What were you raised on?

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Footbalo

Classical music, perfectionism and disapproval.

The entirety of the Good Housekeeping Cookery Book and a strict regard for telling the truth.

Gin

Good craic!

Marks and Spencers, thank you letters and potatoes with every meal.

Milk and alcohol.

Meat potatoes and two veg. No fluids. Casualty.

Catholicism and fear.

Second hand cigarette smoke, mostly.

Love, cigarette smoke, Bergerac, and mince stew

Soup, mince and tatties and crispy pancakes.

Reading and cups of tea.

Parafin heaters upstairs, gas lights, Radio Luxembourg 208, from a portable radio powered by an accumulator that had to be charged at a shop for 6d (six pence).

"Chilblains never did me no harm!"

Mock crab sandwiches on the beach in the fog.

ABBA, Leo Sayer and Ellie Brooks

Benign neglect, 1960s music, no telly unlike my peers

I think you might be me

Same. And milk.

Disappointment and high expectations

Mum cooked plain English food. We had roast beef every Sunday, it’s put me off beef for life.

NW?

Freezing cold council house
Sausage and chips
Homemade cake
Jam sandwiches
Chips and scraps

Lots of books and no TV (until I was 11). Camping, hikes and swimming outdoors. Homemade yoghurt, fruit, and whole foods.

A common, the Beatles and Sodastream

4 brothers.

being able to fight 😉