General Chat

It has just siled with rain here!!! All my washing got soaked and I have had to put it back in to spin.

Hi you lot,
You have beed busy this evening.

Couldn't be bothered to cook tonight, so went for F & C. very good it was too, I still feel blown out.

We always had eggs throughout the war. They were marked with the date and put in the big trays. We sold them to the neighbours at one old penny each. It paid for the mash. We always had plenty of table scraps.

Who rememberers the "PIG SWILL BIN" on the corner of the road. We all had a bucket with a lid that swivelled round, so when closed no flys could get in, when it was full, you took it to the corner of the road and emptied it. The dustmen would also collect the sack of the back gate which held the paper, and the other for any old rages.(NOT in our house) Dad use to mix the coal dust with cement and water, and put it in the old clay flower pots. When dry they would be stored to put on the fire in the winter. They spat cinders all over the carpet, and I have seen Dad pick them up, and throw them back in the fire.Tried it a couple of times, but burnt my fingers !!!! been doing so all my life !!!!

My nan would put "The Slack" on the fire at night to try and keep it in. This was the dust and small bits of coal left in the bottom of the coal bunker. She had a small set of fire irons with a brush dustpan and poker in brass with a little galleon on for the handles and they hung on a stand. Was it called a Companion Set?

Frank ,there was always the Pig Swill Bin at the back of the school kitchen.
I think they did away with Pig Swill when we had Swine Flu.
I am surprised to have any fingers left...even now you are still bashing them up lol.

Glad to see nothing has happened to you today Frank!!! Must be a first mus'nt it??

Nutty Slack ??Has come to mind.I'm not sure what it is.
I have a companion set `Mel.

John Bloom who sold most hoseholds a washing maching on the never never ie HP used to be a parafin man.

He was astute, the factory that built the machines for him only built as many as he had orders for, but eventually everyone wanted one.He became a millionaire

Hi All
YES I am the babe, 55 this September, I was also called the cradle snatcher when I got married as OH has just turned 53 this year

Just looked at the time on the computer , going to go for a shower then of to bed, so I'll say good night to one and all.

Sweet dreams
XXXXXX

Night Night Fiona and All .I am away too now. xx

Me too, the sea air has made me tired
Night night xx

i'M JUST ABOUT TO HAVE DINNER-SUPPER WHAT EVER--

YOUR ALL OF NOW TO BED i WAS JUST TALKING TO MY FRIEND IN new-zealand.

so NIGHT NIGHT ALL XXXX

hello david.

I like cabbage water from my own cabbages and add a little black pepper, it's nice.

Just had a little shrew run across the kitchen floor and it has gone under OH's tools stacked in the corner. Where it has come from I don't know!! Perhaps it came in the back doot while it was open. I tried to put something over it to catch it but it was too quick for me.

They have on BBC The Victorian Phamacy. I have been watching it on Replay.

Played whats the time mr wolf also one potatoe two potatoes three potatoe four do you remember that.Leap frogging over each other. I remember doing that over the
stool in our kitchen and broke my toe. Marbles and Conkers.Marbles was banned in our school later because
fatty mellins had a bag of marbles he dropped them in the
cloakroom and Miss Willetts our maths teacher who taught us sums not maths. Trod on one and went skidding up the
cloakroom floor into the coat pegs and bent her nose slightly which she used to wrinkle up and we called her
bunny rabbit. I remember she gave me a few lashings on
the palm of my hand with her cane for nothing and one day
I called her mean poo face in floods of tears and got sent to stand under the clock which was a punishment in our junior school got so fed up after being left for one hour
I went home My mum when she saw my hand went raging up to the school. Hop scotch when we had chalk was another game. good night off to bed now.have a nice week end Mel.

Morning all,

Ros is giving it the ZZZZZs from 4am. I stuck it till 5.15 but couldn't get back off, so got up. Had a couple of Cups of tea, and thought I would make an early start.
Nice quite morning at the moment. no breeze, but looks cloudy.

David wasn't it John Bloom, who went on to make it big as a Pop group.manager ???? I know his was very big in Washing Machines.

I expect Madam will be on her shopping jaunt this morning. I might do the back lawn, it looks such a mess with all the leaves on it. !!!

Shelia, you certainly remember the old school games. Hop scotch was always difficult, you could never find any slate.!!!
Who played Truth, Dare, Kiss, Promise. it seemed all the rage in the mid 40s.

The teachers were very strick, Old old CO#, belted my twin sister, which sent me into a rage all of 7years old. I kicked and punched her, never touched us again. Don;t mess with the Bedford's. HA HA. When we went to Secondary school, my two elder brothers had prceeded me, so knew what to look for. I never took any stick from the teachers, I would always go to the head master, and possible get it worst. My dad always said"Always go to the top man" if you want a fair hearing. So much for his words of wisdome !!!!

We would love to get on the underground, go to the terminal, stay on the train and return, no cost, and it would take a couple of hours. We would also ride our bikes from Woodford Bridge to the Woolwich ferry, go across and come back through Blackwall tunnel. we wern't even 10 years old. No wonder we drove our Mother grey before her time.

Morning Frank ,Elizabeth and everyone.
I haven't heard of John Bloom washing machines.Mum always had Hoover twin tub.The kitchen always smelled lovely when it was wash day.It was my job to watch the machine filling with water and then turning off the tap when it reached the line.

I love your tales of school Sheila.Miss Willets with the bent nose and mean old poo face lol

I poured first thing,the the sun shone ,and now the clouds are building up again.I don't know what it will be like today.Hannah wants me to go to As** at Corby this morning.So I better get my skates on.
Frank don't go causing yourself any harm while Ros it out.We now you can't be left alone for a moment !!!

The most I will do is the lawn, and the way it's looking I don't think that will be done. so will mooch about, and look at Ebay, and watch Tele:

Morning all,

Elizabeth I am an only child too.

Well the sun is out here and there and I have put the washing back on the line.

OH is tidying up now as there are tools and bench saws all over the place.

Remember one potato etc. and ibble obble black bobble ibble obble out. Dipping!! I wonder if children these days still do things like that. Playing It and hide and seek. Do children still skip with ropes? I have'nt seen any doing it in the streets like we used to.

I lived as a child near the river Roding, Frank knows it. We used to go tiddlering with a jam jar with string round the top and a fishing net made out of a cane with a piece of wire made into a round shape with an old piece of net curtain sown round it and then it was stuck into the end of the cane. Played for hours with this. Sometimes we would see goldfish in the river. always tried hard to catch those and bring them home for the pond in the garden.

Dad being a builder would sometimes come home with a BIG cardboard box from a boileer or something like that. I would play for hours with this making it into a house and drawing flowers on the outside and cutting windows and a door in it. I already had a wendy house dad had built me out of fish boxes that came from Frank Martin's Fish shop in Woodford Briddge. These fish boxes were also used for seed trays by my mum when she sowed the seeds in the springtime.