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1st June 2020, 05:37 AM
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Re: Pot menders
Similar antic when we were kids around bonfire night time, we would block one end of our bike handle with a lump of wood, then slide several bangers down the other end, with any projectile we could find to fit the other end, a small pebble etc, light the last banger into the tube and the pebble, now stand back !!!, how we managed to grow up i sometimes wonder. We even tried fishing with bangers, ball of mud round the banger, light the fuse and drop it in the river, i don't recall getting any fish, kt
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1st June 2020, 06:57 AM
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We have a number of 'Mill Markets' here in Victoria, they carry so much stuff very often going back to before the war.
In one on Sunday looking around and found something I have not seen since I was about 5 or6.
A long pole handle with a coper cone shape piece at the bottom, it was a 'Posser'.
Mum had one and used it regularly Monday morning, you know, Monday is washing day, large pot of hot water with soap made by grating bars of soap into it then using the 'Posser' up and down to wash the clothes. A very primitive washing machine maybe.
So many of the things you have all mentioned bring back such vivid memories of a time when life was so simple.
JS, we made similar hand grenades but with steel pipes normally used for gas lines. With a screw end and a cap to hold it in, light the fuse and run.
These things would kill a Brown Dog I kid you not.
But maybe the favorite of many, Penny bangers into the letter box of houses and run for your life.
How we never managed to start a house fire !!
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
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1st June 2020, 08:36 AM
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Yes John, the memories flooding back, the mangle in the back yard is another, hence the expression *not had a good laugh since Granny caught her T*** in the mangle, kt
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1st June 2020, 09:20 AM
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1st June 2020, 09:59 AM
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RE:
Think it was more than just pots and pans but,
the town also organised a full programme of
fundraising events and further Barry adopted
the destroyer HMS Vanessa in September 1942.
K.
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3rd June 2020, 10:32 AM
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The thought police would have you nowadays for mocking the
disabled, sorry partially abled. we knew what gays were before
the rest of the world good fun, now they are a protected species.
Hope I have'nt upset any one (bet I have)
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3rd June 2020, 11:24 AM
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You all must have been very posh having your milk in bottles. Ours arrived via horse and cart, well more like a covered cab than cart. The milk was in metal milk churns and was ladled out into receptacles such as jugs, jam jars, pint pots etc that had been left on the front door step by the occupants of the house. My job was to run to each door, retrieve the container, run back to the cart, the farmer then decided what measure to give from a choice of metal ladles the smallest amount being a gill then pint and quart and then walk back to the house and place it on the step making sure that it was covered with a chipped saucer . Of course in those days there was no refrigeration so everyone got warm milk, and the odd bluebottle that had missed the eye of the farmer. And, talking about warm milk most of us golden oldies will remember the hot summers having to drink the warm milk presented to us mid mornings at school. Well not so much milk, more like liquid cheese having fermented for a couple of hours in the heat of the day. Yuk.
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3rd June 2020, 12:25 PM
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Seem to recollect 2 pints =1 quart , 4 quarts = 1 gallon , is that right ? wonder how many can remember their old tables and measurements. Don’t even have fathoms on charts these days , all metric. Only thing surviving is the old pint of beer up to now that is. Though if they changed that to a quart at the same price would have no complaints from me. JS.
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3rd June 2020, 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by
john middleton
The thought police would have you nowadays for mocking the
disabled, sorry partially abled. we knew what gays were before
the rest of the world good fun, now they are a protected species.
Hope I have'nt upset any one (bet I have)
John, I doubt it, I bet none of us gave a toss what their inclinations were as long as they did their jobs and did not interfere with anyone who was unwilling
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3rd June 2020, 03:40 PM
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Spot on Tony once those guys new you couldn't get a square peg in a round hole they left you alone, I never once got insulted by one of them. Terry
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