Preparedness for when

mardatha

Yes, he minds his mum had one for him Dawn.

BitterAndTwisted

I heard that rationing of sweeties finally ended in 1954. I think it was one of the last things to go.




"Bread was not rationed until after the war ended"

Hells' bells! I did not know that. There must have been fighting in the streets over that. To go through all of the deprivations of the war and then have the staff of life rationed. Unthinkable. And shocking!

herbily

I was reading a book written just after the war that said paint and wallpaper were still rationed, or just unobtainable, paint only available to the army. So everybody's houses looked a bit dingy, because you couldn't just give everything a new lick of paint.

Not sure that that would worry me, though. It's the thought of 2 oz of cheese a week - that's barely a snack!

mardatha

Swap you my cheese coupons for your sweetie ones herb!

Shropshirelass

I was born in 1947, and remember being sent to the corner shop for bread - I must have been about 5 or 6, seeing the empty shelves behind the counter. When I was older they were filled with sweet jars.


We lived with Grandma (a lot of houses had been bombed so it was usual for families to live together) and she used to butter the loaf before cutting a paper thin slice of bread. She somehow held it on her left hip, and sawed across the top of the loaf towards herself. I never thought why before, it was probably to make sure every one got a fair share.

GreyQueen

Mum can remember Grandma doing this, and also only cutting a half-slice off the loaf at a time. I suppose they were ekeing it out as well as keeping the bread fresher by keeping the half-slice on the loaf.

I can remember being told in my childhood that it was wasteful to have two kinds of protein in one meal and various other things which seem postively prehistoric now.

Like having to share a Mars bar with the kid bruv. Dad had got word of a brilliant wheeze for the division of such items. One child would get to do the cutting and the other would have first pick of the halves.

I can still see the exact point where I'd place the knife down the side of the "a" on the wrapper to achieve a perfect division of the bar to the millimeter........we were never chubby kids but we burned off a lot of calories racketing around trying to kill each other. Particularly if he'd trashed the jointly owned pack of felt pens by pressing down on them too heavily and splaying the fibretips.

Shropshirelass

Yes GQ, come to think of it remember that half slice cut off like a step on the loaf.

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JayneC wrote: »

He will show us how to skin and butcher it too.

Piece of cake, on a rabbit.

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daz378 wrote: »

because of the problem with contactless payments... they are now selling metal wallets

I use one of these.



Currently £3-07, including P&P.

You can also get RFID blocking wallets, and Passport holders.

mardatha

Stanley knife does rabbits best.