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In the 70’s I remember things were hard .for us…we didn’t get choices like our kids do today did we
Monday to Sunday mum or dad would cook tea,same thing for each day ,you didn’t need a watch or a calendar you knew what day of the week it was by what you was having for tea,
Sundays would be Sunday dinner, guess who had to wash the pots and pans ,yep me lol,
Was 7of us now remember just wasn’t funny stood at the sink washing all those pots. Was it
And woe be tide us ...

Mum had 5 kids all told 3 boys 2 girls. So I have 2 brothers 2 sisters.
Getting older brought more responsabilitys didn’t it , mum got her self a job, dad was always working , so it was left to the elder kids to look after he young ones.
We did the best we could , used to dress the kids for school in some right get ups .
Socks that didn’t match. Sometimes sending them to school in slippers.
Had to pass nanas on the way to school so she would be there looking out the ...

Round about 1975 my sister was mauled by next doors german Shepard ,
Dad went round to see if they were destroying the dog,no such luck ,anyway didn’t speak to them ever again as they were moved from the street ,nobody was safe,
Another time ,me my brother , sister playing in the garden , cricket ,we had a long path ,
Used a milk crate as wickets, , after a while we started being silly bowling really fast hitting the ball as hard as we could , anyway sis had had enough and was ...

Still we had nana, good old nana and granddad , would always be there .
Weekends granddad would come and pick us up in his car ,no1 was allowed in the front seat, that was nanas,she would be at home packing up cos we nearly always went on a picnic or somewere with nana.
Saturdays granddad used to take us to the bookies , you all remember there were 7 races on the telly ,called itv sevem ,granddad used to go in and do 1 of those, can u picture 3 kids in the back of the car no seatbelts ...

Our bed times hadn’t improved we were still packed off to bed in daylight hours
So we didn’t sleep dad was forever shouting from the bottom of the stairs that if we didn’t go to sleep he would be up to give us a hiding ,we would be quite for a few mins then start up , mum would eventually come up and warn us to go to sleep otherwise dad would bray us .
Thing was we would be up at the crack of dawn ,and funnily enough we wouldn’t make a sound on a morning. .1 day we managed toget ...