How did we ever survive...

[Workingman]

... without the Internet, radio and TV?

Listening to local radio and they are giving out tips on staying cool in the "heatwave".

* stay in the shade
* wear light clothing
* open windows

that sort of thing. This follows recent tips on saving water such as having showers and not using hosepipes. But the best was the other day for alternative meals to chicken and pork due to the CO2 shortage.

[saundra]

Next news item will be stay indoors wear light clothes open windows and doors it's stupid advice still somebody sits at a desk and writs it

[Diflower]

On the other hand, when I was a kid, we were out in the sun at cricket matches, no sunscreen, no hats, nowhere near enough water...my dad used to come off the pitch and drink salt water, and I for one got sunstroke.
My parents weren't stupid, this was the norm.

[saundra]

Yes we never heard of sunscreen I can remember we used to have huge blisters we just used calomine lotion I can remember times when we have all had sunstroke news item shortage of lettuce next week

[AliasAggers]

... without the Internet, radio and TV?

I can remember well what life in the 1930s was like- before all those things, and we were quite happy. and it wouldn't grieve me if we had to go back to those times.

The news papers gave us all we needed to know, and we had the wind-up gramophone for music, street games for healthy exercise, and plenty of face-to-face contacts
with our friends. One really doesn't need all the present-day technical gadgets that everyone today think they must have.

[saundra]

I agree my blood boils when teenage grandchildren visit they sit on the settie with there mum and heads in there phones one of these days I will say something and it won't be polite

[TheOstrich]

Big fuss locally about kids playing / swimming in one of the local rivers. Noise, pollution, Weils disease, disturbing the water voles, danger of drowning - you name it!

It's got to the stage where a self-appointed Action Group wants to take it up with the Town Council, for pity's sake!

[TheOstrich]

I agree my blood boils when teenage grandchildren visit they sit on the settie with there mum and heads in there phones one of these days I will say something and it won't be polite

Oh saundra, you're getting me off lightly ..... when I last saw my nephew and neice (7 and 10), I was forcibly given an extended 40 minute lesson on their iPads as to how to operate "Minecraft".

I cannot say I am any the wiser ......

[JoM]

On the other hand, when I was a kid, we were out in the sun at cricket matches, no sunscreen, no hats, nowhere near enough water...my dad used to come off the pitch and drink salt water, and I for one got sunstroke.
My parents weren't stupid, this was the norm.

Same here Di, we'd be out from morning until night and wearing sunscreen and hats wasn't a consideration.
I remember my Mom buying a bottle of Ambre Solaire to take on holiday, my first holiday actually, to North Wales and it was never used, ever. It stayed, unused, for some years before she decided that it was cluttering up a cupboard.

Ossie

[Kaz]

I burned every summer, the smell of calamine lotion still makes me feel sore