Gluestick Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Cooperlola recently posted a pic of her when young in Malta. Which gave me an idea.It's still raining and we all need something else for a change, bickering part. [:)]So, how about us all posting pics of when we were young?Here's Mrs G and I at circa 17 and 18. Me in my Buddy Holly style glasses and Mrs G with her de rigeure Dusty Springfield mascara and appalling beehive!Even I cannot really recognise her now. There was a very attractive lady underneath that disguise, as a later pic taken in Southern Spain in circa 1983 demonstrates.It really makes you wonder at what we did in the cause of so-called "fashion"![IMG]http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/Michaeleff/MyPictures0002.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/Michaeleff/PrsPaq_Marbella_82.jpg[/IMG] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Goodness me what a stunning wife you have Gluey. She is as beautiful now as she was when she was young. Now where are my pictures of Mr Katie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 It was in 1983 Katie and yes, very beautiful lady. Lucky man Gluey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gluestick Posted June 2, 2008 Author Share Posted June 2, 2008 Thank you nice ladies.And she is still a very attractive and lovely lady. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 This is me in my twenties, biking through France, listening to "Best of Bread" on my Sony Walkman: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Cathy, are you topless?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Oh, it does look as if I'm covering my bazookas with a Michelin, doesn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gluestick Posted June 2, 2008 Author Share Posted June 2, 2008 Great pins, Cathy!Why do all the young women today look like Belson survivors?Yet all the tasty ladies of yesteryear had a decent set of hams!Look at pics or better yet, vids of the Tiller Girls, early Pan's People, etc.So come on! Fess up!Were you in reality hiding your modesty with a copy of Tour Michelin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 My "pins" had just been cycling around France, Gluey, on my Claude Butler Mixte Tourer and so were honed and tanned. I had to carry a tent and all my provisions etc in those rear panniers and so the "hams" were working hard.What I was wearing is between the photographer and me, Gluey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Gluey, your misus is truly lovely. I trust she is fragrant as well?Cathy, a Claude Butler, I envy you. Did it have an ultra lightweight aluminium frame or was that later? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 [quote user="sweet 17"]Cathy, a Claude Butler, I envy you. Did it have an ultra lightweight aluminium frame or was that later?[/quote]So lightweight that I was able to take it on an aeroplane to Montpellier without a surcharge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Wow!I went on one of Professor Winston's charity bike rides "Women for Women" in Turkey. They gave me a rubbishy clonky old bike (it was OK but not as nice as my own).Perhaps for a second childhood present, I shall ask for a Claude Butler like yours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 What a lovely idea. Make sure that you change the saddle to a really good one - I have a Madison (not sure of spelling) - and have "bungees" fitted onto the handle bars because it is one's bottom and the palms of the hands that get very sore on long journeys. The tyres need to be the puncture-free type, if you don't want to be stopping daily to sort out flat tyres. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Where do you get puncture-free tyres? I've never heard of them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchie Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 [IMG]http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r20/regine79/babyy.jpg[/IMG] Yes, that was me ( much ! ) younger... [:D]( looking for some other ones but I can't find that pic on wghich I was 17, playing the guitar with a Macca poster above my bed [:D]..)It must be at my parents' place ( 900 km from here ...) Ill ask my mum to look for it .. [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 [quote user="sweet 17"] Where do you get puncture-free tyres? I've never heard of them![/quote]I bought them years ago. They aren't exactly puncture-free but they are tougher than ordinary tyres. I'll see if I can investigate further. My first journey around France was punctuated with inconvenient stops to sort out flat tyres. It was a nuisance, especially when I was anxious to get to a campsite every night before dark. So I changed them for the next tour. They were very expensive but worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 [quote user="Frenchie"][IMG]http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r20/regine79/babyy.jpg[/IMG] Yes, that was me ( much ! ) younger... [:D]( looking for some other ones but I can't find that pic on wghich I was 17, playing the guitar with a Macca poster above my bed [:D]..)It must be at my parents' place ( 900 km from here ...) Ill ask my mum to look for it .. [:)][/quote]Ah, c'est un beau bébé! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furry Knickers Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 [quote user="Cathy"]This is me in my twenties, biking through France, listening to "Best of Bread" on my Sony Walkman:[IMG]http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd268/calexander1956/BikinginFrance.jpg[/IMG][/quote]Cathy, you look really delicious in that picture! And listening to Bread too, I love David Gates. Was that picture took in Burgundy? I remember touring our road in Kildare on me Chopper many years back and listening to The Batchelors on me cassette player which was mounted on the handlebars. I still have me Chopper to this day, but It's rarely used now. It's funny how they say a pair of knickers when you have only one, why are they called pairs? I just don't know! Frenchie, you were such a little cutie pie[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchie Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 [quote user="FurryKnickers "]Frenchie, you were such a little cutie pie[:)][/quote]Merci mon ami !!Will we have the surprise to see a pic of Mr Roy Furry when he was younger ?? [;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 FK. I was wondering where you were. I haven't seen you around. Perhaps you've communing with the goats or penguins? Have you spoken to Benedict yet? Does he have much to say about "the pair of knickers problem"? Maybe Cardinal C M O'C could get involved?I can't remember where this photo was taken. I used to tour France, stopping off in campsites all around the place. Wherever I pitched my tent was my home etc. The worst journey was cycling up the Rhone valley against the blustery Mistral just to sample a bottle of Chateauneuf du Pape.What about a picky of you as a wee nipper? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gluestick Posted June 3, 2008 Author Share Posted June 3, 2008 Come on!More pics of youse when youse were all young! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 I think I sort of started this but in case you haven't seen this before - with the o/h (and he's still cute.)[IMG]http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q103/cooperlola/DebIanbyJonChitty.jpg[/IMG] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gluestick Posted June 3, 2008 Author Share Posted June 3, 2008 Lovely pic, JE.Like the OH's style, too: the old intellectual look with the hair and jacket.The first thought that came to me was "Aint young love grand!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 [quote user="Gluestick"]"Aint young love grand!" [/quote]I can't remember..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pads Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 My better half and I going out on my 21st birthday. Its a bit dogey as its old and not well scanned....[IMG]http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z22/pads_03/scan0001.jpg[/IMG] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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