Opinion: Fifty signs you might be in your sixty-somethings...
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Here's fifty things you thought you'd forgotten.
My list – in absolutely no particular order - is very much taken from my formative years as a kid in the 50s, a teenager in the 60s and a bloke who rarely knew what he was doing in the early 70s.
Feel free to make your own compendium of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly that span your milestones.
By the way - if you're under 50, best look away now, because most of it, you won't understand.
1. Beer cans you had to open with a funny triangular tin opener thingy
2. Number 6 cigarettes
3. Sweet cigarettes
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4. All the lyrics to the Beatles' I Am A Walrus
5. Arkle versus Mill House
6. Raymond Francis as Supt Lockhart in No Hiding Place
7. Chopper Harris, Norman Hunter, Dave Mackay – when football was football
8. Penny chews
9. Saturday morning pictures
10. Black and white films you took to Boots to get developed
11. Watney's Starlight and Party Fours
12. Ford Cortinas and Ford Corsairs
13. Just William books
14. The Daily Herald
15. White dog poo
16. The Test Card
17. Two-way Family Favourites followed by The Clitheroe Kid on Sunday mornings on the Light Programme
18. Tinned pears with evaporated milk on Sunday afternoons
19. Sunlight soap
20. Barry Bucknell and Percy Thrower
21. Cassius Clay versus Sonny Liston
22. Fish paste sandwiches
23. Coventry Cathedral opening
24. The Avon Lady
25. The Tally Man
26. Learning your twelve times table
27. Take Your Pick, Double Your Money and Criss Cross Quiz
28. Mustard poultices when you were poorly
29. Balaclavas
30. Knitted swimming trunks
31. The smell of mothballs, Johnson's Wax Polish and Brasso
32. Ha'penny's worth of scraps at the chip shop
33. Ringing your local bank and talking to a real human being
34. When a banker's word was his bond
35. Realising the injustice of the Vietnam War
36. China cabinets filled with Great Yarmouth holiday knick-knacks
37. Kenneth Wolstenholme, Peter Dimmock and David (One-nil) Coleman
38. When WH Smith was WH Smith and Son
39. Crocheted blankets over the back of armchairs
40. When we knew the names of union leaders – Vic Feather, Hugh Scanlon, Len Murray
41. When you had to wire a plug
42. Using the street corner phone box to make a call
43. Listening to LPs and 45s on your Dansette record player
44. The start of Anglia TV - Silver Knights, weatherman Michael Hunt
45. Crackerjack and Cabbages
46. Winklepicker shoes
47. Ready Reckoner books
48. Vespa Sportique scooters
49. Vesta Chow Mein
50. Raising an eyebrow when you grandparents didn't grasp new fangled technology – and realising that's you now
