An afternoon spent time travelling. I had filled a box of cards to post to the GRW shop in Newcastle Emlyn. Popped into the Post office this afternoon to send it off - and hey presto, it was closed. Bear in mind also that many of the South Wales post offices are currently facing closure, and this is how they go about building their customer base. In my naive way, I had assumed that half day closing was one of those quaintbut long past features of my childhood many years ago. Other such things would include, cue nostalgia :-

tinned fruit with evaporated milk
home visits from a cheery GP who knew the family
Startrite shoes
Spangles (the sweets)
candy cigarettes
Being allowed to go to the shop and buy cigarettes for my parents (seems unthinkable now)
Off licences attached to pubs
Black and white television
Double decker buses with a conductor
Smoking on buses (well, smoking everywhere, come to that)
People covering the back seat of cars with acres of plastic sheeting to keep it nice
Morris Marinas, Austin Maxis and the early Ford Escorts
The concept of going for a run in the car (esp on Sunday afternoons)
Dog licences
Puffin books with dragons on the spine to show how easy to read
Ladybird books
Blue Peter advent crowns before Christmas
Walking to school
The Tufty Club
NHS dentists
Teachers who regarded it as reasonable that you would learn to spell and count
Shops that would cover their windows in a kind of orangey film to protect their wares from sunshine
Lucozade being something you only drank if you were ill as a treat
Liver salts (what on earth did they actually do?)
Club biscuits

Other suggestions welcome....