To think children should be allowed to buy wine

[LynetteScavo]

Quality wine, which is obviously going to be consumed by the parents during dinner.

The government could give out wine passes to families with an child old enough to go to the shop, but who also have younger children who don't want to be dragged out shop by a parent.

Anyfucker, My DS has learned at school how to place me in the recovery position.
State Education in the UK is second to none, I tell you!

and cook and serve a fry-up together with suitable re-cooperative strength tea and coffee.

Could tey buy those bandolier things like in vodka bars with shots in.
Mummy, I've drawn on the sofa in permanent marker, but here's a shot.

silk cut red used to be £1.23 a packet when I used to go get them for my Mum - don't know why I remember that. She smokes Regal now.

My twin brother got caught nicking vodka from a bottle in the house - he didn't have the sense to top it up. We used to have a wee sneaky dram from a commemorative whisky bell thing at my Grans - it was for Di and Charles wedding and was the only booze in their house

WOW!!! this was it!! happy days

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lal123, that would be worth a bit on ebay these days!

Yeah it would - if we hadn't drunk it.

Re ashtrays - I went into Asdas looking for an ashtray, couldn't find one so asked a shop assistant. You would have thought I'd asked where their child porn was "We don't sell THOSE anymore!!!" she said with . Well you sure as hell sell cigarettes.....

buying ashtrays ??

feck...that is as difficult as buying a butter dish these days !!

or a gravy boat !

< shows age >

Yep - 70's child here too - sent to buy tabs for me Nan! ...and as a young teenager (13-14) - whiskey for an elderly aunt with a drinking problem! I had to go most days for a large bottle, no one though anything of it... sigh, how times change.

I too used to 'borrow' Mum's party dress and put lippy on to buy wine. I bought red as I thought it seemed less childish. I must have looked a proper twit, tottering into the offie on Mum's slightly too big heels and chatting about the weather in my poshest voice to put them off the scent. They didn't really care that I was 15. Although, bizarrely, they did ask Mum if she was 16 when she went for 10 B&H at the same shop. She was in her 30's at the time!!

I think a hastily scrawled note on the back of a shopping list should suffice... Could you give Freddie a bottle of whatever's on offer today pleas?. Signed Freddy's Mum.

Must add... I hated red wine... still do!

Yes, I very often went to the shop for my Nan's fags with a note scrawled on a fag packet. The charity shops are full of ash trays these days btw.

And gravy boats with a 70's air about them.

What a great idea, my definition of 'quality wine' is what I drink only when it's half price!

Prof - that's where I eventually got one - Irony is I think it may well have been one of the cancer related ones...

I assume you don't mean the gravy boat!

But we will need to persuade Waitrose to put the better wine on the lower shelves, DD can't reach a decent chablis at the moment

lol

Making ashtrays in design technology?? Old hat. I hear some inner city school have moved on to blown-glass crack pipes