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Re: Old Stuff I Really Miss
« Reply #100 on: April 17, 2016, 07:59:58 AM »
Proper cubby houses. Dodgey, ricketty one's, built by kids, so that they learn what works and what doesn't.....
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Re: Old Stuff I Really Miss
« Reply #101 on: April 17, 2016, 08:51:07 AM »
Geoff  Havent you just got a " Proper Cubby house "                          :cup:        :cheers:
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Re: Old Stuff I Really Miss
« Reply #102 on: April 17, 2016, 09:20:30 AM »
Geoff  Havent you just got a " Proper Cubby house "                          :cup:        :cheers:
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Re: Old Stuff I Really Miss
« Reply #103 on: April 17, 2016, 09:31:50 AM »
Being able to have a robust conversation without being called a racist or bigot because you don't agree with others
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Re: Old Stuff I Really Miss
« Reply #104 on: April 17, 2016, 09:56:56 AM »
Food without use by dates, so you had to guess if it was okay.
I remember when bread bags starting come out with a different colour tie for each day of the week
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Re: Old Stuff I Really Miss
« Reply #105 on: April 17, 2016, 09:58:11 AM »
Bread that was big enough to fit a jaffle iron.....
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Re: Old Stuff I Really Miss
« Reply #106 on: April 17, 2016, 01:23:22 PM »
The long and slow but  interesting drive through all the separate little townships from Brisbane to Bribie Island....

Though in the 1960s and early 70s -- I was not yet 15yo through all those trips to Bribie with the family -- sitting in the back of the valiant; I recall the first "town" was Bald Hills; then Strathpine; then Lawton; then past the water tower at Kalanger; then (I can't remember) -- to finally the T junction at Caboolture; (having a pie from the street vendor at the corner on the way through) - turning right; and then onto the newly constructed toll bridge over to the island. ...

Often times the familiar and strangly welcoming smell of Bribie bushfires floating  in the air ....

Sure, the highway is more convenient - but it did blow away all those things.... leaving nostalga lost in it's wake..

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Re: Old Stuff I Really Miss
« Reply #107 on: April 17, 2016, 01:38:48 PM »
People  that can think for themselves
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Re: Old Stuff I Really Miss
« Reply #108 on: April 17, 2016, 03:27:11 PM »
Proper cubby houses. Dodgey, ricketty one's, built by kids, so that they learn what works and what doesn't.....
yea now I think of it ufkin oath....
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Re: Old Stuff I Really Miss
« Reply #109 on: April 17, 2016, 03:37:09 PM »
Sunday ritual once a month.
Holding the chooks for the old man to chop their heads off for dinner.
He use to tell us hold them and dont ket them go!
Whack, off their heads go, and us kids would delight watching them run around headless with the old man shouting at us kids I told you to hold onto them.
Mum would do them in the pressure cooker to soften them up before roasting.
No such thing as steggles back then.

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Re: Old Stuff I Really Miss
« Reply #110 on: April 17, 2016, 06:49:38 PM »
Being able to strip down a Holley and rebuild it in under an hour, changing jets, power valves and re adjusting float levels.
Being able to swap Donks within a couple of hours with a few mates and be running the streets again.
Being able to sleep in ya car at the beach front without a ranger giving you a ticket.
Being able to drive the Pathetic H/way without seeing another vehicle for ages(Day or Night).
Seeing my best mate without tucking my gut in.  ;D

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Re: Old Stuff I Really Miss
« Reply #111 on: April 18, 2016, 02:06:12 PM »
NSW winning a State of Origin Game  >:D

Wow Hairs, you've got a really good memory!  >:D
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Re: Old Stuff I Really Miss
« Reply #112 on: April 18, 2016, 03:16:22 PM »
Being able to lift the bonnet of almost any car & know where & what everything was.
I did get taken aback when I first lifted the bonnet on a friends rotary Capella.
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Re: Old Stuff I Really Miss
« Reply #113 on: April 18, 2016, 04:58:04 PM »
Proper cubby houses. Dodgey, ricketty one's, built by kids, so that they learn what works and what doesn't.....

You should see the one at Harfra, no second best for my two  ;D

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Re: Old Stuff I Really Miss
« Reply #114 on: April 18, 2016, 07:07:14 PM »
Wow Hairs, you've got a really good memory!  >:D
Got to have written it down       ,     long ago , now reading stuff he dosnt understand      :cheers:
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Re: Old Stuff I Really Miss
« Reply #115 on: April 19, 2016, 08:48:43 AM »
now reading stuff he dosnt understand      :cheers:
Hey!!!
 I resemble that  >:D
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Re: Old Stuff I Really Miss
« Reply #116 on: April 19, 2016, 11:22:18 AM »
Fire cracker night:(
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Re: Old Stuff I Really Miss
« Reply #117 on: April 19, 2016, 11:23:27 AM »
And driving on the Melbourne ring road and not seeing another car for the entire trip, not to mention driving to
Queensland and only seeing a car every hour or so if that!
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