General Chat

Wonder how many on here - perhaps not just us oldies - like the nostalgia threads. If I read about ;'climbing the school gates' or 'during the war', I get an internal smile and a nice little glow remembering with affection, people, places and things, which and who are no longer about. Hope you younger ones will forgive me. Happy days

I love reading about the past Harry - you just carry on :-)))))

Happy days they were too Harry :0) Joan

I love them Harry! Not sure if (at 43) I'm old, or young ........ the bit in the middle perhaps! I remember some of what's on the nostalgia threads, but not all, and some is what I've heard from my parents and grandparents. In fact, I think I might like them so much because they remind me of my lovely grandparents. Bev x

Love reading about the past - especially Dee's thread of today about our perception of poverty - a lot of it brings back some memories for me! Stella

Thank you girls. Off golfing now = thinking about when i could hit it thirty yards further. Happy days

I love reading about the past and often I think I would like to have lived through the war as maybe a teenager at that point to see what people went through. Dave

Can't help it really, can we, Harry? All those memories are part of our lives, and although they may not mean much to many, there are enough of us oldies to sit and reminisce together. Poor old souls! Throw another log on the fire and fetch me a blanket, please, someone. LOL CB >|< ;>)))

I'm sitting here remembering our tin bath hanging on a nail outside the back door!! Stella

We had a wash house and granny would wash in big tubs of steaming water,,no poncy rubber gloves them, then rinse and we helped with the mangle.........Hung out on great big washing lines.Always on a Monday. If it was wet it was hung on the pulley in the kitchen and dripped on us.........Happy days and poor old granny>

Now you've got me thinking about the mangle Sandra - granny's stood in the 'scullery'! Nostalgia eh? Stella

What about that washing board thing she scrubbed on and the blue bag to make the whites white................oooooooI am old.........I get miserable now if any of my machines play up...........Makes you grateful us baby boomers...........

I love hearing Grandma's stories and loved hearing about Daddy pulling the window down on the train to school and arriving with a filthy face!! :O)

Back again. Some lovely memories and reflections there. One snippet hit me hard 'always on a monday'. Coming home from school with all that funny smelling washing all around the fire. You knew exactly what was for tea 'potato hash' we called it - the left overs from what we laughingly called the week-end joint. Still don,t like mondays. Happy days

Yes, Harry, I always associate Mondays with wash days, too ! It was the only day I didn't rush home from school - I hated the smell of damp clothes on the overhead rack mixed with the smell of the scouse simmering on the stove. Yuk.

Tuesday was ironing,remember the iron plugged into the light fitting? I even remember granny with two irons on the stove and thick ironing cloths....

Harry John and I were only talking this mornng over breakfast, I started the conversation something like this, I wonder what John Fleetwood 1742 would think if he walked into our house today, the only thing he would just about recognise would be the candles onthe mantle everything else would be totally alien to him, on reflection the whole house if virtually full of items that he would think were perfectly useless and would not have a clue what to do with any of them, it really made us think!! xxhugxx

You talk away Harry. I'm 65/66 I'm of an age that remembers, but also likes to hear older stories. I'm finding myself thinking about my Grandparents lives more and more. I just wish I had asked more instead of relying on Grandads stories. I could have asked different questions. Never mind, he did talk to us , my lovely grandad. Deanna X

Some very good points there folks.(Once got a shock from the iron as described, although that was a more modern memory) thank you all. Happy days

Thank you Margaret. Just throw in one more - red, patchy legs and that wonderful toast done on a long fork. Even the marge tasted better than the butter of today (perhaps). Sandra, re below. you are obviously a young oldie. Turned a couple out of the loft a few weeks ago (my boys are in their 40s) Happy days