**** things about the 70s,80s,90s...that don't happen now!

Murder Casebook, first issue had Peter Sutcliffe. Published by Marshall Cavendish. Came out in 1990. Had some creepy Sutcliffe family photos taken in the 1970s.

Zooming back to the nineteen hate-ies. ….

having to save up about £250 to pay for a return flight to London. Months in advance too. That was big money then, my cousin was over there and had to scrimp and save to get back for Christmas…

people calling to your house to sell you stuff…. There was an ‘egg man’ in our area, fella with a van who just sold nothing but eggs. There was also lots of cold callers selling raffle tickets..usually to benefit a sports club, cubs / scouts, guides, Red Cross or whatever charity, haven’t encountered that in an age.

the pools, always remember the little pools girl…. Kathleen L, a character…she was tiny, me granny was known for regularly winning a few bob on that.

People dropping in endless catalogs in your letterbox …. Toys, homeware/tupperware & fashion…probably more too. Doesn’t happen with any regularity now.

Part works in general. The Internet probably killed much of that market off, Wikipedia, cheap books, ebooks, streaming and podcasts.

Lots of them were basically elaborate scams, the ones with say a model part in each edition costing far more than an equivalent model bought outright.

I was in town earlier at the doctors. I asked for the prescription, but the doctor had already emailed it to my pharmacist, and they had it in stock.

So I walked around to the pharmacy and got it.

Instant communication between the Doctors and the pharmacy - on a Sunday.

It's easy to have rose tinted glasses about the past, but there is a lot of good stuff about today. With the technology available, things could be even better though.

I pay 9.99 a month for Amazon Music and have access to 95% of all music that ever existed. Versus, recording songs off the radio, and saving up for an album I wanted.

I don't have NetFlix, but I remember spending a week downloading an episode of Star Trek Enterprise. Today, I can download it in about 4 minutes. As it turned out, it was a sh1te episode, so I shan't download it again.

or dry rides as we called them

Tupperware parties.

Company filed for bankruptcy this year.

I remember on our estate we had a fruit and veg man, a milkman, a bread man, a turf man who used to come up from Kerry, and a video man who would sell and rent dodgy pirate videos from the back of his van.

My next-door neighbours still have a milkman, and an egg-woman, and until a few months ago, a fruit & veg man (but he retired). At the start of Covid and since they are elderly, I suggested getting their shopping online from Tesco which they now love, but they still get their eggs and milks separately.

@Hangdogroad is it the same guy though :)

I still use the Filofax. It’s my bible for what’s happening

Never got into the blackberry or using the phone for organising myself.

Army Jumpers. Green and Airforce blue..

A few others come to mind

If you ate, you could not swim for 1 hr, counted to the second by me ma.

Postcards. Now when some folk go on holiday it's pictures on Facebook etc from the Airport bar at start to Airport bar at the end and everything in between.

Rubber swim caps that cut the blood supply to your brain.

Before going to into a swimming pool you had to wade through some scutter coloured liquid that was sub zero, in order to kill the verrucas.

The local Guard coming into the pub I worked in at 3pm on Sunday to make sure we weren't serving booze. The poor regulars had to run out the back door for a few mins.