For those Born in the 40's - 70's?

[julesapple]

my mum used to heat a stone in the stove and keep it in her pocket to keep her hands warm walking to school, i told this to my kids and they thought it was a great idea and they said they want to do it next winter,,,,,, do you think i can heat one up in the microwave!!!!!! what an idea.....

The mircrowave might be a bit dodgy.....
OH's grandad used to put lambs in the bottom of the Aga to warm up. Wonder where modern farmers/shepherds put them if they don't have an aga?

Jules

[ginger ninger]

I'm siting here with a big grin on my face, because most of what every one is writing, happend in my childhood, most of which i had forgotten, thank you so much for the trip down memory lane... what a brilliant thread

[digthatchick]

Brings back wonderful memories of my childhood in the 50's - though I must confess to being a tad disappointed that I never met anyone that had their arm broken by a swan.

[Hilary B]

my mum used to heat a stone in the stove and keep it in her pocket to keep her hands warm walking to school, i told this to my kids and they thought it was a great idea and they said they want to do it next winter,,,,,, do you think i can heat one up in the microwave!!!!!! what an idea.....

I don't think a microwave would warm a dry stone, and wet would be risky.
We had USEFUL 'pet rocks' when my kids were little. The rocks sat on the back of the Rayburn (or sometimes in the oven) all evening and at bedtime, wrapped in a piece of towel, were far better than a hot water bottle!

[Hilary B]

The mircrowave might be a bit dodgy.....
OH's grandad used to put lambs in the bottom of the Aga to warm up. Wonder where modern farmers/shepherds put them if they don't have an aga?

Jules

Heatlamp usually, but it isn't as effective! We used hot water bottles (or pet rocks) because our rayburn didn't have a 'just warming up' oven.
Things were a bit primitive there, but we loved it!

[HeyWayne]

Careful people - you'll start sounding like this lot:

YouTube - Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen

[tricky]

just showed my oh.
we both had a great chuckle , thanks.

[Snadger]

my mum used to heat a stone in the stove and keep it in her pocket to keep her hands warm walking to school, i told this to my kids and they thought it was a great idea and they said they want to do it next winter,,,,,, do you think i can heat one up in the microwave!!!!!! what an idea.....

My mate used to carry a boiled egg in each hand when he walked to work in the winter to keep his hands warm! One day he arrived to work with only one boiled egg and one frozen hand. When asked why? he said he was in a hurry in the morning and only had time to boil one egg!

[Snadger]

........................We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes...............................


This is soooo true!

Jules

I used to put my hob nailed boots on when riding my bogie.......used to give a brilliant effect when tying to stop it with your feet.......plume of sparks trailing behind.
My mate lived on a farm and it wasn't untill the two of us were hurtling down a very steep hill/mountain that I happened to ask "How are we gong to stop at the bottom?" You'll see says he laughing.......... THERE WAS A SWAMP AT THE BOTTOM!!!!!!!!!!!

[MaureenHall]

Fantastic memories there Anyone remember sharing a bottle of water with a gang of friends and not wanting to have the turn after the kid with a snotty nose or the one who always managed to get crumbs in the bottle? Happy memories

[NOG]

my mum used to heat a stone in the stove and keep it in her pocket to keep her hands warm walking to school, i told this to my kids and they thought it was a great idea and they said they want to do it next winter,,,,,, do you think i can heat one up in the microwave!!!!!! what an idea.....

Our house was so cold and damp that my mum used to put are cloths in the oven to dry them and warm them up before we went to school. It was pefectly normal where we were from but I told someone at work once and they couldn't beleive me.

[bubblewrap]

Our house was so cold and damp that my mum used to put are cloths in the oven to dry them and warm them up before we went to school. It was pefectly normal where we were from but I told someone at work once and they couldn't beleive me.

The council house we lived in 1953-70 had metal framed windows & in winter I sometimes had a quarter of an inch of ice on the inside of my bed room window.

[maytreefrannie]

I feel all choked reading this thread - memories.

It's true it wasn't utopia - I remember the damp and cold too, the draughts under the doors and windows (the old blanket behind the gap at the end of the door), people worked hard and make-do-and-mend was a way of life.

There were many good times too and it's really great to remember the skipping ropes and 'What's the time, Mr Wolf?', the bottles you could return for pennies etc.

No time is perfect, there are good things about today as well and I guess our children and their children have/will have their own special memories.

[Lottieval]

I often wonder about today's kids memories and have talked about it with my DDs. Kids today are so hide bound by rules and regs and H&S, that it's hard to think of things that they'll tell their kids and grandkids. I'm a pre-war babe,just! and it really amuses me that all of a sudden, because of the recession, it's suddenly becoming cool to sew and knit, GYO and generally make do and mend, these were things we grew up with during the war and, I must admit, I still do, I'm very much of the 'it will come in handy one day' mentality! (Guess the state of my loft!!) But it does seem to make life much more rewarding somehow.

[jackie j]

To warm us in the mornings we huddled around the parrafin heater, mum would have put our clothes on a clothes horse to warm them first, no central heating then, a coal fire would be lit later in the day, and when my dad was ill my mum used to make sure it was lit before he got up, even on christmas day 1960 when it caught fire lol.