To paraphrase FitzGerald - a stick of chalk, a skipping rope, and the Beatles singing on the radio - and paradise is ... ah my memory's failed, I can't remember the rest! LOL senior moment at embarrassing time.
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formally "we was poor, but we was happy" now morphed to usua
formally "we was poor, but we was happy" now morphed to usua
Ok rose tinted glasses and all that, but we may have been of the make and mend generation, but I don't think that as a child I yearned for anything I didn't have. Except for a sister - and I was more than happy when my baby brother eventually made his entrance. And the brownies - who my dad wouldn't let me join for political reasons.
To paraphrase FitzGerald - a stick of chalk, a skipping rope, and the Beatles singing on the radio - and paradise is ... ah my memory's failed, I can't remember the rest! LOL senior moment at embarrassing time.
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Re: we was poor, but we was happy
Well said Mary
We had little material items but most of us were happy. front and back doors often not locked because nothing worth taking.
Today the children are being inundated with consumer goods , but do they make them happy.
We had little material items but most of us were happy. front and back doors often not locked because nothing worth taking.
Today the children are being inundated with consumer goods , but do they make them happy.
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' And Wilderness were Paradise enow'? (But I had to check with Google!)marymck wrote: To paraphrase FitzGerald - a stick of chalk, a skipping rope, and the Beatles singing on the radio - and paradise is ... ah my memory's failed, I can't remember the rest! LOL senior moment at embarrassing time.
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lol - that's the one, thank you Robin.
Sub Mayow Park for Wilderness, and I think we've done it!
The thing is I confess to have a bit of unsatisfied yearning ... for Butlin's. But my dad said he hadn't been through Korea for that!
Sub Mayow Park for Wilderness, and I think we've done it!
The thing is I confess to have a bit of unsatisfied yearning ... for Butlin's. But my dad said he hadn't been through Korea for that!
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I had 5 sisters and 3 brothers Mary,including myself there were 11 of us, but I loved my childhood,it was hard and we had nothing but I loved being part of a large family,We were very polite,well mannered,and always willing to help others,if we had been any different my mum would have clipped our ears!
The let down we had was in education,I will not forgive the teachers who didnt care enough to set us on our way.our parents did their best,but my father worked all the hours god sent to keep us all,he would not touch " Welfare" my mother obviously worked hard to feed us etcetc,I know some people would say " no need for a large family" its true these days, but back then no pill to pop, Its not an excuse I know,but we are here so nothing to be done about that.
Its such a shame that our potential wasnt seen,most of us ended up in shop work.
I have made sure my children haven't.
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The let down we had was in education,I will not forgive the teachers who didnt care enough to set us on our way.our parents did their best,but my father worked all the hours god sent to keep us all,he would not touch " Welfare" my mother obviously worked hard to feed us etcetc,I know some people would say " no need for a large family" its true these days, but back then no pill to pop, Its not an excuse I know,but we are here so nothing to be done about that.
Its such a shame that our potential wasnt seen,most of us ended up in shop work.
I have made sure my children haven't.
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I would have agreed with you if my children were still young! But I dont spend unless its needed anyway,my scottish father taught me that!
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Re: we was poor, but we was happy
Imagine you could choose to be born in 1812, 1912, 2012 or 2112 AD...
Which would you choose...
Which would you choose...
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SepticSkeptic
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Alan Turing was born in 1912....
I wonder what his choice would have been.
I wonder what his choice would have been.
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As the choice doesn't include the year I was born in, I'd pick 2012 definitely. The hope of things to come.1912 and you'd have lived (if you were lucky enough to survive) through the two worst wars in history.1812 too unhealthy.2112 too unknown.
I think Alan Turing would have lived a happier life if he'd been born now. But we may have lost the war.
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Good answer. I think I'd have to go further into the future. I'll take the risk of environmental or nuclear apocalypse with the hope of improvements in dental care and a cure for chronic back pain!
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Oh P . O
If you dont have anything constructive to say to my post,dont say anything.
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Do not worry Annie.
Younger people have no idea how many things now taken fro granted children had in the 50's.
Indeed judged by todays stupid standards 99% of children lived in poverty.
Younger people have no idea how many things now taken fro granted children had in the 50's.
Indeed judged by todays stupid standards 99% of children lived in poverty.
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Re: we was poor, but we was happy
I've posted that MP sketch on here before so I didn't bother posting it here, luckily rod took up that baton
I thought it was funny rod.
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I am happy to have fun about somethings, but, I dont find comments like that about abject poverty to be funny,The joke had already been done once, I think thats enough.
Good for you Mike, im surprised you laugh at others mis fortune.
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CaptainCarCrash
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Awe, come on Annie, I'm not making fun out of it. I just found that sketch from MP to be funny that's all. "Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!"Annie. wrote:I am happy to have fun about somethings, but, I dont find comments like that about abject poverty to be funny,The joke had already been done once, I think thats enough.
Good for you Mike, im surprised you laugh at others mis fortune.
Now that is funny.
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You know what Rod,you can come up with all the statistics you like, they are meaningless to me, you had to be there to know what it was like,and you werent so stop talking rubbish and grow up.
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CaptainCarCrash
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Re: we was poor, but we was happy
I'm currently research the reason as to why every single forum thread turns in to a bun fight?
You could post a thread called Films you like and someone would come along and tell you why your choices are rubbish and the thread would descend in to an angst fight.
Nearly always.
You could post a thread called Films you like and someone would come along and tell you why your choices are rubbish and the thread would descend in to an angst fight.
Nearly always.
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Of course times changing but many on this site have seemed to implied that my generation have had it easy.
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You state the "luckiest" year to be born is 1948, how can you say that when the rationing wasnt even over by then?After the war
Rationing continued after the end of the war in 1945, but the basic petrol ration for civilians was restored when peace returned. Some aspects of rationing became stricter for some years after the war. Bread, which had been reduced in quality during the war but not formally controlled, was rationed from 1946 to 1948; potato rationing began in 1947.
At the time this was presented as needed to feed people in European areas under British control, whose economies had been devastated by the fighting.[2] This was partly true, but with many British men still mobilised in the armed forces, an austere economic climate, and a centrally-planned economy under the post-war Labour government, resources were not available to expand food production and food imports. Frequent strikes by some workers (most critically dock workers) made things worse.[2]
At the 1950 General Election, the Conservative Party campaigned on a manifesto of ending rationing as quickly as possible.[2] During the following Labour-controlled parliament, petrol rationing ended on 26 May 1950.[6] The Conservatives came to power in 1951. Sweet rationing ended in February 1953, and sugar rationing ended in September 1953; however, the end of all food rationing did not come until 4 July 1954, with meat the last to become freely available again.[7]
Suez Crisis
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Rationing continued after the end of the war in 1945, but the basic petrol ration for civilians was restored when peace returned. Some aspects of rationing became stricter for some years after the war. Bread, which had been reduced in quality during the war but not formally controlled, was rationed from 1946 to 1948; potato rationing began in 1947.
At the time this was presented as needed to feed people in European areas under British control, whose economies had been devastated by the fighting.[2] This was partly true, but with many British men still mobilised in the armed forces, an austere economic climate, and a centrally-planned economy under the post-war Labour government, resources were not available to expand food production and food imports. Frequent strikes by some workers (most critically dock workers) made things worse.[2]
At the 1950 General Election, the Conservative Party campaigned on a manifesto of ending rationing as quickly as possible.[2] During the following Labour-controlled parliament, petrol rationing ended on 26 May 1950.[6] The Conservatives came to power in 1951. Sweet rationing ended in February 1953, and sugar rationing ended in September 1953; however, the end of all food rationing did not come until 4 July 1954, with meat the last to become freely available again.[7]
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No need for apologies, it's true of almost every forum. It's just the way we are.rod taylor wrote:
Might be my fault. Sorry.