Remember these?
or 
I remember my gran used to have one of these, even the green box with the attachments and I used to use it.
Playing out doors! not behind a computer screen!
https://www.yours.co.uk/leisure/nostalgia/the-hobbies-and-games-children-loved-in-the-1940s/
Oh dear Musicveg you are too young?
What about how your grandfather grew vegetables?
Or how he looked after his chickens?
I remember my grandfather each morning would go down to his shed and he had this old aluminium bowl he would make some kind of mash mixture he would mix up and go and feed the chickens! They had their own hen house and they would run free range under the fruit trees. He had a small gooseberry bush too!
Also he had a greenhouse, where he would grow their vegetables.
not unlike this about the same size too. I remember his wonderful tomato they smelt like tomato not like we have now. They doesn't seem to much flavour to the vegs these days even if I buy them on the vine.
LOL I think some of us remember this peom.
By Lewis Carroll
"You are old, Father William," the young man said,
"And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head—
Do you think, at your age, it is right?"
"In my youth," Father William replied to his son,
"I feared it might injure the brain;
But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again."
"You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before,
And have grown most uncommonly fat;
Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door—
Pray, what is the reason of that?"
"In my youth," said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
"I kept all my limbs very supple
By the use of this ointment—one shilling the box—
Allow me to sell you a couple."
"You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak
For anything tougher than suet;
Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak—
Pray, how did you manage to do it?"
"In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law,
And argued each case with my wife;
And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
Has lasted the rest of my life."
"You are old," said the youth, "one would hardly suppose
That your eye was as steady as ever;
Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose—
What made you so awfully clever?"
"I have answered three questions, and that is enough,"
Said his father; "don't give yourself airs!
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs
Remember the old chip heater?
The chip heater is a single point, tankless, domestic hot water system popular in Australia and New Zealand from the 1880s until the 1960s. Examples of this form of domestic water heating are still in current use.
The chip heater consisted of a cylindrical unit with a fire box and flue, through which a water pipe was run. Water was drawn from a cold water tank and circulated through the fire box. When heated, the water was drawn off to the area where it was used, typically in a bath or shower. There often was an ash box under the fire box, which allowed air under the fire, as well as various dampers in the flue.
The fire box was relatively small and fed by tinder, such as newspaper, pine cones, small twigs or chips from a wood heap. The use of "chips" from the wood pile gave the chip heater its name.
Water had to be run at a trickle in order to heat up to a desirable temperature. The rate of combustion was controlled by the flues and the ash box. With lots of fuel and open flues the water could boil quickly, which was not a desirable result. With practice the correct combination of fuel, flue settings and water flow could result in enough hot water for a shower or bath in approximately 20 minutes.
We wondered what we had come to seeing this, we had come from the UK with modern facilities!
Talk about really living back in time, now we call it the time tunnel; So much is taken for granted in our lives but moving from one country to another can be a bit of a shock.
Remember when the Dairy used to deliver the milk? It may have been from an urn to a billy can!
Or the days of glass bottle milk delivered to the door of your home.
Now it has been announced that Brownes Dairy here in WA is willing to do this again in the current climate!
https://thewest.com.au/business/agriculture/brownes-milko-back-delivering-ng-b881498863z
WA’s oldest dairy is reviving history by restarting it’s ‘milko’ service to help support the community as it comes to grips with the COVID-19 pandemic. WA’s oldest dairy is reviving an iconic piece of history and restarting its “milko” service.
Announcing the plan last night via social media, Brownes said households can place orders to buy a selection of Brownes Dairy products directly, which will be delivered to the door the following day.
“In this difficult time for all of us with the ongoing and devastating impact of COVID-19, it is now more important than ever that we support each other as a community wherever (and however) we can,” Brownes said.
“With panic-buying prevalent, and staying at home becoming a necessity, we know that a lot of families have been struggling to get even their basic groceries.
“That is why we have revived an iconic piece of WA history: the Brownes Dairy milko.”
Brownes said it was a trial and there was limited capacity, so it urged customers to bear with it as it learns and grows.
The website shows Brownes will deliver as far north as Mindarie, as far south as Fremantle and east to Ellenbrook.
To ensure safe social distancing, customers would be notified of their estimated arrival time. They are asked to leave a laundry basket (or similar) outside their door for the milko to plane their order in.
The customer would then be notified when it can be collected.
The move is to protect both customers and the milko. Minimum orders are $10.
“We are doing our best to help in this time of need,” Brownes said.
“We've been looking after the WA community for over 130 years, and we aren’t about to stop now.”
For more details, visit the website.
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I tried to post this on the new Thread for Poems but it sat there for nearly 15 minutes and didn't upload so I am going to put it in this Thread, hope you enjoy it.
Love this one!
By Edgar Guest more Edgar Guest
My father knows the proper way
The nation should be run;
He tells us children every day
Just what should now be done.
He knows the way to fix the trusts,
He has a simple plan;
But if the furnace needs repairs,
We have to hire a man.
My father, in a day or two
Could land big thieves in jail;
There's nothing that he cannot do,
He knows no word like "fail."
"Our confidence" he would restore,
Of that there is no doubt;
But if there is a chair to mend,
We have to send it out.
All public questions that arise,
He settles on the spot;
He waits not till the tumult dies,
But grabs it while it's hot.
In matters of finance he can
Tell Congress what to do;
But, O, he finds it hard to meet
His bills as they fall due.
It almost makes him sick to read
The things law-makers say;
Why, father's just the man they need,
He never goes astray.
All wars he'd very quickly end,
As fast as I can write it;
But when a neighbor starts a fuss,
'Tis mother has to fight it.
In conversation father can
Do many wondrous things;
He's built upon a wiser plan
Than presidents or kings.
He knows the ins and outs of each
And every deep transaction;
We look to him for theories,
But look to ma for action.
Thanks for that Plan B very interesting especially about the Silk Worms!
Making Daisy chains! I wonder if girls even bother these days they are so busy being busy at a very young age even. But I remember making them.
I had a scooter too, then aged 9 a two wheel bike that my late father tried to teach me to ride holding on to the back of the seat! LOL
Once I got the hang of it I would go off into the country with my girlfriend, mum would have had a pink fit if she knew the distance we went out into the farms!
As a child in the UK I could only remember the washing line with the prop.
Yes saturday mornings at the Odeon! LOL for one shilling! LOL But I had a bus ride to the Odeon if Dad could not drive me there and a bus ride back again.
I remember my late father painting the house, he had to get the blow torch to burn off his own fathers handywork of wall paper! The problem was grandfather put a varnish over the wallpaper to make it waterproof! Hence the need for a blowtorch.
I can remember a neighbours tv it was only 9 inch! LOL
We got our first tv in 1954 black and white! BBC or ITV was the choice and it was not a good selection of programmes either. But a lot of American childrens programmes like Rin Tin Tin and Hopalong Cassidy! LOL
When we came to WA we had no tv it was a culture shock!
When we did we had seen a lot of the programmes anyway.
I remember by then I was a teenager and used to watch a programme out of Sydney for teenagers!
'Move It' was his first recording I remember watching him he was on tv aged about 16 or 17!
Gosh how the time has flown that is like another century ago.
Well Leonie, you remembered correctly, but it is a new one on me I cannot remember that!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ0M1oFWhsg
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I have posted this on a Health Thread also.
But this is the only virus news I am posting here, I thought this news was urgent hence the post.
South Eastern Sydney Local Health District has confirmed the midwife worked at St George Hospital and has tested positive for COVID-19.
Yummy old fashioned recipes.
https://www.womensweeklyfood.com.au/australian-recipes-1950s-change-1364
https://www.tasteofhome.com/collection/vintage-recipes-from-the-50s/
Who we’re eating with In the 1950s, no one in the family were late for meals, as there was great importance placed on sitting down at the dinner table all together at a set time every evening. Sundays were usually the formal meal of the week where extended family members might be involved. The head of the household would usually carve the roast at the table, serving thin slices of meat onto each plate, while the vegetables would be passed around for each person to help themselves. But the modern day family dining scene is very different.
http://littlejennywren.blogspot.com/2010/11/1950s-food-in-australia.html
https://australianfoodtimeline.com.au/tag/1950s/
I was thinking the other day how back in our childhood some families living in the country used to make their own butter!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkiIxmrePXI
Remember these things?