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Deep, muffled voices of people talking below on another floor reminds of my Dad. He and Mum talking in the living room below my bedroom when I was in bed in the evening. I used to fall to sleep listening to the sound.

Living in a place that was heavily bombed during WW2 it had air raid sirens all around, even during the 70s they used to test them occasionally, we used to guess that it was because of the cold war, so weirdly enough it's air raid sirens that take me back.

Count Steer wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2024 8:05 am Not childhood but the sound of a dial-up modem going screeeeee! Then boink boink on connection is very nostalgic. Wonder if I can get it as a ringtone?

I thought I had a .wav or something of it, but no, it was this image - have it anyway! If you could ever hear an image...

Oh and the howl of a two valve per pot inline four away in the distance.
If it came within half a mile of our house it would be coming to our house.


So, Curlews, Skylarks and large capacity two valve per pot inline fours.

Interspersed with my father shouting at that fucking Fergie 35.

My mother calling .....
"Stop it , you'll go blind...".

Army Saracens driving down the road on the way to Palace Barracks.

Short 360s.

Gazelle helicopters.

Felix wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2024 8:32 am

American pie was playing in the background. My parents split up and i was sitting in my Grans spare room (My new room) Looking at the plain walls, huge steel spring bed with the mattress standing up. New school, new friends, just a new life. Fuck I can still visualise that day some 52 years later

My memory of that tune was much happier. Sorry that yours was so shit. I was in Vila Real in Portugal to watch a mid-80s Formula 1 (precursor to WSBK) race, and after the race all the paddock decamped to the only nightclub in town. My abiding memory is hearing (and seeing) Andy McGladdery belting out American Pie and getting the lyrics absolutely spot on, even though he was as pissed as a newt.

RIP, mate.

Morris minor changing gear

Wossname wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2024 3:00 pm

demographic wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2024 1:32 pm

Wossname wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2024 11:51 am Yes, curlew; also snipe “drumming”. Corncrake - now a rare bird due to changes in farming eg combine harvesters. We lived right out in the country - N Antrim.

Massey Ferguson 35 3-cylinder. Also Fordson Major - bag of nails.

Morris Minor 1000 on the overrun.

Little Eva - Turkey Trot.

I seem to be older than some of you lot.

Ha, we had a Fergie 35, bastard thing never ran right and I suspect contributed to my fathers temper when it wouldn't start.

He used to park it on the hill in our back field so it had a better chance of starting.

That would have been the 4 cylinder one - they were always a nightmare to start. I think they had a single glow plug in the inlet manifold - MF used to sell them new with a can of Easy Start. The 3pot ones had a glow plug in each cylinder and were brilliant - thousands of them still working today, and the 135s , which were identical but had fancier bodywork.

Had a 35 that didn't even have a battery on it and it had a fire end loader so it was parked on a hill with a bit of 4x2 under the bucket to stop it falling down when you left it. Getting it started was dodgy as fuck as you had to remove the log from in front of the rear wheel, ditch the 4x2, start pushing it down the hill and then jump over the fel arms avoiding the moving rear tyre and then squirt a gallon of easy start into the air clean push the clutch down (difficult when my full weight would barely move it) stick it in gear dump the clutch and pray. Sometimes it would even start

mangocrazy wrote: Sat Dec 14, 2024 9:44 pm

Felix wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2024 8:32 am

American pie was playing in the background. My parents split up and i was sitting in my Grans spare room (My new room) Looking at the plain walls, huge steel spring bed with the mattress standing up. New school, new friends, just a new life. Fuck I can still visualise that day some 52 years later

My memory of that tune was much happier. Sorry that yours was so shit. I was in Vila Real in Portugal to watch a mid-80s Formula 1 (precursor to WSBK) race, and after the race all the paddock decamped to the only nightclub in town. My abiding memory is hearing (and seeing) Andy McGladdery belting out American Pie and getting the lyrics absolutely spot on, even though he was as pissed as a newt.

RIP, mate.

Ach i still love the song. Even Madonna's version. That day was not all doom and gloom. My Mum escaped a twat and our life moved on for the better. It also got us out of Muirhouse in Edinburg

The sound and ozone smell of Scalextric

Thunderbirds is on the tv and i'm now watching it. The sound track deffo takes me back to myu childhood. Looking at the special effects its pretty amazing when you think it came out n the 60s!

Taipan wrote: Sun Dec 15, 2024 12:59 pm Thunderbirds is on the tv and i'm now watching it. The sound track deffo takes me back to myu childhood. Looking at the special effects its pretty amazing when you think it came out n the 60s!

Five!

Four!

Three!

Two!

Eleventy!

KungFooBob wrote: Sun Dec 15, 2024 8:49 pmEleventy!

Spoil sport

Thunderbirds are go!!!

Sunny wrote: Sun Dec 15, 2024 10:34 pm

KungFooBob wrote: Sun Dec 15, 2024 8:49 pmEleventy!

Spoil sport

Thunderbirds are go!!!

Fire up the cigars and the racial stereotypes, get Gordon up on Thunderbird 5 (he's got BO), flop those palm trees, shift that swimming pool and get that pink Roller washed....and we're off!