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ahh poor liddle moggy....well we hactually lived in a shoe box on the M1....but someone has also recorded that in a previous life :-P :-D...

lolololol Eldrick you liar you told me you was brought up in a cardboard box in the bottom of a pond.. :-D :-D :-D :-D

No thats where I was born. We moved to the shelter when our Dad got a job catching stray cats that were sent to work in the flour mills catching mice.

You also said and I quote " we were that pouuur I had to wear my sisters clothes " or was that a secret? :-0

No, that's right. She was 21 and a stoker in the navy at the time, though.

blimey you lot.......

lucky I'll say,,,,,,,mitten and gloves.

I wore me dads forces issue socks on me hands in winter never had a scarf.nor a hat ,just 2 pomoms sewn to an alice band that covered me ears.

a winter coat was unheard of.
when summer came dad cut down our wellies to make rubber slip on plimsoles. :-)

TRY CAMPING IN A FIELD WITH NOTHING THERE
A FRIEND HAS A SMALLHOLDING AND WE WENT A COUPLE OF TIMES LAST YEAR
NO TOILETS
NO WATER
NO ELECTRIC
HEATED WATER IN THE WOK TO WASH WITH
A LOG FIRE TO KEEP WARM AND PROVIDE LIGHT
AT NIGHT,
YOU SOON GET USED TO IT

Very interesting thread. Anyone remember chilblains? Ooh, how they used to itch!

SITTING TO CLOSE TO THE FIRE CAUSED THEM

Blimey Dizzi,you,re talking Ancient Brit there. And Chilblains, use the old type of cure for them as Frostbite. :-D :-D :-D

MY GRAN'S HOUSE USED TO SCARE ME SOMTHING ROTTON .OUTSIDE LOO WAS A LEANTOO NEAR BACK DOOR OT WAS A PLANK OF WOOD WITH A
WHOLE CUT IN IT,,WE USED TO HAVE A LOAD OF TIN CANS ON STRING TO MAKE A NOISE SO
TO SCARE THE RATS AWAY

I once went to the outside loo when visiting my friends grandmother in Bury. It was situated over a stream or some sort of water course about six foot below. Scary.-jl