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[Joyce]

Can't even remember what age I was Anne.  I just giggled at the pictures of nude/semi nude girls then put it back where I found it.  Never even told my friends for fear of being found out!    Wonder if my mum did the same!    I found his diary once too.  However, he wrote things like "Out bird watching".  I must have been quite young actually, as I didn't understand the terminology.

[Elena]

Bunty, Jackie, Mirabelle, Petticoat.  Ah those days of innocence!

We had slide rules and logarithm books - cos and sim. What was that all about?!!

Who remembers Twizzle? He was a cartoon creature like a boy but not like a boy and his arms could extend if he needed them to. Hardly anybody seems to remember him.

Andy Pandy, the Woodentops, Rag, Tag and Bobtail.  Tales of the Riverbank. 

Ellie

[Greyhoundgal]

I remember just about all the stuff already talked about.  I can also remember myself and my sisters getting very excited when my Dad bought home our very first video game.  It was that one of tennis - just a black screen with a white dot that you had to hit back and forth (can't remember what it was called though) - we thought it was the best thing, wonder what kids of today would think about it?

[Joyce]

I had to go to a friend's house to play that game.  I believe it left imprints on TV screens which can't have been good.

My dad used to buy me a Bimbo comic at the weekend, along with a small finger sized Golden Cup.  I was in heaven.  He'd also buy my mum a box of Good News Chocolates from time to time too and I loved the one which was one half milk and one half plain chocolate.   

Ah the simple things in life eh! 

[Elena]

ooh Golden Cup - I'd forgotten them !

There was a box of chocolates and other candies called Weekend.  I loved them too.

[Anne B]

Penny Daintys (scots will maybe remember them well).
Made in a factory in my home town (village 50 years ago)
You can still get them but they are much smaller and don't taste the same.

[flushtered]

Yep Anne, I remember them - shame Highland Toffee will be going too 
I loved Golden Cups.

[Joyce]

Penny Dainty - was that penny caramels?  I used to love them, that and Highland Toffee.  3d for a whole bar of Highland Toffee.  Those were the days.

[Anne B]

Yes a penny dainty was a caramel. In the olden days before health and safety the factory used to have a window open with the sweets whirling by on a conveyer belt. It was close to my school and my friends and I would nip along at lunch time or after school and pinch the toffee through the window.
Of course the workers knew but they turned a blind eye.
You could go into the factory officially and buy boxes of misshapen biscuits and sweets for next to nothing.
Its a miracle I've still got all my own teeth !

[Joyce]

Talking about caramels.  My mum used to make the most amazing Russian Toffee.  Don't think the Russians had much to do with it's recipe, but that's what it was called.  It was FAB-U-LOUS.  I used to help make it and was always desperate to do the testing of it, when a small amount was taken on a spoon and dunked into cup of cold water to check the texture.  Y-U-M-M-Y! 

[flushtered]

We used to go to a great sweetie shop that sold Russian Caramels - they were toffee with chocolate on them and were lovely.

[ariadne]

My Mum used to make toffee too! We had two coat hooks at the top of our kitchen doorway where we had once had a swing when we were babies. Mum used to use those hooks to pull and stretch the toffee. It was lovely stuff 

ariadne xx

[lady57]

toffee hammers?

[Joyce]

By jings Jane I'd forgotten those! 

Anyone remember Cremola Foam?  My mum used to buy it in lemon.

[flushtered]

We had strawberry or raspberry, but I wasn't keen on it