Further Back in time for Dinner!

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With the Robshaws!! Something to watch on a Tuesday hooray.

It'll be on iplayer.

Thanks Desolate but I'm in Ireland so can't use it

Friday at 11.05 in that case.

Rochelle really reminds me of me. I'm dyspraxic and can't cope with tin openers/anything requiring manual dexterity. I always feel for her. I'd LOVE to be like Debbie.

I enjoyed it but Rochelle really is the most awful cook. It dosnt really give a true picture of Everything is cremated. Debbie looked lovely tonight though sad to see her poor again. Though if just focused on working class would be tea n toast n soup for most of 50years.

Don't know anyone who transforms their house totally on 10years. Surely yes you may have had some
Wall paper and maybe different curtains but to replace sofa, table chairs, and lights and gadgets was just to much. Though granted I don't have much money. All I have done is last 10y is replace my second hand "big tellie" with a new flatscreen when it broke.

Thank you Desolate

misskelly We are Londoners my dm SAYS that her family was poor. But recently she remembered that she was looked after by a nanny and there was a cleaner too, they lived in Dovercourt. SE England.

The Robshaws are meant to be MC aren't they?

My father was Jewish and all that kosher food bought back memories for me. I liked some of it but it was stodgy. I couldn't eat it now , the cheesecake was amazing. The Robshaws didn't have any did they?

LOVED the dad singing with the uke! He's got a nice voice. Though he was like a 2 yr. old with the grapefruit!

The tin opener is one of the old type and is almost impossible if the tin is ever slightly dented. Try one and you will see why Rochelle is having so much trouble.

Jilly goolden is looking good - heres to hair straighteners, takes years off! (I know...

On the subject of the tin opener - I was brought up to use one of those (think DPs still use it!) and never had any issues even as a teenager... BUT when I went to uni I couldn't use the more modern version I had to buy - I recall phoning DM for a 'lesson'!

Gefilte fish is disgusting!!

I only learned how to use a more modern tinot opener when I was 19. I couldn't use the old fashioned version we had at home, although to be honest, neither could my mum, half the time! I don't think my younger siblings ever got the hang of it either.

Our tin opener was a wall mounted one, with a handle on the side that you turned - it was not easy to use! Still easier than the one Rochelle has been given - I hold my breath whenever she has to use it.

There's something very fragile about Rochelle - she seems a bit confused 😂😂

They are such a lovely family the way they all get on.

Brilliant show, loved it.

DS loves this. He's 8 and he usually watches it on iPlayer later in the week. But I'm not sure about this week's episode, with all the Nazi, Oswald Mosley and Cable Street footage. He obviously knows that the Second World War happened, but I'm not sure he's ready for that level of detail.

Not sure why they said Debbie went to Bexhill when she was clearly in Hastings.

I do like this show though, DH struggles to not get nitpicky at the reality aspect but I like to just play along with it!

Fried Gefilte fish is nice, not the boiled stuff they had

I really love this but I did feel like they glossed over the rise of the Nazi party and British fascism a bit - they did the Battle of Cable Street but it's well know that there was still a lot of anti-Semitism and fascism in Britain before the war. It was sort of made out that it was a tiny handful of thugs and they were seen off sharpish. With two families of Jewish heritage, it felt like a disservice.

I like the girls but Rochelle and Fred drive me batty! She seems just so inept at everything and reluctant to get properly stuck in and give it a good go and he spends most of his time moaning about the lack of TV! Particularly bad in the last series, less so now, but he does come across as quite indulged.

I keep thinking of things they should/could cover more or better and then have to remind myself that the programme is basically supposed to be about the food

I think the problem with the Gefilte fish is that the one I had was full of bones, which puts me off anything!

I just read a book about the Mitfords and was amazed at the way some of them were so anti semitic. The Mosleys were put in prison for their activities, but Diana didn't even apologise when the full extent of the death camps was uncovered at the end of WW2

I didn't know what Gelfilte fish was but when I looked it up, it said it was supposed to be deboned because picking bones out of food is considered to be one of the 'work' tasks that Jewish people don't do on the Sabbath.

I really like the Robshaws, Giles and Debbie. The children especially have been great sports throughout - can you imagine what the son's friends at school might say, with all the old fashioned outfits he's been wearing. I don't think he's been moany at all. I loved the dress worn by (I think) the younger daughter in this week's episode.

People who think they should have a bigger house don't have very realistic expectations. At the time having an entire, well decorated house in an expensive location was well above average in terms of expectations. If it was a working class family, there might have been 2 or 3 families living in a house that size in the early 20th Century.

People who think they should have a bigger house don't have very realistic expectations. At the time having an entire, well decorated house in an expensive location was well above average in terms of expectations.

Not really. I used to own a Victorian red brick in London that was bit bigger than theirs. It was a similar layout but bigger so behind the kitchen there was a 'morning room' with a bay window and fireplace that the family would have spent the early part of the day in. The front two rooms were still two rooms as would have been the norm in those houses, with a smaller back room as the formal dining room. And the bigger sitting room with a huge bay window that would have been kept as the 'good' room with all the best furnishings and only used for visitors of equal or higher stature. And my house was just one of nearly 200 on my street and our street was just one of many parallel streets of identical houses. The houses on the main roads that connected them and the houses that overlooked the parks were all much bigger houses and there were hundreds of them too.

The original occupants of my house would have been slap bang in the centre of the middle classes, edging towards lower if anything. (I actually know this for a fact as the week after we moved in a 92 year old man showed up at our door, explaining that he had been born and grown up there and asking if he could have a look around. His parents were the original owners of the house and we had a great chat about how it used to be.) They certainly weren't the upper middle class the Robshaws were portrayed as.

Nobody is saying that people didn't live in houses the size of the one the Robshaws are in. They obviously did and in smaller, much smaller. But an upper middle class family wouldn't have. And the occupants of the Robshaws house wouldn't have had it laid out as the "Robshaws'" house is, as a family with any sort of middle class aspirations would have kept their best room for show even if it meant living most of their life in one tiny room.

I love this programme and the family. So pleased they're back.

DH and I have been wondering about Dad Robshaw though (over infested alert). He doesn't seem as light-hearted and happy as the last series and we hope he's okay!

Anyone else thought this?