Peckham Spring Water Rides Again

:D:D

Jim.
Lincoln .7

Leave it out Jim I am from North London not the cheap seats south of the river.:D

Guess you were the idea for “Only fools and horses” Dell Boy.:D

Jim.
Lincoln .7

As this tread has wandered on to bikes now how many of you remember these.

I managed to lay my hands on 10 in the late 50’s at 10 bob each and sold them at 25 shillings each at school.

That was my first excursion into buying and selling!:)

cue the hovis music…

I can never recall actually buying bottled water when I was a kid. When going long distance my bike I’d fill my dads old WWII issue canteen with tap water & secure it to cycle rack, later I went all modern & installed pukka twin ‘racing’ style drinking bottles.
These days when I take the car away racing, a 20ltr plastic Jerry can of finest Cornish tap water comes along as well, for both human & automotive consumption.

I will be taking orders next week with free delivery by Denzi,just waiting for Trigger to bring the labels
£1 each or 2 for £3

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Mr Creasote.
I enjoyed reading your post, I realy agree with every word you stated, and well remember those times,:) Oh, if we could only turn the clock back.
As regards the young lady, it reminds me of the old saying, “Casting Pearles to swine”
Jim.
Lincoln .7

Nice post, Paul. Probably seen this already?

Anyone age approx 35 or over should read this – copied from a friend … Checking out at the supermarket recently, the young cashier suggested I should bring my own bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. I apologised and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier days”. the clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations”. She was right about one thing–our generation didn’t have the green thing in “Our” day. So what did we have back then? After some reflection and soul-searching on “Our” day here’s what I remembered we did have…. Back then, we returned milk bottles, pop bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles repeatedly. So they really were recycled. But we didn’t have the green thing back in our day. We walked up stairs, because we didn’t have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn’t have the green thing in our day. Back then, we washed the baby’s nappies because we didn’t have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 240 volts — wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right. We didn’t have the green thing back in our day. Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of Wales. In the kitchen, we blended & stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she’s right. We didn’t have the green thing back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn’t have the green thing back then. Back then, people took the bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their mums into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint. But isn’t it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we older folks were just because we didn’t have the green thing back then?

Much greener to simply take glass to tap, methinks

Indeed, quite so Mr C – but drinking tap water is not so in line with being “upwardly mobile”., or “on (the green) trend” is it 😉

Don’t forget these are often the same people who trade in perfectly sound cars that are only a few years old simply to buy a “greener” model, that pumps out a trace less CO2, without realising that producing a new car from scratch causes more CO2 to be produced than most existing cars will ever pump out in the remainder of their lifetime. The fact that the new greener model has a newer index plate number is purely coincidental….:rolleyes:

Or they drive “eco friendly” electric (or semi-electric cars), forgetting that the majority of electricity they use to re-charge them comes from dirty old fossil fuel powered genertaing stations, or from those even nastier nuclear power stations…

Still, nice to know they really understand the “green” issues, and that they are doing their bit to save the planet :rolleyes:

In the meantime us Luddites will continue to drink tap water from re-usable containers (glasses), and drive round in our seven/eight/nine year old cars that pump out C)2 like its going out of fashion…..

And perish the thought if we even dare to heretically suggest that climate change may well be in part (or worse still largely) down to natural phenomena.

Always amuses me that so many of the people who boast about their “Green” credentials are the same ones who buy bottled water instead of perfectly potable tap water; bottled water that has to be transported from source to a bottling plant (with all the energy the plant itself must consume), transported from bottling plant to retailers, then the bottle itself disposed of. Much greener to simply take glass to tap, methinks

Paul.

There was a recent report that the “Poles” had been making and selling to Supermarkets, VODKA, a large plant was found in Boston, Lincs. It was found, and closed down, but not before these Supermarkets had purchased vast quantities.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

Coke tried this a few years back with Dasani and that was a bust.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3523303.stm