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After expenses, and commission. We were Thatcher kids. ;-)

Most lucrative earner I remember was me and my mate Simon, when we were 8, someone told us about scrap metal so we were wading around in the mud on the river bank collecting copper rivets from a burnt down houseboat. took us a week after school, had a big bag full. My step dad took us to the...

It all got a bit fiesty, bullying and stuff, probably around 1983? so we left. I do have fond memories of stuff though, summer camp near Lyme Regis, a field full of girl guides next door, canoeing at Axmouth. Easter camp and snow in Suffolk.

I did the free papers once a week, Butchers Saturday, fixed bikes, mowed lawns I invested a little more wisely, but not much. :rolleyes:

In the olden days I remember bob a job week A few weeks ago I saw a group of scouts scrounging outside B&Q for a new hut. Lazy ***** we worked our arses off for the 3rd Shoreham seas scouts new building in the early 80's . . . . The nice wooden hut on Ropetackle was going to get knocked down (...