Originally Posted by Dick Dasterdly (Post 10196687)

I'm surprised there has been no mention of wartime Britain when hardly any imported food was available.
The farmers and land girls worked all hours to boost food production, almost everyone made full use of their gardens to grow whatever food they could and quite often a few hens and a pig or two at the bottom of the garden to make sure nothing went to waste.

The nation came through it with flying colours and much the same pattern continued well until into the fifties with ration books and the socialist austerity measures.

Then along came the Tory govt and you've never had it so good Supermac, the brakes came of and the country reacted much the same way as Spain did after Franco, though not entirely quite so stupidly.

I wonder if the present generation would have the backbone to react in a similar manner, be it expats in crisis hit Spain or desperate times in the UK ?

Originally Posted by Dick Dasterdly (Post 10196687)

I'm surprised there has been no mention of wartime Britain when hardly any imported food was available.

Originally Posted by Pocaloca (Post 10197790)

I did mention that very early on, but I was told I wasn't old enough to know what I was talking about!!

Originally Posted by HBG (Post 10197864)

Is there an optimum age for posting on an internet forum? I would say that 12 is too young and 98 is too old.

Or if you enjoyed reading Twilight (I did), then you could be either.

Originally Posted by jackytoo (Post 10197883)

Sometimes I think 80% of the posters on here are about 14;):lol:

Originally Posted by Domino (Post 10197926)

with your history of world conquest and a name such as Jackie I would have thought your memoirs would become a blockbuster

:hysterical:

Originally Posted by Domino (Post 10197926)

with your history of world conquest and a name such as Jackie I would have thought your memoirs would become a blockbuster

:hysterical:

Originally Posted by jackytoo (Post 10197955)

Know why I called myself Jacky...my nick had gone and I was replying to a poster Jacky who was posting the most stupid estate agent speak crap about Spain...so I called myself Jackytoo:p

Originally Posted by Rotor (Post 10197766)

I think the divide durning WW2 was us V the germans where as in Spain it is/will be those who have and those who dont .

Originally Posted by Mitzyboy (Post 10198363)

You are indeed a woman of great imagination




You are a woman .... aren't you? :blink:

Originally Posted by jackytoo (Post 10198667)

Re the topic:rolleyes:

it appears that Spain is too big to bailout:eek:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/f...erts-warn.html