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yngwies Cat" wrote: ↑23 Nov 2024, 17:09 Airfix 

Happy days 

Re discovered it during lock down.

Still shit at it.

Keep dreaming" wrote: ↑23 Nov 2024, 16:06 No wonder every generation add more weight. Chipshop everyday is the fast lane to obesity 

only1billybonds wrote: ↑23 Nov 2024, 00:53 Ghost.

Forgot to ask, was Fat Cats the one on East India Dock Rd? If so I spent many a happy day in there.

Mike Oxsaw" wrote: ↑23 Nov 2024, 05:20

Manuel wrote: ↑23 Nov 2024, 01:06

only1billybonds wrote: ↑23 Nov 2024, 01:02 Manny.

I know mate, I do like to look back. Bit fucking easier than dealing with the shitshow that is the modern world. 




 

Absolutely mate, I was dragged up on the island, so we have a bit in common there. To 'let it slip' I'm back for the first time in 6 years next month, preparing for reverse culture shock.

I truly hope that you can come away with something positive.

When I was living with my kids in Den Haag we used to go back to the UK once a month to visit their Nan in Witham (was easy on the kat to Harwich - day trip from Hoek van Holland).

I later did a 2 month contract in Dundee where almost everybody said stuff along the lines of "It was better "back then"", followed by 3 months in the City, when I chose to live in a familiar area - St. Albans. Everyone there said the same thing. We're talking about 25 years ago here and I doubt that the trend has deviated much.

You're ex-Hornchurch aren't you? Was last there (properly as opposed to a fleeting day visit) just before Covid as I used to visit my brother who still lives there; witnessed the changes (degradation) on a monthly basis.

Dinner money? Early days on my school dinner. By the 2nd or 3rd form over at the chippie on Green Lane. In the 5th form on a pint of lunchtime light & bitter at The Three Travellers.

The deterioration was noticeable even back then in the 00's

Yes, around that way, I don't want to say too much as I have only just learnt on another thread that there might be people looking for me after I ran away to Thailand

On a more serious note, to be honest, I always hear about how much things have changed (for the worse) but things always seem more or less the same to me, but maybe because I don't 'look for it' and am just in my own little world. Obviously if you live there these things are more in your face and you may have to adjust, but on a fleeting visit it's all pretty much same same to me.

Manuel wrote: ↑23 Nov 2024, 01:06

only1billybonds wrote: ↑23 Nov 2024, 01:02 Manny.

I know mate, I do like to look back. Bit fucking easier than dealing with the shitshow that is the modern world. 



 

Absolutely mate, I was dragged up on the island, so we have a bit in common there. To 'let it slip' I'm back for the first time in 6 years next month, preparing for reverse culture shock.

Ladysmith wrote: ↑23 Nov 2024, 01:50 I had to give my dinner money to the schooll bully

only1billybonds wrote: ↑23 Nov 2024, 01:02 Manny.

I know mate, I do like to look back. Bit fucking easier than dealing with the shitshow that is the modern world. 


 

only1billybonds wrote: ↑23 Nov 2024, 00:53 Ghost.

Forgot to ask, was Fat Cats the one on East India Dock Rd? If so I spent many a happy day in there.

It's very unlike you to reminisce, Billy

F 129 Row66" wrote: ↑23 Nov 2024, 00:15 What did you spend yours on?

It was one shilling a day and we used to go to a chipshop, bakery and sweet shop, a usual day I'd buy:

- Bag of chips
- Vienna Loaf
- 3d fizzy drink
- A loose fag