General Chat

Brenda.....my grandmother used to dab wasp stings with dolly blue when my dad and his cousin (as naughty little boys) spent the summer poking sticks into nests!

I found a wooden darning mushroon at my parents house (I have it of course) but I will not be darning any socks! :-0 However.......I used to enjoy embellishing jumpers by darning motifs on them. It is quite a relaxing pastime if I remember rightly.
So........you lot mentioning darning has given me an idea for something crafty so thanks for that folks :-D

'Course they'll remember dolly blue Brenda! I think they've all given their 'eras away LOL
I used it for my dolls swimming lessons in the kitchen sink. I'd wind up their arms and legs and watch them swim round in circles. They even had swimming caps which I made from cutting the top off balloons. No costumes though
:-0 ........and some arms and legs dropped off.

I was wondering how anyone would manage without a colander. I steam my greens so don't need one for that but couldn't be without it for roots - unless I roast them.

I used a tea cosy for years until bright spark bought us a thermal teapot a few years ago - I seem to recollect that it was a christmas gift......for me! :-0 :-0

I stopped using block soap when the kids were little as it was always a soggy mess on the sink.

I bet no one has a dolly blue!....or a few of you will remember.
Clearing out my mother's flat I found it in a little pot and couldn't resist taking it to keep as a reminder of seeing my Dad's white collars soaking!
I have a lot of those old things mentioned,including toasting fork etc
Question......how does one manage without a colander?Always use one for draining veg ,fruit,rice,etc.

Sue wish Id known when you were over,,,,,,,,I have a box full of your collectables.........mind you maybe would still be in the stocks for carrying dangerous weapons ))))))).

glad I'm not the only --er,,,,,,,,, custodian of relics of the past,,,, :-D :-D :-D :-D.

I got a wooden mushroom but dont use it,along with old tapemeasures, cotton spool holders which are very pretty and collectable.

eeeh d'ya think so Wend ;-).....got lots of old things at home ..Me :-(

Trying to think now - a pair of bellows (they still work) but hang on the fireplace OH tarted them up many years ago. Inlaws had a thatched cottage so quite apart from him I have quite a few old things I have inherited from them! ;-)

Now you're just showing off, Mau :-D

I take mine with salt too and as I belong to Northumberland it figures we've always had a spurtle :-D and btw also a wooden mushroom
and proggy mat poker.... :-D

First prize to Mau! I use them for all sorts of stirring especially sauces.

Used to have a friend's elderly mother stay with us regularly - as a Scot she took her porridge with salt and was most surprised I had a spurtle.

Hand embroidered runners, a bag full of very old lace and embroidered cottons.

A porridge stirrer :-)

Yes, Fountain Pen, bread knives, linen serviettes, grandmas bread board, pastry forks great grandmas Irish table cloth 160 yrs old.

Sue I also have cake forks, fish knives and forks, fish servers, tea strainers (don't drink tea) pickle forks and knive rests, tea caddy. Also have collection of Edwardian night dresses, mens shirts with seperate collars, collar studs, tie presses, cut throat razors, old lace collars, old newspapers and magazines, that's just me, should see the junk OH keeps, pity the children when were gone :-D

Carol

What's a spurtle?

Ooh, Chris, I was scared to mention darning wool AND I've got a mushroom. I do actually darn his socks sometimes :-S

I have two spurtles Chris...I like porridge me :-D

No one has mentioned a spurtle! I have one and it is used regularly. Do you know what it is - don't cheat and google!

Kay?? - as to fish knives for the posh people. When son was about 5 or 6 yrs he discovered in a drawer my mother's wedding present of fish knives and forks - after that even if he had fish fingers he insisted on having a fish knife and fork. A few years ago I gave him the box!

Yes have 1 doz pastry forks - have to describe them always to OH as the little forks! Many of the things mentioned I have them and are still in use. See darning wool mentioned - what about a mushroom - have two, one with handle one without.

Still have my scholarship fountain pen - assume it works and in desk drawer is a boxed bottle of permanent blue Quink Ink. A steel which is in use regularly also.

I collect old cutlery so I have - cake forks, fish knives and forks, cake servers, bread knives and an old toasting fork with a bone handle, pickle fork etc. etc. I also have a couple of very old tea strainers which are used, a teacosy and teapot stand :-D

Don't think anyone has mentioned Pastry-forks or grapefruit spoons - I still use these and linen serviettes occasionally.
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I still have the fountain pen I was given when I passed the scholarship in 1951 but I don't use it now. Haven't checked if it still works, a small parker.

I have and use a bread knife, have somewhere fish knives and forks but don't use them. In fact have a full canteen of cutlery that was my Aunt's with 6 of each bone handled and silver:- fish knives and forks, dinner knives and forks, dessert spoons and forks,tea knives. Then serving spoons (2), sauce ladles (2) carving kniofe and fork and steel and crystal stand to lay them on, oh and sugar tongs.


I do use a colander, in fact I have three and often more than one is in use. Hve cheese knife and butter knife and they come out on occasion.

I use a 51 and 61,,,,they are lovely pens and stand the test of time,