Tanners & Bobs

Brilliant!  So true and I do remember it all at my age.  Quite nostalgic as well, brought a tear to my eye. 

Are you sitting comfortably?…

Yep, the good old days when war was not long over, rationing had recently ended, Mum had to clean the floors on hands and knees and do the washing by hand, Dad walked to work because petrol was too expensive to be used on a daily basis. The Suez Crisis was scary and later came the very real Cuban Missile Crisis.

I’ll not go on but I remember it well.😕

Nice poem though, even if it is only part of the story.👍🏻

There is often this misty eyed nostelgia about the past and the truth is that it was pretty harsh, certainly as TW suggests the nearer to the end of the second world war you get. It seems to me that because we can't file the past where it belongs it prevents us moving forward not least by a lot of our politicians!!! St Marys Mead might look got in an AC story on TV but would any of us really want to go back even it it ever existed?

David

I can remember when Norway was liberated, even though I was not quite 3 at the time, and remember later the first time I saw an orange and a banana.

My parents never had a car, we barely had roads!  And my dad made our first washing machine in a wooden barrel with a small DC motor driving the paddle.

I remember when we first got mains electricity, early 50s I think, that was a great day!

However we never felt we were missing out on anything as children, that was just the way things were.

There was smallpox and polio, diphtheria too,

No vaccines for them, certainly none for the 'flu.

 

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Are food banks because some have spent their money on tattoos and designer dogs?

After attending 11 schools I failed my 11+ (13 schools) in total I never regretted it and it certainly never held me back career wise.

I sometimes think if I had passed would I have become a cardigan with patches on the elbows type of chap, turns me cold thinking about it.😝

Let's face it, back then most of us wouldn't have been alive to be posting on CT. (if it had existed) I had one grandparent  after 10 years old. My kids had 4 at 18. Life expectancy has improved so much and we can enjoy our old age.😀

Good poem though, thanks harry.

I'm aware of a mum of a primary age boy who moans about cost of school uniform (if the ads are anything to go by it's never been so cheap 😯) but pays more than I do for his haircuts and I'd expect a good day out for the cost of his trainers 😱😱.

That aside I think each generation has something to contend with and something to be very content about. My 89 year old mum still hankers for her childhood - much like KjNelln description. Happy and uncomplicated, fetching water from the village pump etc. But she wasn't her mum coping with 7 children and no modcons and much older hubby in a wheelchair!