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Offline kennyb

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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #9 on: Monday 10 December 07 11:39 GMT (UK) »
 My Wife ;D ;D ;D She still looks as good and runs as smooth as she did forty years ago :D :D

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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #10 on: Monday 10 December 07 11:53 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: kennyb on Monday 10 December 07 11:39 GMT (UK)
My Wife ;D ;D ;D She still looks as good and runs as smooth as she did forty years ago :D :D

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But do you?;D ;D
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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #11 on: Monday 10 December 07 12:03 GMT (UK) »
Do houses count? If so, then our house is definately from the past - it was built in 1893.

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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #12 on: Monday 10 December 07 12:06 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: XPhile2868 on Monday 10 December 07 12:03 GMT (UK)
Do houses count? If so, then our house is definately from the past - it was built in 1893.

Stephen :)

I don't see why not Stephen!!  I wonder who lives in the oldest one...maybe that should be a new thread  :D

I'm not so sure about wives though Ken  :o

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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #13 on: Monday 10 December 07 13:43 GMT (UK) »
Imperial measurement and weights most of the time, and i still prefer the old £sd even though it was more complicated.
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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #14 on: Monday 10 December 07 16:24 GMT (UK) »

But do you?;D ;D
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I wish you hadn't asked, I was only after brownie points. ;D ;D

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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #15 on: Monday 10 December 07 16:53 GMT (UK) »
 ;D ;D ;D


My nans  glass rolling pin made in the glass factory my ggrandad and his dad worked in.  My nans knitting needles and baby knitting patterns.

My MIL still has cutlery in use that belonged to my ggrandfather (I have my eye on those ;) ) and the prize possession that the next baby christened will wear its 3x gr grandfather's christening gown   8)

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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #16 on: Monday 10 December 07 18:37 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: 01debbie on Monday 10 December 07 09:49 GMT (UK)
Having recently been re-acquainted with a good old fashioned hot water bottle, (& wondering how I've ever coped without it!!!)  I was wondering which other items from the past are still used reguarly by Rootschatters?

Debbie  :)

Definitely the hot water bottle. I always thought an electric blanket was rather a SCARY THING. I mean, you're laying on loads of wires producing ELECTRICITY for gawd's sake. One slight break in those wires could lead to...well....a shocking experience at the very least, couldn't it???

Not to mention sleeping enveloped in an electric field.

Maybe it's me and my paranoia, but I always thought this was a REALLY BAD THING. Like living next to an electricity pylon.

I got rid of my electric alarm clock for the same reason.

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Re: Which items from the past do you still use?
« Reply #17 on: Monday 10 December 07 18:44 GMT (UK) »

My grandpa's toasting fork and my daughter now has his steel for sharpening knives. 


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