"The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished" - Benjamin Franklin

I realise full well you cant turn the clock back, however my take on times past.

Your home may have been invaded by ants or mice, not people weilding baseball bats and machettes.

Your first car or motorbike was quite modest, not a beast capable of doing over 200 kmh.

Drugs were something you read about but had no experience with.

Kids were encouraged to play actively at school and weekends, not discouraged for fear of litigation.

You knew your local retailers and trades people  by name.

Pubs closed at 6pm then 10pm all very civilized, now they're open until all hours of the morning and if you look the wrong way at someone your likely to cop a glass in the face.

People were generally more active (a matter of have to be) now we sit on our backside pushing remote buttons and eating ourselves to death.

Families indulged in family activities and were not spread all over the house isolated within their own electronic world, we even ate meals together seated around a table and discussed the days events.

Kids respected their elders and did not expect to call everyone (grandparents included) by their first name from the time they learned to talk.

I could go on, I'm sure you get the picture, there certainly is a lot to like about modern society but there's a lot to despise about it as well.

Please feel free to add to the list.

Just remembered I might be up your temporary part of the world Pauline on Tuesday.

Makes me wonder if just maybe we did half decent job when raising our kids. Due to an injury I am parked up in my daughters driveway for a period. Her and her partener ( no they are not married) have 2 teenage kids between them. At dinner time EVERY night the tv goes off, the phones are left on the kitchen bench and they all sit at a real table to have the meal together.All 4 of them participate in a roster to cook the meal. The kids share the clean up duties after. Both kids are still at school but also hold part time jobs.  Makes me proud every night when I sit down with them. It is very much like it was in my home in the good ole days!

Recently I bought a CD of radio ads from the 30s till now. Listening to that, I was reminded of Dad filling the insect pump with Moretein from a bottle and then walking around the house pumping the spray everywhere. It was so much more up- market that the fly papers that hung from the kitchen ceiling in my grandmother's farm. But the carefully cut-up newspaper squares in the lav were part of my childhood until we got an inside loo when I was about 10. I have often wondered whether we were permanently smeared with newsprint. I missed having reading matter when we got rolls of toilet paper.

justcruisin01 wrote:

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jules47 wrote:

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The good old days - no computers, 78 rpm records, wood stove, outside dunny!!!!!! No thanks - I like it right here!!

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 Are you sure jules ??, My guess is that it now takes all night to do what you used to do all night. LOL.

JC.

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 Slow and steady will get the job done.

remember when you bearly had time to go to the loo in an add break on tv.now you can go to the loo 

make a coffee and almost drink it in the add break

  Cheers Dave

ahhhhhhh yes, they REALLY were the good old days