Over 50's club

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JRitchie Jun 2022 5:44pm, 28 Jun 2022 3,194 posts	0 JRitchie I’m intrigued. What’s the back story behind finding out Mike Batt was Orinoco womble. Sounds like the ops of to an operation Yewtree story.
Velociraptor Jun 2022 6:09pm, 28 Jun 2022 58,639 posts	0 Velociraptor I thought Mike Batt was all the wombles.
cathrobinson Jun 2022 6:18pm, 28 Jun 2022 10,297 posts	0 cathrobinson Amusing that you worked in a pharmacy and hated it, V’rap. That was my first Saturday job - working in a pharmacy. It was a rapid education in which over the counter medicines contained codeine and shouldn’t be sold to certain customers. Certain songs from the 80s can take me right back to that job… I think we had the same albums on repeat all Saturday long.
Velociraptor Jun 2022 6:38pm, 28 Jun 2022 58,640 posts	0 Velociraptor Fellmouse got shuffled from the shop floor at Boots to the pharmacy and loved it, for similar reasons, Cath. The place I worked was a little retail pharmacy and I didn't get to do much more than tidy the shelves and sell talcum powder. One of the other staff warned me that I might get customers wanting to buy Durex and to ask for help if I was embarrassed
3M (aka MarkyMarkMark) Jun 2022 7:23pm, 28 Jun 2022 18,505 posts	0 3M (aka MarkyMarkMark) I spent a week doing work experience in Boots pharmacy. Pretty boring, but I can understand them not trusting a 15 year old with anything too serious! I hadn't realised just how prolific and talented Mike Batt has been... mikebatt.com He certainly voiced the Orinoco puppet... wombles.fandom.com And I'm 99% sure he was in the Orinoco suit in the Wombles band too!
LindsD Jun 2022 8:21pm, 28 Jun 2022 55,379 posts	0 LindsD Um reminded me that I temped in a loo paper factory in Sheffield after I did my MA. It was one of my worst jobs ever.
GlennR Jun 2022 8:34pm, 28 Jun 2022 64,112 posts	0 GlennR I believe it's a question of which human was in which costume on Top of the Pops. I know Chris Spedding was one of them.
Fragile Do Not Bend Jun 2022 8:47pm, 28 Jun 2022 9,872 posts	0 Fragile Do Not Bend My Saturday job was on the newspaper and magazine section of WH Smith, a not very exciting job that involved either being on the till or shelf straightening. I quickly learned how to do subtraction in my head as the tills would add up but not work out change.
royal jelly Jun 2022 4:06am, 29 Jun 2022 3,233 posts	0 royal jelly I did lots of working in pubs and then clubs, I was a trolley dolly on the trains when I lived in Wales, worked in a 1 hour photo place, opticians, sock factory, make up factory!
alpenrose Jun 2022 8:00am, 29 Jun 2022 55,879 posts	0 alpenrose Paper round, babysitting, then mainly chamber-maiding and washing up in hotels until I left school and finally got a full time job in a bank at 17.