In the late 1970's, when deep tans were all the rage, my Mum used to use a concoction of vinegar and olive oil as a tanning lotion. This was in the days when you had to buy olive oil in small bottles from the chemist shop! No SPF or anything. She just laid there and fried. She used to stink with it on too!

I also remember her buying chamomile flowers, boiling them up and rinsing her hair in the water. Apparently it brightened blonde hair.

American tan tights. 3/11 a pair.

We had no fridge till I was 18. It was lovely to have cold milk!
Meat was kept in the pantry, and I'm sure I ate things that were a bit "iffy"
My neighbour kept milk in a water fill earthenware pot, to keep it cool.

Vinegar and Olive Oil was something I used as well. Burnt myself something rotten and got the most awful sunstroke that I threw up all the way home from the beach.

Ah the good old days eh?

I'm sure we all ate things that we a bit 'iffy' without a doubt. We didnt have a fridge either so a daresay that the corned beef that was in the pantry a week had seen better days but my Grandad ate everything and never wasted a thing, lived to be a ripe old age so it didnt do him any harm.

I remember him putting everything in a sandwich, even Xmas cake (yes, Xmas Cake sandwiches). He was a miner, things were tough so he made a sandwich out of whatever they had.

I remember Two Way Family Favourites on a Sunday lunchtime. Folks requested records for their young relatives on National Service in exotic places. That programme always reminds me of a stream filled kitchen as we waited for Sunday lunch.

Puff the Magic Dragon-obviously a relative of mine -I always associate with Childrens' Favourites with Uncle Mac on a Saturday morning. At the end there was always a classical piece of music-Nutcracker suite, 1812 Overture etc-and during the programme there'd be Sparky's Magic Piano and The Laughing Policeman.

This just reminded me, my mother had a box of tanning capsules to be taken orally which I was forbidden to touch. She also had one of those sun lamps which I think you were meant to point at your face. Probably highly dangerous.
I don't recall her ever having a tan though

I'm a pink toothbrush

My Boomerang Won't Come Back

Three Wheels on my Wagon

Camp Grenada

Nellie the Elephant
Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer
Windmill in Old Amsterdam
There's a Hole in my Bucket
The Runaway Train

Haha, I was singing the runaway train to my grandson last night. It has always been our teeth cleaning song in our family. That and Hey Round the corner, beneath the berry tree.

After getting up to icy cold bedrooms and traipsing through Arctic conditions to get to school - how many of you used to warm up doing 'Music and Movement' to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OQvH90hKEw

Hands up.

Ed Stewpot played all his old childrens favourites on the radio at Christmas.

There was a couple of Ugly songs.....

Ugly Duckling
Ugly Bugs Ball

Remember Brandy snap and Coriander?

http://www.ragandmagpie.co.uk/images...HOST0012DD.jpg

I could not afford Aristoc, they were posh.

Actually I think I was still in stockings, cannot remember when tights first appeared.

A sixpence holding them up when the suspender broke,

There were several songs by Danny Kaye - The King's New Clothes, Inchworm, Tubby the Tuba.
Tommy Steele - Little White Bull

And then in the seventies 'gun metal' with a floral design up the side.

Yes, I was thinking stockings rather than tights. I wore stockings for years after tights were introduced as I am 6 ft. (35 inch inside leg) and couldn't get them long enough. The only way I could wear them and as skirts got shorter and shorter I had to, was by wearing a hideous pantie girdle to keep them up. Gusset around the knees wasn't a good look.

Yes!

Remember the thick ribbed knitted tights, They were warm. This kind of thing

http://images.simplyhosieryonline.co...clementine.jpg

Ooooh, suspenders. That glimpse of flesh where the stocking top ended. Sent all us lads crazy.

Just editing this to add .........all done in vests (or liberty bodice) and navy blue knickers.

Yes I remember ............I've just spent an incredibly fun half hour or so after searching for gunmetal tights - I found a forum dedicated to late sixties early seventies skinhead fashion. Oh what fun we had

,,,and the reinforced bit at the top of the stocking was called the 'chuckle'. Get past it and you're laughing!!

.....are you sure about that!

What was wonderloaf made of ? It never went hard I'm sure it was plastic, it was horrible.