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Mars Bar 48p

Don't drink cappuccino, only good old tea. Or any fruit based drinks of course.

my parents get telegraph tokens so don't pay anything for it

I can remember when you couldn't eat a 6d Mars Bar without being sick.

I don't know about that but I do remember paying sixpence in old money (2 and half new pence)
for a bag of crisps at junior school.

Ahhh.... those were the days.

You don't see those pink shrimps anymore...........

(Cough) Back to reality.

Been reading an old book on painting (1958). There is a section on framing which is very interesting. It mentions that a large frame for an oil painting could easily cost you £5. That's over a weeks wages for a fairly skilled man at the time. Or 200 big Mars bars. 400 Milky Ways. 50lbs of Midget Gems.

There is also a section that tells you how to strip the gold off old frames and sell it. Who would bother to do that nowadys? Gilded frames were not the thing at that period in time. Minimalism was it. White frames - canvas wrapped liners. I wonder how many nice gold frames bit the dust in the 50s/60s?

My first post folks:
£25.75 to £68.45 (ish) Us cornish are great believers in the "ish" word.

hello Cornish Pirate

I am always intending to get one of those "Dreckly" clocks, cause i use it all the time,

"See u dreckly" !!!

Dan

Hi Dan,
Recently a High Court Judge was asked to describe the Cornish word "dreckly"...The way he told it was " Its similar to the Spanish phrase "Manyana" but with less urgency!!!"

Cornishpirate

I like it. Never heard that one before. I will try to use it more in conversation.

It's a bit like the Lincolnshire expression, "It's had three coats of looking at".

..........Or to put it in the vernacular: "Sadthraycortsolookinet".

£40- £120