Childhood & Sentimental memories

ericlara

dripping butties mmm lol
sugar butties
tripe
jam butties(every day after school)
packet soups(they were mingin..n my wicked stepfather used to make me sit there until i had finished !!)

this_is_it

What a brilliant thread its brought back so many memores.
There was always a bowl of cucumber , onion and vinigar.
My dad making us dripping on toast or sugar butties, my nan having bread and butter with tinned fruit and carnation milk yuk having bread and butter with everything my nan even had it with jelly and fruit:eek:.
Coming home from school for our dinner and having tomatoe soup or spaghtti hoops and watching rainbow and pipkins and having a fudge bar or curly wurly for afters.Mum having to go out once and dad cooking our dinner we had a bowl of soup then bacon, beans, burger and whatever else he could fit in the frying pan all cooked together mum would have had a fit.
Dad making toast over the fire with a toastng fork.
My dad and my granddads gardens full of friut and veg i used to spend hours picking raspberries .Jumble sales on a fridaynight and saterday afternoon and coming home and mum proudly showing dad everything she bought. Bonfire night and mum having a clear out of stuff for dad to burn on the fire and dad putting potatoes on the fire.
The co op closing 1 till 2 everyday shut at 5 and the little shop in the village open on sundays you could buy sweets and cigerates but not any food lol.The bacon counter in the co op with the bacon slicer and at christmas i used to love going to the co op as they would put a table right in the middle and it would be full of christmas, quality sweets , roses , posh chocolates and biscuits bags of nuts i used to go just so i could look at the table.The local pub having a hatch and mum sending me down with a note so i could get her ciggies.Mum having a hamper at christmas which would always have things like oinoin soup and tinned crab which i think always got given the following year to the harvest festival at school lol. My nan every tuesday would buy us a trifle in wax paper or if we were really lucky a cream horn.
My nan made the best ever chips and stews but couldnt bake and we'd spend afternoons trying to bake as my mum was brilliant at baking but would never let me help as i made to much mess ., but my nan didnt mind how much mess i made and once we tryed to make cheese biscuits but tripled the recipe by mistake and we made hundreds nan went mad as the cooker was on all day and we had to give loads away there were so many. In winter my mum always made us ready break to keep us warm and we'd havew a wash in front of the fire.Mum once left my dad to wash the dishes he put the lot in the bin my dad was brilliant but very old fashioned his tea would be n the table for him as soon as he came in from work and the first time he went the co op for mum i'd have been about 15 and we all nearly fainted in shock as he never went shopping.Realising my dad couldnt read or write when i was a teenager it was amazing as when we were little it was aways dad who showed us how to play our new games at christmas and he always put things together furniture etc but he must have just looked at the diagrams he always sat with us and helped with school work but thinking back it was always sums and drawing. my nan couldnt read and when she went the co op to buy jam she always bought cherry pie filling thinking it was jam me and my brother never told her as it so nice lol.At christmas we always had a game each a couple of books like the beano or dandy for my brother and bunty or misty for me but i once caught my mum reading them before she wrapped them lol, and games such as mouse trap which we never worked out how to play and ker plunk. ok i'd better stop now sorry i could keep gong for ever.Just one more thing does anyone remember getting from the ice cream van an ice lolly with either a chocolate teddy or a chocolate frog in the middle of it as i'm starting to believe i must have dreamt it as everyone i ask don't know what i'm on about.

MRSMCAWBER

I really must stop coming on this thread

I remember the icecream shaped like a teddy and covered in chocolate:T
2 ball screwballs, juicy lucy lemonades and cider suckers

In winter mum used to make porridge for brekkie-in the pressure cooker pan:eek: ...and she used to cover the top with sugar to stop a skin forming...when dad had his, i swear you could hear it crunch with the amount of sugar he added...
One day mum came downstairs to find the porridge gone and us all eating fresh baked bread n butter.... dad had given it to the neighbours as the kids "looked so cold n hungry"... mum wasnt impressed:rotfl: ..she had 5 kids to feed too.

Dad eating weetabix with hot water and evaporated milk _pale_ .. i can still smell it now ...eughhhh

I learnt to count with grandma..... playing dondimoes as we called it...well it got us as far as number 6 :rotfl: , then we moved onto cards.... got me to number 10 and finally playing bingo :T it must have worked as we could all read, write and count before we started school

the smell of parafin in the greenhouse...still one of my favourite smells now... always makes me feel warm and safe

school xmas parties..taking your plate, bowl, cup knife and fork with your name on... i remember one year, dad walking me home when he slipped on the ice, fell flat on his back and slipped the full length of the hill holding my plates in the air so he didnt break em:rotfl:

And finally (for now:o )

when i first started school dinners at 5 ( i didnt want to as dad always fetched me home and we watched Emmerdale farm) the first day - my dad got called in to speak to the headmistress as i had declared loudly in the dining room that - "i dont want to stop bloody school dinners, my dad says i dont have to if i dont want to...and i dont bloody want too! he will come an fetch me and anyway he can cook proper bloody food".... (guess who had be listening at the door when mum n dad were talking:p )..... dad couldnt do anything for laughing on the way home as i had quoted him word perfect :rotfl:

smartcat04

Lucie wrote: »

Having Yorkshire pudding as a "starter" before the meal at Sunday lunch at my Nana's house (I think the idea was to fill you up on cheap stuff so you didn't eat as much "expensive" meat)

I'm only 27 and we have always done this. Both parents familes did this as well. I find it really starnge if go out for sunday lunch and they put the pudding on my plate with the rest of the meal. Dad says his family had jam on their yorkshire puddings.

Dazi

Does anyone remember those plastic divers, I think they came free in cornflakes, you filled an empty lemonade bottle (either R whites or corona) and put them in and they went up and down. Kept us amused for hours lol

squiggle37

love this thread.
i remember the pop man ours was Alpine, limeade was my fav, also when we stayed at nans house we had to go down bottom of garden to loo and her garden was big she didnt have a bathroom so she had to strip wash us in the kitchen, she also let us toast bread on her real fire and had to get collect coal from bunker, she was always baking scones, parkin and fruit cake,she also used to cook us proper chips and cut them into squares, us kids were easily pleased back then LOL if it were a special occasion she would make trifles with banana sliced up and mixed into the custard.
Oh she also used to make potted meat, warm potted meat sarnies with cucmber and crusts cut off that was posh to us LOL.
We were allowed to take slippers to wear at school for when we changed out of wellies as we used to get snow that lasted more than a day.
Rag and bone man that came everyweek with his horse and cart we would give him old clothes in exhange for a balloon.
Going to ice cream man with a bowl, also going to sweet shop that was in front living room of old lady house i used to get those little jelly teddies (3 for 1p) white nice, black jacks, fruit salads and flora gums.
We had yorkshire pudding for a starters too, left over meat for sandwiches if we were lucky for sunday tea or jam n bread always tinned fruit and carnation milk for afterwards cant stand the stuff now.
Bedroom was freezing had a candle wic bed spread (think thats what its called) it used to have shape of a bunny on it.

sassy999

This thread is fab. Has brought back loads of memories

- Bread & butter with every meal to fill you up.

- Going out blackberrying every autumn & then mam making a crumble with them when we got home (if there were any left)

- Waterfight with old washing up liquid bottles

- Playing out after school every night with the whole estae. We played Spotlight 123, Blocky, Knocky nine doors, Kick the can & also skippy with a really big rope so everyone could join in

- Making tents in the back garden with a clothes horse and a couple of old blankets

- Germolene bubblies

- Actually calling for friends after school instead of being able to ring them on a mobile. If they werent in we would walk around for hours looking for them

Rain_is_Insane

Eating banana butties for dinner and a huge pan of scouse (stew to normal people) with dumplings in for tea. The scouse then went on to last 3 more days with my mum adding everything in each day that she could find in the cupboard untill on the last day it was more like tatties and gravy.

All the kids on the street getting the paddling pools out and lining them up while the mums sat out gossiping with endless brews. Then just before it started to turn cold all the mums would put a big pan of water on the boil, add buble bath and the water to the paddling pools and bath the lot of us in them !!!!

Mojo's....anyone remember them?
Playing "two balls" up against the wall.
Making paper decorations in front of the fire for the christmas tree.
Oh so many good memories to mention. If i offered mine any of these options they would look at me as if i just offered to give the xbox away to the dog down the road !!!

badkitti

My friend always laughs at me and my "idyllic childhood" when I tell her stories. Wasn't idyllic just wellspentat times

Summer holidays - into town walking most mornings with the wheeler and some days getting a 15p bag of sweets from the shop from a jar of odds and ends. Afernoons walking the dogs, picking weeds "wildflowers" and feeding handfuls of grass to the local donkeys. Keeping stocked up on library books and reading them voraciously.

We went to every jumble saletoo and friends passed on hand me downs for other friend's kids.

I remeber one horrod week when someone stole my mothers shopping trolley and took all our food. We had cheapo fishcake for a week. I hated fishcakes anyway and you won't get me to eat them now.

THIRZAH

We didn't have yorkshire pudding as a starter but sometimes my grandmother would serve a boiled batter pudding with brown sugar as a starter-I don't know why.

I can remember wash day at Grandma's house she used to boil clothes in an electric copper and put them through a wringer. Mum and Grandma used to have an ongoing arguement about whether to use a blue bag in the washing or not-Mum said it was unnecessary as didn't really make the washing any cleaner but Grandma liked her whites to be really white.

Before we got a freezer Mum used to bottle fruit and the top shelf of the pantry was full of jars-for some reason the plums always rose to the top of the jar. She used to salt runner beans too. We never bought vegetables or fruit except for a tin of peaches or apricots for Sunday tea