Growing pains

Tuesday Timeline

I found this Mama Mia article quite funny but also very true. Reading the comments section also brought back other things I fondly remember growing up in the 1980's.

These are the things I can't wait to show our 8yo son Aries:

- using a VCR and taping on VHS tapes

- we used a rotary dial telephone like this

- milk trucks came every weeknight with fresh milk

- milk came in glass bottles with foil tops I carried in this

- 'upgraded' to a wall mounted push button corded phone

- we had bus prefects on the school bus and got reported

- we sent faxes and learned to type on manual typewriters

- computers were only used by Industry and the Government

- in summer we wore red roma/titan sandals to school, sockless

- our refrigerator was a brown single-door model from the 1970's

- our black and white TV was smaller than our current microwave

- at school we sewed by hand before moving to sewing machines

- I played with the neighbourhood kids until the street lights came on.

Here was a typical Kiwi school lunch menu:

- jelly pie

- hot pies

- sausage rolls

- sally lunn bun

- fresh/choc/strawberry milk

- in winter, creamed corn jaffle sandwich.

For the Annual School Fundraising we sold boxes of Jam and Cream Long John Donuts. The modern day School Canteen Menu now also includes: nuggets, burgers, noodles, pasta and mexican. One day a week, our 8yo son Aries still prefers a sausage roll or paddle pop. I can't wait to see what they're going to offer Tauren in three years.

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