Follow On From Shows Thread

[Caran]

I remember back in the day in the when I was about 17 ( about 1959 ish)
Going on holiday with boyfriend. ( I later married him but that's another tale) we went to Llandudno. Mother had told me we had to have separate rooms and she wanted to see the receipt!
We wandered the streets knocking on doors asking the question will you give us a receipt for two single rooms when we share a double?
We eventually found a place that would do that so a good holiday was had by us an my mother was happy when we went home with two receipts for single rooms. She never did find ou!!

[Caran]

Smows thread sorry!

[gulliver1]

LOL, Caran. happy days. eh.

[Tilly2]

I'm surprised that was allowed in Wales in the 1950's.

[albaqwerty]

When Mr Alba stayed at my mum and dad's house, we were in different rooms on different floors, same if I stayed at Mr Alba's parents house.

However, neither set of parents batted an eyelid when Mr Alba and I went on holiday together. :-))

[murraymints]

I once told mum I was staying with a pal for the weekend...I was in Paris with BF !

[albaqwerty]

oh gawd, that's just reminded me.
I dropped a pal in it purely because she hadn't told me she was staying with me
Her mum phoned and well, you know the following scenario lol...

[Togo]

Believe me Tills, the Welsh people are very pragmatic when it comes to such matters. In the day when most of Wales was dry on Sundays, the Chapels and Churches would be full come Sunday morning, Sunday best and fire and brimstone sermons for an hour. Now although the Pubs were closed( from the front door anyway) the Clubs, British Legion and Workingmen's Clubs, Yacht Clubs etc. were open. Immediately after the Churches and Chapels had finished their business, everyone, Vicars and Reverends included, decamped to the nearest "club" that was open(sometimes next door) and got stuck in to the booze. It was usually the busiest time of the week for the clubs.

[Togo]

Have you ever been back to Llandudno Caran? I expect that Hotel still has you "stuff" in lost property. :))

[Tilly2]

I didn't know that, Togo. I thought they were very prim and proper in those days.

[murraymints]

that will be why there were so many prim and proper babies born Tilly ! ;0)

[Togo]

You are joking Tills, and when you get up into the valleys and hills those farmers daughters are dynamite. Great people, not given to doing as they are told.

[Tilly2]

I'll stay away from the valleys and hills then, Togo. :-)

[naomi24]

//I thought they were very prim and proper in those days.//

A friend researching her family history was utterly astounded to discover that a couple of quite recently deceased straight-laced, moralising, God-fearing aunts who had been the bane of her social life had been pregnant when they married. Clearly a case of ‘do as I say, not as I did!’

[Caran]

I remember on that same holiday, driving around we saw a sign saying bingo here. It was a church hall so we decided to go. We won a bottle of whisky. That didn't go down well with the locals at all!