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PalazioVecchio south pole 13 Jul 21 9.26pm
fishermen, in tiny boats with oar & sail. Not having a bulls notion what the weather will be like today. Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford
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fishermen, in tiny boats with oar & sail. Not having a bulls notion what the weather will be like today.

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford

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cryrst The garden of England 13 Jul 21 9.48pm
Originally posted by PalazioVecchio fishermen, in tiny boats with oar & sail. Not having a bulls notion what the weather will be like today. Seaweed in the garden. If its wet it's raining, if its dry it's not. Simple
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Originally posted by PalazioVecchio

fishermen, in tiny boats with oar & sail. Not having a bulls notion what the weather will be like today.

Seaweed in the garden.
If its wet it's raining, if its dry it's not. Simple

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kingdowieonthewall Sussex, ex-Cronx. 13 Jul 21 9.57pm
Originally posted by Teddy Eagle Wasn’t it great? Counting up Kensitas coupons and Green Shield stamps. Not answering the door when the man from the Pru or the tally man came round. Clamping the mincing machine to the kitchen table to grind up left over meat to have with bubble & squeak. Bread pudding. The pools man wanting his 22p. dont forget 'bacon roly poly' (aka clanger) rough old bacon wrapped in suet & boiled, wrapped in cloth. afterwards fried several days later top cheap nosh. Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents? Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle

Wasn’t it great?
Counting up Kensitas coupons and Green Shield stamps.
Not answering the door when the man from the Pru or the tally man came round.
Clamping the mincing machine to the kitchen table to grind up left over meat to have with bubble & squeak.
Bread pudding.
The pools man wanting his 22p.

dont forget 'bacon roly poly' (aka clanger)
rough old bacon wrapped in suet & boiled, wrapped in cloth.
afterwards fried several days later
top cheap nosh.

Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents?
Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.

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Palace Old Geezer Midhurst 13 Jul 21 10.01pm
Originally posted by Teddy Eagle Wasn’t it great? Counting up Kensitas coupons and Green Shield stamps. Not answering the door when the man from the Pru or the tally man came round. Clamping the mincing machine to the kitchen table to grind up left over meatto have with bubble & squeak. Bread pudding. The pools man wanting his 22p. Dad used to smoke Kensitas and I remember him counting his coupons. As for the mincing machine, I'm almost ashamed to say we still use one, mainly for the shepherds pie made with Sunday leftovers. Dad and I watched games standing on the muddy slope of the Holmesdale Road end. He cheered and I rattled.
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle

Wasn’t it great?
Counting up Kensitas coupons and Green Shield stamps.
Not answering the door when the man from the Pru or the tally man came round.
Clamping the mincing machine to the kitchen table to grind up left over meatto have with bubble & squeak.
Bread pudding.
The pools man wanting his 22p.

Dad used to smoke Kensitas and I remember him counting his coupons.

As for the mincing machine, I'm almost ashamed to say we still use one, mainly for the shepherds pie made with Sunday leftovers.

Dad and I watched games standing on the muddy slope of the Holmesdale Road end. He cheered and I rattled.

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Teddy Eagle 13 Jul 21 10.11pm
Originally posted by kingdowieonthewall dont forget 'bacon roly poly' (aka clanger) rough old bacon wrapped in suet & boiled, wrapped in cloth. afterwards fried several days later top cheap nosh. Oh, yes. I loved suet…steak & kidney pudding, baby’s head, syrup, etc. They were all lovely. Luckily I missed a lot of the cooking time because I was at Saturday morning pictures or out playing football or cricket or something.
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13 Jul 21 10.11pm

Originally posted by kingdowieonthewall

dont forget 'bacon roly poly' (aka clanger)
rough old bacon wrapped in suet & boiled, wrapped in cloth.
afterwards fried several days later
top cheap nosh.

Oh, yes. I loved suet…steak & kidney pudding, baby’s head, syrup, etc. They were all lovely. Luckily I missed a lot of the cooking time because I was at Saturday morning pictures or out playing football or cricket or something.

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becky over the moon 13 Jul 21 10.16pm
Toad in the hole - how to make a pound of sausages feed 6 people Cardigans/jumpers bought at jumble sales for coppers being unpicked, washed and re-wound into balls (often using an upturned dining chair or someone else's arms) and then re-knitted into something else. Sunday tea-time in silence, listening to the latest episode of 'Journey into Space' Walking to school thigh deep in snow and coats steaming quietly on the pegs A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers
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Toad in the hole - how to make a pound of sausages feed 6 people

Cardigans/jumpers bought at jumble sales for coppers being unpicked, washed and re-wound into balls (often using an upturned dining chair or someone else's arms) and then re-knitted into something else.

Sunday tea-time in silence, listening to the latest episode of 'Journey into Space'

Walking to school thigh deep in snow and coats steaming quietly on the pegs

A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers

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Teddy Eagle 13 Jul 21 10.28pm
Originally posted by becky Toad in the hole - how to make a pound of sausages feed 6 people Cardigans/jumpers bought at jumble sales for coppers being unpicked, washed and re-wound into balls (often using an upturned dining chair or someone else's arms) and then re-knitted into something else. Sunday tea-time in silence, listening to the latest episode of 'Journey into Space' Walking to school thigh deep in snow and coats steaming quietly on the pegs Cliff Mitchelmore & Jean Metcalfe on Two-Way Family Favourites (only ever seemed to play the same songs Three Wheels on my Wagon, A Walk in the Black Forest, Alan Sherman Hello Mudda, Sukiyaki, Stranger on the Shore) and Round the Horne, The Navy Lark, Jimmy Clitheroe.
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13 Jul 21 10.28pm

Originally posted by becky

Toad in the hole - how to make a pound of sausages feed 6 people

Sunday tea-time in silence, listening to the latest episode of 'Journey into Space'

Walking to school thigh deep in snow and coats steaming quietly on the pegs

Cliff Mitchelmore & Jean Metcalfe on Two-Way Family Favourites (only ever seemed to play the same songs Three Wheels on my Wagon, A Walk in the Black Forest, Alan Sherman Hello Mudda, Sukiyaki, Stranger on the Shore) and Round the Horne, The Navy Lark, Jimmy Clitheroe.

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kingdowieonthewall Sussex, ex-Cronx. 14 Jul 21 5.32am
Originally posted by Teddy Eagle Cliff Mitchelmore & Jean Metcalfe on Two-Way Family Favourites (only ever seemed to play the same songs Three Wheels on my Wagon, A Walk in the Black Forest, Alan Sherman Hello Mudda, Sukiyaki, Stranger on the Shore) and Round the Horne, The Navy Lark, Jimmy Clitheroe. sukiyaki - a favourite 'ive had too much to drink ' record. i was saturday boy in a local menswear store - hello mudda was on without fail every sat. morning Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents? Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.
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Sussex, ex-Cronx. 14 Jul 21 5.32am

Originally posted by Teddy Eagle

sukiyaki - a favourite 'ive had too much to drink ' record.
i was saturday boy in a local menswear store - hello mudda was on without fail every sat. morning

Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents?
Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.

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PalazioVecchio south pole 14 Jul 21 9.00am
Regale us with observations of normal life in the World pre 1900 AD please. ...another one : A major battle happens, like at the Teutoberg Forest, and it takes weeks for the news to filter back to the Capital (if there even is a 'Capital' ). All this was normal back in the day. Edited by PalazioVecchio (14 Jul 2021 9.11am) Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford
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south pole 14 Jul 21 9.00am

Regale us with observations of normal life in the World pre 1900 AD please.

...another one :

A major battle happens, like at the Teutoberg Forest, and it takes weeks for the news to filter back to the Capital (if there even is a 'Capital' ).

All this was normal back in the day.

Edited by PalazioVecchio (14 Jul 2021 9.11am)

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford

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becky over the moon 14 Jul 21 10.47am
If you had a cut that became infected, you would probably have died from sepsis. A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers
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If you had a cut that became infected, you would probably have died from sepsis.

A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers

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PalazioVecchio south pole 14 Jul 21 11.08am
Originally posted by becky If you had a cut that became infected, you would probably have died from sepsis. i heard a rumour that Henry viii died from either sepsis or an STD. Which would make sense considering the large number of Courtesans any King has access to over his life. certainly very few people got past their 55th birthday. Death everywhere. Lefty Historian Mary Beard said that the battlefield took out large numbers of men but that childbirth was Women's deadly battlefield. Certainly the statistics today are in stark contrast. Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford
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south pole 14 Jul 21 11.08am

Originally posted by becky

If you had a cut that became infected, you would probably have died from sepsis.

i heard a rumour that Henry viii died from either sepsis or an STD. Which would make sense considering the large number of Courtesans any King has access to over his life.

certainly very few people got past their 55th birthday. Death everywhere.

Lefty Historian Mary Beard said that the battlefield took out large numbers of men but that childbirth was Women's deadly battlefield. Certainly the statistics today are in stark contrast.

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford

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silvertop Portishead 14 Jul 21 11.29am
Sunday: chicken roast dinner Monday - Friday: soup from Sunday's left-overs (padded out with rice/spuds on alternate days) Pre 1900, no pre War, you got up early and went to bed late as each domestic/work activity was seriously labour intensive and crushingly time consuming. People died young and exhausted. Pre refrigerated transport, crops failed, many died. Most wars through history could have been avoided by acting quickly against a maverick diminutive nutter with a big hat; or by sensible diplomacy. In the good old days a tiny powerful few trained for war and went to war to satisfy their "destiny" and egos. The poor masses were mobilized to their pointless ends by conscription. And we stunk.
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Portishead 14 Jul 21 11.29am

Sunday: chicken roast dinner

Monday - Friday: soup from Sunday's left-overs (padded out with rice/spuds on alternate days)

Pre 1900, no pre War, you got up early and went to bed late as each domestic/work activity was seriously labour intensive and crushingly time consuming. People died young and exhausted.

Pre refrigerated transport, crops failed, many died.

Most wars through history could have been avoided by acting quickly against a maverick diminutive nutter with a big hat; or by sensible diplomacy. In the good old days a tiny powerful few trained for war and went to war to satisfy their "destiny" and egos. The poor masses were mobilized to their pointless ends by conscription.

And we stunk.

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