“Space Patrol”. That series gave me a minor triumph at school. Science lesson - teacher asking for types of radiation. I stuck my arm up and said “Gamma Rays” - much laughter. “Quite right” said the teacher, “Any others?” Someone else put their hand up and said, “Yobba Rays.” My turn to laugh…
Down Memory Lane
Rob666 I don’t remember that one at all, I looked it up hoping it would ignite a neurone or two.. All I found was the 50s TV series from USA and a puppet one from 1962.
One of my huge favourites wasn’t a kids program but the more Adult Twilight Zone
“There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call The Twilight Zone.”
Loved it!
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Fun fact…. Before he became really famous playing Captain James T Kirk, Wiiliam Shatner appeared in the Twilight Zone twice, the first in 1960 in an episode called ‘Nick of Time’ then in 1963…ish called ‘Nightmare at 20,000 feet’ He was a passenger on a plane and it was a stormy night and he suddenly saw this creature on the wing ripping the plane apart that nobody else could see… or did he? Of all the episodes , it seems that episode also became one of the most famous too.
There is a dimension between teatime and the cheese fondue… between the first pint of Double Diamond and the Bell’s or Irish Coffee at the end of the night. In the pit of man’s stomach… we call it the Twiglet Zone.
Hotmetal There is a dimension between teatime and the cheese fondue… between the first pint of Double Diamond and the Bell’s or Irish Coffee at the end of the night. In the pit of man’s stomach… we call it the Twiglet Zone.
All massive blasts from the past…in our house, mainly around Christmas time…not the Fondue of course, far too posh for my parents. My dad loved making Irish coffee and floating the cream on it with the spoon….I liked drinking it to…there you go, I admitted it. I would still have a go today, except you have to use so much sugar to make the cream float, and I don’t use sugar.
One of the things I do remember were the family holidays to Butlins…don’t laugh, but I was only little, and I thought the place was magical….we used to go to the one in Bognor Regis. Disneyworld for the Brits.
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Ha, Bognor Butlins! Me and the lads went there not sooooo long ago for a Ska weekender, which wasn’t 100% Ska, they had Dr and the Medics, Bad Manners (Buster Bloodvessel is now rather slim), a Madness tribute band, Pauline Black out of the Selecter and even Toyah Wilcox banging out Thunder in the Mountains. Memory Lane indeed.
I used to love Irish coffee, not exactly diet friendly though was it? Very 70s/80s. Used to have one at the end of a meal at the Berni Inn…
OMG Butlins! We used to go to to Minehead ( Bournmouth was too close to home to Portsmouth and wouldn’t have seemed like going away) and as a kid I absolutely loved it. I remember having our meals in these big halls on long tables with all the other holiday makers. The free funfair, the penny arcades, chasing the guy dressed as a pirate and throwing him in the pool. When you arrived you were put in a different house (a bit like Harry Potter) and we used to have friendly but very competative competitions against each other. Glamorous Granny and knobbly knees competions and not forgetting the free entertainment, comedians, singers, magicians, dancers and of course the Red Coates. Kids today would just roll their eyes and carry on heads down engrossed in their phones.
The swimming pool with the large glass viewing panel so that you could see under the water like you can do in seaworld to look at the sharks. You went to one of the areas/bars where you got a drink to see it, all the people’s bottom halfs and ocassionally whole if the swam underwater, which I’m not sure is still there or would be allowed today.
We did go to Pontins (book early as Fred used to say) Southport one year, but it wasn’t a patch on Butlins so went back there the following year.
Pompeyexile The swimming pool, I remember, especially the roof with the Parrots. Floating on my back looking up at it all.
The Cafe below, where people could look through the glass sides…you’re right, wouldn’t be allowed today.
Happy days……The best thing of all about a Butlins holiday, even when I was 8….I could bugger off all day long and my Parents would only see me at breakfast and when I was asleep in the Chalet.
Yep, you felt as safe as houses at Butlins…my old mum never had a worry when like you I went out after breakfast and she didn’t see me for hours. Plus, because of the amount of Red Coates wandering around there was always someone you could go to if you needed.
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Pompeyexile A little more of that today wouldn’t go amiss…I wonder when it all went wrong. As kids, were were about 10-11 and we used to go out all day long trekking miles into the woods at Wisley common. Or go Night fishing…..just as a group of kids.
You can’t do that today.
I don’t know if there is more danger out there for kids today or if because of social media and wider reporting it is just ‘seen’ more. There were still monsters out there targeting kids (Brady & Hindley) so why weren’t our parents so worried and like you, allowed me go out all day to the woods or on my bike for miles? Blimey I remember going on a really long bike ride and didn’t think twice about knocking on a stranger’s house door and asking for a drink.
As for making dens in woods or going on adventures on bikes with their mates today, phones have ruined that. If I wanted to talk to my mates I used to go round their house…today? they don’t even need to get out of bed and they would rather play a video game than actually go out and use their imagination and skills in playing.
We used to be out all day on our bikes or in the woods making camps or in the farmers fields piling the hay up and jumping out of the tree into the hay till it got dark. No one bothered you and you came home when you were hungry. As far as Butlins that was the bees knees the fun you could have. I remember eating in the large dining rooms on the long tables and when someone dropped any cutlery the roar in the room was mad. Talk about feeling embarrassed if it was you luckily I never dropped anything.
Just now I was reminded of this…remember watching it on TV. The SAS certainly didn’t take any shit.
Rob666 I remember watching this live on TV while at work, Kate Adie lost it in a big way…
I seem to remember terrorism took a slight downward turn after that…the SAS considered the best in the world and probably still are today.
DavecUK I seem to remember terrorism took a slight downward turn after that…the SAS considered the best in the world and probably still are today.
He Who Dares Wins Rodney!
Nice one…Dave!
