[jambutty]

Originally Posted by steeljack

kind of makes you wonder how our Mothers and Grandmothers managed in years gone by , after all they not only had to shop for the week on the Saturday market and cart everything home on the bus, wash (using a copper gas boiler and mangle) and then clean the house (including donkey stone the front step) feed and raise a large family, many times in a 2 up 2 down , and also hold down a full time job in the mill. .........It must have been really traumatic for your hubby to make the effort to leave the xbox and go buy a pint of milk ..........

We managed quite well in years gone by because there were corner shops aplenty, plus fishmongers, butchers and greengrocers within easy reach and we sent the kids. That’s how the kids learned the value of money and they had to do it in pounds shillings and pence, not the easy metric way.

Er! You forgot cleaning out the fire grate and laying the new fire again in a room that was freezing first thing in the morning. Bringing in some coal from either the coal hole in the backyard or if you had a cellar, from the cellar. A coal fire made terrific toast though. But then the bread was different in those days.