Wandering Off Topic

[G-Unit]

I don't miss bed making in those days, that's for sure. It began with evening out the flock mattress, then adding sheets, blankets, counterpane and slippery eiderdown.

[G-Unit]

My Grannies toilet... In a coronation style street.. Was in a toilet block at the end of the road..

I'm waiting for someone to say.. But you were lucky

Flush or tub?

[Mr Gray]

Flush or tub?

Flush... It was in Brighouse.. Yorkshire about 60 years ago. Washing was hung across the road and the lines had to be raised to let a car through

[Eleanor]

Flush... It was in Brighouse.. Yorkshire about 60 years ago. Washing was hung across the road and the lines had to be raised to let a car through

What car?  There were none in Mucky Hunslet.

[Myster]

This is all such a joke.  So, it was a bit chilly in 1950 and even before that.  But it wasn't a surprise.  It happened every Winter.  Winter gets a bit like that, even now.  I don't have any central heating but I have got a hot water bottle.
Somedebody is bringing me a new one from England.  The French hot water bottles are not very good because they have a tendency to leak.

But for heaven's sake.

I didn't know HW bottles were still made here!  One of my ten-year old Boots rubber bottles sprang a leak at Christmas, so I invested in a German-made PVC "Fashy" - with a wider mouth than rubber ones so easier to fill, stronger too and they retain their heat for longer.  You could have bought one as I did from a reputable seller on eBay for home devilry...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/292631403998?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20200818143230%26meid%3D160f2ca4771c4ed3aafd0674b871a223%26pid%3D101224%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D291441349829%26itm%3D292631403998%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DDefaultOrganicWeb%26brand%3DFashy&_trksid=p2047675.c101224.m-1

Or support the Ukrainians!... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxAY1YRmiag

[Eleanor]

I didn't know HW bottles were still made here!  One of my ten-year old Boots rubber bottles sprang a leak at Christmas, so I invested in a German-made PVC "Fashy" - with a wider mouth than rubber ones so easier to fill, stronger too and they retain their heat for longer.  You could have bought one as I did from a reputable seller on eBay for home devilry...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/292631403998?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20200818143230%26meid%3D160f2ca4771c4ed3aafd0674b871a223%26pid%3D101224%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D291441349829%26itm%3D292631403998%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DDefaultOrganicWeb%26brand%3DFashy&_trksid=p2047675.c101224.m-1

Or support the Ukrainians!... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxAY1YRmiag

Okay.  Thanks for that.  Maybe next year.

[G-Unit]

Flush... It was in Brighouse.. Yorkshire about 60 years ago. Washing was hung across the road and the lines had to be raised to let a car through

Brass bands and mills, just like where I grew up in Lancashire.

[Mr Gray]

I didn't know HW bottles were still made here!  One of my ten-year old Boots rubber bottles sprang a leak at Christmas, so I invested in a German-made PVC "Fashy" - with a wider mouth than rubber ones so easier to fill, stronger too and they retain their heat for longer.  You could have bought one as I did from a reputable seller on eBay for home devilry...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/292631403998?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20200818143230%26meid%3D160f2ca4771c4ed3aafd0674b871a223%26pid%3D101224%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D291441349829%26itm%3D292631403998%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DDefaultOrganicWeb%26brand%3DFashy&_trksid=p2047675.c101224.m-1

Or support the Ukrainians!... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxAY1YRmiag

Electric overblankets were the answer

[Eleanor]

Brass bands and mills, just like where I grew up in Lancashire.

I grew up in Neasden.  Beat that if you can.

My trips to Leeds and Mucky Hunslet were mind boggling for a London gutter snipe.

I ran away to sea in the end.

[Myster]

Electric overblankets were the answer

I have under-used and unused overblankets and underblankets still in their original boxes, but you can't snuggle up to them as you can with a bottle... How sad is that !!!

[barrier]

Flush... It was in Brighouse.. Yorkshire about 60 years ago. Washing was hung across the road and the lines had to be raised to let a car through

Only the rich had cars down this way, hoss and cart or shanks pony.

[barrier]

One thing about us older ones; we remember lower living standards. Coal fires, no bathroom or inside toilet, ice on the inside of a window and food rationing.

I'm not that old, but had that back in the early 60's, save the food rationing, but there again early 70's brought elecy rationing.

[Vertigo Swirl]

This is all very Four Yorkshiremen isn’t it?

[Ms Para glider]

I actually think it's lovely. I find it truly fascinating how civil people can be to one another in contrast to how vicious those same people act when discussing the various possibilities about a missing child. If the same mutual respect was extended to opposing opionions in the general discussion, the forum would be a lot better off IMO.

[Ms Para glider]

This is all very Four Yorkshiremen isn’t it?

I love that sketch though. I can't take the pish mind, I've had it a lot easier than some folks here. Not happy that I've had to cut the russian caviar from me cornflakes like but we all have to make sacrifices.

https://youtu.be/ue7wM0QC5LE