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I think it was just the hot coal on the metal shovel, Margaret, lovely and whiffy. I loved baking days, too, and the smell of an apple dumpling steaming in its cloth - oooh, me back teeth are standing in water!

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Mine too Pendy...what did you have to go and do that for :) ?

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me gran had a thick green table cloth on the front room table, what was that stuff called? can,t for the life remember.

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me gran had a thick green table cloth on the front room table, what was that stuff called? can,t for the life remember.

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oops,lolllll

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Wasn't the baize, was it that is still used for covering tables for conferences ?

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not sure katex don,t ring a bell? but wouldn,t back against it, was very thick material was hoping i,d remember if somebody mentioned it? old age seems to be preventing this,lol:) :)

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No, I'm wrong Cashman .. that 'aint it. Know what you mean though .. was used when table not in use, sometimes had a fringe around the edge .. got me going now :confused:

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It was Chenille......they used to have door curtains made of similar stuff too...to keep the draughts down in winter.

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We must have been poor,i remember newspaper on the kitchen table/mangle....but the front room table was polished with bees wax

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Yes, we had newspaper during the week but a cloth on Sunday. I once got a thick ear off my dad for trying to read the News of the World (it was upside down...so I was struggling) while having my tea.
The newspaper was also re-cycled into toilet paper...OK, I know this has nothing to do with front rooms.

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Good old days, I used to get the job of tearing the newspaper into squares and threading them onto a piece of string with the biggest needle you ever saw for hanging on the back of the door of the outdoor lav, and when the paper was used the string had to be untied and the process started again, my Gran never wasted anything we should be millionaires by now but we aren't.

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oh i am glad that we were not the only ones....
did anyone else have an army coat on the bed because it was so,oo cold....

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Of course, you a star :e30:

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ooo yea i remember the army coat ....damm warm too.