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Things you miss from the past

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JoyBoroAngel

JoyBoroAngel Report 29 Oct 2018 13:04

I used to love Milk tray
especially the Coffee

But they have now taken all the old choices out
and replaced them with yukky awful ones :-D :-D

Gillx

Gillx Report 27 Oct 2018 23:42

Weekend boxes of chocolates by Mackintosh, I loved the lime ones drizzled with dark chocolate.

David

David Report 27 Oct 2018 21:53

On a Friday afternoon my Mother would boil a big bone she had bought from the butchers in the Grainger Market. This would boil all afternoon until it near melted.
Into the pan she added barley, lentils, split peas. We called it broth. Have never tasted the like, none of it was wasted. I'm smiling broadly at the memory of it.

Linda

Linda Report 27 Oct 2018 13:54

My childhood running free in the fields of my uncles farm feeding the chickens collecting the eggs riding on the tracker allowed in those days, eating pasties sitting around the aga at supper time and being put to bed on a feather mattress with a stone hot water bottle bliss

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 26 Oct 2018 13:03

Bob, you in your Beatle boots, me in my Dolly Shoes we could have twisted the night away.

Me too Shelley, I was a size 8!!!!

:-D :-D :-D

Dame*Shelly*(

Dame*Shelly*("\(*o*)/") Report 25 Oct 2018 21:58

my lovely skinny figure size 10

but now it has grown bigger :-(

JoyBoroAngel

JoyBoroAngel Report 24 Oct 2018 21:10

Florence61
I never weigh anything to
always come out ok :-D :-D

Must be a Nana thing :-D :-D

Florence61

Florence61 Report 24 Oct 2018 20:54

My nanna's sunday tea.She made wonderful rock cakes and scones and never weighed the ingredients yet they were tasty every time.

Florence in the hebrides :-)

mowtown girl...I loved spangles too :-D

Sharron

Sharron Report 24 Oct 2018 19:55

That is one of the points this strange report is carefully drafted to avoid.

It doesn't tell you very much at all.

JoyBoroAngel

JoyBoroAngel Report 24 Oct 2018 19:31

So one day I might get my Sago back :-D :-D

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 24 Oct 2018 19:15

Well, the sago palms were sort of damaged - in that loads died and it takes 5 or 6 years until they're of harvesting size, and the land they grow on was polluted.

The authors are local to ''where?

They also appear to be discussing the growth of sago, and other unutilized foodstuffs in general, not specifically after the tsunami

Denburybob

Denburybob Report 24 Oct 2018 19:04

Rice Cremola.
And, blimey Motown, Anello and Davide. They were in Drury Lane, Covent Garden. I queued for ages to buy a pair of Beatle boots in 1963. They cost me 84 shillings. Or 4 guineas. In todays money, £4.20p. Can't even get a pint of beer for that now. By the way, the boots were surprisingly comfortable. Someone nicked them while I was stationed at Catterick.

Sharron

Sharron Report 24 Oct 2018 18:54

I have read it too.

The article is incomplete, it evidently leaves out whatever those commissioning the study does not want to hear.

RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 24 Oct 2018 18:50

5 mnutes don't worry ;-)

Sharron

Sharron Report 24 Oct 2018 18:14

Those who understand the concept of capitalism will know that there is a big difference between subsistence and trade.

The is a great deal of effort to take just to make me look wrong.

Ah well.

RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 24 Oct 2018 18:10

The sago ( the real thing ) was not wiped out by the 2004 tsunami though of course they were damaged where the water came up.

Here s a 2014 paper crafted by some locals who should know what they are talking about.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-5269-9_2

I do like rice but in the oriental style not the horrible product usually served up in the west. Sadly bad cooking is not something that has become a childhood memory :-(

Andysmum

Andysmum Report 24 Oct 2018 16:14

Huntley and Palmers Breakfast biscuits!

martynsue

martynsue Report 24 Oct 2018 15:50

decent good quality toys that you do not need to take a mortgage out to purchase.

Bunnyboo

Bunnyboo Report 24 Oct 2018 12:36

I know - sadly!!

+++DetEcTive+++

+++DetEcTive+++ Report 24 Oct 2018 12:12

Whistling? That's sexual harassment now!