Remember when again...

[Greensleeves]

The good thing about Basil Brush was that his jokes were on two levels - the children liked them but the adults could also pick up other meanings.  He was great fun - boom, boom!

[Maggie.]

I remember making ginger beer.  The process was full of mystery as you would be given what was referred to amongst my friends as 'a plant'?  I now suppose this was yeast.  You then mixed it up with the ginger and put it in a capped bottle in the cylinder cupboard, where invariably it exploded.

Great fun.

[Greensleeves]

Oh ha! ha! Maggie - I had forgotten about ginger beer plants.  I remember my brother's brew exploding in the airing cupboard - my mother went mad.  Those were the days of white cotton sheets, all starched and ironed until they were like cardboard so must have been an awful lot of work to wash them all again to get the brown stains out.

[groom]

I remember that Maggie, you had to feed it for about two weeks then make it up. You then split the plant and gave half to someone else. The problem was it seemed that everyone had one and it became harder and harder to give it away. We had lots of explosions as well, but it was nice.

[kiwihalfpint]

You soon learnt never to take home made Ginger Beer on a school bus trip ....


Cheers
KHP

[Janette]

For some reason we called them ginger beer bugs

[Wiggy]

I remember making ginger beer.  The process was full of mystery as you would be given what was referred to amongst my friends as 'a plant'?  I now suppose this was yeast.  You then mixed it up with the ginger and put it in a capped bottle in the cylinder cupboard, where invariably it exploded.

Great fun.

Yep I remember making our own Ginger peer - great fun and wonderful taste!

[youngtug]

And alcoholic.

[wini]

I loved Strewell Peter, with the Scissor man and all the other terrible things that could happen to you.
I don't suppose children are allowed books like that any more.
I think the author was German.

Does anyone remember listening to Dick Barton, Special Agent, came on at a quarter to six.

wini