General Chat

Bless, so many of those ring bells lol

I never found out where Binky, my pet rabbit , went either but can't remember if we ate rabbit soon after she disappeared! We didn't have a freezer at the time, didn't even have a fridge then so who knows..... ?

Loved the salmon story - how inventive of your Mum.

Deanna, I was taught to use my soup spoon from front to back whilst slightly tipping bowl to back when just a little soup left, my Dad told me it was to stop me tipping it into my lap lol
Dad was always posher and stricter about table manners than Mum, I think because my Gran was taught these things from working in service perhaps altho I was also given to understand we came from rather middle class stock (Stonemason and carpenter and before that Ag labs lol)
We weren't suppose to mess about at the table or talk too much, I always got a fit of the giggles and got told off lol

On the other hand, this dolt I am with never realised that there was a reason why you got two different size forks in a canteen of cutlery - he called me a snob when I pointed out that there were dessert forks and main course forks etc ! He also didn't know that you are supposed to put your knife and fork together neatly to show you have finished your meal, hence his sons knew nothing either. Heaven knows what their mother was like at the table, suppose I might find out at this wedding lol
Lizx

I have since found out that my father's mother wasn't the wicked witch of the west or even related to her :-)

I've also discovered I wasn't allergic to that really nice expensive ice-cream

Oh Beverley, how mean.
Telling a little girl that she was allergic to 'the bestest ice cream'
ahh!
As for the wicked witch of the west.... I could never tell my children that, BECAUSE, When I called my mil an old cow (or a similar name) My lovely little middle child told her!
"granny, mummy told daddy you are a stupid old cow"....
and that, in my presence!! Embarrassed? Oh yes!

And Liz, I too was taught to place my cutlery together, My husband just LOVES to get me going by putting his knife and fork at a quarter to three!! :-{
and he does it to get me going!

We had a chat about cutlery this lunch time.. I gave my son my mothers canteen when he started in his own place...beautiful soup spoons (bowl shaped)... and he never uses them.

And KATE.... how dare you????
There is a SANTA CLAUSE.
Please tell me there is a Santa, please...

And the sugar story.... My granny used to give us sugar sandwiches which annoyed my mother, who said they would give us worms.
Yet were allowed a cup with a little sugar in, to eat our rhubarb.
Deanna X

Deanna - of course there's a Santa Claus. He spends a whole day (Christmas Eve) making presents for every child in the world, then puts them on his sleigh, hitches the reindeer to it and flies over the rooftops delivering all the presents, again to all the children in the world. At every house he has a mince pie and glass of sherry and Rudolph has a carrot (the other reindeer don't eat). Obviously he doesn't have time to sign letters proving he exists - tut! And he achieves this in about 8 hours while all the children are asleep. He has a magic torch that he shines on children's eyes that tell him if they are asleep or not and IT NEVER FAILS!! For the rest of the year he does nothing. Of course it's all true - my mum told me. And she wouldn't lie to me - would she? ;-)

This is such a lovely thread.."im'e keeping it" lol xx

The policeman will get you if you dont go to school.

Did anyone else get told to wear clean underwear incase you were taken to hospital?

Did clean undies get you treated better, or quicker, I wonder!


As cane has said, what a lovely thread, giving us all the chance to remember times gone by!

Gailx

Ah Gail - I thought I had to wear clean undies so I didn't have an accident - as if they would keep me safe lol

My parents told me my pet dog went to live on a farm...

Pat

Hi Beverley
My grandma told me not to pull faces behind her back as all grandma's have eyes at that back of there head, well I spent years trying to find hers, now I tell my grandchildren the same thing. lol
Gill x

Hi Gill

My mum seemed to have a talking bird - she was always saying 'a little bird told me'. I always thought I'd wring it's neck if I found it.

Yes I had that one as well Beverley from my mum when she was trying to catch me out with something.