It's getting tough out there. Feeling the pinch?

shandyclover

All this talk about jeans...

I was going through some old photos with my mum. There's a picture of my mum, dad and I as a toddler in the late 60's early 70's in a café in Costa del Sol, when it was apparently just a small fishing village. My dad is wearing an amazing pair of jeans, Mum said the locals called him the 'man with the flower pantaloons'. Every time my dad tore his favourite jeans she would repair them and embroider something over the repair. They ended up covered in random embroidery but he was very proud of them.

annieb64

I went to a "fashion on the ration" exhibition at I WM North a few years ago. As part of the exhibition they showed various newsreels of streets in London etc. It was amazing how smartly dressed everyone was-no jeans, jogging pants etc. Everyone seemed to have made an effort to look neat and tidy.

Florenceem

annieb64 - I went to that exhibition.
I am trying to tidy up my craft room - it is such a mess. Youngest Dgd needs a sheep costume for Monday! I have a throw that is perfect for a sheep outfit - have to draft a pattern when I get her measurements via text. Why couldn't she have been an angel - I have that costume upstairs from another Dgd's nativity.

slm6002

Florenceem said: been an angel - I have that costume upstairs from another Dgd's nativity.

Lol that is normally the way it goes.  With the 3 children doing at least 2 nativity shows each when in the younger years we had lots of costumes and not 1 was the same - Son was a palm tree one year!  When the last one moved on to the higher years of school I donated all (apart from the palm tree) to the school for future use so some of the less fortunate children or those with forgetful parents would be spared having nothing suitable to wear

London_1

I think my eldest takes after her Father in the 'No Jeans rule',its her birthday today and she is 55 and even as a teenager she didn't like or wore jeans . She still doesn't wear them ,unlike her ancient Mum who owns several pairs, even a pair my youngest bought me last year 'skinny leg ' ones and I am looking 80 up the rear  but I've never been one for formality, and I wear what I am confortable in and if its jeans, a tee shirt and trainers then that's what I shall wear ,definitely not the 'twinset and tweeds' type at all  

Re heating the body not the house.
 I was washing up tonight and suddenly remembered back in the mists of time when my late OH and I lived and a freezing cottage on Mersea Island off the coast of Essex (circa 1965/6). We had virtually no heating, and boy with only a field between us and the sea it got pretty nippy when watching our tiny black and white tv (the reception wasn't great either ,but then we only had a bent wire coat hanger for an arial) we were seriously broke at the time  and that was before we started a family Well I hit on the idea as we had a couple of nylon quilted sleeping bags we could use them in the evening.
So we would sit on the sofa zipped into our £4.00 sleeping bags and were really warm ,no draughts around your ankles and if I popped a hot water bottle into the bottom it was really toasty on ones toes .

Throws are good, but sometimes you still get draughts getting in. I may dig out the sleeping bag from the spare room tomorrow night and give it a go,and put the throw around my shoulders, (I'm allowed as I am a great granny so it won't look odd, anyway there's only me to see myself and as long as I am warm its what matters 

Have a good weekend chums and onwards and upwards  

JackieO xx

Brambling

London_1 said:.

Throws are good, but sometimes you still get draughts getting in. I may dig out the sleeping bag from the spare room tomorrow night and give it a go,and put the throw around my shoulders,  

Just don't forget your feet is tucked into it and go A over T   

My sister was given a giant fleecy hoodie (I'm sure there's a name for it 🙂) she said it's better than being wrapped in a throw, I have teased that it's not very flattering and she looks like Friar Tuck but she tells me it's very warm and her thermostat is set to 17 rather than the normal 22 she used to have it as she really feels the cold. 

jamanda

I was given a giant hoodie/blanket type thing for Christmas last year.  I call it my snoodle, but I can't remember the proper name for it.  It is huge and comes to my knees.

When I got it I wondered what on earth they were thinking.  Now it's my bestest friend when it's cold.  Toasty warm.

(I think it is a Primark one)

RobM99

Mmmm...toasty! Like the cat wrapped up in his jumper.

wort

jamanda said:

I was given a giant hoodie/blanket type thing for Christmas last year.  I call it my snoodle, but I can't remember the proper name for it.  It is huge and comes to my knees.

When I got it I wondered what on earth they were thinking.  Now it's my bestest friend when it's cold.  Toasty warm.

(I think it is a Primark one)

It’s called an Oodie!

Rosa_Damascena

London_1 said:

I think my eldest takes after her Father in the 'No Jeans rule',its her birthday today and she is 55 and even as a teenager she didn't like or wore jeans . She still doesn't wear them ,unlike her ancient Mum who owns several pairs, even a pair my youngest bought me last year 'skinny leg ' ones and I am looking 80 up the rear  but I've never been one for formality, and I wear what I am confortable in and if its jeans, a tee shirt and trainers then that's what I shall wear ,definitely not the 'twinset and tweeds' type at all  

Re heating the body not the house.
 I was washing up tonight and suddenly remembered back in the mists of time when my late OH and I lived and a freezing cottage on Mersea Island off the coast of Essex (circa 1965/6). We had virtually no heating, and boy with only a field between us and the sea it got pretty nippy when watching our tiny black and white tv (the reception wasn't great either ,but then we only had a bent wire coat hanger for an arial) we were seriously broke at the time  and that was before we started a family Well I hit on the idea as we had a couple of nylon quilted sleeping bags we could use them in the evening.
So we would sit on the sofa zipped into our £4.00 sleeping bags and were really warm ,no draughts around your ankles and if I popped a hot water bottle into the bottom it was really toasty on ones toes .

Throws are good, but sometimes you still get draughts getting in. I may dig out the sleeping bag from the spare room tomorrow night and give it a go,and put the throw around my shoulders, (I'm allowed as I am a great granny so it won't look odd, anyway there's only me to see myself and as long as I am warm its what matters 

Have a good weekend chums and onwards and upwards  

JackieO xx

Mersey Island bring back memories, I always think of it as a summer destination but living there I appreciate is a different matter.

Yes it is definitely chillier now and we'll be getting a good blast of cold air next week. MSE Martin recommended the sleeping bag as a means of staving off the cold, I wonder if he was inspired by you JackieO? Worked for me last year (sleeping bag a chazzer purchase of course) so its high time I took mine out of its storage bag!