Childhood poverty

cunningham wrote:

Cruella de Vil wrote:



OMG Reg you can't half talk some shite!

good morning linda,and all.i cant argue with you on that score. have a nice day

Think we should have a poll on that Linda, Morning all.

Ah, The green eyed monster, Lesser men have fallen in my wake,

Underdog wrote:Ah, The green eyed monster, Lesser men have fallen in my wake,

and women.

3rdforum wrote:My mum's house had the first concrete floor in the town! Practically all the other families came in to see this amazing thing.

Thats amazing I bet there a loads of people who have never seen concrete floors in bedrooms.

Did you charge for showing the visitor's around.

We had good old wooden floors with newspaper down then linoleum on top. Jeez! that stuff was cold in the winter! We had a little rug in front of the fire that was all burn marks where the coal had spat an ember out every now and then. Remember making toast with toasting forks and singeing all the hair off your hand 'cos you were too close?

The Lone Ranger wrote:We had good old wooden floors with newspaper down then linoleum on top. Jeez! that stuff was cold in the winter! We had a little rug in front of the fire that was all burn marks where the coal had spat an ember out every now and then. Remember making toast with toasting forks and singeing all the hair off your hand 'cos you were too close?

Toast and Dipping

I still have a wood burning stove in the parlour, I set it going at weekends in winter, Time consuming though, Chopping logs and anything else that gets in the way, Grandkids sit staring at it, Only time their quiet, I too have a singed rug, Janet plays hell about the mess, I like mess sometimes, And i like how the kids jump when it spits, Never seen one before, I remember Toby going next door to see the irish couple when he was young, He came flying back, "Dad Dad" Noels throwing stones on the fire, Coal ,

I remember putting the old fireguard round when the wood spit out the sparks. Mum use to put the old wooden clothes horse up to dry the clothes on which was converted into a tent for us to play in in the summer.

We had a wooden clothes horse as well innit! It was always up as it was usually too wet to put clothes outside to dry.

Janet had one you pulled strings and it went up to the ceiling, Good idea i thought,

Underdog wrote:Janet had one you pulled strings and it went up to the ceiling, Good idea i thought,

We had one of those when we moved into the house we're living in now! Above the bath it was, good idea as all the drips had somewhere to go. I took it down though as it was "old fashioned". Probably have to go to a museum to see one now.

Janet hangs stuff up in the bathroom in Tenerife to get the creases out after being packed, Steam from a few showers, sorted, I bet she learned that at an early age, Its a shame Mary wont be there to do the ironing,

Sheet of newspaper against the fire to draw it and chestnuts with salt and pepper in the winter, lovely.

Topdog wrote:Sheet of newspaper against the fire to draw it and chestnuts with salt and pepper in the winter, lovely.

Haha! How often did that newspaper go up in flames?

You put the hand shovel up,then the paper against it, Paper then went brown and burst into flames, Then we ran outside to see it come out of the chimney, It never did

Haha! Spot on Reg. I forgot about the wee shovel to keep the paper out.

The Lone Ranger wrote:We had a wooden clothes horse as well innit! It was always up as it was usually too wet to put clothes outside to dry.

We still use them.... bleeding have to, its always pissing down here.

Anyone remember the little torch on the gas cooker for lighting the cooker. You got a bowl of water with washing up liquid, put the gas torch in, filled it with bubbles then lit it. Mum always ask how you singed your eyebrows.

We used to come back from a day up in the hills setting fire to the whin bushes (gorse), you could see the feckin' smoke for miles, our clothes stank of it and our faces were black, yet we always wondered how our mum knew. Thick as planks we were.

Dad use to sweep the chimney which was a job best done on Saturday afternoon after a visit to the pub. Two drains rods holding up the sack to the fire place to stop the soot and the result was the room needed redecorating and he ended up looking like one of Reggie's friends.

innit wrote:
Dad use to sweep the chimney which was a job best done on Saturday afternoon after a visit to the pub. Two drains rods holding up the sack to the fire place to stop the soot and the result was the room needed redecorating and he ended up looking like one of Reggie's friends.

wearing a turban

The Lone Ranger wrote:
We had one of those when we moved into the house we're living in now! Above the bath it was, good idea as all the drips had somewhere to go. I took it down though as it was "old fashioned". Probably have to go to a museum to see one now.

was just about to say the same thing when i read ud's post!

Hi D. How's the moggie?

I'm much better thanks Grandy,

she ran off with one of her toys can hear the bell every so often so she must be fine
spent most of sunday and yesterday sleeping after all her visiting