What where the worst things you had to endure as a child?

[Viktoria]

 Well I`d put up with Bronco and San Izal loo paper any day over sheep`s head soup and brains.

 Considering everything we did not do too badly did we, if that`s all we have to moan about.
 No drinking water from a filthy  waterhole mies away, brought by our Mums in an old petrol can!
 We are all here to tell our interesting dislikes.
 I hated when a cat was run over, it seemed to take ages before the poor things were cleared away. When  I lived in Manchester on a busy main road  there were quite a few. I used to hold my breath when I passed a spot where one had lain, by the time I`d got where I was going I was almost unconcious from lack of oxygen!

                                             Viktoria.

[wini]

Coming home from Brownies by myself during the Blackout.  I used to run up the middle of the road in case someone or something jumped out from the hedges on either side of the road.
wini

[Priscilla]

Bronco and Izal? ... what luxury!
I remember newspaper squares looped together with string and hung on a nail inside the outside loo ...
During the long dark winter evenings it was the norm to sit at the kitchen table with a pile of old newspapers, any old bits of string that had been salvaged over a period of time and a pair of scissors making our toilet paper.  If we weren't making toilet paper we were making "spills" (tightly folded strips of newspaper) which were used for lighting the gas cooker, the fire, dad's pipe etc.
But ... know what? ... everyone was in the same boat and we were HAPPY!!!

[Jool]

Priscilla, I feel quite bad for complaining about Izal now, at least I didn't have the racing results printed on my bottom   

[SwissGill]

I attended Culcheth Hall Boarding School for Girls in Bowdon at age 7, 1949, and remember having squares of newspapers hung up instead of toilet paper.

I wonder if my Mum knew this, she had to pay a relatively large sum for my education there.

[Treetotal]

Oh...I remember it well...non absorbent shiny stuff   

Carol

[Familysearch]

My goodness!  I can smell that Izal even now!

I posted earlier in the thread about my geography teacher, but subsequent postings from other rootschatters has reminded me of other things!

Certainly the outside loo with the little oil lamp in the winter to prevent the water freezing up. As an alternative to Izal or newspaper - tissue paper that had been used to wrap oranges. Not sure how often we had this luxury - can't think we could afford the oranges or the tangerines very often, and certainly they would only be seasonal.  No freezers and very few fridges (certainly not in our house anyway until the 60's) so everything was supplied in season.  Just shows how spoilt we are these days!

I also remember the string beans - don't like them even now - but had to eat them, so always ate them first - and still do!!  As an alternative, I now grow my own French beans, and they are NOT stringy!!

[Treetotal]

No...that's San Izal disinfectant you can smell 
Carol

[SwissGill]

Did anyone else (apart FROM ME & MY SIBLINGS) have to eat 'Sheeps Head Soup?

We also had the Tongue cooked, sliced and put in 'Butties'.

My poor Mum, fed us (6 kids) as best as she could.

We all loved her to bits.

Barbara.

I went to the Butchers here and asked for a bone for my dog. He offered me a sheep's head and suggested he split it in two.

I carried it home and laid one half in my dog's kennel. If you have ever seen a dead sheep's eye, you will probably understand why I disposed of the other half.