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.

In the "olden days" I used to enjoy picking blackberries, black currents and raspberries to make pies and crumbles. We had an allotment where we grew gooseberries and rhubarb. When I got older that led me into wine making from natural recipes like nettles. My favorite was gooseberry champagne.

I learned all kinds of fabric and sewing crafts from my grandmother. Rag rugs, crochet, knitting and patchwork. I still do English piecing with paper patterns and hand stitching. She also taught me how tro darn woolen socks and to recycle old sweaters. Not much call for the latter now.

Ive always loved antiques. Apart from essential techy stuff and white goods I will not give house room to modern furniture.

I get my milk delivered in glass bottles!
One thing I miss is at work ‘back in the day’ we had a tea lady at 11. Free tea/coffee and a (paid for) pastry or tea cake. A few minutes break for a quick gossip. Plus we had a subsidised work cafeteria. As did two other places I worked - it was great! Now everyone seems to eat quickly at their desk or nip out to run errands.
Sunday roasts. We stopped that when my DH passed away as he was the cook. My parents would come most Sundays - it was a proper family meal. First my father died, then a few months later my husband. My kids were still small but it felt like a lot of effort for just us. I’m sorry I stopped.

DD and I love blackberry picking, jumping in muddy puddles and big piles of crunchy leaves. We love baking too, I make an excellent Victoria Sponge (which we always eat with cake forks!). DD and her friends (5/6yo) do write each other letters to give each other in the playground which I think is lovely. This thread has made me think about other things we could do this summer!

@petitpasta I don't know you but I now hate you beacuse you reminded me how much I love a fountain pen and I have just gone and bloody bought one. My mum gave me one for my 21st but it leaks so I might see if I can get that one fixed.

I am in but I am 53.....

Only ever had them in hotels in the 1980s and the toast wasn’t crunchy… it was cold and well, leathery

I like the old times “look” of them though

I also like a fish knife but my MIL used to quote sir John Bethan to me ( Norman) 🤣

I still have the handwritten letters my parents wrote to me when I was in Australia in the 80s. So precious ❤️

I think I might be too young for the Norman reference 😂

Any consolation I'm near 60 over the top of my head.

Kensitas?? 😲
My long-gone Aunty Margo took me in after my Mother died, and she was a dedicated smoker of Kensitas!
This would’ve been around 1974/5 and I’ve never met anyone else who smoked them!

I am also an ink pen user, I have a beautiful Waterman pen, several Lamy pens and Parker pens too.
I write in my diary everyday with them, and like a PP, also write shopping lists with them! My best ever job was 3 years in a Stationers… love anything like that!

Regards the coupons remember the catalogue,for instance hundreds of coupons to get a deep fat fryer so thus smoke thousands of cigs plus my gran had me trained to pick them off the ground.

I can imagine you've beautiful writing.

Ahh, thank you!
I hate emailing, I’d much rather write by hand!
I wrote my own wedding invitations with a Calligraphy pen… absolutely loved doing them. Not “correct” calligraphy, but they did look lovely luckily.
And yes, I remember the catalogue - Aunty Margo smoked enough to furnish an entire house if I recall!😆
She had a cupboard that was always packed solid with Kensitas!

He does them on the hottest wash along with towels and bed linen, apparently. I actually had to ask him just now, as he does all the laundry and I had no idea.

I’m very glad he doesn’t boil them on the hob.

Lamy do a nice turquoise ink. I use it a lot. I’ve got about a dozen bottles of ink in different colours.

I have them on the back of my armchairs. After my earlier posts and reading everyone else's I think i might just be old before my time, 54 going on 94...

There are a couple of threads in classics you'll all love, called 'old ladies are experts at life and we are fools'

We do & we're still scoundrels

I love wind up watches and fountain pens.
Also gravy boats, milk jugs and cake stands. And doilies.
I have a beautiful Art Deco tea service that my late MIL gave me - it belonged to her mother. I very rarely use it though as I'm absolutely terrified of breaking it. She also gave me a hand embroidered table cloth and matching napkins of a similar vintage, that only come out on very special occasions. They are stunning, but a bit fragile now.
Oh, and I get my eggs from my chickens.

My dad back in the day used hankies and my mum also boiled them - I called it ‘snot soup’ and thought the hanky thing was gross!!

They're a menace in The Phoenix Park

Absolute YUK !!!! 🤮 at the thought of any kind of handkerchief apart from disposable tissues.

Do you wash his snot filled squares of handkerchief?

if you do, is it separately away from other clothing or towelling, bedding etc ?

I bloomin hope so, the thought of having someone else’s snot floating around the water and possibly landing on any other items of washing, is abhorrent and a disgusting thought to me… how on earth anyone can bear yhat is way beyond me… 🤮

I use a cotton hanky, unless I have a cold.

I still use a film camera - I do have a digital (rarely use my phone), but if I want to take a special photo I use the film camera.

I love Gibson's jigsaws, especially retro ones by the artists Trevor Mitchell and Steve Crisp. They remind me of my childhood.

I love bringing out my Portmeirion Holly and the Ivy serving dishes at Christmas, and seeing them set out on a white tablecloth laden with food.

I love the stained glass internal windows and reclaimed Georgian doors we found for our old house.

I also love this thread OP! 😊

Loving this thread. @GoldbergVariations I also have a collection of Portmeirion Holly & Ivy tableware and crockery for the Christmas period. It gives me such joy to unwrap and use alL my favourites. I’m always on the lookout for new bits!

I discovered Preppy pens. They write beautifully even though they are really cheap. I have them in blue, purple and green, that's the pen and the ink.

I do also have a couple of Cross pens but the preppy write better.