CeeCee
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I remember when all the ladies liked a glass of Babycham at parties...
I never heard of that until I started watching “Call the Midwife”.
I'm sure you all remember this stuff and more
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I never heard of that until I started watching “Call the Midwife”.
hollydolly
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Oh that's interesting Cee-cee...did you not have that in the USA?...it was a huge thing here in the 60's...cheap bubbly, like Prosecco but in a tiny bottle...
CeeCee
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I never heard if it...but then I didn’t drink in the 60’s.
Dont drink now either ...any drinking I did was from the 70’s to about 2003.
But never a big drinker.
hollydolly
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I don't drink either, and I was just a child in the 60's, but my aunts and my mother would drink it at family parties
CeeCee
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I don’t think we had it here....
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...tory-sparkling-perry-champagne-henry-jeffreys
I was too young to drink in the 60’s also..in fact I couldn’t drink legally even when I was first married.
RadishRose
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I can't get over the food! 98 cents for a pound of coffee. Now, it's not even a pound, cans of coffee have shrunk to 11 oz, some time ago!
jujube
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Moth balls. Both of my grandma's houses, especially the closets and trunks, smelled of mothballs. Going to their houses was always a magical experience.......ergo, the smell takes me back to a wonderful time. Sometimes, I'll stop and sniff some at the store and it actually makes me happy.
hollydolly
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RadishRose
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RadishRose
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how much is an average pound of coffee now?
No pounds (16oz) anymore Holly. Most are 11-11.5 oz, around 3.49-4.49 depending on brand and what's on sale. But we can buy large containers of coffee too.
30.5 oz size is about 7.99 to 12.00, depending on brand.
hollydolly
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I think coffee is far more expensive here than there RR... here a ( 200grms) =7 ounce jar of instant Arabica is £5.00 ...so you're 30.5 oz size container is 5 times the size of our jar and the same price at the current exchange rate!!
RadishRose
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Holly, I was quoting you averages prices for ground coffee beans, not instant.
When I buy instant I get Nescafe Clasico dark, and it is 7oz for 5.88 at Aldi or 6.99 to close to 8.00 at mainstream supermarkets.
hollydolly
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oooh I get you, I didn't realise the coffee beans were cheaper....
I still have a sewing 'basket' just like this .. sans legs.
hollydolly
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Ooooh I remember those very well Pinky... a couple of my aunties had them.....do you still use yours?
I have it filled with threads, bobbins and all sorts. It's cumbersome, but holds a lot.
hollydolly
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The only thing I sew these days is the odd hem or button, so I have only a few threads and needles in the drawer!!
Aunt Bea
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Me too!
I also have a couple of these left from my mother and grandmother's sewing baskets.
Sassycakes
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I lived in the city growing up and I loved it when one of these trucks came around and we would all have soo much fun riding in them.
C'est Moi
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Me too!
I also have a couple of these left from my mother and grandmother's sewing baskets.
That's the only way I can thread a needle now, Bee.
Aunt Bea
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That's the only way I can thread a needle now, Bee.
Now they have self-threading needles for people like us.
Garydavid
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Did anyone ever have the vegetable delivery man come by every week to stop at your house? I was just thinking about this. He would stop by each week or so to all the neighbors back in the fiftys. I just recalled his name. He was called zoomy. Good memories.
RadishRose
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We had one that was a little bigger and carried bread, some canned goods and various staples and treats.
MannyGT
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That's the only way I can thread a needle now, Bee.
Same here Moi. But Bea's video demonstrating the "self threading" needle looks very helpful. My concern is how well this type of apparatus works when using a much thinner needle. Personally I see no problem, so long as I'm wearing my reading glasses :/