General Chat

Last year I planted a grape vine, which I assumed would die in the winter, in an old sink in the garden.It is going like the clappers now so I suppose it will have to come out.

Remember going to see the sister of my grandmother and she had a flat sort of sink. It was probably just a shallow one but I remember it as flat. That caused me a great deal of puzzlement.

We,at the time,were in a cottage with no running water but we had a sink.It had a bicycle inner tube running from the plug hole into an oil drum which had to be carried out an emptied in the ditch.

The lavatory was also a bucket affair which was emptied into a pit and later used on the garden. I remember falling in it wearing my new coat. I was in the garden with my cousin at the time and she was prone to being jealous but I must not cast aspersions!

We left the sink (bosh) in the garden , as peeps often plant in them.
You should do so with yours now that you are thinking of it :)
I have a large terracotta urn of my nan's that we plant, she had painted it grey !!!!
Dau doesn't like it.. too old fashioned..she says.
It' s weathered now and no longer grey.lol.. it's a beaut , much better than all these plastic pots around. Tho most look very good.
Don't get me wrong , we have many plastic ones too for the annuals.. couldn't afford all terracotta.. and I couldn't lift them either.lol

Sandie.x

Yes, it is a deep ceramic sink; I've still got it in the back garden, one day i'll put some plants in it :D

I think I'll leave my age as I sometimes mention my grandson and peeps might think I'm 103 lol

Fiona ~~

Wasn't meaning to ask your age..lol..I'd delete it if I were you.. I'm just a couple of yrs older.
It's just that peeps of different ages have had different gadgets over the yrs.
We bought our Microwave for £300 odd, when they first came out and were all the rage.It was an all singing all dancing one ... but I won't cook with it, other than fish ..for myself. Great for defrosting, and softening butter, but we don't have butter now. Look at the price of them now..I could buy 4 for the price I paid then. :-(
What is a butler sink ? yeah it has no draining board..Is it a deep ceramic sink ?, being Welsh I would call a bosh. Parents had one til my dad died. Took hubby and a mate to get it out..and the cast iron ceramic bath, when hubby renovated the house for sale.
They had to go..the house wasn't selling as it was and we couldn't afford to keep the house ourselves.. renting wasn't an option for me.
I couldn't have someone possibly making a mess of it whilst it was still ours.. my family home.
Now it is sold,it's theirs and I hope they will love it.

Sandie.x

I'm 50 Sandie. I must admit when we upgraded to the colour telly it was a 16" portable. We only got a 'normal' size set in the past couple of years - I got cable installed when he was stuck in hospital for two weeks lol!

I have the old model dishwasher. My dad.It is one of the many chores the poor old devil carries out.

I'll give him be 91 and have a stroke.Cuts no ice with me,he must get on with it!

Oh Fiona..lol

Don't know your age..

I had a black and white portable 14inch TV , before I married , I lived at home with parents. When hubby and I married we still kept my TV.. upgrading wasn't a priority..a few yrs later we had a colour 16 inch portable (loved it..) dau had it when we went 'posh' with a 'big 'TV

Gosh.. how one's priorities change. Lol Work and salary comes into mind :-)

My OH is absolutely lovely, but in the early years of our marriage of often thought about upgrading him to a nice Amish man!

My MIL bought me a spin-drier in about 1982 which was lovely, but I still had to either go to the Launderette, or do the washing in the bath because we only had a butler sink - with no draining-board!

I got an automatic washing machine in 1986, the same year that we got a colour television.

Me and you you hun ZZ zzz ~~

Sorry ! ..but never used a washboard, tho mum had one at home.
Mum washed by hand,, gosh til 1972.. my sister left Uni and bought mum a twin tub.
We then bought her a Spin drier ,cos we lived my parents for a few months after we married.. .We left it with them when we bought our own house a few months later.
Parents were so great, to have us to live there,til we could get our own house.They weren't short of money..but didn't divulge in such ' luxuries '... and didn't think it necessary.
I do hand wash a lot, and of course I have dishwasher...hubby.
I have 4 adults in the household and couldn't do without my washer / drier where I live

OOOERR, I had a wash board to start with 1978 no mangle, then when we had a bit of money I had a single tub with the wheel at the side so the clothes got tangled and we bought a spin drier, then in 1982 I had my first new washing machine and it was an automatic. It sounds like the dark ages doesn't it?

Not even that far back chris. I didn't have a washing machine at all until 1970ish (married in 1960) and then it was a twin tub. Quite a while after that I had an automatic, about 1979 and had the dish washer about the same time.

Sylvia - don't need to go that far back - just 50-60 years ago!

ZZzzz.
I have often wondered how people used to manage in those days, with all the washing and ironing cooking and cleaning. We have it easy really I think with so many things to make our lives easier. Mind you I still dont have enough hours in the day.
xx

yes but if we had washing machines ect in those days the servants would have operated them not us so what we need is servants to operate all those things for us now lol

Little wonder my head hurts, anyway I googled some of the addresses my family lived in in the late 1800s and early 1900s they are quite grand, cellars, attics, they were business people and had servants, which made me think we all have "servants" these days washing machines, dish washers, lawn mowers and the like, we don't have such big houses though, what do you all reckon??
PS. I've always said I can bring anyone down to my level.