Winters From My Childhood

mallyh | 11:51 Wed 25th Nov 2015 | ChatterBank

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I remember wearing a bodice with rubber buttons over my sleeved vest ,
a big spoonful of cod liver oil and a spoonful of malt before school ugh!
going out to play no matter what the weather lol, what do you remember xx

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-SharonA-

Oh please Hopkirk don't. It was the lumpy mash and revolting custard!

Chipchopper

Scott's porridge oats and a Haliborange and us kids were set up for the day

Hopkirk

Climbing into a freezing bed, and it was too cold to slide your legs down for a while.

stuey

A bowl of frog spawn, but THEY called it sago-pudding!

Svejk

stuey /// Ah! Yes. The memories of long ago, down the road retreating into the Winters of the snowy blowy past I was just a mere child in England...Blimey, that almost sounds a bit Dylan Thomas-ish donnit?:)///

Ah yes, study. Dylan Thomas, that well known English poet. ;-)
And, sorry for picking on you, but we called it tapioca.

Svejk

Semolina with a cherry on top. Mmmm. I've tried it lately, wasn't the same. :-(

maggiebee

Ice on the inside of the windows and my dad's army greatcoat thrown over me in bed.

Mamyalynne

Sleeping with army coats on the bed for extra warmth and waking with the imprint of 'REME' on my cheek from the buttons.

Winter fairs, all wrapped up and sat in a stripey tent on wooden benches round a coal fired brazier eating hot Black Peas from a ceramic mug.

Caran

I too had to wear a liberty bodice over my vest. Cod liver oil and malt everyday. I loved that. Didn't like goose grease spread on brown paper worn under my vest.
Also if I had earache mum would fill a white sock with warm mashed potato and I would have it bandaged to my ear like a poultice.

Ouzel

Cod Liver Oil (hated it) and Malt (loved it) every day.

Ginger Beer in stoneware bottles from the milkman.

Chapped knees from the wet and cold.

Outside toilet.

237SJ

I remember playing cards with my family in the light of my Gran`s tilley lamp because we had no power. I have very happy memories of that and the disruption that the snow brought.

saintpeter48

Happy memories from my upbringing in the 40s and 50s, we were poor but we were happy, we were not envious of others because we were all in the same boat. I remember dad putting a lighted candle in the outside loo to stop the pipes freezing, in the days of wiping your bum with torn up newspapers! Sleeping top to tail with my brother and calling out to mum or dad that my brother was over my side of the bed, putting his cold feet on me! The milkman, postmen, coalmen etc, would always turn up no matter what the weather, Christmas day postal deliveries too. Wearing socks on my hands because I never had any gloves, wearing a balaclava that mum made for me, plus a knitted scarf. All snuggling round the coal fire, toasting bread on a long fork, it seemed to taste better, whilst listening on the wireless to 'Dan Dare, pilot of the future', and Horace Batchelor with his 'Infra Draw Method' or 'Have a go Joe' with Wilfred Pickles! Great memories from my childhood, I was only talking to my elder sister today about it, in 1949 we were given a brand new council house with huge garden on a new estate built after the war, we moved from a prefab where I was born, looking back it must've felt like they'd won the pools to my mum and dad, memories will remain of long hot summers and cold winters, beautiful autumns and wonderful springs, would I want to do it again, you better believe I would!

mallyh

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thankyou for all your memories i'm sitting here with a big smile .xx

Hopkirk

Christmas Day postal deliveries, SaintPeter?

Really?