Fairy Active Bursts .....

[mrs.chappie]

Has anyone tried these dishwasher tablets? (Pods?)

[welshlibranr]

What??? anyway looks as if I was suspended too, think they thought again that we are the same poster!..............ridiculous!............v
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[mrs.chappie]

Chris, I don't know how you manage without a fridge in hot weather. (I know we don't get many very hot days .... but we do get some).

How do you stop your milk from going off?

[poodicat]

Me to you welsh lol..

[welshlibranr]

going to my bed now! busy day! Nos Dda to you all! Sleep well!.................

[mike11111]

When I was a kid only posh folks had fridges, same as cars and telephones. On hot days milk was kept cool by being stood in a bowl of cold water in the sink.

[Buenchico]

I might not have a fridge, Mrs C, but I've got one of those little 'table top' freezers (even though mine actually sits on the floor). I've also got 8 ice packs and one of those insulated picnic bag thingies. So the milk, cheese and butter go into the picnic bag with 4 of the freshly-frozen ice packs, while the other 4 ice packs are in the freezer. As long as I remember to swap the ice packs around every day, the milk stays cool. (My mum didn't have a fridge or a freezer until I was well into my teens, but she somehow always managed to to milk fresh).

[poodicat]

Waited for a response from umm,but she must have realised that am i right,working tomorrow welsh,and i wish you goodnightxx

[ummmm]

What from me?

[mrs.chappie]

Goodnight welsh, sleep well. x

Mike, as a youngster we didn't have much by way of luxuries either .... most folk in our street were the same. I think our mum stood the milk in a bucket of water too. Can't imagine many folk having to do that nowadays, eh?

Chris, you are obviously very well organised!

[mike11111]

Mrs C. I don't think this had anything to do with lack of money, more a general lack of widespread availabilty of these facilities. Certainly the telephone, at the time a GPO monopoly, had something like a 6 month waiting list. Anyone in the street who was 'on the phone' could expect to be called upon if they were closer than the nearest telephone box. Most would oblige, although I can remember they used to have a collection box next to the phone to remind you to leave the 2d for the call.

[mrs.chappie]

Mike, with us it was lack of money. Our mum brought up seven of us pretty much on her own. Child Benefit was meagre in those days - and no Child Tax Credits or stuff like that. Our dad had a roving eye and would bu88er off and leave us for weeks at a time - a very hard life for our poor mum.

I do remember getting our first phone - we had a party line, as there weren't enough lines, and often couldn't use it because the other party was already on it. Hey, happy days! [:o)

[mrs.chappie]

Eddie, thanks for that link. It made interesting reading. I've got a modern dishwasher that supposedly uses less water, energy etc., than washing by hand (allegedly).

[mike11111]

I remember the party line very well. My mother delayed having the phone installed until she was guaranteed her own line, as she didn't want any nosy neighbour earwigging.

One of my earliest jobs was at the Family Allowance (precursor of child benefit) head office. The rate then was 8s for two children (nothing for the first) then 10s for each subsequent child. How times have changed!

[mrs.chappie]

We had a little lock on the dial, to stop any unauthorised use. Calls must've been very expensive in those days!

[mike11111]

Actually Mrs. C, as I remember it, calls were quite cheap, although you could only make local ones by dialling. For trunk calls you had to go via the operator, and they were expensive. If you made one from a telephone box every so often you would be interrupted by the operator telling you to 'please insert another shilling'.

[mrs.chappie]

Mike, I was a telephonist in the telephone exchange in the seventies and eighties. Loved the job. The old "spaghetti-style" switchboards and headset with a spout that regularly dropped off.

You'd be shouting at the subscriber and cursing that they weren't replying, then you'd realise that your spout had dropped off your headset!

[mike11111]

LOL. "Hello caller, are you still there?"

By the way, to return to your original question, when my dishwasher needs tablets I find that a couple of Temazepam will shut her up for a few hours.

[mrs.chappie]

LOL @ mike!

I'm away to bed as it's waaaaay past my bedtime. It's been nice chatting - thanks for replies all. xxx