I bounced around on my spacehopper of course!!

It was a cool bike....but i had a ZX81 back in the day....it was useless but you could press the keys and p**s off your Dad by getting them all covered in sticky toffee.


Life was simpler then.....unless your car wouldn't start.

Coming from a Country which doesn't exist anymore I got relatively late introduced to Computers hence my insane skills....

Ahhhh the good old days when you could drink water from a garden house, ride your bike until dusk, tie your siblings to a tree, when you didn't need a pair of scissors to open a new pair of scissors from their package, kids going to movies alone, no expiry dates on picked onions or honey and the list goes on and on.

I remember the day we got our first fax machine, I played with that thing for hours and hours, even went to the library and faxed myself something 55555.

It was fun before computers and smart phones, I felt a lot smarter back then.

I had saved this in Skydrive as well as Google docs.

It was originally posted in another place,so it may be familiar to some of you
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Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favourite 'fast food' when you were growing up?'
'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him.
'All the food was slow.'
'C'mon, seriously.. Where did you eat?'
'It was a place called 'home,'' I explained. !
'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'

By this time, the lad was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.

But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I'd figured his system could have handled it:

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans, set foot on a golf course, travelled out of the country or had a credit card.

My parents never drove me to school... I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed (slow).

We didn't have a television in our house until I was 10.
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 10 PM, after playing the national anthem and epilogue; it came back on the air at about 6 am. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people...

Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was.

All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers --My brother delivered a newspaper, seven days a week. He had to get up at 6 every morning.

Film stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the films. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or almost anything offensive.

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.

Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

MEMORIES from a friend:
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old lemonade bottle.
In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea.
She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.

How many do you remember?
Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators.

Older Than Dirt Quiz:
Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom.

1. Sweet cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with juke boxes
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles

I remember the days you could open a radio and fine tune it using a small screwdriver, or swap a tube to make it work again. I remember when my parents finally took telephone in house and I could see the logic behind 'dialling a number'.

As a student I had to type my program unto girocards which an operator would take to be read into the 'big' computer leaving me waiting anxiously as a single typo would require retyping at least one card (and logical errors a few more).

Aware I did mention a few things no longer around I would almost start to feel old now. Of course, not having a smart phone doesn't improve my standing with youngsters. I wonder what they would think if I open my 14" notebook in a fully crowded BTS 


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I remember the days when I used to listen to the wireless that I had built myself by winding copper wire on a coil and using a razor blade as a crystal through war surplus headphones. Clipped to the bedspring at one end the coil as a groundplane and a long antenae draped over the highest branch I could thow a brick over of the gum tree outside.
Strangely we had thunderstorms then but no one ever thought we might fry in our bed.