A very English Brexit

Varian virol was malt extract - my brother had it because he was rather small. My Dh used to make beer (using hops etc not a can of stuff to which you just added water) and my treat was to have the malt extract tim to scrape out once he'd used the contents. Delicious. Some please as scraping put a condensed milk can when i was a child.

I rather liked my house, my life then!
I wish I could go back to having that much energy.

And I'd have a list of questions about family history for my mum and dad.

I think you can still buy tooth powder in tins Nonnie but not sure if it's in shops, just online.
Always tasted a bit antiseptic, not unpleasant, just different.

So is all this nostalgia what you want to return to? If so can we find you an island somewhere as I don't think many would want to join the nostalgic old, living as we did then.

Ooh Alexa I don't remember the pictures. Funny how these things come to mind after so many years!

Yes, Nonnie, I do. You rubbed a wet toothbrush over it.My little chum had it and I thought it was better than tubes. 'Gibbs Dentifrice'. There were pretty pictures to collect under the cellophane wrap.

Completely off thread but, while we are being nostalgic, does anyone remember toothpaste in tins? I was thinking about this when cleaning my teeth this morning, perhaps it would be more environmentally friendly?

My parents bought a new build 4 bedroom house in 1966, where I lived for much of my childhood. We didn't have central heating, double glazing or a shower in the bathroom. We only had a second toilet under the stairs, because my parents paid extra.

Oh I remember tiled coffee table tops, ours were stacking and green!

Shower in the bathroom? No, had to run a bath every morning.

I'm sure there were some houses with central heating in the early 1970s. My point is – was it the norm? The same for double glazing. We moved into a terrace house in 1974. It was on a new estate, built only three years previously and we had neither. Also, no shower in the bathroom!

It was only a 2 bedroomed semi, Nonnie, bought in 1969 but it had oil-fired central heating with a monster boiler in the kitchen!

We bought some secondhand furniture from friends of my brother who were emigrating.

And DH made a coffee table from his mother's old dining table, it had an orange tiled top. Very fashionable.

Callistemon Thu 08-Aug-19 17:46:48 cor, you waz posh! Bought our first house in 1968, brand new, no central heating, no double glazing, had to wait months for a phone and then it was a party line! No one to give us second hand furniture so saved up for some and then for carpets. Of course we were happy because we knew no different but I wouldn't give up all the things we now have.

varian, so have some in France, and all over the EU, and even here in Switzerland. TBH their life is not going to be easy, as their British neighbours, and the locals- are absolutely furious and disgusted with them- and the local authorities will make it difficult for them to go through the hoops. You know, those who do not speak Spanish, French, etc, even after DECADES in the country, those who do not use local artisans and businesses, those who even buy their shopping on line from Tesco and get it shipped over in white vans (with the white goods, etc, for their renovations)- etc, etc.

And Newcastle-upon-Tyne?

And our house?

There should also have been a circle round Liverpool and Manchester.

Apparently many Brits living in Spain also voted to leave like this caller to James O'Brien, a conservative who agrees that we were lied to but that's because politicians always lie and anyway the "British bulldog spirit" will get us through it!

www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/james-obrien/caller-no-deal-brexit-british-bulldog-spirit/

Not just Birmingham voted to leave but most of East and West Midlands, Yorkshire and Wales too. I can remember a map of UK with Scotland and a circle around London and NI being different colour to show they wanted to remain.

And before you accuse me of being a right wing facist I voted remain in the 2016 referendum.

The SNP is a minority government in Scotland - do the maths.
I live in Scotland and I didn’t vote SNP therefore Scotland did not vote for them.
The result of the 2014 referendum was No.
They do not have a mandate.

And if the Scottish Greens are added , Holyrood has a pro-independence majority.

Merrymary, wow I had no idea that is the case, Thanks for educating me. Will have to research further.

If Scotland used the First Past the Post system as used in Westminster instead of Proportional Representstion, the SNP would have 80% of the seats in the Scottish Parliament. A rather sizeable majority!!!

Scotland DID ,they have been the biggest party in Holyrood for ten years .There hasn't been a Tory government voted for in Scotland since the mid 1950's and dont get me started on the "election " of the new PM ...We ,the Scottish National Party also have more MP;s in WM than the other parties added together .How does that make us NOT a majority ?

The SNP is a minority government. “Scotland” did not vote for it ...

I couldn’t agree more Paddyann - Scotland has so much potential and is a fantastic wee country. It will be even better when we are able to govern ourselves.