Maggie/915

Amazing what we collect over a life time. Photos we document on this site but I guess we have collected so much more. Underground, overground bits of our own history. In our wash house we have the first gravestone for my father circa 1985 The council grass cutter smashed it and within minutes neighbours of the church had told my mother.

Fenders, we still have some. We have not got any rock crystals but did have some coral and the odd large sea shell. This summer one granddaughter was collecting flints and shells at Birling Gap. Collecting should be another topic.

A bacon sandwich sometime too early, basically so I would be ready to go to church. A roast dinner when I was not hungry, possibly after the bread and dripping. Sunday School at the Tin Mission. Card Games of 'Stop the Bus' etc for match sticks. The game involved collecting the same suit of cards up to and above 23. I wonder if any one else knows the game! Drafts, monopoly, I still have the original with tank motorbike, car, and ship. The grandchildren still play with the original. Odd rules have changed but as it is 'My gaf it is my rules'

Morning smells of rice pudding and steak and kidney pie. A deep pie that needed something in the middle to keep the crust out of the gravy.

Point taken, we need more visitors.

Not sure Canny Lass but my guess is the smell gave it away! Decorative with a purpose. Apart from the Coronation the weather always seemed fine, maybe no moss grew in those far off days of old

Yep but bought in good faith by my mother. They have become heirlooms.

One photo of said traffic warden

The places where you have to put in a registration number bug me! You cannot then forward on. In Lancaster last week the parkies were so hot on the trail that one was stalking a motorist who merely pulled up for a second. Edinburgh is not to good either. My mother bought our kids two traffic wardens one year. They were to hang in the car window.

There is a debate about soap or gel. The residue left by the soap is fat which can protect against various complaints. For donkey stone I now use Ariel, it gets rid of the slippy moss on our stone steps! It will also clean burnt/ on pans. Small amount and boil.! Sounds like a recipe! Other soap powders are available. The smell of wood smoke is a favourite of mine. Burning leaves etc is a hobby. I blame coal fires. We should live in a forest or on a farm miles from anyone

Parking charges at hospitals generally are high and often unfair.

HPW here is the coronation mug presented to me in 1953

I was reminded of childhood by the smell of Cold Tar soap. Music can remind us of time and place, so can smells good and bad.

Excellent information and the photo's very good.

As we are going back to the future. Can anyone mind getting the last sugar out of the bag , or the last drops of milk. My dad reckoned to stir the pot of tea with a small bit of sugar. Not sure if it was to release the flavour or make it stronger. I guess both apply. Money saving tips from the old gits /sorry children of the sixties! Who would believe that we can remember rationing. National Health Orange Juice would be replaced by water

Another Joni Quote ' They paved paradise put up a parking lot' Our government and local planners will soon have no green space left. Maybe we should all leave Blighty and join Symptoms. No 'plakka Geordie 's' I hear someone say!

As Joni Mitchell would say' I've looked at life from both sides now' Maybe 'Power Corrupts' Harry Patch the last tommy from the First World War advocated talking because war is 'licensed murder' Problem as always is who has the power. The Miners Strike was like a war. A class war with no winners.

Good luck tonight! I will think of you but not that often.

Excellent stories HPW.

Have a great day and a memorable happy birthday with no broken bones.

Stagey Bank Fair! Wonder where it came from? Possibly says a lot about the ancestors. My oldest grandson in the NE has never heard the word Glaky/ Glakey he is nearly 14! Sad the old words are dying out.

Did anyone say :- 'Stagey Bank Fair' for an untidy house.

Rail tracks replica engines our very own Beamish. We can dream! The site of the Iron Works and the walk to Attlee Park has possibilities for the future.

Symptoms your accent must have changed over the years! I think you are just being a 'Workie Ticket' or a 'Radgie Gadgie' Failing that look up the 'Plastic People of the Universe.'they were sent to prison for being controversial and playing pop music. That was in the 60's. Lucky for us we lived her in Bedlington.

Tonight at 7.30. Jez Lowe is top of the bill. Beeswing and Anne Sessoms will be telling the tale of the pit disaster that happened in 1862. Nearly the entire workforce of the village was killed