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OVER 50's+ MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II

OVER 50's+ MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II

Old Feb 23rd 2011, 12:13 am
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Originally Posted by Fish n Chips 56
Welcome Julie...

I too think shoes and clothing are expensivein the UK, Jeans were £50 10 years ago, you can still find well made shoes made in Italy and Brazil, most in US seem to be from China...

My inlaws always load up with pants and shirts while here on vacation...
I agree with that, we'll be buying from Asda Tesco and eBay, I can't afford the prices of the stuff Mum send me for birthdays and Christmas. I think I'll stock up on expensive basics, coats, jumpers, undies (I love Jockey) and Jenas before we move back.
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Old Feb 23rd 2011, 12:15 am
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Originally Posted by trottytrue
Sunday we always got some sort of peice of meat with vegatable and potato. Monday we would have left over meat cold with chips. We lived in Lancashire and my Mother was from Chester. Dont know if it was a thing were she came from. Can't remember way back. My brother loved tin pears with custard and bread and butter My Mother was a great cook always made dessert, jam rolly polly, bread and butter pudding, rice pudding, never tasted anything as good as hers. Always remember it had a nice brown crisp on top.
We had the proper roast at dinner time, with a good pudding, then the salad and lunch meat at tea time.
I've got a rice pudding in the oven as I write, it's turkey loaf, and mashed potatoes and rice pud tonight.
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Originally Posted by trottytrue
Sunday we always got some sort of peice of meat with vegatable and potato. Monday we would have left over meat cold with chips. We lived in Lancashire and my Mother was from Chester. Dont know if it was a thing were she came from. Can't remember way back. My brother loved tin pears with custard and bread and butter My Mother was a great cook always made dessert, jam rolly polly, bread and butter pudding, rice pudding, never tasted anything as good as hers. Always remember it had a nice brown crisp on top.
It's like we are related. My mother grew up in Rossett which is now a suburb of Chester. We always had a roast on Sunday war or not and I think we only had desert at the Sunday dinner (did I tell you I was an abused child) and the typical desert was the rice puddin' with, as you describe, that brown or burnt crisp top. I love rice pudding and I only get about once every three years.
Another desert was jelly and blancmange. Love it. I was not allowed to drink milk because we only got a pint delivered a day and drinking milk was extravagant for my mom. It cut into her money for smokes
I was born in 1938 and I went all through the war and never went hungry or missed a meal. Thanks for all that saw to me eating.
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Originally Posted by Mummy in the foothills
We had the proper roast at dinner time, with a good pudding, then the salad and lunch meat at tea time.
I've got a rice pudding in the oven as I write, it's turkey loaf, and mashed potatoes and rice pud tonight.
Yes, all our Mums and Grans went to the same school. We had proper Sunday Dinner too, always with roast beef and yorkshire pudding, or lamb with mint sauce, plus veggies from the garden (we lived in the country) brussels sprouts, cabbage or broccoli, all of which I hated back then. Does anyone remember steamed pudding with tate & lyle goldensyrup on top?? Yummy!

My in-laws still have tinned fruit and carnation for dessert!!
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Originally Posted by Sally Redux
Don't forget the Dairylea cheese

Also my Mum used to cut up pieces of celery which were eaten dipped in salt.

Food has got a thousand times more cosmopolitan in the UK since I was a kid.
We all loved the celery root, but my mum would save it for my dad and my older brother.

We had a lot of tinned fruit also. I think my mum liked it because she was deprived during the war. We always had Nestles tinned cream on top - shaken until it was thick. Yum! She also made Welsh cakes. Yum Yum!
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Originally Posted by Beedubya
How did you find that? I could NEVER find a lower fare.

Or is this just a joke due to the date?.........................
The date was a joke!

The fare was for real.
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Originally Posted by shelley748
I remember having Lemon Curd sandwiches and my grandma baked coconut fairy cakes!!!!

Hi all- have not been on for a while- are we all posting on here now or the other over 50's and 60's- I stopped looking cos I did not recognise any of the posters!
My mother made the best Lemon Curd.

Shelley there is only this 50's and 60's now. The other one got too big.
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Originally Posted by Sally Redux
Don't forget the Dairylea cheese

Also my Mum used to cut up pieces of celery which were eaten dipped in salt.
YES! Both of those! Did they all go to classes to learn this stuff?
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Originally Posted by Mummy in the foothills
I think all our Grans must have gone to the same school for cookery We had that fork for getting pickles too.
Great minds think alike!
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Welcome Julie, yes we need more stories.....of how you are all finding it!
jasper, sequins??
Englishmum congrats on becoming a grandma.....
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Originally Posted by Beedubya
I don't read newspapers or watch the news, too much doom and gloom, I prefer to live in my own little bubble.
You are so lucky not knowing whats going on in the world.

What country are you going to refuel in?

I need to know when you are leaving, the flight number and the airline.

I know you have posted it several times but one more time. Pretty please.

I hope you have the best flight ever.

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Just to carry on reminiscing we ate a lot of runner beans because they were the only vegetable we grew in the garden. A little ritual was slicing them ready to be boiled for Sunday dinner.
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One of the many foods that I'm looking forward to in the UK is Mustard and Cress sandwiches and there was another weed that I can't remember anyway they were good on deviled egg sandwiches.
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Weather forecast for the UK "Wet and Windy" Homesick yet?
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One of the many foods that I'm looking forward to in the UK is Mustard and Cress sandwiches and there was another weed that I can't remember anyway they were good on deviled egg sandwiches.
Watercress?
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