A special summer treat was in the pub car park. My Dad would have half a pint (he rarely drank), Mum had a Babycham and I got a vimto and a bag of crisps. Heaven!
I had a teacher in primary school who was rather large - when she turned to the blackboard and was reaching up to wipe it off, her skirt rode up at the back and you could see her stockings only came just above her knees and were held up with bits of elastic!!! I wonder if she ever found out why her pupils always sniggered while she was cleaning that blackboard??!
Gawd,i cant remember what i had for dinner,,what was the question again,,,,,,,oooooooh yes bottle green and fluffy,,,the cat left it on the mat,,,new it would come to me....
We always used to go to South Shields for Easter and I remember my mom making my brother wear short trousers so she could get a cheaper train fare for him. He was not happy.
We didn't have chocolate Easter eggs but boiled ones that we used to paint.
I'd forgotten about the egg painting! My mum also used to boil eggs in onion skins after we'd made patterns on them with a candle, they'd come out brown with cream patterns. Why didn't I do this with my son????!
No buses, no shops or anything else open and no papers on GoodFriday, just a quiet day when the seed potatoes were planted. Oh what a peaceful and uncluttered life. Keep well and cheerful.
I always had a new dress and white socks to wear Easter Sunday. The only downside if I wanted an egg I had to collect them from the chickens and they used to peck my legs till I got wise and wore wellies. My grandad always helped me to paint my egg with cochineal.
I love this site it always brings back memories that I had long forgotten. xx
Talking of teachers, every one had a different weapon to scare us with. One woman teacher had a slipper. She was almost as small as the kids, but by god we wouldnt get on the wrong side of her as she could really use that bloomin slipper. After battering you with said slipper she would cheerfully send you to the headmaster for another few whacks of his cane. Guess what though, we only had two naughty boys in our very large class. Makes you think!!
...Sundays _ church in the morning, followed by a delicious roast dinner. Roast beef, yorkshire pudding with fresh veg and new spuds with mint from the garden - Oh bum!, I'm hungry now . Sunday evenings in the winter with a roaring fire and Sing Something Simple on the radio xx
Great heavy thing when I was at Infants school ....
also the little bottles of milk you had to drink before 'playtime', in summer more like yogurt (if you were lucky), in winter with lumps of ice ... the 'milk monitor' bringing them in
Learning to write with a pen, as opposed to pencil meant a wooden rod with a pen nib attached and an ink well full of ink and blotting paper so dipping in the pen produced little fluffy blobs of soggy inky fluff on the pen
Sorry .............. being REALLY boring as well as showing seriously advanced age
An article in todays Daily Mail (sorry) tells the story of a woman who gave up her central heating for a week. She didn't make the week, her poor little luvies were suffering so much from the cold. Gordon Bennet, they wouldn't have lasted five minutes when I was young. A glass of water used to freeze at the side of my bed.
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