Childhood & Sentimental memories

shetitasatic

Did your mum use to hold the bread in her arms and cut it, like my Nan did - looked so dangerous!!

recovering_spendaholic

shetitasatic wrote: »

Did your mum use to hold the bread in her arms and cut it, like my Nan did - looked so dangerous!!

No she used to do it on the breadboard, but I have seen people do it like your Nan did.

churchmouse_3

I remember having dripping and bread flavoured with a little Bovril, for Sunday tea or a cold Yorkshire pudding with treacle.... yummm
Then there was uncut fresh bread when you could pick off the crust on top..
Visiting a great aunt always meant tinned salmon sandwiches.... or tinned York ham..
milk bottles with foil caps .....
"Listen with mother" on the radio..
toast , crumpets or currant teacakes done on a toasting fork in the fire.....
penny chews, broken biscuits sold loose..
washing the sheets in a dolly tub with a reckitts blue bag and then putting them through the mangle...
Outside loo.....
Oranges as a treat in your Christmas stocking.....
and when we had a cold it was always Beechams powders....i loved them and licked the papers after......
Thats DONE IT NOW... i'm going to have to light a fire and make toast..... oooohhhh bliss, with the wind howling outside and rain lashing against the window it's ssssoooo cozy...................

culpepper

Ooh a few more spring to mind.
Mum watching peyton place (American soap)and commenting on Dr Rossie being good looking LOL.She also watched coronation street and crossroads.Crossroads was more upmarket as the people spoke posh.
Having to sit in the pushchair when mum went on a cleaning job(she cleaned for several different ladies during the week). I was there on sufferance as the nursery was closed and I wasn't allowed to get out of the pushchair at that lady's house. Other ladies would be quite entertaining and one german lady let me listen to a phonecall from abroad all in german. We did laugh.I dont suppose the caller did though
Nuns collecting for charity in our street. None of the kids would tell them which house they lived at as it would have shown we were all home alone and they might report our parents.
The camay advert in the early 70's where the male voice-over asks the lady her age..21..22 and she says 'with two children?'
Leslie crowther televised at the childrens hospital every christmas.
Ken Dodd and the diddy men. Rolf Harris and coochie bear(a realistic Koala puppet ).
Tinker and tucker the two little bears(koalas again and Auntie jean who was the presenter).

portsmouthali

Oh yes Crossroads! My Mum hated it (and all other soaps) but my dear old Nan was a huge fan - we weren't allowed to talk when it was on, and even then she used to turn the volume up really loud. I remember the end titles used to be weird, they used fly off the screen at different angles, and my brother and I used to try & guess which direction they were going to go in. I also remember after my grandparents got their first colour TV (probably in the late 70's) they had the colour turned up really bright too, bless them.

Speaking of my Nan, I remember washday in her house very well as she used to have a twintub washing machine, which when it was in use practically took up the whole kitchen! I used to love helping out, and remember getting hooking things out of it with wooden tongs. She was also big on baking and used to make a gorgeous coffee cake with buttercream and apricot jam. I've tried to find a recipe but all the ones I've tried haven't come close to Nan's. Our big treat when we were at Nan's was going to the big Co-op department store nearby (long since demolished) and having sausage, egg & chips with a milkshake in their cafe. Lovely.

I love this thread soooo much!

cathodetube

Olliebeak wrote: »

Thanks cathodetube - my local supermarket is an ASDA and they do have a bakery where they will slice any of their in-store bread for you. But the bread is usually quite crusty - the thin sliced stuff that I'm yearning for is soft-baked like Warburtons or other brand bread.

I do love the bread from the ASDA bakery but I prefer to cut it myself using my own break-knife. Have to keep Mr.Ollie away from a break knife though - he wrecks the loaf EVERY time and then it's only fit for serving with soup!

Hi Olliebeak - I went to a small Waitrose today and they have their own brand THIN sliced brown bread! I bought some to make grilled cheese sandwiches with. Think I also saw THIN sliced white there too.

Any Waitrose stores near you?

Iguana

culpepper wrote: »

Ooh a few more spring to mind.
Mum watching peyton place (American soap)and commenting on Dr Rossie being good looking LOL.She also watched coronation street and crossroads.Crossroads was more upmarket as the people spoke posh.
The camay advert in the early 70's where the male voice-over asks the lady her age..21..22 and she says 'with two children?'
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Ken Dodd and the diddy men. Rolf Harris and coochie bear(a realistic Koala puppet ).
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I rememmber Peyton Place.............. that makes me feel old!!!!!!!

I also remember the first issue of Cosmopolitan! and looking at it enviously wishing I had the guts to buy it! A very glam magazine at the time! I must have been about 14!

I don't remember that Camay advert though!!!!

pounds_and_pensive

I remember the Camay ad. Every time it came on my mum would say 'I'd had all three of you by the time I was 22!'. I also remember the Harmony hairspray ad, with the woman strolling along by the building site, hairdo bouncing up and down like Zebedee on a pogo stick, and the builders asking each other 'Is she... or isn't she?' (!) The Christmas ads are the ones that stick in my mind most though - ze Cointreau couple, daft gadgets from K-Tel and Victor Kyam being 'so impressed, he bought the company'.

I also used to love the old Public Information films - Petunia and her husband ('He's not waving, he's drowning!'), Reginald Molehusband trying to park his car, and - my favourite - the woman peering through her letterbox after being locked out by a burglar ('What IS he doing with those candlesticks?!'). They don't make 'em like that any more

Olliebeak

cathodetube wrote: »

Hi Olliebeak - I went to a small Waitrose today and they have their own brand THIN sliced brown bread! I bought some to make grilled cheese sandwiches with. Think I also saw THIN sliced white there too.

Any Waitrose stores near you?

Unfortunately not, cathodetube! I'm in Huyton, Liverpool - we have ASDA, Lidl, Aldi and 2 Tescos within 2 miles of us. I think that Waitrose is primarily a 'southern' supermarket chain but thanks for the thought anyway :beer: .

cathodetube

Olliebeak wrote: »

Unfortunately not, cathodetube! I'm in Huyton, Liverpool - we have ASDA, Lidl, Aldi and 2 Tescos within 2 miles of us. I think that Waitrose is primarily a 'southern' supermarket chain but thanks for the thought anyway :beer: .

That's too bad. I must say that I hadn't ever noticed it before. It was on a bottom shelf. Think it was only 55p for a large loaf. I made grilled cheese sandwiches with it last night served with tomato soup. The thin slices made the sandwiches taste even better. I don't go to Waitrose a lot. This one is near where I used to lived and it's very cute and tiny. The staff smile and say hello to you. I have a Lidl down the road from me and go there frequently to get their vegetables. I also like their handwashes and laundry soap. I've only been to Liverpool once, to see a friend who lives on the Wirral. She took me to see the Beatles Museum. Want to go back but have been stuck 'down south'.