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Corn Flakes plastic submarine, both of which still operate. He adds: “I also have the Tetley Tea Folk set of seven fridge magnets. And the Snap, Crackle and Pop figures from Rice Krispies holding musical instruments.”
Reader Julie Coan in Heywood, Lancashire, writes: “My husband Mike remembers collecting wrappers from Old
Jamaica chocolate bars and sending them off to receive a treasure map! He thinks he was about nine, so it would be around 1970. He thought the raisins in the chocolate had real rum in them! You mean they didn’t, Mike? Send your memories of old free product prizes and advertising jingles to siobhan.mcnally@mirror.co.uk extra special surprise, the army of instore Asda community champions reunited six community groups for festive treats. That included the Halo Children’s Foundation, where 50 children and their families enjoyed an ice-skating spectacular.
World Cup rugby star, Jason Robinson, turned up to Rugby Rebels in Telford, Shropshire, with brand new winter kit for the young children and adults with disabilities who haven’t played for a year.
And bearing more gifts in a store in Pendle, Lancs, Asda also organised a cooking class
Friday is fish supper day in our house, but I’m not too keen on getting battered plastic bottles from our chippy – their pickled eggs are bad enough!
In a shock new campaign to stop people buying single-use plastics, water filtration system Virgin Pure has partnered with marine conservation charity,
PADI Aware Foundation, to put us all off our dinner.
They’ve created clever photos of popular fish meals reimagined for 2050 to include actual plastic fished from the sea to hammer home this global blight.
I’ve trained myself not to leave the house without my stainless steel drinking bottle, so I’m doing my bit never to buy another plastic bottle again. I try to only buy cans and glass bottles – so luckily wine and gin are as green as you can get.
My next purge on plastics is reusing all my cleaning product containers at home, using soluble concentrated detergents which can be mixed with tap water.
My friend Alison swears by her bag of soap nuts (£6.99 for 100 washes, Ecozonedirect. com), and I haven’t noticed her being any smellier than usual.
However, I have quite a lot of muddy games kit to wash, so I still use soap powder but buy it in old-fashioned cardboard boxes.
Now all I need to do is get rid of The Dark Lord (my least eco-friendly product), and I’m pretty much carbon neutral…
■ Tell us your eco-friendly tips at siobhan. mcnally@mirror.co.uk.
with famous French chef Jean-Christophe Novelli for families helped by Home-Start East. But it was the special visit by Santa and his elves with sacks of toys and food hampers for the children to take home to put under the tree that made all the parents cry – but in a good way.
More Magical Moments included a special 60th wedding anniversary for a couple in Paisley, Scotland, separated by lockdown, a Second World War veteran get-together in Havant, Hants, and a weekly walking club in Dundee got a trip to Glamis Castle. Hopefully by coach…
■ Do you know a Christmas angel? Email siobhan.mcnally@mirror.co.uk
trip and ice-skating fun