Earlier and earlier!!

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Rowlf

Ha Ha yeh and putting a pillow case on bottom of bed.No fancy coloured bags or sacks then. Never noticed whether pillow case on Christmas morning was same sort as left night before.

Pillow case? yeh musta been a rich lot, We put a sock.

[Less]

Originally Posted by cashman

Pillow case? yeh musta been a rich lot, We put a sock.

Yeah, and Father Christmas would only fill it up to the hole in the heel.

[Gordon Booth]

Dad used to drop five loose Smarties in each of our socks. Trouble was if there was a hole in the toe they'd all fall out and we'd think he'd forgotten it was Christmas.

Nothing worse than a Christmas stocking with nothing but a hole in it!

[Less]

Originally Posted by Gordon Booth

Dad used to drop five loose Smarties in each of our socks. Trouble was if there was a hole in the toe they'd all fall out and we'd think he'd forgotten it was Christmas.

Nothing worse than a Christmas stocking with nothing but a hole in it!

You had more than one sock between you?
Now I know I'm mixing with the elite!

[Gordon Booth]

Originally Posted by Less

You had more than one sock between you?
Now I know I'm mixing with the elite!

Oh yes. Short of nothing.
But if I wanted to wear a pair I had to pinch my cousins sock.

They never matched!

[Barrie Yates]

Originally Posted by Gordon Booth

Oh yes. Short of nothing.
But if I wanted to wear a pair I had to pinch my cousins sock.

They never matched!

We noticed

[Less]

Originally Posted by Gordon Booth

Oh yes. Short of nothing.
But if I wanted to wear a pair I had to pinch my cousins sock.

They never matched!

Why? did the holes in his sock not match yours?
Or was your cousin a girl so you ended up with one white ankle sock and one grey turned down at the knee wooly sock?

[Gordon Booth]

Originally Posted by Less

Why? did the holes in his sock not match yours?
Or was your cousin a girl so you ended up with one white ankle sock and one grey turned down at the knee wooly sock?

Come on, Less!

I had some pride- I'd never wear a girls sock. People would notice!

[Less]

Originally Posted by Gordon Booth

Come on, Less!

I had some pride- I'd never wear a girls sock. People would notice!

You would never wear 'a' girls sock, but did your prejudice prevent you from wearing a pair of them?
After all, there must have been times you wanted to display to the world the wealth and diversity of the family you were being dragged up in.

[Gordon Booth]

Wear a pair of girls socks?
I wouldn't dare, I'd have had Barrie and Bob chasing after me.
As for diversity, as far as I know my family were all heterosexual.

[westendlass]

Well, I got an activity toy at christmas, a turnip. You wouldn't believe how much pleasure you could get when you got to peel it at dinner time!

[Less]

Originally Posted by westendlass

Well, I got an activity toy at christmas, a turnip. You wouldn't believe how much pleasure you could get when you got to peel it at dinner time!

Peel it?

What a waste of nutrition, we were told to eat it mud and all, nothing stirs the memory more than shivering around the Christmas Turnip, though I do remember one year when I was really young, my mother somehow saved up and instead of turnip we had a swede, I was that year even allowed a full leaf to myself, though my older brothers and sister have since told me that my Dad had got up early and sucked all the sap out of the leaf that I got.

[Less]

Originally Posted by Gordon Booth

As for diversity, as far as I know my family were all heterosexual.

Surely you like everyone else had an Uncle that spent his war years in Portsmouth trying to get into the Marines?

[Gordon Booth]

Originally Posted by Less

Surely you like everyone else had an Uncle that spent his war years in Portsmouth trying to get into the Marines?

Actually I had an uncle who spent the war in Portsmouth/Gosport but he had six children so I'm fairly sure about him.

My dad always said the peelings off a turnip had the most goodness in them and cooking them would spoil it. So he always let me eat them raw while he had to put up with hot turnip soup.
He always did spoil me!

[dotti34]

Love all the very funny comments. Thank you for giving me a good start to my day, with laughter. One thing about it – however poor we were as kids somehow we managed to develop a sense of humour which carried us through the bad times as well as the good. I guess we had to. Most of you have still got it by the sound of things, and thank goodness for that.

We accepted the way things were as we didn’t know anything different. Wonder how many these days could (and would) do the same.

Anyway, hope you are all enjoying the good times now, and can actually afford a pair of matching socks – without holes, and maybe a bit of meat to go with the turnip.