Back in Time for Christmas

Goldiegirl

Just a heads up that our favourite time travelling family, the Robshaws, are experiencing six decades of Christmas Festivities

BBC2 9pm 14th December - 1940's, 1950's and 1960's

BBC2 9pm 15th December - 1970's, 1980's and 1990's

PasturesNew

I do plan to watch it. It's interesting. But, the reality is that you always get the Xmas of your parents - even 20 years later. My parents were still delivering a 1960s Xmas in 2005.

And everybody here will probably do the same.... you get a place, you do Xmas for the first time and it's YOUR version of Xmas, based on what you like and what's popular at the time..... and over the next 20-30-40 years you'll probably not change it much

So, people weren't having the different Xmases ....many were stuck in the timewarp of their parents' first Xmas.

CherryPie

Was getting a bit peeved there as I loved this programme, but checking my TV planner I couldn't see it?!?!?!

Fear not, if you are north of the border looks like it's on Tue/Thur this week at 9pm.

I'm definitely experiencing my parents Christmas, child of the 70's. But I don't mind, I do love blackforest gateaux for my dessert on Christmas Day.

We still play board games on Christmas night, and we range from Mum @ 66 to my great nephew @ 2. Not sure he's that good at Monopoly yet!!

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Rainy-Days

I have it on pre record just in case the phone rings!

Anyway, I have to tell you all one year one of my very good friends decided to do her own take on Christmas lunch and she cooked a Chinese spread of food! Well, her step-father went ballistic and that is putting it mildly. He stood in the dining room and said "f%^&ing chinese grub... for Christmas - tell me you are having a bloody laugh"? He went bonkers for the rest of the three hours they were there and her mother had to cook him a 'proper' Christmas lunch for Boxing Day!

Every single year without fail this conversation comes up and we all laugh about it wildly! By the way mother and step-father are having their Christmas do in a Warners Hotel this year! :rotfl:

meritaten

I didn't like the mother at first...........but loved her by the end of the series! The woman has a 'deadpan' delivery that many comedy actors would envy. and bless her, she tried so hard!

PasturesNew

I come from country folk, who knew their way round the hedgerows after dark .... I bet they had some form of bird for Xmas dinner ... whether they reared it or went out nicking it. Also, no shortage of veggies, a previous ancestor (who'd died in 1939) in the village had been one of the largest allotment holders in the village and a major part of the allotment society. They all had allotments and good sized gardens and the skills to grow things - and were living alongside the river.

My mum told me "I hate pork" and then said "I used to have to feed the pig in the War, hated doing that"

THIRZAH

One of my mother's wartime memories was having to carry a bucket of pigs innards round to her grandmother's. Her parents kept pigs and were allowed to have a certain number killed for their own use each year. My grandmother would make some into bacon or ham and they would give pork to friends-who would give them pork back when it was their turn to have a pig killed.

meritaten

Well I LOVED that program - But, we had the forties Christmas in the fifties! and in the sixties we had finally moved to our own home - and mum got to do Christmas HER way - which was almost exactly as her parents had done it! and tbh - in the fifties I had piles of presents! what can I say? I was spoilt rotten by loads of doting 'aunties and uncles'! but many of them were 'homemade' - which didn't detract at all from their appeal. I do wish mum had kept them. I remember some vividly and would have loved to have come across them again.
my grandpa worked for an abbatoir - so somehow, some lovely joints or chicken would find their way to nans house on Christmas eve!

Clearing out mums house, I found two Christmas tree decorations from my childhood in the fifties - they are on permanent display in my corner cabinet - and the memories just looking at them bring back!!!!!!!

I cant wait to see the 70s, 80s and 90s! whats the betting Rochelle gets 'Carmen Rollers'? or a 'Hostess Trolley'?

jk0

Hooray! Rochelle's learnt how to use the tin opener!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

jk0 wrote: »

Hooray! Rochelle's learnt how to use the tin opener!

I bet they didn't use that tin of spam for her canopes lol.. There be too many steel splinters in it...

She does my head in lol

meritaten

she uses the tin opener the wrong way round! but, to be fair, unless you know 'how' to use it - its a bu99er! and lethal! it 'frills' the edges of the tin and you can easily cut yourself.

I know how to use it - but, I wouldn't if I had a choice! and I am pretty sure Spam had the 'key' opening at least in the sixties.