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Definitely very happy times. No money worries, because we had no money.
Had to make my own toys. If I found a nail and a piece of wood, I was happy.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Ended up with a PhD and 300 patents
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Those days really were my happiest.
Life as a child really was so simple and uncomplicated we were very poor but ever so well loved.
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@crownhill You lucky, lucky, lucky baaarstard. I could only dreeeeam of bread and dripping and cardboard boxes.
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"Girls in Grey" was written by Charles Williams, and it can be heard on the long-playing gramophone record "Remember These...? Famous Themes" (Grasmere Records: GRAL 10). This record appeared in 1986. Hope this helps.
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Has any one got the full version of this theme tune called "Girls In Grey?!
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you had FOOD??! we had to eat ourselves and when we shitted out the waste products, we ATE IT AGAIN!! All the while having to break boulders into dust with toothbrushes for no other reason than we felt our lives were TOO EASY without having to expend enormous amounts of energy on pointless work!!!
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Where can I download that audio?
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Good ol' Richard Baker .. first(????) news presenter of the tele...
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Beans? shear luxury all we had was bread and dripping
and a cardboard box for a bed.
crownhill 4 years ago 19
Aii back in them day when men were men,and all we had to look foward to at end of day was beans forus tea!
samtwist 5 years ago 14