General Chat

nudge

Now I used to love the orange juice, better than any taste I can find now. There was also National Dried Milk for adult use, and a different one for babies. Even when I was in grammar school, I remember those of us who were thought a bit weakly used to line up outside the school secretarys office door for our daily spoonful of cod liver oil and malt. I liked that too.
Anyone remember Horlicks tablets? There were Ovaltine tablets and iodised throat tablets as well.

My grandfather used to drink TCP out of the bottle for bellyache.I think the reasoning was that what soothes on the outside must have a similar function inside.
I will gloss over the castor oil save to say that it involves three rows of turnips and you don't want to know the rest!

hiall
anyone ever tried castor oil and epsom salts
my mum drank it castor oil by the bottle when she was pregnant before ww2
dorothy teresa

hi all
i but the small tins of vaseline with alooe vera vey good for under eyes and if you have dry skin very gentle foe dry skin problems as well much cheaper than expensive under eye creams
dorothy teresa

Rosehip syrup and orange juice, I can remember the taste. The syrup was lovely but the orange juice very tart. In the late 40's, early 50's we collected rosehips, which my Mother sent off somewhere.

We had the horlicks glass and plunger at home for years.

i love carnation evaporated milk, but not condensed yuk
dorothy teresa

My mum was given prescriptions by the doctor to buy Horlicks in commercial kitchen size

....... and that was what she fed me for a long time.


They were huge containers!


My dad, who was pretty talented, made a plunger to help mix the Horlicks. We later somehow managed to get a measuring cylinder that the plunger fitted into very closely, and used to get completely mixed Horlicks.



Wish I'd brought that with me in 1967 :(((

Yes I remember both of those as my youngest brother was 12 years younger than me.
Mum also used to get Marmite in a small tin, not a jar, also from the clinic.
How many babies here were given National Dried Milk, again from the clinic and in a large tin ...........white with blue writing.

My cousin told me yesterday her Mum fed her Carnation evaporated milk !!! Ugh

Linda :o) XxX

thanks all for the name of red polish
i used to sometimes walk on it my mum would go mad, does anyone remember the rosehip syrup and orange juice from the clinic
dorothy teresa

I had a doll from Goddards wax polish.

Bread and bum paper we caled the stuff wrapped around the loaf.My cousins,who were younger,called it bread and bottom.

When it said "deliver us from evil" in the Lord's Prayer,I thought it involved the big basket the Co-Op bread man delivered the bread in.

It also included the phrase "Hollowhead be thy name" for me at the time.

The red polish was called Cardinal. it used to tread everywhere if you trod on it before it was dry! There was a corridor in an army hospital where I was stationed, and it was polished with red cardinal. As the nursing staff also did the cleaning, I well remember swinging a bumper to shine it up, good for the waistline1 For those who dont know, a bumper was a heavy block used with a cloth to shine up, it was on a broom handle length handle and had a hinge at the business end so that you could swing it back and forth.

Cardinal red I think Dorothy. (My Mum was Dorothy too)

Our council house which was newly built in 1949/50 so I would have been about 2 when we moved in, had concrete floors overpainted with something that Mum would polish with Cardinal Red floor polish, and then we had rag rugs down till they could afford carpeting. The red polish would come off on our things if she didn't rub it all off to a shine. The front doorstep was the same finish but I don't know if it got polished as much.

Lizx

my mum used to scrub her red steps with a red polish, cant remember what is was called
dorothy teresa

Tried to get a tube of Germolene is T.....'s this morning. They only had the cream, which was disappointing. Didn't have time to go to a chemist.

We have a fireplace which has to be black leaded - my OH kindly does it for me!

Izal toilet paper was dreadful, but my auntie with an earth closet used small squares of newspaper, and a friend's mother used the tissue-type paper which bread was wrapped in.

My grandmother had a kitchen range which we used to black lead together every Friday morning. I can still smaell that black lead.

From the International delivery man she once bought a box of Energen rolls.I have not had one of those since the sixties but I do remember that they were kind of light and crunchy and delicious.

Gwyn in Kent, I was going to mention those.
Amarmi gave way to the expression of Friday night being 'Amarmi night' Also 'not going out, I'm washing me hair tonight ' when asked by someone you did want to go out with.
Who remembers Izal toilet roll. It was like greaseproof paper.
And, in more recent years, Napisan, and the nappy bucket, with a lid.
Julia in Derbyshire

Jean
I remember Drene, - the shampoo of the stars, wasn't it? and then the curls and waves were fixed with Amami setting lotion.
Mum had some viscious-looking spring clips with crocodile-like teeth for putting in waves and metal Dinkey curlers for rolling up the hair.

In the same era were the tins of solid pink Gibbs toothpaste, which we scrubbed our toothbrush on.

Gwyn

i still use soda around the house
and my gran allways used sunlight soap smelt like carbolic
dorothy teresa

Rita

we have a pumice stone!


OH had a vey painful hard skin area form on top of a toe last year ..... could possibly have been a wart, doctor wasn't sure


recommendation ........ buy a pumice stone and use it every time you have a bath!