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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2017 16:54:43 GMT
All these take me back. I remember the first time sweets came off ration, then went back on again. And waiting for a bus with my mum to go into town to buy half a crowns worth of cod fillet to feed five of us. Fish was cheap then, eh? My favourite was a herring, especially if it contained a soft roe. Bones? Eat a piece of bread and butter, then... Fish is still my favourite. I think fish was cheap Maris, and I think we tended to eat stuff in season much more. It was a generation that was brought up on rationing and we may have been thin, but by and large we were reasonably healthy.
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Post by marispiper on Jul 22, 2017 16:57:02 GMT
Fish was cheap then, eh? My favourite was a herring, especially if it contained a soft roe. Bones? Eat a piece of bread and butter, then... Fish is still my favourite. I think fish was cheap Maris, and I think we tended to eat stuff in season much more. It was a generation that was brought up on rationing and we may have been thin, but by and large we were reasonably healthy. Thin. Those were the days 😄
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2017 17:43:21 GMT
My dad was at sea and I remember him coming home from I have no idea where with a hand of bananas. He had probably done a bit of horse trading for them. We had never seen a banana and apparently he more or less had to fight people off at the railway station!
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Post by marispiper on Jul 27, 2017 19:02:06 GMT
While in Oxford, we visited the Pitt Rivers Museum. I saw loads of small cowrie shells in a cabinet, displayed because they were once used as currency in ancient civilisations. I hadn't seen them for years, but I suddenly remembered when I started school, we used them as counting aids when learning arithmetic. Did any of you use them, or did I go to an odd school?
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Post by marispiper on Jul 27, 2017 19:10:59 GMT
Also in another cabinet, several sets of 'five stones' in exactly this shape, hundreds of years old! More memories! Some people used to call them Gobs, I think.
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Post by mickeymo1 on Aug 21, 2017 7:39:57 GMT
Dripping toast made with the jelly from the bottom of the bowl. Sometimes if we had enough money bovril was spread on the toast first.
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Post by aubrey on Aug 21, 2017 8:37:01 GMT
The smell of certain buses (Hully Buses, in Derbyshire, from Calver to Bakewell), that made me feel sick. I used to think it was from people smoking, but now the smoking has stopped the buses smell the same, some of them.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2017 10:05:56 GMT
The smell of certain buses (Hully Buses, in Derbyshire, from Calver to Bakewell), that made me feel sick. I used to think it was from people smoking, but now the smoking has stopped the buses smell the same, some of them. I think that is the "smell" and fumes from pernicious diesel fumes seeping into buses and coaches. When I was young travelling on them was a nightmare, I was always sick as a dog and so avoided using them. These days these luxury coaches, especially on the Continent, I could travel on all day and every day
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Post by aubrey on Aug 21, 2017 10:21:14 GMT
It was some time in the past month or so - I can't remember where exactly - that I got a smell of one. I've never had it in London, or on most other buses. Just one whiff, and I was 50 years back, miserable and sick, waiting for the journey to end. Maybe something to do with the way the ventilation works as well. Horrible, though. I usually love buses.
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Post by marispiper on Aug 21, 2017 11:21:44 GMT
I used to love these 😄
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Post by hild1066 on Aug 31, 2017 11:52:07 GMT
I can remember,in winter, Mum made dripping toast! Mmm...with a bit of salt too - all that's a no-no now! No Maris, dripping is a completely natural A Grade food with no processing involved. It's fine, as is lard and butter.
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Post by marispiper on Aug 31, 2017 17:02:51 GMT
Mmm...with a bit of salt too - all that's a no-no now! No Maris, dripping is a completely natural A Grade food with no processing involved. It's fine, as is lard and butter. Yes, I have a relative who is a fitness coach for seniors (he's much younger) and he drinks whole milk, eats butter and lard because he says the processing in the alternatives make them UNhealthy choices!
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Post by rondetto on Aug 31, 2017 18:29:24 GMT
My uncle ran a farm and in the school hoildays I spent a lot of time there. I can still remember the smells of the shippins and pig styes. In those days I could take a warm egg off the nest and swallow it in a little milk.
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Post by ARENA on Sept 10, 2017 13:36:03 GMT
Anyone remember dipping your bicycle tyre in a basin of water,to find the leak..........
..........then getting your little repair tin out?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2017 13:40:39 GMT
Yes,although long,long ago. Then it was the inner tube that was tested. Do bicycles still get punctures?
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