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'I 'ear there's a new kind of chewable ecstacy goin' round Yorkshire. it's calle 'E by Gum'., 4 Yorkshiremen, Humour, Prose, She told me that her dad was loaded - I said in that case I'll have rum and Coca-Cola, slap up supper, when Adam were a lad
Time Was (Circa the Span of a Century)
Posh coffee for a fiver?
Time was you could score a bag of chips, cop two cinema tickets with popcorn and fizzy pop, cough-up for four coffees, splash on a winter coat, nab a week’s shopping, pick-up a family car, have a cheeky pint on the way home . . .
. . . and all from a fiver, with enough change left to buy a modest six-bedroomed house in Kent complete with four acres and a gardener.
These days a fiver gets you a bag of air, and the bag is another tenner.
Time was.
Esme's Cloud 
Ee, you were lucky! We used to dream of having all that for a fiver!
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
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Time was when you could go for a dance
Grab a beer with Friends
Show your face
Now, all we see are eyes
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I am reminded of a favourite poem by Francis William Bourdillon . . .
The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying of the sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
We shall all dance, drink, and go maskless one day my friend, but with somewhat older faces I suspect.
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Maskless older faces will be better than masked faces.
Greetings Esme
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I’ve seen a festival play-bill from the 1970s. Day tickets £1.50, weekend a fiver. Now over a hundred.
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Glamping triples it or more too. No sneaking under fences for free now either, the adventures are long gone. I can’t say I miss the opportunity mind.
Esme and Clare sat with flowers painted on their faces upon the Cloud
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AIR you can’t even breathe!
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Thanks for the chuckle Esme! When I was a student I lived on 13 quid a week and still was able to save for a good time at the pub!
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Tin of beans and baked potato, 50p litre of cider from Aldi, jam on toast. Good times, hahahahaha.
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Toasted cheese sandwiches with Heinz tomato soup. And wine. Can’t forget the wine. 🙂
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Not bad! I hear you. My drink of choice was a snake bite …cider and lager. Cheap thrills for sure! I miss cider here in the states. They press it but don’t make it into alcohol. It a thick sludge of watered down apple. Very unappealing. When I get back I’ll dowse myself in Merrydown and local offerings.
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Esme and Val being Absolutely Fabulous upon the Cloud
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Love it!
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LMAO! I remember when I was an impoverished uni student, living well on $25 a week. Time was… 😀
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See Val and my answer too, we were all the very same boat! I wouldn’t have been able to afford to be a student at all these days!
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Same. And I suddenly remembered that I was one of the lucky ones who received a free…yes FREE…university education. It didn’t last much past the next conservative govt but I will always be grateful that I was amongst the lucky ones.
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Me too, though I had to work as well as it was only a small grant. Education should always be free, much like healthcare, if humanity wishes to claim the civil element of civilisation say I.
Esme Cloud nodding
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Totally agree, Esme. We’re long past the point where a successful human is defined by size and brawn, yet we still reward those attributes while creating more and more obstacles for those who had a brain and know how to use it. Grrrr…-cough- sorry.
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❤
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There are so many “costs of living,” Esme… Are there not?
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Yes, death being the prime offender I’d say, but there’s no life without death and no death without life, and ultimately nothing ever dies…oh, I;ve remembered a poem, I had to check to see if it was mine laughs, it is
The land of sighs,
Is full of eyes,
An island in the stream.
And aurora skies,
Bring forth such cries,
One might think ’twere just a dream.
But ’tis no fake guise,
As the name implies,
There’s a world here to redeem.
For there are no goodbyes,
No one here e’er dies,
We just become sunbeams . . .
I think the ending sums it up. nods I’ll be back for your other fabulous comment anon Michael, thank you.
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The good news is that pensions should be going up by close to 9% next April, due to wage inflation resulting from Covid-work-shy-ness. Us wrinklies will be rolling in it innit?
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Cheeky sod. I’m not as wrinkly as some I’ll have you know. A slip of a girl at under 500yrs old! I’m pleased for you mind that is excellent news, they should do the same for the poor sods on benefits who have had bugger all of a rise in years, but as they’re poor and sick they can be dammed of course.
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