General Chat

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*pauses in mid opening of bottle....

all the time-dont you?

Sometimes, if the day ends in a y

Talking today came up about ancestors,

Do you think they had a more stress less life financially than we have today,,,,,,I know they didnt by comparision have our do and demands and times were hard for most,,,but hey wouldnt it be great just to have to worry how you was going to afford to buy a candle,,!!:}}

Oh yes Kay...or if the cows weren't yielding enough milk...or the hens didn't lay enough eggs to make a Christmas cake! Am thinking of my Grandma here, if she felt stressed she would have people over for a party! lol BC XX

But people have a roof worry now,,with mortgage payments they cant make,,~many repossesions are taking place,,


I would have liked you granny BC,,,,,~~~~

I think that over the centuries worries and stresses have been relative (excuse the pun) to the particular time in which you lived.

I have read recently that someone in my family was a barge builder apprentice, then later he was a barge builder, later again he was a general labourer, in a different address from wife and children; so, he no longer had his own business, just as can happen today.

The problem in times past was more often, where can I get the next meal? Life was for most people more hand to mouth, but they still enjoyed a lot of life and seemed to find plesure in smaller things. Jean

I think they had a better life than ours. I think it was more sociable and neighbourly. No one drived to work for hours on end on long smelly motorways. They also knew who their neighbour was not like today when all of us go out to work and some never see who lives up the road or even next door. Children ran about and used their brains and own imagination for playing and not stuck indoors in front of either a computer or TV. This is so-called progress but at what price?

I think we nowadays are too materialistic and we show off that we have this model car or a detached house etc etc.

I am glad that we have progessed with medicine - cannot imagine having to have amputations with no anaesthetic! Or teeth extractions and fillings.

That my own personal opinion. LOL Phew - a bit heavy that pmsl

Tina xx

with the large families they had they just had to get on with it no time to sit and worry
chris x

Hi Kay,


I think life was so much more basic and survival was what mattered to many, but there was a spirit of community more I believe,


My parents married in 1955 and say their life was so much simpler.


Caz x

I think we have far more choices than our ancestors had..............we choose what to wear each day and what to eat, they usually had no choice other than Sunday best or work gear, and whatever they had in the stewpot that day.

Plus we have the state (ok taxpayer) funded NHS Education and the benefit system............we complain about them, but imagine life without them.

Today, in this country, there is no need for anyone to die in rags in an overcrowded hovel as so many of our ancestors did.