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What have you inherited that you still use.

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    What have I inherited that I still use? 

    My mother’s eyes ... 

    apparently 😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    oh yeah. Knees run in our family, as Mum would often say
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    My father's dry sense of humour.  Appreciated by my brother-in-law who is very much on the same wavelength.  Less so by our respective wives who often have blank looks on their faces when we are nearly p'ing ourselves.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Lyn said:
    Sadly no date on my Be-Ro  book.

     The original was apparently 1920s
    http://www.be-ro.co.uk/
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    oh yeah. Knees run in our family, as Mum would often say
    In our family it's noses that run and feet that smell 😉😁
    West Yorkshire
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    JennyJ said:
    Lyn said:
    Sadly no date on my Be-Ro  book.

     The original was apparently 1920s
    http://www.be-ro.co.uk/
    That would be mine then. Thanks for link.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I still have and use the Stork cookery book which I got for free when collecting stuff for my "bottom drawer" back in 1967. 
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Did anyone save the tokens from the Trex and get the book. I remember my mum getting me a doll from the tokens.
      
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Can't say l remember Trex tokens, Lyn. Green shield stamps now..
    I wear my nan's wedding ring which is engraved inside with her and my grandfather's initials and the date. I never knew him, he died when my mum was about 14. I have some of her china that was a wedding present,  the tea cups are so delicate they are practically see through. My mum had a Woman's Weekly cookbook that l used to use when we had cookery lessons at school and were allowed to make our own dishes, sadly l think it was thrown out long ago. We have a lamp table in the dining room that belonged to my husband's great grandmother, now that is a solidly built thing !
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    A friend's father went to Uni with the whole Philby, Burgess McLean crowd and she has a dinner service given to her parents as a wedding present by Kim Philby.
    Devon.
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