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I remember this machine outside our local grocers which sold milk, orange juice and Micky chocolate milkshake yum they were in cartons but not triangles.

My dad and I used to share a jubbly I would suck one side and him the other :-D

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you liked my response on GR wall

Ohhh that Renes

I thought you meant they had started a post about you :-D

Perhaps its time to change the avatar, as my pics are just too nice ;-)

ja...x

or change your name to


Little Miss Muffet
:-D :-D

My mates mom had those orange juice cardboard wax things....my mom wouldnt buy any sort of luxury

.....despite being very well orf :-(

http://www.coolmilk.com/

Needing help on the footy front.............keep yer fingers crossed for The Blades tonight

You can still buy jubbly's and freeze them yourself ...


but..



they are minute in comparison to the size of the ones we used to buy.



I can remember buying broken crisps.......and biscuits from a selection of open boxes.....the broken biscuits were cheaper.



Gins....you can see what started the milk thing off on my FB.



I like milk but it either has to be very cold or very hot. Warm is yucky.



Such a busy day today.......but daughter has now gone to her brother's so peace should reign for a while.


Mind you, tomorrow is going to be a VERY difficult day which I may, possibly, tell you about afterwards.


I shall just say that I have met some very peculiar people in my time.

Whatever it is that you have to face tomorrow Cynths - I DO hope it, and you will be O.K. <3 <3 <3

I remember my mum used to be treated weekly to a packet of 'cadbury's mishapes' - far cheaper that the 'fully formed' ones but the thought was the same!

Dea Xxx

P.S. - I am here if you need to share <3 <3

Dea Xxx

If my memory serves me well when I were a lad orange flavour Jubbly's used to cost four pence (4d) in old money.

On the subject of money I used to get half a crown (2/6) a week pocket money plus 9d per week for delivering groceries from my grandmothers corner shop to two of her customers, Mrs Kennel (3d) and Mrs Newell (6d). I can remember making a case to my dad that if he would give me a 3d rise a week I would have 6d a day to spend.

How much pocket money a week did you lot get?

MY Gawd - you was RICH Jonesey !!!

I had a thre'penny bit and then 6d which eventually raised to a shilling !!!

I was VERY poor !!! :-(

Dea Xxx

OOOhhh - I feel quite 'deprived' now :-(

Dea Xxx

I think I used to get a couple of pennies when I was little

I think it went up to about 1/- by the time I was in my teens, but by then I didn't get it regularly (see below!)



BUT .............. my mum got a Saturday job for me at the ladies dress shop where she worked ........... it was pretty high class, and I was put to work in the Alteration Room. They also made clothes (evening dresses, tailored suits, etc), but I wasn't allowed to work on them


I was 11 years old, ........


................. and got, I think, 5/- for the first couple of years. Then it gradually rose to 10/-, plus any commission after I was put to work on the sales floor when I was about 12.


That was supposed to be my pocket money

BUT

Mum used to snitch it from my hidey hole if I didn't get it into the bank fast enough ........... which was most every week, as the banks closed at 3 pm, but school didn't finish until 4 :-(





off to have my hair cut ........... then I will be able to see as it will be out of my eyes :-D :-D

Good luck tomorrow, Cyn


if you want to talk .......................................



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My 'hair cut' day tomorrow Sylvs !!

Oh the joy !

Dea xxx

I had no idea that I was so well off, it certainly did not feel that way. We were not poor but not rich either.

My father was a roll turner and we lived in a rented 3 up, 2 down end of terrace house with outside "Facilities". My father got his first car in 1950, a 1936 Singer 9 that had belonged to the headmistress of the local infant school. She had garaged it at the outbreak of WW2 and it remained garaged until my father bought it from her. Our first television was purchased in 1954 at a cost of 110 guineas. We had a weeks family holiday each year going to Folkestone staying at the same boarding house for several years running. When my parents eventually tired of Folkestone the venue was changed to Great Yarmouth where once again we stayed in the same boarding house year after year.

Our family lifestyle did not seem that different from that of most of my peers although those who came from larger families probably didn't have a family car.

Any Australian help for this one please

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/living_relatives/thread/1296863?jump=1296863

My life was not that different, Jonesey ......


................ although I think, looking back, that my Mum was not that good a money manager :-D. Dad got paid on Thursday, handed over most of his wage to Mum ..... and she'd have run out by Tuesday or Wednesday. She did like to buy things on the market!


Dad was the foreman in the brass finishing shop for a large, well-known company that built, among other things, those huge cooking cauldrons that used to be in every school kitchen.

The only time he had a car was during the war, from about 1942 to 1945 ......... he was in restrictive employment (and how I now wish I'd asked what he did!).

Mum was a stay at home mother from the day they married in 1928, but had to go out to work when Dad was out of work for about 6 months after the end of the war (there was a mini-depression, just as there was after WW1). That's when she got the part-time job at the dress shop ............ and another place to spend money. And also when Dad had to sell his car.

But we owned our 2 up 2 down, outside toilet, terraced house. We went on holiday every year from 1946, when it became possible to go away to the seaside. The first holiday was at Bispham, and then from 1947 to Scarborough, at first 1 week, then later 2 weeks, always at Wakes week(s) on the last 2 weeks in June .............. and to the same boarding house for most of the time. The one Mum finally settled on was one where you went out in the morning and bought your own food for dinner, and then the landlady cooked it for you.

This continued a tradition that began in at least the mid-1920s .............. I have photos of Mum & Dad with her parents in Scarborough with my baby brother, so must have been 1929/1930, and intimations that this was not the first holiday there. They used to meet up with the same group of people at the same boarding house every year, and the group would do things together ............. I have photos to prove it. Unfortunately, I don't know the names of most people!


But there were odd little things .............. I did not have a hot roast dinner until I went to university at the age of 19. Mum used to buy a roast on Friday, and cook it on Saturday evening. Then we would eat it cold on Sunday ................ the rationale here came from the depression in the '30s and then the rationing during and after WW2. A cold roast can be sliced easier and thinner than a hot one, so the roast goes farther. However, Mum did love hot roast .......... so she spent much of Saturday evening slipping into the kitchen and pulling the crackling or burnt pieces off the outside of the roast while it was still hot :-)


They got a tv after I went to university, so that must have been around 1960 .... and it was a godsend for Dad after Mum died in 1961. We had moved to another house in 1951 ..............a 100+ year old stone built one, with 3 bedrooms, and INDOOR full bathroom. The walls were at least 18" thick!


and like you, my life wasn't that much different than my peers. Most didn't have cars, but most did manage to get a week's holiday away during Wakes week.


The one thing that was different about Oldham was that it was a matriarchal society. I discovered that when I read a sociology paper some time in the 1970s about the wives of the dockers in Liverpool ................ the women most definitely ruled them!!


That's when I realised that was what it had been like for us. Big strong men would come home, and go "yes dear"! If children wanted anything, you persuaded your mother that it was right, and she then told your father that this was going to happen.

Men gave their wage packet to their wives, often unopened, but almost always either complete or with only a small amount taken out as their weekly "pocket money".

It was all very gentle .............. no rolling pins! ............... but it applied at all levels of "society". The wife of the owner of the dress shop ruled her husband just as much as my mum ruled dad, or my friend's grandmother ruled her husband. No decision was made in the house or concerning the family without the wife playing the major role in discussions.

It was a very feminist society before feminism was even thought of!



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Good morning!!


breakfast is served


Fresh fruit salad with vanilla or lemon yoghourt
broiled grapefruit with brown sugar


Porridge with chopped up dates, bananas, and maple syrup (other fruit selections over there >>>> )


Selection of cold cereals


French (eggy) toast, maple syrup, Golden syrup
Caribbean Banana Fritters


Toast (sourdough, rye, white, whole grain, 100% brown, Hovis, gluten free),
hot cinnamon rolls,
croissants,
ciabatta,


bacon & cheese quiche,
mushroom quiche,
cheese and onion tarts,


Full English
stirfry (chicken, or vegetarian),
Chicken Karage (Japanese deep fried chicken pieces)
cheese and tomato pie
Veggie Wrap (Fresh Tomatoes, Basil, Roasted Peppers and Feta Cheese)
cheesy potato patties
chicken or vegetable samosa
Ham, cheese and tomato on toasted bread


home-fried potatoes with garlic and bacon


Potato, dill and cheddar soup
Butternut Squash and Roasted Garlic Soup with Caramelized Vidalia Onions (vegetarian)


cranberry & orange muffins,
rhubarb and strawberry muffins,
morning glory muffins,


Cheese scones,
raisin scones


jams, jellies, Nutella (hazelnut spread)


Tea, coffee, juices


(some extra bacon, turkey sausage or sausage patties, eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms, sliced baby golden beetroot, Maple baked beans, olive oil, in the hidey place to cook up for the very hungry ones!)






enjoy



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we are going away on Thursday overnight until late on Friday (not sure what time we get back.



Please could someone do Friday breakfast

and Saturday light breakfast (for Dea :-D) and Brunch



Thank you




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