So, what do you call things?

Well, 'ginnel' is in the dictionary as being a narrow passage between buildings; an alley. Not 'gunnel', though.

I think you can still get haslet. We never had it at home, but DH remembers it well.

Called ginnel or snicket where I live can still get haslet as well ana

Tesco sell haslet Kittye. It's in the cooked meats section.

Ooh thanks Gaga, will look out for it .

I've got a front room and a 'lavvy', but I use a toast rack so I'm posher than all o' youse!

We have a front room and sofas, loos/toilets, serviettes or napkins but usually a piece of kitchen roll. If I come over all 'Mrs Bucket' I repair to the day room for a mid-mornng coffee

My nana, who was not posh, had a front parlour and a"back kitchen" and an outside toilet. She had breakfast 7:30, Lunch:12:30, tea 4:00 and supper 8:30!

I seem to remember my father calling the passage way between tenements 'The close'

We have a loft do some of you have an attic?

When our DC were playing outside we would call out 'Teatime'
As they had school dinners at mid-day.

I have a utility room which my husband insists on calling 'the scullery'! It is one of those words that I really loathe ? I think he only does it to annoy because he knows it teases.

wot hope you don't mind me asking
But I noticed on another thread that you said you had school dinners, so what did you call your meal in the evening?

Dinner! At the weekend though, we would have dinner at midday and tea at five ish. Just before the children's bedtime we had Cadbury,s drinking choc. My mum called us children's bedroom the nursery right up until I was sixteen. Quite comforting really. Are circumstances certainly weren't posh and we lived in a little terraced house (which I wish I could buy back as I love the past)

Correction, weekdays my father would have dinner in the evening and we would have (high) tea . Funnily enough, I have never been able to drink tea as even the smell makes me feel yuk. Us kids drunk milk. Or orange from the clinic. That clinic Orange was gorgeous. Dad used to bring us kids a hot cup of it every morning and when the Orange ran out it was sugared water. No wonder we are now missing teeth. But they did their best!

Morning gdnguru
Welcome to the world of retirement and Gransnet too.
Trust you've switched off your alarm and enjoyed your first drink of the day in bed listening to others setting off?
Now. . . . .what are you going to do with all this freedom?
Lots of clubs to join to meet up with folks and exercise your mind and body I hope?

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Gdnguru joined us yesterday, Alea, .
Between our terraced cottages is a 'close'. OH calls the front room 'the wee room'. It's actually the spare bedroom where I go to about 3am on many mornings due to his awful snoring!

I agree with you Wot about clinic orange but the cod liver oil was gross. We called it dog oil when we were little.

Do you remember the malt?? I quite liked that!

I used to tip my spoonful of cod liver oil down the sink, but I didn't get away with that with the iron tonic. It's something they gave you after an illness - measles in my case. It was absolutely vile and used to turn the spoon black. I got caught once getting rid of it in the garden so mum stood over me after that. We are so lucky today that things are made quite pleasant to take. I can still taste that repulsive iron. I think you'd need to be a slightly older Gran to remember that stuff. Clinic orange was delicious. Yes we had malt too. Mum used to ruin meals by putting in the cooking. Something called Virol, too, I remember.

Anyone else remember Fennings Fever Cure? Or Scotts Emulsion? It's a wonder our Mums didn't poison us with the stuff they dosed us with!

Virol - yes loved it. I gave it to my children If I mention it now they retch. I was also given Scotts Emulsion. Thick, white , gloopy and fishy, after Measles. It had a fisherman on the label with an enormous cod on his back. Yuk!

Fennings Fever Cure was manufactured by the devil to punish children. I swear my mother used it as an incentive to never ever be ill. In my nightmares I can taste it now. I doubt any ever got into my system as I would vomit at the first taste.
The other thing my mother used was something called Seidlitz powders? One of the very few occasions I argued with my mother who liked her own way and was used to getting it ,was when I was staying with my infant D and she wasn't well and mum put her coat on to go to the chemist to buy said powders and I said I would go home if she did. She gave in with bad grace but knew she was beaten.

How about Beachams Powders?

Or somebodies Liver Pills. Or Dr. Collis Browns Mixture which contained opium. I used to work in a chemist and every day, this old lady used to come in for a bottle of 25 Codiene tabs.

Scotts Emulsion was the pits. Mine always ended up in the disused bedroom fireplace.

And the stinky linament. I was always ill with [along with other things] bronchitis/asthma and used to have a kaolin poulitce on my bac kand front. Lovely and warm when they went on but all stiff and cold in the morning. Give me a liberty bodice any day

Slippery Elm Food? Wots that all about ha ha