Fynger 841 Posted March 29, 2009 Report Share Posted March 29, 2009 Err that might have been me....can i have them back now...... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Anyone still use a teapot ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,084 Posted March 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Yup, me. We love Yorkshire Tea, which is pretty strong, so 1 tea bag does 2 small mugs, which we use for a cuppa. I'm sure they'll die out eventually though as most folks make their tea in a mug. As well as teapots, bone china tea sets will be a thing of the past. Loads of them in charity shops we noticed, nobody does 'tea' like they used to. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Me too! And Tetley tea (my sister works for Tata). 2-bags/pot which yields two small mugs - yes, I like it strong! My other sister makes exceedingly weak tea, or as my dad would have said "when I was that weak, they were sitting up all night wi me"! Also have a bigger "Brown Betty" for use when we have visitors! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,084 Posted March 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 I like strong tea too, and hate too much milk in tea so that that's all you can taste We used to say about strong tea, strong enough to stand a spoon up in it, and weak tea, just like a fortnight - too weak. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 I'm taking our Charlotte out to her ballet lesson in a few minutes , and whilst she's there I nip round the in laws and have a 'cuppa there . She ,somehow, makes a far better brew than I do, we can't work out why, I do exactly the same and mine just tastes inferior some how. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Water quality makes a HUGE difference in tea! We have fairly hard water here, like around Nottingham, and it makes good tea (beer too!). When I lived in Virginia the tea was always terrible - and to make good beer you had to add calcium! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 My ma in law only lives on the other side of town !!!. Mind you I've always said the water this side (There's a river running through the middle !!) is from a different supply. Strongly denied as scurrilous by the schools in the area though !!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 yak...dont drink tea.....only Coffee. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,868 Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 Postcards from people on holiday telling you what nice weather your missing. I'm going to India soon, so i phoned my bank to see what the weather was like. !tanning! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 Blogs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gra.b 0 Posted March 12, 2010 Report Share Posted March 12, 2010 Coalmen….I suppose it’s still possible to get coal delivered, but when I Was a kid the NCB coalmen were a daily sight on the estate. I could never understand how they managed to get their faces so black, a dirty job granted, but they must have blacked up deliberately, Al Jolson wannabes if you ask me. Metal meat skewers in your Sunday joint from the butcher. Mash cans..They were white enamel with a metal cup for the lid. Used all the time on building sites in the 60’s, my elder brother was a fireman on the steam locos, he had one too. 1s 9d from Wakefield Army Stores. Something I haven’t seen for forty years; my first wife and my bank & building society savings books…..Scottish bast ! lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted March 12, 2010 Report Share Posted March 12, 2010 I did see a Coalman a couple of weeks ago in Draycott. We last had coal delivered a couple of years ago but not now. Good supply of pallets since. Anyone want to buy any nails? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted March 13, 2010 Report Share Posted March 13, 2010 Last had a coal man in the mid seventies. Smokeless by then. Can anyone remember the sizes of coke? I think they were graded and called 'nuts', 'nuggetts' etc Our coalman was an ex-miner, drove a Ford Thames Trader, why the coal/coke bags did not fall off defeats me. If he had a cup of tea he would drink it from the saucer as it cooled more quickly. His name was Jack Burnett, lived in Beeston. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,529 Posted March 13, 2010 Report Share Posted March 13, 2010 That wouldn't be the same Burnett family that had or still got the garage/crane hire/second hand office furniture that's on the main road between Attenborough and Chilwell would it? Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted March 13, 2010 Report Share Posted March 13, 2010 I know where you mean. I am not aware of any connection, Jack lived on Hampton Grove, Beeston and worked for himself. David Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,868 Posted March 13, 2010 Report Share Posted March 13, 2010 Scattergoods (brilliant name) the coal merchants are still in Arnold. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,084 Posted March 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Parcels tied up with string, and sealing wax on the knots. Wincyette pajamas and nighties, I always got them for Christmas. Are they called flannel now? Candlewick bedspreads with an eiderdown on top. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Candy striped sheets. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 re coalmen, we get one come round Radcliffe Mobile Home Park every week in winter Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Union cards Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sneintongirl 1 Posted March 24, 2010 Report Share Posted March 24, 2010 I seem to remember mum used to get milk in bottles you had to use a bottle opener to get the metal top off! Dont see milk in proper bottles now either. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted March 24, 2010 Report Share Posted March 24, 2010 That was sterilized milk, straight "past yer eyes" had a foil top. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Owdtite 2 Posted March 24, 2010 Report Share Posted March 24, 2010 And it used to have horrible bits of skin in it, not nice in your tea or on your cornflakes!! Owdtite. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Owdtite 2 Posted March 24, 2010 Report Share Posted March 24, 2010 Anybody remember (Tom?) Sandersons Tripe Shop in Parliament St?....Also, Sandersons Pies made in Bulwell and sold in most Nottm chippies before the introduction of "Pukka's" Owdtite. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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