From Joe Sweney . . . Dear WebEd, How's This For  Nostalgia?It  took five minutes for the TV to warm  up.Nearly  everyone's Mum was at home when the kids got home from  school. You'd  reach into a muddy gutter for a  penny. All  your male teachers wore ties and female teachers had  their hair done every day and wore high  heels. You  got your windscreen cleaned, oil checked, and petrol served, without asking, all for free, every time. And you didn't pay for air. And, you got trading stamps. Washing Powder had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside  the box They threatened to keep children back a year if they failed. . .  and they did it! When a Ford Zephyr was everyone's dream car.Bottles came from the corner shop without safety caps and hermetic seals  because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect  stranger.When being sent to the head's study  was nothingcompared to the fate that awaited the student at  home. Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and  grandparents were a much bigger threat! Who can  still  remember Mr Pastry, 6.5  Special, The Army  Game , Sunday Night at the  London Palladium, Emergency Ward 10, the Lone Ranger,  Hancock's Half hour, Trigger and Sgt Bilko. Sweet cigarettes, Coca Cola  in bottles, You're  never alone with  a Strand. Blackjacks  and bubblegum. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with tinfoil tops. Newsreels  before the film. Telephone  numbers with a word  prefix (Exeter 3489). Andy  Pandy. Hi-Fi's  & 45 RPM  records. 78  RPM records! Green  Shield Stamps. Adding Machines.  Do  You  Remember a Time  When . . . decisions  were made by  going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex  was 'chickenpox'? Having  a Weapon in School meant being caught with a  catapault? Saturday morning TV wasn't 30-minute commercials for  action figures?  The Worst  Embarrassment was being  picked last for a team?Cigarette cards  in the spokes transformed any bike into a  motorcycle?   Anyone got any more? - Joe.