I Remember when I was a Boy

[jack]

TD they were for pets at the time, we had a couple of house cows and some sheep and pigs for meat. We had lots of chooks, ducks and a massive vegie garden, there was always something to do. We used to get mill ends from the local saw mill (pre wood chip days) and my brother and I would spend a hour on each end of the bushman saw cutting them into firewood. We used to separate the milk and churn butter all by hand. Hard word was a normal part of growing up in the early sixties.
But I can recommend goat, I've eaten it quite a few times just make sure you get a young doe and not a billy.
Funny how we remember licence plates from when we were young, now I have to think what the Nissan rego is. Before dad got his car he used to ride his bike to Ballarat and back for work, even afternoon and night shift (and still milked two house cows twice a day).

[threedogs]

Yeah did all the farm things as my Grandpas brother had farm down Phillip is way. As a skinny kid trying the press the wool bales not good
Climbing the cypress trees and breaking starling eggs for the skinny sheep dogs. Getting the dead birds out of water tank etc Would do it all at the drop of a hat.
That and working out in the simmo relying on only what you had made getting a luxury more worth while. A luxury like maybe Shampoo lol

[Avo]

I remember when I was a boy,and heaps of hair..

[Stropp]

I remember when I was a boy,and heaps of hair..

Ha so did I

[OldMav]

Well I just read 22 pages of bliss so much that prompted memories, you do remember the most oddest thing. Lol one of the oddest things I remember is the smells, like the smell of the kero fridge pilot light burning when you walk into the kitchen late at night or the smell of soap being boiled in the copper, washing cloths, or the smell of starched collars on your shirts. Really this sh#t does make me feel old. Anyway to continue one of my earliest memories is visiting the dentist in a converted wooden railway carriage in the middle of our Queensland summer the drill was driven by rubber bands and some sort of electric motor which did about 5 revs a minute and very much slower by the end of the day. And the smell of ether was rank, mmm I think some of the things of the good old days might be best not remembered. Some might remember push bikes for kids were damn expensive so many of us rode 28" bikes as kids, with left leg through the bars, and there was no way a young boy would be seen dead riding a low bar bike or girls bike haha funny thing those things were damn heavy I remember I could not lift one yet my slug gun was always strapped to the top bar and we would ride those things for hours without flinching. Oh I remember the 70's mostly I had hair 3/4 down my back lol so cool back then but was very glad when Gough won and abolished nasho my birthday had come up but deferred for UNI there was no way I was going to fail any exams lol..

[mudnut]

All this talk about cars has stirred the memory bank. Dad bought home a secondhand XA falcon station wagon which had a 250 six and a factory fitted diff that made the car pull better than a V8, but it seemed to run out of of puff at anything above 70 miles an hour. Dad used the car for work, and would have to clean out all his gear every time we went anywhere. He eventually bought a new XB panelvan for work. The XA would be loaded with two adults, 4 kids, the luggage in the back, the camping gear on the roof rack, a heavy 15ft fibreglass Swiftcraft runabout ( V4 115hp). The boat was also loaded with scuba gear, two tanks of fuel and whatever couldn't fit in the car. Fully loaded, the XA would still overtake with ease. We had it for over 12-14 years. My brother, sister and I learned to drive in it and it was great on the streets as it went like a bullet. Something went wrong with the gear selector and Dad took the car off the road and stored it at a mate's farm. We cut a large hole in the roof and used it as a spotlighting vehicle for a couple of years. A mouse plague went through the area and one day we went to use it, but found the mice had eaten every last piece of rubber, vinyl and wiring insulation on the thing. I remember the bottom radiator hose spring was still hanging between the block and radiator.

[threedogs]

Hair over rated IMO,,, all that money spent during the 70s-80s for what, for what.
I only went as a school kid to get the chewing gum AHH the old PK, and juicey fruit

[Limmy]

I remember when I was a boy.... I would go shopping with $1 and come out with Bread , Milk , Eggs , Butter ..

can't do that these days.... Too much security cameras

[taslucas]

I remember when I was a boy.... I would go shopping with $1 and come out with Bread , Milk , Eggs , Butter ..

can't do that these days.... Too much security cameras

So what your saying is you were a thief limmy?
Lmao

[threedogs]

Nah he shops at "Not Quite Right"