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Title: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: tim on September 06, 2009, 10:18:02
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Title: Re: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: Froglegs on September 06, 2009, 11:32:24
Wot wi my wig,i think not ;)
Title: Re: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: macmac on September 06, 2009, 18:16:25
I remember as a 10year old staying at my nans in a Yorkshire village I went with my cousin Paul (same age) and we helped load bales of straw on to a trailer climbing higher and higher as more were added ,then rode home on top pulled by a tractor-no seat belts-Bliss I can hear the H&S bods sharpening their pencils from here.
Title: Re: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: cornykev on September 06, 2009, 18:20:37
I remember Spurs winning the UEFA Cup in 84 and I sat in my mates opened boot all the way home with him honking his hooter and the old bill never batted an eye lid.  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: Mushy Pea on September 06, 2009, 18:30:03
Hi Tim,

That looks as though it was taken in the "good old days" when summers were sunny & warm, winters had snow and food tasted great without all the additives.  :D

Oh and in those days we went out to play from first thing in the morning until the dark of night (only returning when Mam called us in for meals). Lot's of fresh air and exercise. Not a computer in sight!

Sigh!  :)

MP

Title: Re: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: Digeroo on September 06, 2009, 18:37:21
So which one was you Tim?
Title: Re: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: Tin Shed on September 06, 2009, 18:41:24
My headmistress told me to climb trees instead of the curtain rails  - which of course I did, then got found I was right at the top of a tree when the bell went for lunch.
Try telling an eldery nun that you were late for lunch because you were at the top of a tree ;D
We also used to jump off the top of the oil tank - and not a sprained ankle or broken bone between us ;D
Title: Re: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: flossy on September 06, 2009, 18:50:57
 

   'elf and safe T,    saves many lives but impedes the develpoement of the young  ---   and

   many adventurous not so young,    Would have been locked up for ' my own good ' had

   they been around when I was between , say 7 and 12  ----   what a time we had !      ;D
Title: Re: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: tim on September 06, 2009, 19:20:56
As usual, Diggers, I took the photo.

And to think that that machine (1951 Mk1 £160) took 6 teenagers to Greece for 14 days with the sides up to & from . [attachment=1]

And me to the station each week.  [attachment=2]
Title: Re: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: tonybloke on September 06, 2009, 20:38:42
yep, not enuff kids falling off the bonnet and getting run over by their parents these days!! lol ;) ;) ;) ;D ;D
Title: Re: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: 1066 on September 07, 2009, 10:11:07
great photos Tim - love the dickie  :D

reminds me of being a student and squeezing 9 of us into a hilman imp...... ::)
Title: Re: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: saddad on September 07, 2009, 10:42:29
Quotenot enuff kids falling off the bonnet and getting run over by their parents these days
No if you read the Daily Mail they reverse over them on the drive...  :'(
Title: Re: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: tonybloke on September 07, 2009, 11:15:21
but who reads the daily mail! ?? ;)
Title: Re: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: saddad on September 07, 2009, 11:19:21
Me... online when it's quiet on here...  :)
Title: Re: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: tonybloke on September 07, 2009, 11:21:21
so you're the one!!
Title: Re: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: saddad on September 07, 2009, 11:22:35
yep... and not afraid to admit it... I miss having something to wrap the apples in though... use the freebies now...  ;D
Title: Re: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: cleo on September 07, 2009, 12:19:54
I`m all for sense but not paranoia.

I had a customer last year who was admiring my pond but said something like " But we have small children"

Now I have never been a parent but I did grow up just feet away from a brook and only yards away from a very big hole in the ground full of water that was once a brick pit.

It was part of life and every Friday morning the bus came to primary school and 9s and over went to the (unheated) swimming pool to learn to swim
Title: Re: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: saddad on September 07, 2009, 13:46:54
When I was a child one of our neighbours lost a son of about 4 who drowned in a lodge (small reservoir) opposite our houses...  :'(
Title: Re: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: Psi (Pronounced 'Si'!) on September 07, 2009, 14:15:31
when I was a boy we went swimming in a washing up bowl.  If we were lucky!
Title: Re: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: tim on September 09, 2009, 17:15:50
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Title: Re: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: Trevor_D on September 09, 2009, 17:21:57
That sounds like the warning on cartons of supermarket milk: "Allergy advise: contains milk."
Title: Re: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: chriscross1966 on September 11, 2009, 00:24:09
One of our programmers came back from a conference in the states with a bag of peanuts from an internal flight he took that has a warning on the side......

"Caution, may contain nuts"

Title: Re: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: saddad on September 11, 2009, 07:52:37
 
Quote"Caution, may contain nuts"
Rather like some of the threads on here recently...  ;D
Title: Re: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: saddad on September 11, 2009, 07:57:57
On a slightly related issue... you now need a CRB check to drive your neighbours children to a club... @11 million people @£50 each... and a different one for each "setting".. not raising revenue by any chance? It's certainly not going to do the children any good... I'd offered earlier in the week to take a player to Rugby training which involved driving 10 miles out of my way... I'm certainly not going to pay another £50 for the privilege...  >:(
Title: Re: Oh, give me the days before Health & Safety!!
Post by: Flighty on September 11, 2009, 08:03:19
Saddad I've just been reading about that.
Sadly this country is getting crazier by the day, thanks to the nuts running it and thinking up such ideas!