General Chat

I used to like that orange juice for babies and young children that was got from the clinic, also my mum used to bake stale bread in the oven till it was really hard, that was our teething rusks. Lin.

thank god my son doesnt read this, its one of his favourite sayings , and has been known to boast about the fact hes a war baby, hes 13 and was born early, when the first gulf war was on , his doctor was out in iraq looking after the troops, but made it back in time for his own son to be born the day before our son. i wonder where he is now.

What about frost on the INSIDE of house windows . . . . the young'uns don't know they are born!!!!

bryan smiths crisp were great until you ate the blue one in the dark still laugh now when i think about it. howard

Candles, black lead grate, rabbit stew. mangles, reckitts blue gosh I really am as old as I thought I was!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

smiths crisps,now they were really tasty,then they were bought out by golden wonder,who in turn were bought out by walkers...and the taste has gone. chasing the chickens early sunday mornings,so my dad jones could catch one for dinner......naughty me lol. bryan.

Did you know? Bread pudding and bread and butter pudding and loads of other dishes were made up in and after the war years because there could be NO waste. I remember seeing mum cutting the green mould of the bread...My kids would go spare now if they saw me doing that lol (ssshhhh they love my bread pud ;) )

Good thread this folks!..

Bryan - the kids don't really know OFAH, but they DO know 'during the war' - they are always saying it to her!! Luckily she laughs!! Maz. XX

maz,that is so funny lol. i think lots of us love ..uncle albert.. poor buster merryfield has passed on,but he will be remembered for many years. bryan.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Lol Nell