General Chat

only fools and horses,uncle albert,would start to say...during the war...and everyone would cringe. but ive just realised,quite a few of us,including me,have done an uncle albert,by dipping back in our memories about outside loos........any other memories??? bryan.

I was conceived...

We had to share our outside loo with another family. We diddnt have a fridge but put the milk in a bucket of water. We also had a small wooden box nailed on the wall outside with the butter and ....remember Lard???? yuk.....Bathtime was once a week in the galvenised bath. We had a water butt outside to catch the rain water...my job was to sieve the gnats of it so we could rinse our hair....NO need for conditioners then! Squeaky clean everytime....Remember Lino? no carpets then.....God! I could go on forever.....just call me Uncle Albert lol

Hi Bryan, Although I was born after the war,what about the old tin baths,in front of the fire,oooh heaven,warm jammies by the fire for when you got out. Remember my mum always leaving the front door open,and a neighbour always popping in to borrow either a cup of sugar,or jam. Im sure many others will remember the tin baths,we later upgraded to a bungalow bath,in the outhouse,and my mum having to boil the copper for hot water. What a laugh. trish.

What about the washboard in the sink and carbolic soap and the mangle - ours was in the garden outside the back door.

Winkles for tea on Sunday - with a pin to get 'em out.

My sister and I would argue as to who would feed the mangle and who would wind the handle. It was always done on a Monday and we had to do it outside....whatever the weather.

And the sheets would be so hot from the good boiling they'd had you'd need to pick them up with those wooden tongs

It's been said that the modern woman works harder....cos we do the washing all week...In those days...wash on a Mon...Iron on a Tues....done n dusted

During the war you couldn't get a banana...so I'm told. When I was a teenager and used to babysit, I remember being narked when the boy I babysat asked whether something I'd done had happened before or after the War. I told my mum about this indignantly, and she said I should be grateful he didn't specify which war!! nell

Lol Nell

tin bath on a sunday morning,the i would love going to chapel,cos i smelt nice,and my mam jones would feed me with peppermints,for being a good boy lol. bryan.

I know I'm a div and I'm embarrassed to ask....but I have to as I keep seeing it and don't understand. Oh here I go then what is LOL - don't all shout at once, please. That's the second time today I've made an a** of myself.

Lol means 'laughs out loud'......Sorry jan. It's a way of using expressions.

Oh thank you. Should have known, since that's what I do almost all the time I'm on these boards. What a nincompoop I am. My grand-daughter's love that old word too; and since we're on the "During the War" topic, it's a word I used to hear a lot as a child, it was well used in place of all the other choice words and phrases we use today which usually start with f and end with idiot.

[email protected] do you get it?..and your NOT a nincompoop!...oops! may have spelt that wrong. Gerri

LOL now. I went to some other boards and got lost. Told you I was a ninco*** whatever that word is. Thanks Gerri

as a kiddy,living half way up a mountain in wales,we didnt have shops as such...front rooms of houses were turned into shops...no boxed sweets,all bottled,and would be wrapped in a paper cone. bryan.

When I was in infantry, we constructed the latrines over a stream. During the "rush hour" someone went upstream with a bundle of crumpled newspapers, set fire to them and floated them down, under the bogs. len

This is my mum's catchphrase!!! At least once every time you see her she says "during the war.... " We call her Uncle Albert! When we went to Duxford, the kids thought it was hilarious to phone up Nanny and all shout "DURING THE WAR" down the phone at her!!!! Maz. XX