Make do, Mend and Minimise in 2015

elaine241

Hello All

Very little make do and mend today except we are having UFO tea. A few months ago one of my freezers decided to die so a quick rush was made to FIL's spare freezer as there was a lot on HM meat in our freezer.
Ive only just got round to replacing the freezer and reclaiming the stocks! In one of the bags were unidientified frozen objects whose labels/writing had somehow got removed in the move! Tonights offering was discovered to be a very nice lamb hot pot which disappeared quickly. One down about 25 or more to go!! I have said that UFO tea will be on the menu for a while! I am hoping to empty and then list the contents of my 3 freezers before new YS/bargains/home produce makes its way in. I think at least one basket will have to be for UFO'S!
TBH I didnt feel like cooking or doing anything today, my dog a JRT of questionable temperament died after 17 years together :-(. She followed me round like a shadow and I have really missed her, catching myself calling her a couple of times or looking why she wasnt with me. Anyway it was mainly good years as long as you dont count the chicken killing incident so I should be happy we had so long together.
Hopefully back on the make do wagon tomorrow. I sorted all the trousers step mum gave me, 8 pairs for work fitted fine, 6 pairs of jeans also fine, 3 pairs trousers I could practice alterations on and 5 pairs of jeans the remaining 8 pairs of work trousers I am donating to my local CS. I have plenty of work trousers and jeans to last me even if I mess up the alterations on the practice ones!
I am also saving some cotton check shirts that my dad got rid of as I am hoping to make a quilt for one of my boys.
I am definately going to make the nougat bar recipe as bizaarely we have boxes and boxes of out of date biscuits ( still taste fine!) the horses, dogs, hens, ducks, wild birds, cattle and sheep have had their fill and tbh some are sick of them! I have about 50 packets of digestives so will be experimenting with the recipe.

GreyQueen

They will still doing Music and Movement in the early seventies, I was there and hated every minute of pretending to be a tree; would rather have been outside climbing one as per usual. A career in interpretive dance wasn't really on the cards.On reflection, I think Miss X the teacher was either on strong meds or possibly one sandwich short of a picnic.:rotfl:

When I was a young child, my parents didn't have a telly but Grandma did so I sometimes used to watch it there. So as a three year old, my reaction to their bringing a big old wooden-cased Echo wireless home was to ask where the little man was?

Everybody say aaaahhhh! I was a little moppet in a pinafore dress with a shiny bobbed hairdo, so cute.

silvasava

Haha - what happened then GQ
Elaine - sorry to hear about the loss of your pooch. When they've been with us for so long they become family - hugs

jinny

Aaw lots of lovely memories
When did eventually get a telly black and white from
Redefusion there was a dial you turned for the channels only 2 then.
I loved watch with mother muffin the mule (titter) Andy pandy I was terrified of the rag doll looby loo rag tag n bobtail and the biggest spottied dog in the world on the wooden tops
During the day there was just a test card to look at or the schools
Programmes if you were off school poorly.

cheerfulness4

I can't get over a ventriloquist on the radio.:rotfl::rotfl:

I was a 60's baby but I think I did Music and Movement at school, too.

My memories of radio were Sing Something Simple which was mum's favourite and I dreaded when she started joining in. My dad's was Charlie Chester on a Sunday. He always listened to it while he was washing up.

I preferred telly. Watch With Mother, The Woodentops, Bizzy Lizzy, then Morcambe & Wise, Black and White Minstrel Show, Harry Worth and !!!!!! Emery.

I'll have to read the posts again today as I'm having a brain dull day. Everyone says its my age. Well, that's a comfort then. :undecided

jinny

That's sad news about your dear dog Elaine
There's been some sad news on the site today
Angel blessings.

Nargleblast

I remember a programme called The Romper Room, and I sent in a drawing which was shown on the programme. Used to enjoy pretending to ride in cardboard box cars like the children on there, and listening to hear if Miss Roslyn called out my name as she looked to see who she could see in the magic mirror. It was a programme made by Anglia TV so might only have been shown in that area.

cheerfulness4

Posts crossed jinny, forgot all about looby loo. Did you watch The Herbs and Magic Roundabout. I used to know that when the end credits went up it was bedtime so it was double edged for me.


I loved Romper Room and I did the thing with the cars. Ah memories.


Elaine, I too am so sorry about you dog. I took so long to get over losing mine and didn't have him to such an age as yours. I would go to give him tidbits and then realise he wasn't there. They do leave a big hole, don't they?

vhalla1478

The thing was, Cheerfulness, we didn't think it was odd that there was a ventriloquist on the radio. I saw Peter Brough with Archie Andrews onstage as a child. He was a really rubbish ventriloquist; but they were innocent days, even if we do smile at our naivety now.

cheerfulness4

Viv, the innocence of those days is why I think many look back with fondness at them. Although mine are slightly later they were still simple times in our house. Very make do and mend.
I remember us all being in the same room in the evening after dinner either listening to the record player or watching tv, always eating together up the table and having very set routines for bath nights, bedtimes and even what we would eat on certain days, ie, sunday roast followed by salad in eve or 'bread and spread.'
Saturday was always stew in the winter, salad and new pots in the summer followed by a tea of buttered crumpets and malt bread round the tv. The only meal we were allowed to eat in the lounge unless the big table was dragged to the middle of the room if we had guests.


I suddenly realised yesterday that the few toys that I keep here for the Grandkiddies was probably more than we had between us as children back then. We didn't seem to need many really.
We played out in the garden in all weathers and were never bored. Not while we had a swing to ride on and caterpillars and snails to race. Even blue and green bottle flies weren't safe from us as we would catch them to look at. They might be dirty but are so beautiful up close.