O/T Ice on Windows

Ah, Mick, your wit breaks me up! Am I the ‘Father of this board’? Even if I am, I’m certainly not old enough to remember the Winter of ‘47! I can’t even remember the Winter of ‘63!

Was explaining this to my son the other day, don’t think this generation could cope with it, we had a coal fire (Parkray I think?) which had a back burner that fed a few radiators, wasn’t that great and often I’d hear my dad cursing at 6am when the fire had gone out in winter and h had to relight it! Crazy to think even then in the 70’s before gas was available everyone had a coal hole and a coal man who delivered it by sack round the back, tough job that.

I was a milk monitor at Junior school which meant getting in before anyone else, counting out rhe number of bottles for each class then putting them on the radiators to thaw out in the winter

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Originally Posted by SCOOP115

I was a milk monitor at Junior school which meant getting in before anyone else, counting out rhe number of bottles for each class then putting them on the radiators to thaw out in the winter

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I hated school milk, full of lumps in summer.

I had an exemption note! 🤣

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Originally Posted by mickd1961

I hated school milk, full of lumps in summer.

I had an exemption note! ��

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Speaking of milk bottles, as kids we use to fill up empty milk bottles with water and pour them on the road to make slides when the weather was really frosty. There is a hill at one end of our road and we would throw loads of water down and make a brilliant slide as the temp dropped.
Hours of entertainment on that. Of course somebody would have some metal studs in the heels of their shoes that would degrade the slide...
Happy days.

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Originally Posted by SCOOP115

I was a milk monitor at Junior school which meant getting in before anyone else, counting out rhe number of bottles for each class then putting them on the radiators to thaw out in the winter

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Mrs Thatcher made that job redundant, a good way of preparing the kids for when they left school.

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Originally Posted by mickd1961

I hated school milk, full of lumps in summer.

I had an exemption note! ��

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I, too, hated school milk, awful, horrible stuff that made me feel sick. The worst thing was, they tried to make you drink the muck, I gave mine away or poured it down a sink. I still don’t like drinking milk, other than a tiny drop in tea, I don’t touch the stuff.

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Originally Posted by kettering_baggie

I, too, hated school milk, awful, horrible stuff that made me feel sick. The worst thing was, they tried to make you drink the muck, I gave mine away or poured it down a sink. I still don’t like drinking milk, other than a tiny drop in tea, I don’t touch the stuff.

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I’m weird with milk Kets, I gag just at the thought of drinking it straight.

However, I have no problem drinking whatever’s left at the bottom of a bowl of cornflakes even if it’s 99% milk and only 1% bits of cornflake!

I hate cheese as well yet I love a bit of pizza as long as the cheese is burned to a crisp and I love cheese and onion crisps and cheesecake.

Weird ay I?

I put almond milk on my cereals, really nice!

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Originally Posted by DaveP67 is back!

Was explaining this to my son the other day, don’t think this generation could cope with it, we had a coal fire (Parkray I think?) which had a back burner that fed a few radiators, wasn’t that great and often I’d hear my dad cursing at 6am when the fire had gone out in winter and h had to relight it! Crazy to think even then in the 70’s before gas was available everyone had a coal hole and a coal man who delivered it by sack round the back, tough job that.

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I remember our parkray. Though the house was built as late as 1964, it didn't originally have any central heating but there was a parkray fire and a concrete coal bunker at the bottom of the garden. It used to be my job to get bring up the coal and fill up the black two handled rubber coal scuttle- not a great job in snowy winters! Worst job though was taking out those glass strips the fire had so you could clean them.