topics.

[Silver_Shiney]

There's still a good deal of that going on!

There certainly is SS, and this thread is in exactly the right section of the forum: General Chat/Non Cruise Related Topics.

There you go, you KNEW I'd see things your way

[Mervyn and Trish]

But there's a lot less moaning on this forum about it breaking down because it doesn't! Touch wood I've not jinxed it.

[Silver_Shiney]

But there's a lot less moaning on this forum about it breaking down because it doesn't! Touch wood I've not jinxed it.

If you have, we'll all be wanting compo

[wolfie]

There's still a good deal of that going on!

There certainly is SS, and this thread is in exactly the right section of the forum: General Chat/Non Cruise Related Topics.

There you go, you KNEW I'd see things your way

[Solent Richard]

Anyone remember the good old days before Facebook, Instagram and Twitter?

When you took a photograph of your dinner. Took the film to get developed at the chemist or sent it away?

Then go around to all your friends' houses to show them the picture of your dinner?

No? Me neither.........................

Oh I certainly do.

In 1964 I sailed into Tokyo Bay on a Royal naval aircraft carrier for a weeks visit.

My first purchase was an Asahi Pentax 35mm single-lens reflex camera. The particular model was so new it wasn't yet on the shelves at home and of course was 'duty free' in the American's PX Store.

I guess that was the start of my real interest in photography and what an advance photographic technology has made since then. It's wonderful to share one's holiday and cruising images digitally these days.

Even the old video camera is obsolete. My latest Nikon D7100 and Panasonic LX100 take outstanding videos at the flick of a switch.

Similarly, on the same visit to Japan I purchased the latest Sony 'reel to reel' tape recorder.

Know of course you can store thousands more musical tracks on a thumb sized memory stick that plugs into the car.

I luv it.

[Silver_Shiney]

I bought a Pentax Spotmatic duty-free in Oman in '76. A few weeks, a photographic magazine arrived from the UK advertising the same camera. There was £3 difference in the UK price compared to what I'd paid. And then, 8 months later, I got done £15 excise duty when I came home.

I heard of a bloke serving in Germany who, on arrival, bought a very expensive camera and dismantled it, posting a piece home with his weekly letters to his mother. When he came back on mid-tour leave, she gave him all the envelopes and he rebuilt his camera and rejoiced that he'd got it home without paying duty. A week after returning to Germany, his mum sent him a parcel and a note saying "son, you forgot your camera"...

[Solent Richard]

I bought a Pentax Spotmatic duty-free in Oman in '76. A few weeks, a photographic magazine arrived from the UK advertising the same camera. There was £3 difference in the UK price compared to what I'd paid. And then, 8 months later, I got done £15 excise duty when I came home.

I heard of a bloke serving in Germany who, on arrival, bought a very expensive camera and dismantled it, posting a piece home with his weekly letters to his mother. When he came back on mid-tour leave, she gave him all the envelopes and he rebuilt his camera and rejoiced that he'd got it home without paying duty. A week after returning to Germany, his mum sent him a parcel and a note saying "son, you forgot your camera"...

Like it.

Though we were never really bothered by customs in the Royal Navy.

Kind of a 'nod and a wink' arrangement.

But you do raise an interesting point. I spotted a piece of electrical equipment at Changhi Airport returning from a cruise last year.

A quick google on the old iPhone and it was, within pennies, the same price on Amazon at home.

I even ordered it from Singapore. I luv it.