General Discussion > The Buzz
Reading Festival 2006
Simon:
--- Quote from: "Rodders" ---You had Rats? Luxury!
We had to use mice - and that were only on't Sunday. Rest o't week it were next door's Preying Mantis. Right glad of it we were, too.
--- End quote ---
You had next door? You were lucky!
Our next door was bombed, and they never replaced our front room wall. Aye, it were chilly in that tin bath some nights, but if we were lucky, we'd get fresh water once a week, from t' broken sewer pipe down the street.
Rodders:
A tin bath? By 'eck, what we'd have given for a tin bath!
We all had to bathe in a soggy cardboard box in't garden - and that were only when it rained. Otherwise we'd just have to roll around in't wet nettles before going to school.
mistybear:
The excuses you English come up with for not bathing. :laugh:
Rodders:
That sounds like the voice of experience. :shock:
Simon:
Garden?? You had a garden? You were blessed! We had a six square foot yard, and that was only for t' lavvy, which incidentally had no roof or rear wall after next door's chinmey fell on it in the bombing. We never found Grandpa after that.
We were evironmentally friendly even in those days, as we had to use t' water from t' tin bath to flush t' lav - that's what tha call recycling!
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