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Happiness is a ten-bob note

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Edited by Jim McCrory, Friday, 13 Dec 2024, 10:57





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We were just kids growing up in the Glasgow tenements in the sixties. my two pals and I liked to poke around old, broken-down buildings with sticks, searching for treasure—or just anything really. Once I found a Meccano Set that I played with for years. 

I think it was Harry one day who found an old jacket. He dug around in the pockets and pulled out three five-pound notes and a ten-bob note. We couldn’t believe it We were so happy we jumped up and down.

We got a fiver each and  with the ten-bob note, we treated ourselves to a big meal, and then we bought three tins of Creamola Foam. We mixed it with water and spent the day sucking the tasty fizz!


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