RE: Products we remember - 11

Pea Shooters and Guns, Potato Guns, what happened to them?

elf un safty comes into the equation once again.
What about the old gas mantles, they were a nightmare to change, we didn't get electricity until about 1946-7

I remember them fitting electricity in to our house in Francis St. One light socket in the one bedroom upstairs one light socket in the only room downstairs and one plug socket. Consequently the two light sockets were soon fitted with those two way adaptors.

Phil

I bet you used to run a radio off the light socket extension with twisty frayed wire. Then listen to Journey into space and Dick Barton Special agent with Snowy. Archie Andrews was always a hit.

SB

I don't remember seeing you in our house, was you hiding under the army overcoat on the bed.

Phil

No I was sitting in the corner threading cut up newspapers on to a piece of string to hang in the toilet.

Thats a novel idea hanging decorations in the bog. We just took a copy of the Dispatch with us and a candle to read it with. See no flies on us dual purpose.

See girls, reading in the khazi, who said men were no-good at Multi Tasking.

I even read The Bunty in there.

PHIL .... .... ... ... .. .. . . . . . . . .

No one reads the Bunty, what's wrong with you man?
Just look at the pictures and stop trying to be so clever.

I did even the words printed at the bottom of each drawing, not just the speech balloons. That's how I learnt to read comics and the back of the corn flakes box. When we had toast for breakfast I didn't get a reading lesson that day.

I used to be reading mad when I was a kid and the Cornflakes, Weetabix and Ready Brek boxes were very well read. Vitamin B12, Riboflavin, Thiamin and the rest.

Reading Cornflake boxes was too slow for me. It was a cereal.?

Oh no I just can't take it anymore. It's time to end it all.