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Things we just don't seem to do any more

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    Things we just don't seem to do any more

    Sitting at home on the sick list. Ordered to rest. Look like Ploppy out of blackadder.

    I noticed our old teapot in the cupboard. Quite excited about a proper cup of tea. Don't know how or why I ever switched to tea bags. Convenience I spose, but you can taste the paper.

    I'm going to insist we have Sunday afternoon tea, with no games consoles, mobile phones or interruptions. Only crotcheted doilies and a slice of batten burg cake.

    What other customs from grandparents era do you miss and would be a novel and possibly life enhancing thing to reintroduce?
    Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.
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    I can remember my grandad used to like "listening" to their coal fire burning away, all the cracks and hisses. No telly or wireless was allowed on.

    Most frustrating when I wanted to watch Bod. Mind you he died a few years later of emphysema and senile dementia so he could have been listening to "anything".

    qh
    He had a negative bluety on a quackhandle and was quadraspazzed on a lifeglug.

    I look forward to your all knowing and likely sarcastic and unhelpful reply.

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      I went to the Richmond Tea Rooms with my wife and some friends on Saturday night.

      Proper tea, on vintage china, served at 11pm.
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        Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
        I went to the Richmond Tea Rooms with my wife and some friends on Saturday night.

        Proper tea, on vintage china, served at 11pm.
        No cake?
        Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

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          I remember the custom of spitting out tea-leaves whenever I went to my Grandparents' house.
          Will work inside IR35. Or for food.

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            Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
            What other customs from grandparents era do you miss and would be a novel and possibly life enhancing thing to reintroduce?
            No shopping on Sunday. Do something else instead.
            While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

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              Collecting gollywogs, my gf is to scared to display them in the house lest anyone calls the police.
              Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.

              No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent.

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                Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
                No cake?
                Bread and butter pudding for me, chocolate fudge cake for MrsF and a friend, brownie for another and Victoria sponge cake for the last.
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                  Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
                  Bread and butter pudding for me, chocolate fudge cake for MrsF and a friend, brownie for another and Victoria sponge cake for the last.
                  Phew.
                  Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

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                    Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
                    Bread and butter pudding for me, chocolate fudge cake for MrsF and a friend, brownie for another and Victoria sponge cake for the last.
                    B&B pudding is my favourite, I would be all over that.

                    qh
                    He had a negative bluety on a quackhandle and was quadraspazzed on a lifeglug.

                    I look forward to your all knowing and likely sarcastic and unhelpful reply.

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