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THOSE WERE THE DAYS now long gone

Five stones closing times 
     radiograms & seventy-eights
 school caps      sticklebacks
 saturday flicks    pooh sticks
 Charabancs         steam trains
 linoleum oil cloth
 mangles      fish paste sandwich spread

 Hot towel shaves    cut-throat razor
 shopping baskets    paper bags 
braces, & plimsoles 
      short    back& sides

Wizard Beano & Hotspur 
lending libraries    &picturegoer
roadfilms Bridget Bardot & Marilyn Monroe

 Dripping     coal fires 
                antimacassars
 nylons suspenders 
crumpets &toast 
Brown &mild        barrelled beer
 conkers
school milk 

     blackboard rubbers & liftup desk lids
 times-tabled school-kids
Draughts & allotments
 rusty bikes     roller skates
 satchels &scrumping 
with mates
hence
no
pounds  shillings or        pence

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Gary Radice

Date: 6/13/2021 1:59:00 AM

..Yet still the same sun. Reading this helped me open the desk lid of my mind. I can smell the pencil lead and ink and blotting paper and see the Oxford Instrument set unopened. Once it was opened it was an impossible task to put the compass and protractor and ruler back in the correct sequence. See what you've done here Brian? My own memories of the late sixties have been triggered by your wonderful words. PS: The Beano ruled. I liked The Dandy too though. Cheers - Gary

Brian Strand
Date: 6/13/2021 4:50:00 AM

perhaps a poem in brewing for youas well Gary.Enjoy the sunny day.