'supporting each other through really tough times'

Popperwell

Simple pleasures are best Fuddle. Just as well considering how we are looking to make everything go further.

Popperwell

How old do I feel? I have found a radio station on line that on a Sunday at 7.30pm plays the radio version of the Billy Cotton Band Show which I associate with Sunday lunchtimes on the BBC when we had Two Way Family Favourites followed by a variety of series' like Billy and The Clitheroe Kid and Round The Horne etc...

The latter do get repeated on Radio 4 Extra but I have never heard The Cotton Show since those days...

boultdj

Pop's it's Sunday when Al*i change the super 6, some kind person normal put's up what they are about dinner time on the change over day on the Al*i super 6 thread on the food shopping & groucery board.

Shropshirelass

Wcs - it was 'Chin cough' in Lancashire, through sitting on the cold step. Were also told eating sugar (off a spoon) would give us worms. When I was tiny, I think sugar was scarce, they used to put condensed milk in tea. I wasnt so keenon tea, but condensed milk was nummy!!!

Popperwell

Boultdj, Thanks...I was just going by their website which shows the same items and says something about them staying the same until January 26th...They have been known to get it wrong:p

Shropshirelass, I have some condensed milk in the house but so far found no real use for it:o:)

If any of you like to have some tinned mackerel in your food store with a good long date and have a B&M near by they have an enormous tin for 99p especially compared to the normal size available in most supermrkets for around 69p+

They also have some big jars of 40 sachets of coffee for £2.99 but I manage to get two drinks out of each sachet so that makes each drink only approx 4p a cup/mug and often it has something similar to coffee mate so you can save on adding milk.

I keep forgetting that I still have £40's worth of M&S vouchers Mum never used so one day I can treat myself to some really special food...

GreyQueen

Shropshirelass wrote: »

Wcs - it was 'Chin cough' in Lancashire, through sitting on the cold step. Were also told eating sugar (off a spoon) would give us worms. When I was tiny, I think sugar was scarce, they used to put condensed milk in tea. I wasnt so keenon tea, but condensed milk was nummy!!!

Loving the regional names. All I can recall is adults insisting that you'd get piles if you sat on cold/ damp surfaces.

Have no idea if that is physically possible btw. But outddorsy types, even hardcore survivialist stuff, stesses the importance of not parking your rear directly onto cold damp surfaces as you lose your body heat via conduction and can end up with wet, dirty clothing, which isn't conducive to wellbeing, either.

westcoastscot

Shropshirelass wrote: »

Wcs - it was 'Chin cough' in Lancashire, through sitting on the cold step. Were also told eating sugar (off a spoon) would give us worms. When I was tiny, I think sugar was scarce, they used to put condensed milk in tea. I wasnt so keenon tea, but condensed milk was nummy!!!

mmm - is that pronounced "chin" as of the face? Wonder what the origin of that was then since it refers in Yorkshire to your bum! Yes we had the same with sugar and probably for the same reasons - it never occurred to me at the time that it was ok to eat sugar when dipping rhubarb though

Was never keen on condensed milk but loved, and still do, a golden syrup sandwich

Spluttered my coffee out there GQ - called a spade a spade in your house eh??? My Mum would have killed me if we'd said "piles" - was considered rude!!!!!!!!!!!!

nuttyp

afternoon everyone. Its till cold here, and the sky is pure white. Not sure of we will be getting anymore snow or not yet.

Fuddle - i agree with what you put about when you moved house. We were exactly the same - we even had to leave all the keys at the halifaxx so we left them just before opening. I personally didnt want to have to give them to someone, it felt all wrong. And i felt ashamed.

My post delivered yesterday was a change of contrct details, i have opted out of working sundays so at least i am guarenteed seeing OH on his 1 day off. The down side is they have lowered my hours by a days worth (7). It will make OH much happier, but i am worried about how much money to stand to loose.

We are waiting for someone to come and collect an item sold on said auction site, its some old wheels. They are due anytime but DD has invited us for lunch and wants us to be over there soon. I wish they would at least give a time for collection.

Have got to get organised and start selling properly again. This year i intend to clear the loft and sell the items still in there from when we moved 8 years. There is also a spare room to clear, summerhouse and thats it!! I think in the summer a good few car booties are gonna have to happen.

Well must do something, have only put one load of washing on so far.

Anyone up for a cup of hot chocolate and fresh cookies, just out the oven????

stay safe everyone x

Own_My_Own

This thread moves too quickly for me to keep up.:(

Well we finally have snow. Don't think I will be going into work tomorrow, it is only a short day, and the journey back and forth will probably be longer than my time there. I could do with the money, but the amount for petrol I will need to use, will probably wipe most of it out anyway.:(

Ds likes feeling cold(asd) and always has his window open, so as Ds has gone to a friends down the road, we have come to the compromise. He will shut his window if I turn the heating off. I am pottering about, so am not feeling too cold yet. At least I am not constantly getting a cold breeze going straight through me.
Even with his door shut, I am sure it goes under the door, down the stairs and finds me.
We have an electric fire in the lounge, so I can put that on for a while I want that room warmer.

I am coping Ok with the no-carb diet. I really fancied a biscuit last night with my cup of coffee, but the feeling past after a while.

I watched the show about the winter of 63. Amazing how we used to be able to keep trains running in such adverse weather, but now days we can't cope with leaves on the line. Oh what progress we have made.

Hope everyone is well and warm.
OMO xx

GreyQueen

WCS, it wasn't our house, it was everywhere. But we were quite genteel despite being working class and none of us kids knew what piles were, and adults wouldn't explain! Heaven knows what we thought, other than it was some terrible fate best avoided by sitting on the hem of your navy blue, orange lined parka and hoping for the best.

Oh, the lost innocence. I can remember watching the news once with the family and "arson" was mentioned. I had no idea it meant deliberate firestarting so assumed that because it sounded like a taboo word in our household, it must be rude, too..........:rotfl:Too embarrassed to ask the parents.

Thank goodness for books, or I'd've been as green as grass. I think I was in my thirties before I heard a parent swear.