Old timey things and traditions you love

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Here are a few of mine:

• Teapots. I don’t use them often but when I have guests I love cracking it out.
• Bed trays. I don’t have one but I always think about how nice it would be to have breakfast in bed on one when they’re in period dramas.
• Having milk delivered to your front door. It’s so much more expensive than the supermarket so I can’t justify doing it much but it makes me feel nostalgic.
• Homemade cake. It’s so nice to have homemade when shop bought is much easier.
• Buying eggs from an ‘honesty box’. Even better if it’s in a quaint village with cute cottages.

It seems a lot of mine revolve around food.

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Interestingly I was eyeing up a colleague's fountain pen today. He was writing in a gorgeous turquoise ink which I also loved. I've just been idly looking at some

Sheets and blankets on beds, rather than duvets.

@ThejustbrothersCarlenaNSoul yes, that's right, it's was a book I loved years ago and is a pun on my name . I chose it when I joined MN about 18 years ago!

It is for the most part, even when the neighbours made some extremely alcoholic sloe gin that exploded after giving the rest of us terrible hangovers following the annual summer barbecue😂

However, some people like my sibling view it as, "Living in the a*-end of nowhere!" and they cannot fathom how we live here, miles away from anywhere... or why people would take up competitive sheep shearing, beekeeping or spinning (the kind that involves wool, not on the exercise bikes that don't go anywhere) for fun. Welcome to the countryside, folks!

I still do this for the friend who sends me postcards! Also, when DD was about three, we sent one to her nursery, written from DD's point of view. The kids loved it, but expected to see DD in the photos on the postcard. They were also puzzled by a comment about visiting a seal sanctuary - it turned out that most of the kids didn't know what a seal was. The nursery staff had to find a photo of seals to show them.

This thread has made me really miss my fountain pen! I might have to buy one.

I love to cook from scratch, and I’ve finally seem to have cracked making nice bread which has taken me years. I just today received an order from eBay of some Arcopal Scania eggcups, plates and cups which we used to have when I was little.

I also love gardening, knitting, sewing, and go blackberry picking every year!

Only if you don't mind farming smells, tractors, and lots of cows and sheep! Oh, and farm fashion... i.e. virtually everything in your wardrobe is various shades of brown, green, black or navy blue; your smart 'going out' clothes are what you wear to a livestock mart; and you are an EXPERT on waterproofs and wellies. We are the kind of people who occasionally go on holiday and send each other pictures of Icelandic dairy cows, rather than the Blue Lagoon...

Seriously, though, I highly recommend very rural living. It is much more interesting than I ever found living in a village!

Definitely yes to teapots, home made cake as shop bought is usually horrible and I will add pretty little cake forks to the list. I love a proper glass dome with a cake in it sitting on the sideboard or dresser. I have my parents 1970s sideboard and would be lost without it. It holds my fancier china and the lesser used but cherished items like lidded glass jam pots for when we have a cream tea.

Yep, apart from deer. They are an utter menace and I keep hoping that people will start to view them in the same light as rats.

I buy loose tea and use a teapot, my milk goes into a milk jug in the fridge.

I have an old fashioned alarm clock and an old clock that needs winding over the fire. I buy fancy writing paper and write with fountain pens and always have one with either violet or turquoise ink.

Blackberry picking and sloe picking in the autumn is one of my favourite things and I use them for puddings & gin. I have a little apple tree that produces a few delicious apples every year, no idea what they are but i look forward to windfalls! I knit on winter evenings in front of the TV.

I use an address book & a birthday book so I have a written record of the details of everyone important to me in case I lose my phone - I never use the cloud. I get my photos printed and put them in proper albums and frames. And I bake my own bread and puddings and send handwritten thank you letters and Christmas cards.

Great thread 😊

I have a really beautiful vintage pie dish and duck. Love them.

Aprons! I have several!

Teacups… I have about 5 vintage sets and they just make me feel fuzzy inside.

Fruit cake. Very Enid Blyton and I’m the only person I know who likes it.

I have all of these - always eat my soup with a soup spoon and use a butter knife. I also have a butter dish and buy proper block butter. Had people over the weekend and they destroyed my butter, swiping from the top, random sides, I was distraught....the linen only comes out at Christmas though and my cruet set is Lidl salt and pepper grinders so I think I just lost my 1950's housewife apron.

Why?! What do they do?

Fruit forks

Cloth napkins

An old fashioned pulley for drying clothes

I have all of the above. I like, but do not have, anti-macassars. They remind me of visiting a posh auntie

Fair isle cardis jumpers and knitted vests. I love them I’m getting a new DGD soon and so want to get her some pastel ones. My DD has forbidden me as she doesn’t want her DD to be dressed like a granny

@KilkennyCats They eat everything - destroy woodland because they eat young saplings, do lots of damage to crops. Until we put up an electric fence we had noting in the garden but poisonous plants!
Really not the deer's fault, but they have no natural enemies in the UK so they breed uncontrolled.
Arne Nature Reserve (which was on Winterwatch etc. a little while back) had to do a huge cull - from about 1000 to 300 because there were so many they were starving.

Oh!

I never understood toast racks though, as the toast goes very leathery.

Leathery? What are you doing to toast?!
I don't like them because the toast gets cold lol

Ooo cold wholemeal buttered toast at a B&B😋

Cold wholemeal toast with cold butter is the perfect breakfast

You weirdos lol

HOT toast with melting butter. And a pot of tea.

We have some vintage china plates and cake cutter and server that come out every time I’ve baked a cake. My kids love using them and having a favourite plate. 😁