Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

My student room was £12 a week in 1985.

That was bl00dy cheap. In 1977 I had a bf who rented a single box room in a tiny terraced house in my village, it was about 6'x8' tops. Room and use of the kitchen (not the living room) - and he paid £15/week.

Obviously he wasn't a student - I never knew any of those .... in fact, he couldn't even read or write (which he managed to hide for many months).

That was just the going rate for a single bedroom on the open market in our village.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

i was at dinner with my girlfriend in med kitchen, 50 - 51 St Martins Lane, London, WC2N 4EA.

i doubt she would be able to corroborate though as i only know this by looking on my toptable.co.uk booking history (we have dinner every wednesday night which enabled me to narrow it down to being at dinner somewhere with her!)

Ah .... the long-suffering gf.... it's the 8th now - have you mentioned anything to her ....? Stuff like: Get out of my face, I'm not having babies, stop trying to trap me, my mother told me about girls like you, I can't BELIEVE you're doing this to me, give me some space, it's me, it's not you ......

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

That was bl00dy cheap. In 1977 I had a bf who rented a single box room in a tiny terraced house in my village, it was about 6'x8' tops. Room and use of the kitchen (not the living room) - and he paid £15/week.

Obviously he wasn't a student - I never knew any of those .... in fact, he couldn't even read or write (which he managed to hide for many months).

That was just the going rate for a single bedroom on the open market in our village.

It was cheap. Sheffield 1985 miner's strike, David Blunkett was council leader, socialist republic of South Yorkshire, rents were cheap but rates were very, very high to fund all the council spending like subsidised bus fares. As students we benefited from the council funding without having to pay rates. Bus fares were from 2p to 10p depending on distance when in other towns they were a minimum of 30p.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ah .... the long-suffering gf.... it's the 8th now - have you mentioned anything to her ....? Stuff like: Get out of my face, I'm not having babies, stop trying to trap me, my mother told me about girls like you, I can't BELIEVE you're doing this to me, give me some space, it's me, it's not you ......

PN, you're so romantic!

SingleSue

silvercar wrote: »

Desperate housewives new series tonight at 10pm on E4.:j

Never watched it!

Sherlock was good though......

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

It was cheap. Sheffield 1985 miner's strike, David Blunkett was council leader, socialist republic of South Yorkshire, rents were cheap but rates were very, very high to fund all the council spending like subsidised bus fares. As students we benefited from the council funding without having to pay rates. Bus fares were from 2p to 10p depending on distance when in other towns they were a minimum of 30p.

I remember the bus fare from my village into town (2-3 miles) was 50p in about 1975.. I know this because tights were also 50p and my pocket money was 50p... so I could afford one pair of tights/week if I walked into town and none if I got the bus. I didn't really bother going into town though - towns are just places for people to buy stuff ... and I had no money.

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ah .... the long-suffering gf.... it's the 8th now - have you mentioned anything to her ....? Stuff like: Get out of my face, I'm not having babies, stop trying to trap me, my mother told me about girls like you, I can't BELIEVE you're doing this to me, give me some space, it's me, it's not you ......

no, i was tempted earlier when she said i couldn't play xbox though.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

PN, you're so romantic!

I was reminded of the "pass the salt"/wife joke:

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

no, i was tempted earlier when she said i couldn't play xbox though.

It's time you Googled the Pass the salt/wife joke.....

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

That was bl00dy cheap. In 1977 I had a bf who rented a single box room in a tiny terraced house in my village, it was about 6'x8' tops. Room and use of the kitchen (not the living room) - and he paid £15/week.

Obviously he wasn't a student - I never knew any of those .... in fact, he couldn't even read or write (which he managed to hide for many months).

That was just the going rate for a single bedroom on the open market in our village.

Never had a student room as I didn't go to uni...but our flat was £180 per month in May 1988.

It was huge though, a massive front room, a walk through dining/2nd bedroom (goodness knows how it could have been described as a bedroom but it was advertised as a 2 bed flat), tiny toilet, massive bathroom and an average sized bedroom but it had a hallway that was as wide and as long as a room...our 8ft long bookcase was dwarfed in just one little alcove of the hallway.

At the time, I was earning £274 a month and hubby a similar amount.

By the time we moved out (2 years later) to move into our mortgaged home, we were still paying £180 a month but I was taking home between 1.5k and 2k a month and hubby around £450, hence the taking out of the mortgage.