Good Morning!

[Dimity]

@hanami it's nice your mum still treasures your books though.

[SmilingGecko]

Hello @hanami @TAB @Jake63 @Dimity @Former-Member and all passing through. Those May Gibbs books were wonderful from the 70's. My favorite childrens book was the forest gnomes book which I used to borrow all the time. You could get totally lost looking through the pages. There was something about the layout which used to enchant me. 

[hanami]

I love this @SmilingGecko ! I'm going to have to dig out some of my old books that my mum gave me now. 

❤️

[SmilingGecko]

I don't have any of the old books. It would be of great sentimental value.  Those ladybeetle/ladybug learn to read books were big in the 70's. We used to go to an educational shop in Melbourne called Dominie where you could buy schoolage text books that were used in schools on the curriculum but couldn't take home. So you could buy them for yourself and study at home to improve grades.  

[TAB]

Different times hey @hanami  the snugglepot and cuddlepie books at our place prob early 1970s too 

have a good day 😸

[hanami]

Oh different times for sure @TAB. When I talk to my kids about old telephones, vinyl records, cassette tapes and recorders (even iPods), they look at me in disbelief!

[TAB]

So not PC now but I used to have enid blyton books of every description @SmilingGecko @hanami 

Ok unrelated but I used to love book club at school 

[hanami]

Omg soooo not PC now hey @TAB ! Loved Enid Blyton.

I absolutely LOVED book club at school too. I studied that little catalogue for hours lol. 

[TAB]

Sometimes I see answering machines on tv and think I used to have one of them.. plus remember friends had computers that used cassettes as storage lolo also 5 inch floppy disks ok did all my uni stuff on 💾 floppy disks and a pentium 166 which was like next big thing after a 486 lol

i remember brother in law got 386 for work when they first came out was like $3000 haha $300 couple years after then few years later pick up on footpath for free lol @hanami 

[Historylover]

"When I talk to my kids about old telephones, vinyl records, cassette tapes and recorders (even iPods), they look at me in disbelief!"... as will theirs, @hanami, when they are telling similar stories from their generation.