Excel Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 8 minutes ago, xylophone said: Especially when it was cold! Used to try and get them warm up against the fence behind the youth club though ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post CharlieH Posted June 9, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 9, 2021 6 minutes ago, lodstewart said: yes me too, a main source of kids income that was and the black and white minstrel show on tv "Love thy neighbour" and no one bothered about it, just enjoyed the comedy ! https://youtu.be/B1dakp4FT0w 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post xylophone Posted June 9, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 9, 2021 (edited) 9 hours ago, fangless said: Or if you were late back from the pub "your dinner is in the dog"! As a kid, I used to try and miss all of my mums meals (weekends only) because she was an absolutely dreadful cook, and nothing tasted of anything – – cabbage boiled until it was white, a small rolled up piece of fatty meat tied with string, cooked until it was almost inedible, toast which was burnt almost every time, then scraped, and the gravy which consisted of the greenish coloured water from the cabbage pan, mixed with the fat from the fatty meat, and that was gravy – – watery fat in fact. I was happy when teatime came round because I could have some bread and jam, and that along with perhaps burnt toast in the morning, complemented by some apples, plums, blackberries and whatever that were scrumped from nearby gardens, orchards or hedgerows, and my saviour was, believe it or not, school dinners, which I thought were heaven sent. Edited June 9, 2021 by xylophone 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieH Posted June 9, 2021 Author Share Posted June 9, 2021 1 minute ago, xylophone said: As a kid, I used to try and miss all of my mums meals (weekends only) because she was an absolutely dreadful cook, and nothing tasted of anything – – cabbage boiled until it was white, a small rolled up piece of fatty meat tied with string, cooked until it was almost inedible, toast which was burnt almost every time, then scraped, and the gravy which consisted of the greenish coloured water from the cabbage pan, mixed with the fat from the fatty meat, and that was gravy – – watery fat in fact. I was happy when teatime came round because I could have some bread and jam, and that along with perhaps burnt toast in the morning, complemented by some apples, plums and whatever that were scrumped from nearby gardens and orchards, and my saviour was, believe it or not, school dinners, which I thought were heaven sent. Choc pudding and pink Custard ? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billythehat Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 22 minutes ago, xylophone said: At the age of seven, along with my sister who was 11 at the time, we used to take a wooden two wheeled handcart from the house and push it into the town centre where there was a coke yard. There it was filled to the brim, and sister and I used to push it back home, which was one hell of a struggle because it was almost all up hill, and it would have been about 3 km each way if not more. Looking back on it, it's a wonder we were able to manage it, being so young, and this was almost always in the winter, and often there was snow around. But the fact that it kept our Aga stove going was reward enough, as well as the heat that it gave out which warmed the house. Eeeeeee, lad, only 3km each way? You were lucky; our coal yard was in the next county and a 10-mile hike with nowt on our feet but old lino scraps tied on with (if grandma hadn’t eaten them) dead cat gut. We’d start out 2am in the morning to collect the coal which was packed in 56-pound plastic bags which were always split and wet and drag them back home in the dark and cold rain. No barrow for us – that was for the soft kids. We’d arrive back home looking like we’d just finished a 20-hour shift down t’pit. But we were happy – kids today don’t know they’re born, aye. ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampant Rabbit Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 2 minutes ago, Excel said: Used to try and get them warm up against the fence behind the youth club though ???? No bleeedin silicone either, it was the real deal! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asquith Production Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 9 minutes ago, Rampant Rabbit said: Holidays to Wales....it alway's rained! First holiday was Clarach bay round the corner from Aberystwyth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampant Rabbit Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 (edited) 1 minute ago, Asquith Production said: First holiday was Clarach bay round the corner from Aberystwyth Unlce had an old cottage by Ponterwyd remote as hell, often went itno aberystwyth but Clarach bay was for the commoners and their mobile homes things, further on Borth beach great, looked out for the fossilised tree stumps at low tide Edited June 9, 2021 by Rampant Rabbit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampant Rabbit Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 3 minutes ago, billythehat said: Eeeeeee, lad, only 3km each way? You were lucky; our coal yard was in the next county and a 10-mile hike with nowt on our feet but old lino scraps tied on with (if grandma hadn’t eaten them) dead cat gut. We’d start out 2am in the morning to collect the coal which was packed in 56-pound plastic bags which were always split and wet and drag them back home in the dark and cold rain. No barrow for us – that was for the soft kids. We’d arrive back home looking like we’d just finished a 20-hour shift down t’pit. But we were happy – kids today don’t know they’re born, aye. ???? Too much MP for you m'lad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinneil Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 33 minutes ago, Rampant Rabbit said: Get back to Pogles Wood ya geriatric. Bit of a disgusting comment, just think 1 day if you are fortunate you will be a geriatric. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampant Rabbit Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 5 minutes ago, CharlieH said: Choc pudding and pink Custard ? Treacle Tart the days when Mum could cook anything, bread and butter pudding, home made marmalade boiling away for what seemed like days, steam pudding not the krap out of a tin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampant Rabbit Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Just now, colinneil said: Bit of a disgusting comment, just think 1 day if you are fortunate you will be a geriatric. Blimey Colin its a joke I m almost the same age as you, just woken up or something 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwest5829 Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Sorry charlieH. You lost me very quickly as I experienced most in the 1960s (were you referring to the 1860s?). OK, Yank growing up on US East Coast ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excel Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 3 minutes ago, Rampant Rabbit said: Unlce had an old cottage by Ponterwyd remote as hell, often went itno aberystwyth but Clarach bay was for the commoners and their mobile homes things, further on Borth beach great, looked out for the fossilised tree stumps at low tide "looked out for the fossilised tree stumps at low tide" Strange place to have the Womans Institute !! Do they exist these days selling homemade jam and cakes in the Church Halls ? or are they all Mosques now and just sell fruit wine ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mario666 Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 11 minutes ago, lodstewart said: I grew up in Bellingham south London, and I remember word going around our street, that there was a Black man down at the railway station, and we all went to look at him and we were all facinated and talked to him a lot. in fact my Gran said touch him for good luck ha ha. Did they think he was a "Chimney Sweep"? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rampant Rabbit Posted June 9, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 9, 2021 Just now, wwest5829 said: Sorry charlieH. You lost me very quickly as I experienced most in the 1960s (were you referring to the 1860s?). OK, Yank growing up on US East Coast ... This appears to be a very specific Brit thread, most wont understand a lot of this. Made to make yer mouth water...see OPAL FRUITS 2 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post xylophone Posted June 9, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 9, 2021 3 minutes ago, CharlieH said: Choc pudding and pink Custard ? Almost Charlie, because poor old mum did have a knack of being able to ruin just about everything, and she made the cream filling for a Mary Baker sponge out of Dettol, diluted with water and mixed with the ingredients (the Dettol was left in a bowl on the sink, so she used it, and she had no sense of smell so had no idea what it was) and it tasted awful. She also managed to fry an egg in washing-up liquid, and when I complained about the soapy taste she said it must have been something on the fork I was using, until I found that she had been "nicking" washing-up liquid from the place she worked and bringing it home in plain containers, and it looked just like cooking oil, so she used it to fry my egg. The last one which was quite dangerous was when she placed a Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie, which was in a flat circular tin, in the oven, and forgot to remove the lid. Consequently when she took it out and put it on the draining board, I thought there was something terribly wrong with it but I wasn't quite sure what it was, and just as she was plunging the old-fashioned tin opener into it, I realised, but it was too late and the whole thing exploded, whizzing round a bit like a catherine wheel as the hot contents squirted out all over the kitchen. Luckily we weren't badly burnt by it, but it took a long time to get the bits of meat and gravy off the ceiling! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampant Rabbit Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 1 minute ago, Rampant Rabbit said: This appears to be a very specific Brit thread, most wont understand a lot of this. Made to make yer mouth water...see OPAL FRUITS I'm an advertisers dream client, and all because..the lady loves milk tray 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampant Rabbit Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 1 minute ago, xylophone said: Almost Charlie, because poor old mum did have a knack of being able to ruin just about everything, and she made the cream filling for a Mary Baker sponge out of Dettol, diluted with water and mixed with the ingredients (the Dettol was left in a bowl on the sink, so she used it, and she had no sense of smell so had no idea what it was) and it tasted awful. She also managed to fry an egg in washing-up liquid, and when I complained about the soapy taste she said it must have been something on the fork I was using, until I found that she had been "nicking" washing-up liquid from the place she worked and bringing it home in plain containers, and it looked just like cooking oil, so she used it to fry my egg. The last one which was quite dangerous was when she placed a Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie, which was in a flat circular tin, in the oven, and forgot to remove the lid. Consequently when she took it out and put it on the draining board, I thought there was something terribly wrong with it but I wasn't quite sure what it was, and just as she was plunging the old-fashioned tin opener into it, I realised, but it was too late and the whole thing exploded, whizzing round a bit like a catherine wheel as the hot contents squirted out all over the kitchen. Luckily we weren't badly burnt by it, but it took a long time to get the bits of meat and gravy off the ceiling! Reminds me of my Mothers exploding "pressure cooker" remember them ?all the rage in the early 70's 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampant Rabbit Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 5 minutes ago, Excel said: "looked out for the fossilised tree stumps at low tide" Strange place to have the Womans Institute !! Do they exist these days selling homemade jam and cakes in the Church Halls ? or are they all Mosques now and just sell fruit wine ? They do exist see here 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lodstewart Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 2 minutes ago, Rampant Rabbit said: This appears to be a very specific Brit thread, most wont understand a lot of this. Made to make yer mouth water...see OPAL FRUITS and Murrey Mints...the too good to hurry mints anyone remember going to Saturday morning flicks at the local cinema ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampant Rabbit Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 (edited) 1 minute ago, lodstewart said: and Murrey Mints...the too good to hurry mints anyone remember going to Saturday morning flicks at the local cinema ? Cheaper in the mornings so YES Always had red carpet with white lipping on them up the stiars. Edited June 9, 2021 by Rampant Rabbit 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampant Rabbit Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Polystyrene ceiling tiles...................burn well! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excel Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 2 minutes ago, Rampant Rabbit said: This appears to be a very specific Brit thread, most wont understand a lot of this. Made to make yer mouth water...see OPAL FRUITS Who remembers this, 1959 ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjBHUQEiTPw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xylophone Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 7 minutes ago, Rampant Rabbit said: Reminds me of my Mothers exploding "pressure cooker" remember them ?all the rage in the early 70's No never had one as I was catering for myself and working overseas some of those years, and poor old mum wouldn't have known what to do with one anyway!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excel Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 10 minutes ago, Rampant Rabbit said: I'm an advertisers dream client, and all because..the lady loves milk tray A suave dresser you are were !! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampant Rabbit Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Just now, xylophone said: No never had one as I was catering for myself and working overseas some of those years, and poor old mum wouldn't have known what to do with one anyway!! Ours smacked a hole in the kitchen ceiling polystyrene tiles I remember. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xylophone Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 1 minute ago, Excel said: Who remembers this, 1959 ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjBHUQEiTPw Yes and the "strap" line was: "you're never alone with a Strand". 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampant Rabbit Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Just now, Excel said: A suave dresser you are were !! How about the educational ads...............Dave swims like a fish......... a learn to swim govt campaign where the guy got all the gals as he swam like a fish 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post lodstewart Posted June 9, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 9, 2021 2 minutes ago, Rampant Rabbit said: Cheaper in the mornings so YES Always had red carpet with white lipping on them up the stiars. just for kids in London, can't remember how much , but I think sixpence (in real money) ours was the ABC cinema in Catford and we were known as the ABC minors ha 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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