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Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

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  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    vivatifosi wrote: »
    Out of interest ndg, did your Mama grow up here or abroad, or through rationing? I think people who either come from a country where BB dates don't exist, or who have lived through times where food was a precious and treasured commodity, find them at odds to how they have been brought up. My own parents are like that too.

    Here. She grew up in Wallasey (Cheshire), Birkenhead, Skipton, Shrewbury, Buxton, Liverpool and finally near Croydon. Although she was born after the war (1948) she remembered rationing - meat and sugar were rationed for ages after the war. My Dad was born 18 months after her, and he remembers sugar coming off ration, too.

    My OH's grandparents kept a lot of food in their flat in Jerusalem - when we cleared their flat after his grandfather died, we found about 800 tins of food, plus huge quantities of rice, pasta, lentils, dried peas, and so forth.

    His grandparents were both Polish Jews, and never got over near-starvation in the Second World War. His grandmother was liberated from Bergen-Belson, weighing almost nothing, and spent 18 months in hospital recovering from starvation, typhus and TB. She apparently put on serious weight in the 1950s, living in London, and at one point weighed 18 stone. She lost it again, and when I knew her, she was slim and a healthy weight.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    No, people I've mixed with don't have birthday drinks. And then... I have no mates :)

    I don't believe that. You have us lot, for a start!
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • PasturesNew
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    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    I don't believe that. You have us lot, for a start!
    We're talking about real mates .... that you do stuff with .... regularly .... and .... end up getting invited for birthday drinks/parties.
  • Nikkster
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    We're talking about real mates .... that you do stuff with .... regularly .... and .... end up getting invited for birthday drinks/parties.

    I talk to you lot more regularly than I talk to anyone else!

    PN, would you like to come for birthday drinks? There are some going on tonight and tomorrow afternoon :)
  • PasturesNew
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    Nikkster wrote: »
    PN, would you like to come for birthday drinks? There are some going on tonight and tomorrow afternoon :)
    I can't afford it :(
    Got nothing to wear either.....
  • vivatifosi
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    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    His grandparents were both Polish Jews, and never got over near-starvation in the Second World War. His grandmother was liberated from Bergen-Belson, weighing almost nothing, and spent 18 months in hospital recovering from starvation, typhus and TB. She apparently put on serious weight in the 1950s, living in London, and at one point weighed 18 stone. She lost it again, and when I knew her, she was slim and a healthy weight.

    I'm so sorry ndg, the Holocaust is so far from my own family's experience it didn't even enter my frame of reference, though I can completely see why that would shape one's relationship with food. How truly awful.
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  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    vivatifosi wrote: »
    I'm so sorry ndg, the Holocaust is so far from my own family's experience it didn't even enter my frame of reference, though I can completely see why that would shape one's relationship with food. How truly awful.

    No need for any apologies at all! That's not my family, anyway, it's my in-laws.

    My ancestors have lived in England / Wales / Scotland / N Ireland for at least the last 300 or so years.

    OH's have lived just about everywhere in Europe, I think.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    PN, I was wondering - have you tried or thought about using silver Art Clay or Precious Metal Clay for your jewellery?
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • michaels
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    More suited to a sunny bank holiday weekend DW and I are playing some old school RnB to the kids for whom it is all new and fresh - things like this

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl-gEopCI4U

    They don't make them that way anymore.
    I think....
  • Spirit_2
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    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    You've not met my darling Mama. You'd be a beginner in the adventurous with BB dates. "Bacon 3 months out of date? It's fine, it's cured and in a packet anyway."


    I have been meaning to make pea and ham soup, at Mr Ss request. However i only got around to soaking the peas last night...the gammon hock for the stock is from teh lcocal farm shop and has been in the fridge here for a while. When I said to OH that it was 10 days out of date he scoffed...and said almost word for word what your Mama would say.
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