General Chat

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.

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

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

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 :(((

i love carnation evaporated milk, but not condensed yuk
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.

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

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

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!

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.

nudge

Managed to get a small tube of Germolene ointment this morning in Boots. They had both the cream and the ointment in stock. The assistant wasn't sure which was the old fashioned sort, and consulting the manager, I just hope I have bought the right one, the pink pointment that is.

Yes, I remember Horlicks tablets. There was another product which was like a flat oblong sugary-tasking tablet, can't think what it was called, but it gave a quick sugar lift - just remembered, they were Glucose tablets.

You can still get Glucose tablets. Most insulin dependant diabetics carry them.

Evaporated milk - I used it when weaning off breast-milk for all three of mine in the sixties - it was as recommended by Dr. Spock, and I don't think he even suggested anything else!

I used to eat Horlicks tablets by the box full!!


and we used to have evaporated milk on desserts such as fresh fruit, jellies and fruit salad.

I still use evaporated milk that way!
Did you know that a bit of salt used with your toothpaste will give your teeth a very good clean, even whiten them a bit.

i love carnation evaporated milkwhen i was a kid i used to drink it straight from the tin, mum was not too happy with me
dorothy teresa

Wilkinsons sell trubes of Germaline ointment. Saw some Indian Brandy a few years back but can't remember where

For JeanMonmouth. When I served 1956 onwards (Boy Entrant) the polish was deep yellow. Remember using some on hood of my old Sunbeam Talbot convertible in the early 60s. As for a "Bumper" a demonstration was given for a laugh at a recent army reunion I attended. I've also used black boot polish on wooden floors

Thanks for your message, Ronald. afraid I am older than you!
Anyone remember how we washed up before washing-up liquid? My mother used to knock holes in the bottom of a small tin and fill it with soap pieces, then swish it around in the water that had a little soda in it. I first used washing powder, then the liquid came in. Of course, you had to rinse the crocks then.