Ok Cari

Both myself and Mrs P left school at 15 and were working. I was 17 and she was 16 when we met. OMG, a lifetime ago.

working?
I was at school

What did she say?

Not able to receive PMs. Gone. Banished!

I hope not

Looks as though she has gone the way of jingl...

What's happened to nanbigboobs????

Crumbs! We had been working for a year by then! ( lots of us)

We all did it! Unless we were swots.

under-age drinking

"port and lemon was 'a tart's drink'" That's what Mrs P drank when I first met her. But there's a thought, she was only 16

A standard measure of port, and make up to 250 ml with Bitter lemon, and a slice. Not lemonade

Don't mention gin .....

Ok I won't use the S word, but organic mushrooms are still grown in the rotting faeces of Equus ferus caballus (that's horse S... )
Just about to fry some now.

I wouldn't say no to it

Thought that was gin trisher.
Wot, be like the trumpet voluntary round yours tonight. What made me think of Blazing Saddles?

bitter lemons are quite tart - do you think that's what they meant?

Yes, it was "common". Where did I get the idea that it was "posh"?

I used to enjoy a port and lemon
It had to be bitter lemon

I remember someone once telling me port and lemon was 'a tart's drink'

The "darling" was meant to portray the preciousness of passing the port. (Or even of owning port)

Just working my way through honey and mustard chicken and a mountain of sprouts.hope they're no organic!

Well, that's a posh word, no? Or maybe should have written dahling?

My dear!!! How very ghastly!

Just like the tokes of the seventies, may I say. Of course I have no actual experience of the smoking such stuff.