Good clothes being robbed off the washing line!
we use to toast bread of one of those gas fires in my nannie’s back in the 80’s. used a a fork hold it. no fancy toasters back then!
Underage drinking in pubs seems to have disapered also where have all the with night clubs gone.
Was that printed on pink paper?
They'd have someone at every game, who'd phone in a detailed report at half time, and with the team sheets etc and then for the end it would just be the final score update, then boom ready to print.
When it rains, the kids don't race lollipop sticks down the stream on the side of the road. Another lost art.
And the Vespas that would bring them around Dublin City centre newsagents at breakneck speed
yes. Pink paper. Use to be loads of men waiting for it to arrive. Might get the odd result of L-L as to injury time meant it was to late for the print
You're obviously not a Protestant!
Jumble sale = second hand stuff
Sale of work = hand crafted knitwear, home made cakes , etc
Garden Fete = various stalls including entertainment such as tombola, lucky dip, throwing rings and horseshoes as well as some stuff for sale. In rural areas you might be able to win a piglet by guessing its weight.
a sale of work was nearly always about cakes and knitting 😀
I don’t think I’ve ever attended a garden fete - it’s more an English thing isn’t it? Would Protestants in Eire have had fetes the way you describe?
My school had an indoor smoking room that students could use during breaks or free classes.
Not sure if it was official or unofficial but mine had one too up until the late 70s or early 80s- it was for 6th year students only-.i was still a kid but remember passing it one day and when the door opened a cloud of smoke came out 😀
My local Protestants had a spin the wheel thingy and a brass band at their garden fete. All the rest of their stalls were just selling second hand books, clothes etc.
The three Catholic Sales of work only had jumble. Two of them ran separate "cake sales".
Of course then you’d have to marry it.
Mobile AIB and BOI Banks in the form of lorries. Parents used them when were non holidays in Sligo.
Mind you many modern day older AIB and BOI are in $hit condition.
Still have sales of work … kinda rebranded as 'country market'. But to benefit the producers rather than a charity cause.
This one in Raheny once a month.
https://www.facebook.com/rahenycountrymarket/
when the doorbell rang you had to actually open the door to see who it was……unbelievable…
Why did you only just recently get a front window on your house? 🤪
That way you had eg an 86 car rather than an 85 car, when you went to sell it.
Indeed… or swings out of lampposts. No kick the can… bulldog. Marbles. lost arts.
Just had a flashback to a summer I luckily got the student office job (mostly filing and messages) in the county council and the had ladies and gents break rooms.
The men's room was in the basement and was mostly everyone gathered around the table playing 25s and smoking.
I had to take a message up to the ladies break room once, knocked on door and when it opened nearly half of the women were knitting!!!
Edit to add, late 80s.
No going to the local mechanics and getting a few patched up tractor tyre blown up and using it to go down a nearby weir and float off down the river for a mile or so in a summer flood, and then bringing back the tractor tyre through the fields so he'll give it to you again tomorrow.
I say a lot of the safety awareness stuff now is overkill pushed by parents who know they're lucky they're still alive after the stuff we got up to when children were expendable.
We used to do our own demolishing of old crumbling buildings as kids. I still remember the rush of running away from a collapsing wall!
Remember the "where's grandad?" Safety ad?
There was the one about a young lad drowning in a water barrel too.
The whole "we had common sense not elf'n'safety" thing that seems to be a common line amongst English people particularly forgets just how many deaths there used to be.
Even when I started school there'd probably be one kid a year that didn't come back in September, cause they'd died in some summer misadventure or working on a relatives farm. I did go to a big enough school in a town surrounded by farms though.
Everyone having phones to call for help has probably made more of an impact there than the safety ads tbh.
Workplace deaths were horrendous back then also; any large building project would have a death toll.
Absolutely.
In my school it was usually a slurry pit accident. Tractors didn't have rollover protection, I think a cousin nearly got killed off one when he was driving at 8 years old!
Plus infant mortality was high until maternity care improvements. There were no counselling services for my parents when they lost kids.
It did feel like we were expendable, kinda of like the way in the US they can't link mass shootings in schools to the easy availability of guns.
No priest at the teenage discos now making sure there's a bit of space between couples dancing the slow set.
Funnier now since I found out said priest had an affair with a local mother and was moved to another parish lol
Town being an absolute dead wasteland on a Sunday. Seriously, nothing was open.
And two types of coffee: black or white. Extra posh places would have cappuccino
That reminds me-pubs closing for holy hour and earlier closing on Sundays
or at home Maxwell House or Nescafé 😀
Saving up the Maxwell house/Nescafe jar labels and sending them back to manufacturer to get free gifts!
or the Lyon’s tea labels to enter a draw for a car
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