when we fondly remember our Mothers as most of us do, what childhood memories stick in your mind?

[Bobbisox]

I said in the lovely Mothers Day thread, mine was Sunday night bath time,. funny it was just once a week then :-) and a scrubbed top and tail weekdays..lol
very long hair, washed and rinsed in....diluted white vinegar!!!! to keep the nits and dickies away, then the dreaded Durbac comb
Happy Days....

[TTG]

Coming home from school and Mum was always there. She was usually in the kitchen preparing the evening meal.

Thanks Mum x

[Bobbisox]

awww TTG, that's nice
there was always a strong smell of steam and washing on Mondays where she had boiled the white sheets, those days must have been really hard

[ummmm]

That she was a bloody fast runner and my aim in life was to be faster than her. I think the last time we had a race was when I was in my early 20's...she still beat me :-(

[andy-hughes]

I have vast swathes of blank spaces in my mind converning my childhood, and what is there is not happy.

I wish I had good memories of my mother - she is nearly 89, and when she dies, as she must, I will not mourn her - someone I barely know, I will mourn the realtionship I should have had with her which was never there, and that is surely sadder still.

[Bobbisox]

very sad indeed Andy this is why I said 'most of us do'

[netibiza]

yes bath nights, mine were Wednesday and Saturday, and then one sister got in after me, cos i was the youngest at the time. Also Monday was my "crust" day when I had to eat the crusts of the bread, because we used to fight over the crispy ones, then she started buying sliced bread and it was horrible! At that time there were 6 of us children so each had a crust day and a free-for-all on Sunday! Also we used to argue about the different cereal bowls, so mum went and bought six identical ones to stop the rowing, and blow me if there wasn't a green spot in the bottom of one of them and we all argued about that, so she then had to remember to give it to us all on a different day. Have very thick hair and we had to dry it by the fire, took forever! My mother often left my father and always took me, so I have different memories from my siblings.

[milly143]

I chuffin hate mothers day.

[Bobbisox]

mind you were posh, 2 baths a week neti..ha-ha

[ladyalex]

I'm with Milly and Andy.
Wish I wasn't, but I am.

[mrs_overall]

There were 10 of us for bath night so the water got progressively more icky as Sunday night went on.
When I was about 4, mum was about to plonk me in the bath when I screamed out that there was something brown & floating in the water. She ignored me & plonked me in the bath.
I can remember the feeling of sitting on the squashy lump of poo deposited by a younger brother

[Bobbisox]

and there is a lot like you,
but the saving grace here would be, I bet you dote on your children and grandchildren if you have them?

[netibiza]

Not one to blow my own trumpet but we did have 3 bathrooms and 15 bedrooms (cos the house was cheaper after the war!) and there were a lot of us. The immersion only went on for bathnights, and the boiler would heat the water the rest of the time. House +was freezing! Oh we also had a tennis court!

[milly143]

I don't have any yet but I hope if I do, then I will be.

[mrs_overall]

Was there a "Last Petrol Station before Neti's house" down the road? lol

[Bobbisox]

mrs o
I have just about choked here...LOLOLOLOL

[starone]

Mine is not a childhood memory but when I was a bit older and we used to congregate at my mother's house every Saturday for a good old chinwag. One Saturday there were my sister, my niece, mum and me, sitting round the kitchen table. My mother passed my sister a note and she burst out laughing. The note said "Please can I get a word in edgewise". After we all collapsed laughing we did let her have her say.

[netibiza]

mrs o, I'll have you know the only shop was a memorial slab one (for headstones), nothing commercial there at all!

[netibiza]

Do you know mrs O, I cannot for the life of me remember if and where there was a petrol station, not many cars then. Know where the sweet shops were!!!(nose pressed up against the window type of thing!)

[Sqad]

Getting up at six in the morning and going up all those chimneys.........

[Bobbisox]

then you am a doctor, see, it did you good sqaddo.........;-)