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Back In the Day – Do You Remember?

Do you remember the time?A while ago, back in the dayWhen cars had a built-in convenienceA built-in and handy ashtray? In theatres they also had ashtraysInstalled at the back of each chairWhich did cause a bit of a nuisanceA thin veil of smoke filled the air Don MatthewsMarch 2021

Back in the Day. Do You Remember?

Visiting a libraryDesiring a bookYou’d flip cards in catalogueCards which you’d look Don MatthewsFebruary 2021

Back In the Day. Do You Remember?

Things have moved along since thenBut can you recallIn the past some telephonesWere attached to wall? Don MatthewsJanuary 2021

Back in the Day. Do You Remember?

Before the internet arrivedWe had a com-plete setOf Cyclopedia BritannicaFor information-get Don MatthewsDecember 2020

Back in the Day. Do You Remember?

Do you remember sayingThis often-said one-linerYou wouldn’t do something forAll the tea in China? Don MatthewsDecember 2020

Back In the Day. Do You Remember?

When mum did the washing on MondaysSpin driers had not yet aroseWringers, type hand/automaticWere used to squeeze water from clothes Don MatthewsDecember 2020

Back in the Day, Do You Remember?

Ma and Pa KettleHillbilly coupleIn many moviesCausing much muddle Don MatthewsNovember 2020

Back in the Day, Do You Remember?

Do you remember kids playingWith bows and arrows and gunsPlaying at cowboys and IndiansHaving themselves lots of fun? Bang bang you’re dead….. You’re using real bullets?…. Mummy bought them for me at Walmart…. Mummy!!…. I’ve got an arrow in my eye… Don MatthewsNovember 2020

Back in the Day, Do You Remember?

We used to get our breadDelivered to the doorNeddy/van came up the streetNeddy/van no more We had this thing they called a crockIn which the bread to storeNeddy/van and crock all haveDisappeared, no more The same Neddy/van which came up my street in Adelaide when I was a boy. No, it’s not my house….. DonContinue reading “Back in the Day, Do You Remember?”