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Oh memories I remember that tinned fruit salad. My M-I-L insists that red salmon isbetter than pink salmon (must be cos its dearer)

She will not be told its dearer cos the fish are smaller :-P

Gins slugs YUCK but you got a good deal with the house and you can laugh now.

Cynthia 12s6d would be 62 1/2 pence !!! ;-)

Talking about those Fray Bentos Pies in a tin - we used to have them many years ago. I saw them a couple of years ago in the supermarket and thought I would buy one 'coz we used to really like them !

It was absolutely FOUL !!! - I don't know how we managed to eat them ! :-0 - I don't know what was on the top but you couldn't call it pastry - it was all soggy and slimy !

Needless to say - It went in the bin !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank goodness my taste buds have 'matured' ;-) :-D

Dea Xxx

12/6d Jonesey....... just think........a rump steak for 12 and half pence :-D :-D :-D :-D


We always had red salmon i think - does that make us posh????? ;-)


When we went on self catering holidays we used to buy the tinned Fray Bentos steak pies with us. I cringe when I see them now.


Memories are made of this!!! :-D :-D :-D :-D

Jonesey, mom and dad used to go to The Beefeater, he would always have a T Bone steak and bring half back for the dog

I remember that fruit salad Dea, you can still buy it.

Our family tea was just like the others have mentioned, John West pink salmon sandwiches, tinned fruit, (Usually sliced peaches) with Carnation evaporated milk and home made cake, usually a Rock cake or a slice of Victoria sponge. On nice sunny summer Sundays this would often be taken with us in the family car and be consumed along with a flask of tea whilst sitting on the grass in Sutton park, Sutton Coldfield.

Whilst courting, for a meal out we usually went to one of the newly fashionable "Steak Houses" for a meal. A 8oz rump steak with the trimmings cost 12/6d. A sweet to follow such as a slice of Black Forest Gateau would cost you about 3/6d.

Those were the days!!! :-D

Yeah, I do.....everyone fighting the one cherry in the tin!

That's exactly what we used to have on a Sunday Ginns - minus the salad , and we didn't often get 'home-made' cakes!

This only happened when we had visitors though, not every Sunday!

I used to hate it if my great aunt Eliza came around as she would dip slices of bread and butter into the fruit juice and carnation milk !!! - Urgghhhh ! :-0

Do you remember that horrible tinned 'fruit salad' with tiny square chopped up bits of fruit and the odd bit of glace cherry?

Dea Xxx

I can relate to the Sunday tea......as a child we always had Sunday lunch and mom would put tea out at about 6pm

Salmon sarnis, Yorkshire salad, homemade cakes and tea, using the best china. We also had tinned fruit, usually peaches with Carnation milk!

Good morning all :-)

I would like a ham and cheese omelette, with bacon, grilled tomatoes and grilled mushrooms please............................Yuuummmmm :-D :-D

Thank you Sylvia <3

Dea Xxx

Thank you Sylvs......toast for me today <3


You're right Gins, it IS all relative and just goes to show that folk don't need to have 'everything' in order to be happy. In fact, working together on building up a home, tended to bring you closer together I think :-D


On the entertaining line........chicken in a basket was considered to be food heaven for a while and when scampi was introduced........oh my word, how exotic could one get? Vesta curries and paellas were absolutely wonderful for learning about 'foreign' food....... :-S :-D


As a child, Sunday tea or tea for visitors couldn't be anything other than tinned salmon sandwiches and a tin of mixed fruit with evaporated cream.


Such indulgence! :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Porridge, with cream, dates, golden syrup, bananas.....YUM YUM

Thank you Sylvs <3

Ive just been reading back and have found it really interesting - early married life back in the dark ages ;-) I guess it's all relative, then and now

I bought my first house (still in it) back in 1997. Got it at a knock down price, (£47K) it was slug invested, run down and had an underground spring in the back garden (or so the owners thought) so we got it about £20K cheaper than the going rate for the area

16 years later it's worth £300K. The underground spring turned out to be a leak from the neighbours drains and the slugs were banished when we dropped the height of the path at the back of the house

When I first moved in I used to get up on dark mornings, switch the lights on and the carpet in the living room would be covered in slugs :-0

Happy Days!!!

we're going to go to our friends on the island next Tuesday through Friday.



please can you look after yourselves?????

Breakfast is ready .....................



mind the puddles when you are walking over, and watch out for flying tree branches. The wind is pretty strong!!




porridge, with cream, brown sugar, dates, Golden syrup, bananas, and/or cinnamon


Selection of cold cereals

Toast (selection of breads)
croissants
barm cakes
hot cinnamon rolls


Full English

Cheese or ham and cheese omelette, with bacon, grilled tomatoes, and chef's potatoes

In the warmers ...................



bacon, ham, sausage patties, fried eggs, boiled eggs, grilled mushrooms, baked tomatoes, baked beans, chef's potatoes



raisin bran muffins, blueberry muffins, lemon and nut muffins





enjoy
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I've been immersed in the new Manchester records on ancestry

I'm finding all sorts of records for my families :-D

We got married in 1975 beat the other offers by £56.

We had my Grans bed and her kitchen larder (like the one in the Dingles house in Emmerdale)

Our sofas were my parents old ones and my Dad made us a table and 2 benches.

We got a deal on carpets and everything else was wedding presents.

Our "kitchen" was a scullery just had the cooker (left by previous owners) and a sink even had a folding door!

When we moved my friend bought the flat and she has just sold it for £100,000.

Didn't have central heating just gas fires no double glazing (the windows used to ice up on the inside in winter.

Oh but I loved that flat.

Just played catch up.
For my 40th I threw myself a party I was keeping it quiet) cos I was just out of hospital - by a few weeks - for what should have been a simple op BUT my heart stopped on the table and the op was abandoned. It took me hours to sleep off the Anesthetic.

So I had a birthday party ;-)

LK Happy Birthday to your Grandaughter <3

Sylvia hope the physio helped are you all "chilled" now :-)

and, as you said ................


Happy Days!!



Entertaining was spaghetti with tomato and meat sauce, and a bottle of Chianti (in the wicker basket!!

Jonesey


it was the opposite here, when we came to be looking for a mortgage in 1972


The wife's income WAS taken into consideration .............. only we did not want mine to be considered.

The bank refused ...... my salary had to be included in all calculations...


so we went to the Teacher's Credit Union ...... and got immediate approval, based on OH's salary alone. It had to go to the Board for approval ............. but they had apparently never turned down the Manager's recommendation


and they didn't do it for us!


OH's first salary here in 1968 was $10,000 a year ............. which I think was roughly equal to £2,500 (exchange rate about $4 to £1).

By the time we bought the house, I think he was earning about $11,500