40 years ago

Well come-on how many Pounds is that or better still how many Guinea's?

6 pound 8 shillings?

Well you short changed yourself. Lets try 6 pounds 16 shillings or 6 guinea's 10 shillings.

I can remember giving some 1st year nurses a hand up a drain pipe because they had missed the curfew. I refuse to identify the hospital except to say it had a lot to do with children :))))))))

You mean in Brisbane - thank goodness it wasn't me - I was in Nambour!!!

Ruth, you're safe !! It was in Sid knee and probably before you were born :))))))))) Ahh, those late night cruises across to Manly.

Good memories though, eh?

Great memories of the very innocent kind. I also visited the nurses via the front door one night. Had to get past "Helga from Sveden " type first. The girls were happy to see a male....any male.
Matron wan't !
Had my eye on a sweet young thing (they were all sweet in those days :) Unfortunately she had her eye on someone else. I look back and realize now that it all turned out for the best.

Free love was a fib. They charged :)))))))

only to share your joint, so to speak LOLOL

We really do like to see threads disappear, don't we :))
In my case they didn't want to share the same planet :((((((
I was a nerd before they invented the word. I had to make do with "wierd".

Aaah Footloose, methinks you protesteth too much :))))

Hey, I missed the revolution. I was too busy trying to earn a living. (But I made up for it later...and how)

Your Baaaack

Lada Niva hahahahahaha

Bugger off you old coot!!!! LOL

Who are you calling a coot?

My dad was an accountant in a bank and dressed me up as Dollar Bill for a kindergarten fancy dress parade. It is seared into my brain because I can remember being really upset at having to wear my sister's tights as part of the costume. I can't remember much else, but it can't have been much fun at a party inside a big roll of cardboard.

Back then we used to buy a wagon wheel in a waxed paper pocket at the school canteen for a halfpenny!

Cheers

Pete

your sisters tights........
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Hahahaha

Glad to see your parents brought you up sensibly.

I was 6 years and 1 month and definataley got a smack and another one just in case.

All the best
Eric

If you guys got smacked today, it would have a completely different connotation to it. hahaha
I was 4 weeks into my apprenticeship as a Carpenter ans I only received 5 guinee's but it doubled to $10.50 with decimal currency.

Hey Eric, I went to that school as well - he's one for being naughty and one for in case of. Not to mention - he's one for now and wait till your father gets home. Or, the best one was after the smack and stop that crying or I'll really give you something to cry about. Ha ha ha. (I nearly freaked one day when I heard myself start to say that to one of my boys - scary).

Ruth I liked the one mum always said its going to hurt me more than you.
I don't think so.

All the best
Eric

Des Lexic,

I've been off work for a few days demolishing me house. Did you by any chance do you apprentice night/day schooling at the Marlston Technical College. At the end of year presentation night I was in the demonstration competition to make a shelf bracket... when then called out my name for first prize I wanted to hide under the bench. Won a 100' Stanley steel tape.

Guilty as charged.
Started in 66, From memory we went on Wednesdays during the day and Monday and Thursday nights.
A mate had a fairly modified FJ that we used to go in.
Always did a Rundle Trundle on the way home.

Patrick
I'll go one better. Just reading these posts got me to look through my record collection (remember vinyl records? Still got a few hundred sitting around here).
Found this on an old 45 - The A side was titled 'Dismal Currency' and is all about the introduction of dollars and cents and actually includes the original jingle. The B side is titled 'Creamsleeves' and is actually a protest song (sort of) about the Vietnam war (and sung to the tune of Greensleeves). Both songs were sung by The Twiliters. Shame we can't post MP3 files here, would probably bring back lots of memories to us 'youngsters'

florin or floren? wasnt exactly a nick name

Sparra, 40 yrs. ago I might have just bought one of the globes from you. My inlaws were at Eagle Point, spent quite a bit of time there when down on hols from Coffs Harbour.
At that time was also in Sydney every month, stroll around the X, chat up the girls, Forbes club, 77 club, Martins bar, all good for a punt and a drink, never a prob. look at it now, a b...dy disgrace and dangerous to boot.
Good old days? My b...dy oath! stuff the change to decimal currancy
kesh

just the same as boongsteels

And in another 40 years, you will probably leaving further deposits in your nappy LOL