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View PalazioVecchio's Profile PalazioVecchio Flag south pole 13 Jul 21 9.26pm Send a Private Message to PalazioVecchio Add PalazioVecchio as a friend


fishermen, in tiny boats with oar & sail. Not having a bulls notion what the weather will be like today.

 


Eze Peasy at Anfield....

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View cryrst's Profile cryrst Flag The garden of England 13 Jul 21 9.48pm Send a Private Message to cryrst Add cryrst as a friend

Originally posted by PalazioVecchio


fishermen, in tiny boats with oar & sail. Not having a bulls notion what the weather will be like today.

Seaweed in the garden.
If its wet it's raining, if its dry it's not. Simple

 

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View kingdowieonthewall's Profile kingdowieonthewall Flag Sussex, ex-Cronx. 13 Jul 21 9.57pm Send a Private Message to kingdowieonthewall Add kingdowieonthewall as a friend

Originally posted by Teddy Eagle


Wasn’t it great?
Counting up Kensitas coupons and Green Shield stamps.
Not answering the door when the man from the Pru or the tally man came round.
Clamping the mincing machine to the kitchen table to grind up left over meat to have with bubble & squeak.
Bread pudding.
The pools man wanting his 22p.

dont forget 'bacon roly poly' (aka clanger)
rough old bacon wrapped in suet & boiled, wrapped in cloth.
afterwards fried several days later
top cheap nosh.

 


Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents?
Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.

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View Palace Old Geezer's Profile Palace Old Geezer Flag Midhurst 13 Jul 21 10.01pm Send a Private Message to Palace Old Geezer Add Palace Old Geezer as a friend

Originally posted by Teddy Eagle


Wasn’t it great?
Counting up Kensitas coupons and Green Shield stamps.
Not answering the door when the man from the Pru or the tally man came round.
Clamping the mincing machine to the kitchen table to grind up left over meatto have with bubble & squeak.
Bread pudding.
The pools man wanting his 22p.

Dad used to smoke Kensitas and I remember him counting his coupons.

As for the mincing machine, I'm almost ashamed to say we still use one, mainly for the shepherds pie made with Sunday leftovers.

 


Dad and I watched games standing on the muddy slope of the Holmesdale Road end. He cheered and I rattled.

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View Teddy Eagle's Profile Teddy Eagle Flag 13 Jul 21 10.11pm Send a Private Message to Teddy Eagle Add Teddy Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by kingdowieonthewall

dont forget 'bacon roly poly' (aka clanger)
rough old bacon wrapped in suet & boiled, wrapped in cloth.
afterwards fried several days later
top cheap nosh.

Oh, yes. I loved suet…steak & kidney pudding, baby’s head, syrup, etc. They were all lovely. Luckily I missed a lot of the cooking time because I was at Saturday morning pictures or out playing football or cricket or something.

 

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View becky's Profile becky Flag over the moon 13 Jul 21 10.16pm Send a Private Message to becky Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add becky as a friend

Toad in the hole - how to make a pound of sausages feed 6 people

Cardigans/jumpers bought at jumble sales for coppers being unpicked, washed and re-wound into balls (often using an upturned dining chair or someone else's arms) and then re-knitted into something else.

Sunday tea-time in silence, listening to the latest episode of 'Journey into Space'

Walking to school thigh deep in snow and coats steaming quietly on the pegs

 


A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers

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View Teddy Eagle's Profile Teddy Eagle Flag 13 Jul 21 10.28pm Send a Private Message to Teddy Eagle Add Teddy Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by becky

Toad in the hole - how to make a pound of sausages feed 6 people

Cardigans/jumpers bought at jumble sales for coppers being unpicked, washed and re-wound into balls (often using an upturned dining chair or someone else's arms) and then re-knitted into something else.

Sunday tea-time in silence, listening to the latest episode of 'Journey into Space'

Walking to school thigh deep in snow and coats steaming quietly on the pegs

Cliff Mitchelmore & Jean Metcalfe on Two-Way Family Favourites (only ever seemed to play the same songs Three Wheels on my Wagon, A Walk in the Black Forest, Alan Sherman Hello Mudda, Sukiyaki, Stranger on the Shore) and Round the Horne, The Navy Lark, Jimmy Clitheroe.

 

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View kingdowieonthewall's Profile kingdowieonthewall Flag Sussex, ex-Cronx. 14 Jul 21 5.32am Send a Private Message to kingdowieonthewall Add kingdowieonthewall as a friend

Originally posted by Teddy Eagle

Cliff Mitchelmore & Jean Metcalfe on Two-Way Family Favourites (only ever seemed to play the same songs Three Wheels on my Wagon, A Walk in the Black Forest, Alan Sherman Hello Mudda, Sukiyaki, Stranger on the Shore) and Round the Horne, The Navy Lark, Jimmy Clitheroe.

sukiyaki - a favourite 'ive had too much to drink ' record.
i was saturday boy in a local menswear store - hello mudda was on without fail every sat. morning

 


Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents?
Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.

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View PalazioVecchio's Profile PalazioVecchio Flag south pole 14 Jul 21 9.00am Send a Private Message to PalazioVecchio Add PalazioVecchio as a friend

Regale us with observations of normal life in the World pre 1900 AD please.

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A major battle happens, like at the Teutoberg Forest, and it takes weeks for the news to filter back to the Capital (if there even is a 'Capital' ).

All this was normal back in the day.

Edited by PalazioVecchio (14 Jul 2021 9.11am)

 


Eze Peasy at Anfield....

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View becky's Profile becky Flag over the moon 14 Jul 21 10.47am Send a Private Message to becky Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add becky as a friend

If you had a cut that became infected, you would probably have died from sepsis.

 


A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers

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View PalazioVecchio's Profile PalazioVecchio Flag south pole 14 Jul 21 11.08am Send a Private Message to PalazioVecchio Add PalazioVecchio as a friend

Originally posted by becky

If you had a cut that became infected, you would probably have died from sepsis.

i heard a rumour that Henry viii died from either sepsis or an STD. Which would make sense considering the large number of Courtesans any King has access to over his life.

certainly very few people got past their 55th birthday. Death everywhere.

Lefty Historian Mary Beard said that the battlefield took out large numbers of men but that childbirth was Women's deadly battlefield. Certainly the statistics today are in stark contrast.

 


Eze Peasy at Anfield....

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View silvertop's Profile silvertop Flag Portishead 14 Jul 21 11.29am Send a Private Message to silvertop Add silvertop as a friend

Sunday: chicken roast dinner

Monday - Friday: soup from Sunday's left-overs (padded out with rice/spuds on alternate days)

Pre 1900, no pre War, you got up early and went to bed late as each domestic/work activity was seriously labour intensive and crushingly time consuming. People died young and exhausted.

Pre refrigerated transport, crops failed, many died.

Most wars through history could have been avoided by acting quickly against a maverick diminutive nutter with a big hat; or by sensible diplomacy. In the good old days a tiny powerful few trained for war and went to war to satisfy their "destiny" and egos. The poor masses were mobilized to their pointless ends by conscription.

And we stunk.

 

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