I lived down in Whitby St and just about everyone lived off home made cooking.
Fry up was Sunday morning, Sunday roast dinner, mam's hm cakes pies and biscuits. The air used to be thick with hm bread. And yes dripping as well. Fish and chips on Friday but they weren't as expensive as today's offering.

We did live like royalty because everything was home cooked in their houses as well, with maybe biscuits from Harrods but we didn't have Harrods in West Hartlepool.
Good wholesome homemade food to fill the kids up.
What did you have, dry bread and water as you looked through bars.

That was dead normal then.
My mam was school cook and at the end of the day, if liver was on the menu there was loads remaining so she’d bring some home, no kidding we got the gravy on our tea, the dog got the liver mind only cos we couldn’t stand it.

I lived down in Whitby St and just about everyone lived off home made cooking.
Fry up was Sunday morning, Sunday roast dinner, mam's hm cakes pies and biscuits. The air used to be thick with hm bread. And yes dripping as well. Fish and chips on Friday but they weren't as expensive as today's offering.

We did live like royalty because everything was home cooked in their houses as well, with maybe biscuits from Harrods but we didn't have Harrods in West Hartlepool.
Good wholesome homemade food to fill the kids up.
that was nothing exceptional either as your mates also got something similar. funny how we ate all that stuff and apart from the fat lad and lass in the class we all looked thin as a rake before our teens. now crossing the road in the evening is dangerous with the amount of take away drivers there is bringing food thats difficult to pronounce to the fat households down the street. even with war time rationing that many of the baby post war boom had to suffer the population then were regarded to be fitter then because of our diets. funny how that happened as most of the modern experts regarded many of our old foods to be unhealthy.

just remembered, anyone else remember when the sunday joint itself lasted till at least tuesday and sometimes into wednesday regularly. we never complained.

Mum often got a shoulder of Lamb from Sibleys the butcher. I think it cost 13 shillings & sixpence (68p) and after Sunday dinner we had Shepherd's Pie on both Monday & Tuesday - Lovely. The old dear still made that for me when I popped in to see Mum & Dad when I was on the road.

They lived in Welton, next door to Scampton where the Red Arrows were based and you could sit out in their garden and see them practising, a great sight.

With reference to kids mostly being rake like I put it down to there was a lot more exercise in both playing around or just having to walk everywhere. I said before I did one & a half paper rounds every morning 7 days a week and that must have been 3/4 miles a day. School was a good mile away and I came home at dinnertime, another 4 miles a day.

Although living in East London I was lucky that we were close to the borders of Epping Forest and we would regularly go there to play footie or cricket in big gangs of us. There was also a large open air swimming pool that gave you further exercise and if the weather good much pleasure.

They were the days as kids you had nothing to worry about but just enjoy life.

I might be wrong in the old days in general only husband worked, the wife’s job was to cook, clean and have babies. My ex Father in Law great fella, his life revolved round the Boilermakers. He never got over it closing then subsequently burning down. Any spare time was spent in there, he would his expect his food on the table which it always was. He never left my Mother in Law short dropping her a few bob extra when he got some OT Shifts in.
Fast forward to today, I am saying not all but in most families both work to maintain the house, 2 cars etc, they don’t or can’t be bothered to cook or maybe not know how to.It’s a food delivery most days with maybe the odd time out for a pub lunch, all these fancy kitchens are never used.

You lot must have lived well,it was a bowl of gruel for breakfast followed by a slice of dried bread for lunch when i was a kid.

Fish and Chips will be a tenner soon.make the most it.

Nice if there was some left over for your sarnies on monday..preferred it to shippams beef paste.

Saw a video this morning of French Police "stabbing" one of those dinghies in order to deflate it. When confronted by one of the "Albanians" on Calais beach, he was Pepper sprayed. Good on the Police.

Are we friends or not ?? Macron likes his women a bit older i reckon Liz could get him eating out of her hand if she was in power.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/20 ... n-remarks/

I wondered what you were going to say then

surely thats the way forward for them. stab the boats, get a sniper to put a big hole in them and the transport has gone. mind you it would not surprise me once these boats are landed here they,ll send em back to france.

only a tenner, that will be for a half lot. mind you in some areas they have been charging much more than that if you eat inside and thats before this shit show started.

kuds would have nothing to worry about today. its not them but the so called parents. they are encouraged not to go out by this go to your bedroom and play attitudes. frightened to let em out if their little darlings break a finger nail as they know A and E are busy. cannot go out in the rail or cold and always remember there are at least two paedo,s in every park. o and don,t forget the stabbings. kids seem either to be put in cotton wool nowadays or treat as a complete nuisence where they wished they,d never had em in the first place. there were bound to be mistakes back in our day but most made the best of it.

Still over 900 of these leeches got over on Saturday.

Already a tenner in hpool.

Is that for the Jumbo cod? It's £9 for a regular cod and small chips at our local chippie,i give the carton of mushy peas a miss so i don't get banished to the spare room.


Robbing old cooking oil is big business for the crooks down here atm.

cannot understand anyone paying extra for the small amount you get in a carton of mushy peas or curry and gravy for that matter unless its free and part of the meal deal itself. get your slave to do your own whilst picking em up.

How much will all the ingredients cost for the curry sauce and mushy peas mr accy ? will that curry sauce take long and be expensive to make on the hob? i don't want my chips going cold.

It's still not enough,how many have set sail and made it over this week 3-4 thousand??

I expect you are right Mr S. but there will always be numbers that land "unannounced" and many more in the back of vehicles. Probably nearer 4 thousand this past week.

We will need a passport to walk down our own high street soon.

Give them nowt but let them work. Once they realise the amount it actually costs to live here they'll be pushing the new arrivals out of their dinghies to start the journey back to France. It's only because we don't let them work and then provide everything for them for nothing that they hang about.

No different to the supposed invasion of Eastern Europeans that we were told to expect once the EU enlarged. A few came to work but the majority didn't hang around long.

These do gooders handing out our generous' How to work the UK benefits system pamphlets 'would be horrified at the news . At least the responsible adults amongst us would go out of our way to ensure they had a safe return crossing..EU permitting of course,criminals or not, it doesn't matter to them eh.

Can we take advantage of the boats return journey at a price less than the ferry?
Maybe soon we will be wanting to get out of this failed state?

[quote="elwood"]Give them nowt but let them work. Once they realise the amount it actually costs to live here they'll be pushing the new arrivals out of their dinghies to start the journey back to France. It's only because we don't let them work and then provide everything for them for nothing that they hang about.

might as well let em or make em work as everyone knows they are here to stay once on our shores. there is more chance of seeing pools in the premier league in 3 years than the chance of sending the buggers back unless they want to.