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duchy

suki1964 wrote: »

I grew up just off Broomwood road between 68 and 85. We had a wee council house My sister sent me a link to a property page last year and the houses in my old road fetch over a million nowadays :eek:

To think back in the 70's most the houses had been turned into flats, everyone shopped from Northcote road market and most kids new clothes were from the church jumble sales

I don't know if they were happier times, just uncomplicated. We all had the same - sod all, and whatever was had was shared

My aunts lived in Honeywell Road just up from Broomwood-and I found the houses up for a million and a half recently. The Northcote Road has changed beyond all recognition. I remember queuing for sugar in the Liptons during the sugar shortage and buying American teen magazines in the newsagents on the Northcote Road (for some reason I could never get them at my local newsagents in Purley who never had anything more than Jackie , Fab208 and the odd poster magazine).

duchy

maman wrote: »

I think if I was her I'd be ashamed to face my friends after appearing on TV looking so incompetent. Maybe it's a bit of inverted snobbery as her DH does all the cooking in RL so perhaps she feels it's beneath her and/or clever not to be able to do it.


I'm more or less a self taught cook. Although cookery was taught in my school I did very little due to my options. The kitchen at home was my mother's domain. So basically I've just followed recipes in cookery books and magazines and now online. Cookery is hardly rocket science but you have to want to try and stop feeling so hard done by.

I'm self taught too- mainly because our kitchen was so darn tiny there wasn't room to watch and learn.

As for Rochelle......if she feels like that-why the heck did she apply to be on the show ?

moneyistooshorttomention

duchy wrote: »

As for Rochelle......if she feels like that-why the heck did she apply to be on the show ?

:money: presumably??

I'm still assuming people are paid to appear on these shows (either in terms of money now or possible extra chances for subsequent work later??) or else why would they do it?

Surely no-one wants "to be on the telly" just for the sake of it any more and is prepared to give the programme-makers a programme for nothing?

Butterfly_Brain

Redicut rug, now there is a blast from the past! Mind you I think that they are still going but very expensive now. We were poor so it was rag rugs in our house:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I remember getting a touch tapestry set and it was a horse's head, I loved that and I also loved Plasticraft the art of putting an object in a mould and pouring over some sort of resin. I would love to do both again.

thriftwizard

Butterfly Brain, did you ever have a go at enamelling on copper? That was my absolute favourite craft back then - my brother's fiancee had a little kiln-thingy & we made hundreds of lovely pendants, brooches & bracelets & sold the lot on the local market! We had a Plasticraft set too and made loads of paperweights to give to the assorted Aunts at Christmas.

Back then, I always thought I'd love to do stained glass, but never had the chance, unlike my other hit-list craft, spinning, which I did have a go at, but the legs fell off the wheel (a Haldane Hebridean, for those in the know! Famous for shedding legs) so I didn't touch a wheel again for 30-odd years. However I did have a go at stained glass with a friend before Christmas. I enjoyed the day, and am proud of what I made, but didn't enjoy the process at all - too many fumes, and a totally non-co-operative material! But when you remember the fumes from the Plasticraft set... heaven only knows what got into our lungs!

suki1964

duchy wrote: »

My aunts lived in Honeywell Road just up from Broomwood-and I found the houses up for a million and a half recently. The Northcote Road has changed beyond all recognition. I remember queuing for sugar in the Liptons during the sugar shortage and buying American teen magazines in the newsagents on the Northcote Road (for some reason I could never get them at my local newsagents in Purley who never had anything more than Jackie , Fab208 and the odd poster magazine).

I used to go to Honeywell school

I'm flying over to London in a couple of weeks, if I get time I think I will take a dander over and take a walk down memory lane


For those mocking Rochelle for her looks, shame on you.

It was Brandon who applied to be on the show. Rochelle agreed as she runs remminescence therapy groups for older people and thought it would be useful to get more of an understanding of their lives. She was never a stay at home mum, she was the wage earner and Brandon took on the house husband role

If you listen, she's not "moaning ". She's articulating how she is feeling about the changes the decades are bringing to her role as housewife. I'm sure what she is saying is what a lot of women were actually thinking It's not for nothing there was a huge increase in " mothers little helpers" being prescribed during the 60's and 70's. It must have been very demoralising finding your role in life being slowly eroded, and having nothing to fill it with, having no experience in the workforce. I found it very sad hearing her say that no longer did she feel needed and that now no one sat at the table for meals she was no longer even listened too

I don't think this a programme about cooking skills, more a social history and how the food industry has helped shape the family way of life

Butterfly_Brain

Thrift wizard we had a family friend who had a kiln and made enamel jewellery commercially, but I never had a go.

I did however have a go at pottery and the results were a lot of wonky pots :rotfl:never could get the hang of it.

Kantankrus_Mare

suki1964 wrote: »

I used to go to Honeywell school

I'm flying over to London in a couple of weeks, if I get time I think I will take a dander over and take a walk down memory lane


For those mocking Rochelle for her looks, shame on you.

It was Brandon who applied to be on the show. Rochelle agreed as she runs remminescence therapy groups for older people and thought it would be useful to get more of an understanding of their lives. She was never a stay at home mum, she was the wage earner and Brandon took on the house husband role

If you listen, she's not "moaning ". She's articulating how she is feeling about the changes the decades are bringing to her role as housewife. I'm sure what she is saying is what a lot of women were actually thinking It's not for nothing there was a huge increase in " mothers little helpers" being prescribed during the 60's and 70's. It must have been very demoralising finding your role in life being slowly eroded, and having nothing to fill it with, having no experience in the workforce. I found it very sad hearing her say that no longer did she feel needed and that now no one sat at the table for meals she was no longer even listened too

I don't think this a programme about cooking skills, more a social history and how the food industry has helped shape the family way of life

I dont see her comments as constant moaning either. I think she is just relating to the viewers that life for women in the past was monotonous and a drudge.

I quite enjoy cooking and baking but have to be in the mood and think the novelty would soon wear off being stuck in the kitchen all day every day with no time to persue other interests.

nannygladys

Hi there I was bringing my two dds up from 1974 onwards and can relate to the kitchen and horse brasses. I can also remember the vesta meals whilst I was doing my nurses training and thinking it was the height if sophistication!!!

I had to learn to cook and had two deep freezers as we lived in the country and used to go to the farm and buy half a sheep and go halves on a hind quarter of beef with some friends, we used to save up for them and pay ourselves the cost when we had some out so we could afford the next lot. I can also remember the electricity cuts and potato shortage and started out eating pasta and finding out you couldn't eat it covered in gravy!!!!!!

I don't know if I would like to go back to that era as for me it was hard work, two kids under 18 months, cloth nappies, husband away a lot (in the RAF), but I do have memories of good friends and dinner parties!! that seemed to be the in-thing when you had young children and no baby sitters!!

Nannyg

honeythewitch

Lizling wrote: »

I think you're all being very harsh on her cooking. If I had a camera crew crammed into my kitchen, filming everything I did, making me cook unfamiliar foods and editing it right down to just the 'entertaining' bits, I'd look pretty incompetent too!

I don't mind her being incompetent.(or moaning) We cant all be good at everything, after all. But its a puzzle how anyone could get to that age and to never once see chips cooking so that you know that the oil/fat has to actually cover them.