General Chat

Chocolate liqueurs. The cherry brandy ones were best.....if allowed! :-D

If slid out of the box when nobody was looking.

The chocolate liqueres, were dads favourites,,,,,,,but he did share them.

also the ever fav chocolate yule log with a prig of plactic holly..

yes Sharron they were,,,,,,but because you can get them anytime they dont seem to have the same excitement as they did only having them at christmas,

and the box of 50 cigarettes that dad got,,,,,Navy Cut or Senior Service,

and always the colouring book and proper colouring pencils or a box of paints from Woolworths,,,,,,simple things that gave lots of pleasure,

The bags of assorted nuts with a nut cracker,I used to sit on the arm of my Grandads chair and watch him with 2 bowls on his lap at Christmas.....the Brazils were always his favourite, I can still hear the sound now, both from the nutcracker and also the
crunching sound he made :-D <3

oh and chocolate covered Brazil nuts,forgot about those.

gosh so many things we had only at christmas and I thought we had a simple cheap one,,,,,,,, ;-) :-D.

I never got clothes at christmas,,,,,,much to my grumpiness as a teen.

We always had candied fruit, or Newberry Fruits in a box.

Mum and Dad made their own Cherry Brandy. Put cherries in a Kilner jar, and added brandy, and left for about 3 months. Lethal!!!!

Our mixed nuts were put on the sideboard.....................and left................then thrown out in February!!

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Twiddley :-D :-D :-D :-D

The house always smelt wonderful in the days leading up to Christmas.....Christmas cake, puddings, mince pies and also (every morning) a strange smell of paint? :-S...which when, older, I found was the enamel paint Santa's elves used, to paint our dolls' house and my brother's garage and fort :-D

Such a simple time then

Lavender furniture polish, cos we always had a special clean up before Christmas, and then toasted crumpets on the open fire.
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Such a lovely thread Ann :-) <3

We always had dates, and those fruit jellies, were there Meltis fruits too? Never got a chance to pig out tho, shared between 5 of us they were soon gone.

My Dad worked at a brewery so would swap his beer allowance to get us 'mineral waters', the only time we had fizzy drinks, and when I was a bit older he would get Babycham for me. He liked whisky but it wasn't until years later when my brother bought him a bottle as a gift, that we saw him drink more than the odd beer or had port or sherry.
Always had nuts which I would get Dad to crack for me.

There was never a lot of money so Mum would go to the market when they were packing up to get things cheaper.

We are so lucky nowadays.
Lizx

I get blood oranges in my veggie box at this time of year, but they have a very short season. Gorgeous <3 - the little mandarins, tangerines etc. don't seem to taste the same these days.

We always had a bowl of nuts - Mum ate most of them - a bottle of Advocat for making snowballs and a jar of pickled walnuts (Dad's favourite).

I remember there being a bottle of Egg Flip one year.

Don't think I have ever seen that since but it doesn't really matter because I am not likely to want to buy any.

Don't know if they are particularly a Christmas delicacy but I always loved buttered brazils.

hmm - forgot the New Berry fruit sweets - remember Callard and Bowsers nougat!!! scrummy

Oh lor, you cannot call them Blood Oranges in the supermarkets any more. They are now Blush Oranges. Only vampires would be offended me thinks! :-D

Regular as clockwork, my Dad would bring home a turkey that someone had given him from the Cally Market. One year it was unplucked.............Mum was not best pleased! :-(

Oh MotownGal , Lavender furniture polish ! I can see and smell it now :-)

I went to Hampshire Lavender last week and bought some lavender polish.

Have had the top off and had a few sniffs of the gloriously scented concoction but I really can't pretend to have used it yet!

Lavender Polish,,,,,,,,I have a tin :-D :-D.as I have all old furniture which needs proper polish.......

its round tin and made of pure beeswax,,,,,I get it from a little Arkwright shop in a village, they sell everything hardware,,,and they put the handle on a yard brush while you wait and cut it to size.they even sell Red Cardinal and enamel buckets,

We had a shop like that in the village.

It was a bit of a hub for the community. The woman who ran it was called Cynthia and everybody found a reason to go in if they were in the village.

The one thing I particularly remember about that shop, apart from the rolls of lino, wellies, stockings, tin baths, knitting wool and all the other household stuff was the huge roll of brown paper used to wrap your purchases, particularly those items your mum would make you go in and buy for her that made you want to die just thinking about it!

I remember the doily only used at christmas to put the cakes on,,,,,,,,and mum making a frill for the christmas cake which she decortated with tiny ornaments from Woolies,,tree ,santa and bambies,,,,,, :-D.