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

[LizzieW]

Do you remember M & B?

My gran took M & B daily for high blood pressure.  I presume M & B were the manufacturers of any white pill, so their initials were stamped on them.


Two of my grandchildren write with fountain pens at school, but it is a private school, where "they do things differently".


I've noticed left hand people now seem to write with their left arm bent at right angles from the elbow and then their hand twisted somehow so that they write over the top of the paper, rather from the side, if that makes sense.  I'm always fascinated by it.

Liz

[Gadget]

I've noticed left hand people now seem to write with their left arm bent at right angles from the elbow and then their hand twisted somehow so that they write over the top of the paper, rather from the side, if that makes sense.  I'm always fascinated by it.

I've noticed this for many years. I keep wanting to tel them how to do it     Also, there are more and more right handed people doing it as well 

I tried to hold a pen like that just to see and it is really uncomfortable. Who on earth taught them to do it like that. Meles and I worked out how to turn the paper around so why can't they 

Story about pen nibs - when I went to secondary school, I was given a posh pen with a gold left handed nib. It was lovely and I was very proud of it. One day moving between classes I found that I'd left it behind so went back to get it at the end of the next lesson. It was gone. I went to the Secretary's office - nothing. Eventually it was found without the nib. Now what use would a left handed nib be to anyone but a meles, Barbara, etc.

Come on - own up 

Gadget

[Subaru]

I don't know about left-handed fountains, but the pens I've seen are biros, with a moulded part that you hold, with the finger moulds especially for left-handers.  I bought one for one of the pupils I support, and he loves it.

The left-handed ruler starts from the opposite end, not sure if that really helps.

I have a bottle of witchhazel in my cupboard, and a bottle of stardrops!! But I'm not that old really - well I don't feel old.

Rosemary

[Ecneps]

But I'm not that old really - well I don't feel old.

Neither do we, do we Gadget?

 

[Gadget]

I think I might own to being 23-24 if you twisted my arm. TRouble is when I was very young (ancient times!) people of my current age and younger seemed so very old and dressed in strange clothes and behaved old!  Now we just wear jeans and act daft.

When did all this change or do we look old and dreary to the young   

[Ecneps]

My daughter once asked 'when do mums turn into old ladies' - when I think of my mum at my age, she was (an old lady), and I don't think I am - it must be something to do with the clothes, the perms, the blue rinses .... hers, not mine!

[Gadget]

and the corsets 

My Mum had two best ones and some 'everyday' ones. Oh my tummy is hurting just to think of them. I dread to think how we would have managed with those Victorian things which they pulled ever so tight to get 17 ins waists   

[LizzieW]

do we look old and dreary to the young

When we went to the States to visit our son and his daughter (aged 10) in the summer, she said I didn't look like a granny and that she didn't think I was old.  She even borrowed my trainers because she thought they were cool.

Liz

[Ecneps]

Forgot about corsets, even when my mum was quite ill, she wouldn't go without her corset! But they're coming back, after a fashion - been advertised on tv.  Let it all go, I say  

Cool, Liz, cool