A poll for Friday

[wellinghall]

[Poll #1172594]

Comments

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I think I was lucky with my telly timing, if you had a black and white one then, as we are of an age. My parents bought one when I became 'a pain in the neck*' - not sure what year that was, but apparently late enough that the telly they bought to keep me quiet for half an hour from time to time was a colour one.

* I like to think this is a status I have never entirely lost.

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

I was another one like Elaine who had b&w telly for some time before we finally upgraded to colour. But I also remember quite a long time of not having a telly at all (friends had one, and my grandparents got one, on which I occasionally watched Playschool, and the test card.) Instead we had a 'wireless' in the sitting room, a brown thing with a brown cloth speaker panel. However, I do think our family was always a fairly late adopter of any technology (the Video 2000 experiment aside) so this is not an entirely typical snapshot of my era. My parents still don't have a DVD player or computer, for example. And we were very late among people we knew in getting a telephone: even when my grandparents finally got one, we still had to go to the public phone-box down the road and put in tuppence to have a brief chat with them ;-)