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dont remember a three day week. had a few four day weekends though! never had pocket money either we used to go to the local shop pinch the emptys round the back, then take them round the front for the deposit.not many. just enough for ten berkley superkings (we had to buy long ones to share between 5 of us).didn't have much money but we had a laugh.!!

I remember it all, especially the cool bath by candle light (isn't that romantic now?)

Wouldn't it be a wonerful thing if it could be experienced again by our darling over pampered teenagers - I suspect mine would need councilling after being separated from the xbox for more than a few hours.....

Eee, it's a right old nostalgia trip, this thread! It's amazing how many things you'd forgotton all about come flooding back...

A place I was working a few years back was organising an event and we had to go to the cash 'n carry for 'penny' sweets - I tell you, after a week or two 'finishing off' Black Jacks and Fruit Salads, suddenly they become a bit much!

I lived in the middle of nowhere in the North York Moors when I was growing up (and loved every minute!), and we were beyond the mains, so the power cuts never effected us, we had the phut phut of the diesel generator keeping us illuminated. The Rayburn in the kitchen kept us cosy, but it was like an ice box upstairs, with thick frost and ice on the windows. I used to be snowed in for most of the winter - my birthday's in November and I used to nearly always have to cancel my planned party....

My children love hearing all about it (at the moment, they're young enough to be interested!), and we've got some great memories

That soooooo hit home

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The greatness comes not when things go always good for you,but the greatness comes when you are really tested,when you take,some knocks,some disappointments;because only if youv'e been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

I've been trying to plan a camping trip, my teenagers are only interested in a campsite with wi-fi access! They can't believe we had to choose between a TV or having the telephone connected when we were young. We choose the TV, why did we need to phone our friends when we'd been with them all day at school? If we wanted to send a messsage to someone further afield we wrote a letter, in fact I kept up with pen pals in France until I was in my mid-twenties, wish we were still in touch now.

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I could not live without a garden, it is my place to unwind and recover, to marvel at the power of all growing things, even weeds!

http://potagerplot.blogspot.com/

French skipping...

Two, Four, Six, Eight,
Mary's at the Cottage Gate,
Eating Cherries off a Plate,
Two, Four, Six, Eight.

I was just in time to catch the Double Dutch thing (last year in junior school) too, that was great fun, but soooo hard, and turning two ropes at the same time wasn't easy either!

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Sarah

“Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

Cripes SarzWix......one rope was hard enough!!!!

My dad was a boy in the Depression; and became a builder

In the 50s, 60s and early 70s a lot of his work was converting coal fires to gas or electric he said he would never do that in his own house, always keep one open fire then if there's a strike, a power cut, or if times get hard, you can always find something to burn -- a broken down fence, an old pallet, a dead tree, anything My own house now is all central heating, but if i move, i'll look for a proper fire I don't see economic conditions improving in the forseeable future At least I now have an allotment to grow some food, even if it is just spuds and beans

What goes around comes around!Everyone wants solid fuel or wood burners now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The greatness comes not when things go always good for you,but the greatness comes when you are really tested,when you take,some knocks,some disappointments;because only if youv'e been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Interestingly, in France, people get financial assistance if they install wood burning stoves!!!

According to the Rayburn website, you get a VAT reduction if you install a wood-burning Rayburn. Wish I could afford one

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Sarah

“Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”