if you don’t want chat on your own query threads that’s fine … just say so … this is not one of your threads so I’m not clear why you’re ‘sifting through the rubbish to find a good answer’?
Generally chatter doesn’t take place until the original question has had several answers.
However general silly chat is sometimes used to defuse a thread when someone is behaving like a WUM (wind up merchant) … think on …
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
FFS. Nobody is forcing anyone to do anything Mind you, there's certainly been plenty of rubbish posted @TheGreenMan ....and it's best ignored.
We had a top loader when I was tiny, and I can still remember my mum using those tongs for lifting clothes out. We were very posh 'cos we had a washing machine ...and a car
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
FFS. Nobody is forcing anyone to do anything Mind you, there's certainly been plenty of rubbish posted @TheGreenMan ....and it's best ignored.
We had a top loader when I was tiny, and I can still remember my mum using those tongs for lifting clothes out. We were very posh 'cos we had a washing machine ...and a car
My gran had a stick rather than tongs.
She called it her “copper stick” and if we were naughty we felt that stick on the backs of our legs.
We were pretty much the “poor family” in a row of five houses (the other four were “private”).
We finally got a landline in 2001. Always had a car but always a really old one.
I’m not complaining. It taught me to work hard for “things” and that those “things” (it turns out) don’t always equate to a happy life.
Most of the damp and freezing homes in our row when I was small were heated with coal. I can clearly remember the grating sound, first thing in the morning, of the grate being cleaned next door. It was hard for women in their 80s to hoik coal into the house. The shared yard was full of coal bunkers. I can remember when we had central heating was put in, about 1979. I'm sure that the innovation of proper central heating has probably added ten years to life expectancy on its own.
Next door had a coal fire until the mid nineties. They had a big coal shed out the back and a lorry came every couple of weeks (they called him the Coke Man which I used to confuse with the Pop Man who brought glass bottles of fizzy drinks).
I think not having heating upstairs made me hardier. Although the damp and mildew probably did nothing good for my lungs. @Fire
@Bede I find the forum has a lot of experienced and lovely people who are happy to share their knowledge - it's a great source of learning for everybody here. It's an evolving communal space. Take time to learn how it works.
I had a mangle in the early 70s,did the washing by hand.had 3 kids before I could afford a automatic washing machine and we rented it. My old man would kill me if I put washing on a radiator. What do gold do if it rains in the summer,you can't put washing out,and the heating isn't on. I did used to use the bottom shelf in the airing cupboard,but now everything is super insolated,it doesn't get warm in there. Don't change sheets very often,I assumed everyone did bedding weekly!
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if you don’t want chat on your own query threads that’s fine … just say so … this is not one of your threads so I’m not clear why you’re ‘sifting through the rubbish to find a good answer’?
However general silly chat is sometimes used to defuse a thread when someone is behaving like a WUM (wind up merchant) … think on …
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Mind you, there's certainly been plenty of rubbish posted @TheGreenMan ....and it's best ignored.
We had a top loader when I was tiny, and I can still remember my mum using those tongs for lifting clothes out.
We were very posh 'cos we had a washing machine ...and a car
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
My gran had a stick rather than tongs.