Down memory lane......

gairlochgal

Love this thread....

We were relatively hard up and my dad had a delicatessen in Fulham - then very working class and now affluent area of London. He was ahead of his times so didn't make any money out of it. So my 70s hard luck story was having to eat the leftovers from a deli. My mum worked with him and she used to come home on a Friday evening with yoghurt, brie, stilton, olives, salami, coleslaw vinaigrette. Brilliant really but I remember feeling deprived that we didn't get ketchup and chips like our friends at school. My mum was and is a fantastic cook but I think I was brought up on all the stuff with short shelf lives - never a tin in our house as he could always sell them!

chelseabun_3

Wow! What a fab thread, Sunk!

I was born in 68 and lived in a big draughty house with no central heating (most people didn't have it then.) Ice on the insides of the windows in winter! Proper snow falls, sledging on tin trays in the local fields (I grew up in the Cotswolds before they got mega posh! - Actually before they got posh at all, when normal people could still afford to live there and Jeremy Clarkson didn't:eek:)

I had a spacehopper and fell off and damaged my coccyx - but didn't sue anyone!!! (And recovered from it with no mental trauma:rolleyes:)

My best mate and I used to build hideouts in the woods and stay out all day from dawn til dusk (both tomboys!) - we went miles into the woods and never came to any harm at all. When we got bikes we cycled everywhere with no helmets, and again went miles and miles with just fruit for lunch and no phones or money with us!

My parents were older than most of my friends' parents, so I grew up singing Vera Lynn songs and others from the 40s and 50s. They never had a car, but we once went on holiday with our next door neighbours who hired one (I think it was a Hillman!) - our neighbour had never passed a driving test as he learned to drive in WW11, and didn't have to! They still bathed in a tin bath in front of the coal fire, and had an outside loo. We had a bathroom but no hot water, had a wood burning stove in the kitchen which heated the water but dad only lit it weekly for our baths!:rotfl:Everyone only bathed once a week in those days!

Ah, those were the days!:D