I’ve left it longer than usual between posts. Call it lockdown negativity perhaps! To get me back into it I thought I’d do a quick list of things we no longer hear or see. Most of these have been covered in previous posts at other times. It’s a brief resume.

Clothes

Twinsets

Petticoats

Cravats

Boleros

Cars

Push-button ignition

Indicators which stuck out

Gear change on the steering column

Handbrakes in the dashboard

Bench seats in the front

Gadgetry

Reel to reel tape recorders

Radiograms

Kitchen

Rotary whisk

Soda syphon

Camp coffee

Blancmange

School

Inkwells

Blackboards and chalk

The cane

TV

The test card

‘Snow’

The National anthem at closing time

Presenters smoking pipes and cigarettes

Shops

Loose groceries weighed out on scales into paper bags

Sweet cigarettes

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