The past is a different country. They do things differently there.

[Ecneps]

 

There's no joke like an old joke
back to chestnuts again!

[Cynfran]

This has been a great thread with all the memories of 'better times'!? and I'm glad to say that I remember a lot of them - 'Rag & bone men, larders etc etc'
However, I smiled as I was reminded me of an old  television sketch that I saw repeated fairly recently, where a group of people sat round desperately trying to outdo each other with increasingly desperate tales of their supposed deprived childhoods.

[Ecneps]

Because it was always frozen in winter Barbara! 

Yes, then it was hanging around all morning in summer too, warm milk whatever time of year.... yuk - it's a wonder we weren't all ill (bred them tough in the North!) 

[Gadget]

Well, I didn't drink mine - used to swap it for an apple 

Sometimes they brought orange juice in those 1/3 pt bottles as well - now that was good 

[kerryb]

School milk - yuk yuk yuk yuk

Because I was ill as a child I was forced to drink it as they thought it would be good for me.  I hated it and even now I still have an aversion to milk and the only time I will drink it is on my breakfast cereal! 

Kerry

[JAP]

Thumps head with clenched hand!

Several times!

In order to remind self never ever, however tempted, to post on topics like this 
I've learned that lesson on ToT but obviously not yet on other boards ...

I guess this thread is somewhat genealogical but ...

Oh Trystan, if only you could arrange it so that we could somehow stop a topic repeatedly and repeatedly coming up in 'new replies to your posts'.  Or, at least, that we could quickly mark the new posts as read instead of having to open them ...

Ah well, I've learned my lesson ...
Mea culpa!

To the rest of you - have fun!  While I open and delete!

JAP

[ricky1]

Well, I didn't drink mine - used to swap it for an apple 

Sometimes they brought orange juice in those 1/3 pt bottles as well - now that was good 

Hi Gadget

I used to prefer the 1/3 pt bottle of milk, used to be my job to collect the milk from the school gate and put it on the milk cart , and delivery to the two class rooms

Hi JAP
best thing if you dont want replies to a posting is to saves wear and tear on the head

[dollylee]

Oh Trystan, if only you could arrange it so that we could somehow stop a topic repeatedly and repeatedly coming up in 'new replies to your posts'.  Or, at least, that we could quickly mark the new posts as read instead of having to open them ...

JAP

I am more than a little confused here.

It must be a joke that is either going over my head or one I am not privy to.  Why would you post on a topic you obviously think is redundant??  For that matter why would you even read it in the first place once you realized what it was about.

You don't have to open them....just let them sit in "new replies to your post"....they are titled so easy to avoid the ones you have no interest in.

I have to go lie down....I would appreciate being let in on the joke......it's just so bizarre.

Have you hit your head once to often?

dollylee

[Lynn H]

You can stop the notifications if you go into your stats and mark the ones you want to stop.

                                          Lynn.