42. We got free milk at school, but it was left in the sun until recess.
43. Nobody’s mother drove them to school.
44. We could buy fireworks, and even let them off unsupervised. (Injuries were usually minor).
@Afraser, chicken was a luxury here, too. My edition of “The Commonsense Cookbook “ didn’t have any chicken recipes, but it did have lamb. Times have changed…
@arpie, some kids had a hanky safety-pinned to their clothes!
And I guess I’m the old woman here, but when I was a kid we didn’t have trampolines. And we didn’t have supermarkets. (And we slept in a shoebox on the M6, etc, etc.)