some great memories guys....our bathroom would have ice on the inside of the windows, i vowed in those days that i would buy a house with central heating...like my best friend. Sunday tea at her house was a novelty to me...they ate "salad and had little baby tomatoes" i had never seen those.
At christmas my grandad used to make me a "snowball" drink with a cherry on a stick, i thought i was very grown up! My nan used to let me make things with pastry. She had a little fold down table with a little drawer in the end, i used to keep my tiny rolling pin in there and shaped pastry cutters, i remember the pastry was usually grey by the time i had finished making my goodies and after baking they were rock hard, think i knocked all the air out!
I remember one day at my nans when i was walking along the top of the garden wall ( i wasn't supposed to do it ) i fell off into their rose bushes and nan had to pick the thorns out of my legs with toilet roll.
My grandad had an old car with red leather seats and in the back seat it had an arm that folded down in the middle, thats where i used to sit!
I well remember the frosty patterns on the inside of the windows, i used to relate them to leaves and ferns.
I was brought up with my two brothers in a but 'n' ben mum and dad slept in a bed in an alcove in the living room while us three boys slept in a double bed in the other room, two at the top and one at the bottom.
Things were tight but we didn't want for a lot and were mostly a happy lot, living in the country we were what I would now call three free range boys .
We considered ourselves posh when in 1958 the farmer modernized the house by building a scullery and bathroom with running water. Hot water still had to be boiled in a copper.
Things couldn't have been that bad!! I've almost reached three score years and ten.
I remember the frosted windows,my mom had a gas fridge,do you remember them? When I was little, it was so cold I got a chill. I couldn't stop sneezing.
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Rb.....I, too, remember the frost on the inside of the windows....Brrr.
One of the bedrooms had a small fireplace. . . if someone was ill, during the winter a fire would be lit and the sick person moved in to that room,
Hi RB1, have you left us on forkers?
When you don't even know who's in the team
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some great memories guys....our bathroom would have ice on the inside of the windows, i vowed in those days that i would buy a house with central heating...like my best friend. Sunday tea at her house was a novelty to me...they ate "salad and had little baby tomatoes" i had never seen those.
At christmas my grandad used to make me a "snowball" drink with a cherry on a stick, i thought i was very grown up! My nan used to let me make things with pastry. She had a little fold down table with a little drawer in the end, i used to keep my tiny rolling pin in there and shaped pastry cutters, i remember the pastry was usually grey by the time i had finished making my goodies and after baking they were rock hard, think i knocked all the air out!
I remember one day at my nans when i was walking along the top of the garden wall ( i wasn't supposed to do it ) i fell off into their rose bushes and nan had to pick the thorns out of my legs with toilet roll.
My grandad had an old car with red leather seats and in the back seat it had an arm that folded down in the middle, thats where i used to sit!
I well remember the frosty patterns on the inside of the windows, i used to relate them to leaves and ferns.
I was brought up with my two brothers in a but 'n' ben mum and dad slept in a bed in an alcove in the living room while us three boys slept in a double bed in the other room, two at the top and one at the bottom.
Things were tight but we didn't want for a lot and were mostly a happy lot, living in the country we were what I would now call three free range boys .
We considered ourselves posh when in 1958 the farmer modernized the house by building a scullery and bathroom with running water. Hot water still had to be boiled in a copper.
Things couldn't have been that bad!! I've almost reached three score years and ten.
Hi M,U I have no doubt that we were toughened up by the conditions, this probably contributes to the fact that we are still around to remember them
I remember the frosted windows,my mom had a gas fridge,do you remember them?
When I was little, it was so cold I got a chill. I couldn't stop sneezing.
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The link worked for me.
The first link works for me. The second one isn't 'live'.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Worked for me, someone who went to my old school had posted, didn't know her but she mentioned a girl in my younger sister's class.