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Originally posted by Jenny Roberts:
Nobody has attempted this Bedstor so I will answer it.
It's the washing. And no, I am not really old!
Not really old? Dunno about you but I find a disconcerting feature of being my age is that I now see items that I knew or used in my youth
in museums or, worse, in antique auctions! Coppers turn up regularly in auctions in Norfolk, where they fetch good money. Decorators like them as 'quaint' articles of decor.
The bus which I went to school on is in the Transport Museum, complete with the cigarette stubbers on the backs of the seats, and the car which I wanted, and could not afford, at twenty-two, an Aston Martin, is now a collector's item....which I
still cannot afford
. Back then it was £3,750 and now, nearly forty years on, that identical, preserved, old car is over £80,000. And as for the toys ! Toys that ran on clockwork and cost a few shillings are a source of amazement to youngsters...and cost even hundreds of pounds!
And my teenager asked where the seatbelts were on a model of the car I learned to drive in and what the running board was for on the car my parents had
When did that all happen when I wasn't looking?
