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Post by learfan on Aug 12, 2019 16:59:39 GMT
I remember rather enjoying the power cuts of the 70s....we had a Tilly lamp we used to light up the room and I think we used it as an excuse to not do homework! Poor parents may have been stressing about it all but as children we accepted every excuse given to not work! Snap! I was at primary school and tbh it seemed a bit of a lark with candles out all the time. We omly had a bath once a week Anyway, noone i knew had a shower. |
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Post by missthelma on Aug 12, 2019 19:05:48 GMT
noone i knew had a shower. Quite a few people I knew had a sort of short-ish plastic hose thing with a shower head on one end. The other end of the hose divided into two, and you had rubber cups on each one that you shoved over the taps to turn it into a sort of shower you could use to wash hair over the sink etc. I was still using one of those in 2005, thank you very much!! |
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Post by d'James on Aug 12, 2019 19:09:42 GMT
noone i knew had a shower. Quite a few people I knew had a sort of short-ish plastic hose thing with a shower head on one end. The other end of the hose divided into two, and you had rubber cups on each one that you shoved over the taps to turn it into a sort of shower you could use to wash hair over the sink etc. I’ve still got one. |
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Post by learfan on Aug 12, 2019 20:03:34 GMT
noone i knew had a shower. Quite a few people I knew had a sort of short-ish plastic hose thing with a shower head on one end. The other end of the hose divided into two, and you had rubber cups on each one that you shoved over the taps to turn it into a sort of shower you could use to wash hair over the sink etc. Yes, they were around, some houses i went to had them but still not an actual shower. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 13, 2019 11:32:17 GMT
Tricky balance between getting a bit of water pressure up, and one of those damned rubber cups pinging off the tap.
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Post by TallPaul on Aug 13, 2019 12:36:42 GMT
Just ordered one from Ebay, for old times sake.  Maybe my mind is playing tricks, but I'm sure the one we had was all rubber. On the modern version the shower part now seems to be made from hard plastic.  In our house, the hot water coupler was largely redundant, as there never was any!!! |
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Post by lichtie on Aug 13, 2019 14:30:07 GMT
My parents actually coughed up for central heating in the mid-70s sometime, but they still treated the hot water as if it was an immersion heater anyway. An hour on in the morning to heat water in the tank (which was still an imemrsion heater for emergencies), then maybe if you were lucky half an hour at teatime so they could wash the dishes, the tank by that stage being mostly full of cold water.
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Post by Backdrifter on Aug 13, 2019 15:05:03 GMT
Tricky balance between getting a bit of water pressure up, and one of those damned rubber cups pinging off the tap. True, but at your age it's to be expected, I guess BurlyBeaR... What does that mean? |
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 13, 2019 18:07:56 GMT
My parents actually coughed up for central heating in the mid-70s sometime, but they still treated the hot water as if it was an immersion heater anyway. An hour on in the morning to heat water in the tank (which was still an imemrsion heater for emergencies), then maybe if you were lucky half an hour at teatime so they could wash the dishes, the tank by that stage being mostly full of cold water. That's how we do our hot water. An hour on in the morning pre-bath then possibly an hour on in the evening if we've run out or need more to wash up with. How else do people's hot water supplies work? |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 13, 2019 18:09:10 GMT
True, but at your age it's to be expected, I guess BurlyBeaR ... What does that mean? Ignore him Backdrifter , he’s just trying to online bully me again!Look what he did to Timothy Tortoise 😠  |
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Post by NeilVHughes on Aug 13, 2019 18:19:23 GMT
Dawnstar , modern combi boilers heat water directly from the mains when you turn on a tap removing the need for a hot water tank. Instant hot water as and when you want it and In theory more efficient as you only heat the water you actually use.
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 13, 2019 18:22:33 GMT
Dawnstar , modern combi boilers heat water directly from the mains when you turn on a tap removing the need for a hot water tank. Instant hot water as and when you want it and In theory more efficient as you only heat the water you actually use. I don't think our boiler is that old but it doesn't do that. We have a hot water tank. The shower heats water as you use it but not anything else. |
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 14, 2019 14:05:35 GMT
Look what he did to Timothy Tortoise As usual, out of context photo. He'd fallen off the skateboard I got him for Christmas and I was trying to help him get the right way up - had they shown the next photo. Not according to the synopsis of the book. (Yes, I did look it up.) |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 14, 2019 14:16:33 GMT
Details Dawnstar! That’s what we like to see! 😉 |
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 14, 2019 14:19:31 GMT
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 14, 2019 14:37:42 GMT
Typical, he who gets his story in first makes the history books. Still, Mark Curry did stand on his dad all those years ago, which explains a lot. You'll have to write a rebuttal then. I'm trying to think of possible titles... Um, not to me it doesn't. |
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 14, 2019 17:58:44 GMT
Telling the Tortoise. Oh, yeah, OK, well, Blue Peter presenter Mark Curry once stood on the Blue Peter tortoise, sending it breakdancing across the studio live on air. Come to think of it, I think it was called George, and later turned out to be Georgina. First trans-sexual presenter on British Childrens' TV, I guess.
Telling the Tortoise what? ;-)
That reference now makes sense. Good thing that must have been a while ago as now he'd probably be had up for animal cruelty. I imagine trying to determine the gender of a tortoise may indeed be difficult.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 14, 2019 18:09:29 GMT
Mark Curry, of Junior Showtime, Blue Peter and Wicked fame was running a dating agency last time I heard f him.
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Post by TallPaul on Sept 9, 2019 14:28:06 GMT
I have a Mark Curry update.
With the weather being decidedly Mancunian on the right side of the Pennines, I briefly escaped from the rain and popped into the world-famous Crucible Theatre. Mark Curry will soon be appearing as Donald in Bill Kenwright's production of Alan Ayckbourn's Ten Times Table.
I think we'll all sleep just that bit more soundly tonight!
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Maybe my mind is playing tricks, but I'm sure the one we had was all rubber. On the modern version the shower part now seems to be made from hard plastic.
