tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2524950191725976190.post5026882589027446767..comments2024-03-10T06:51:42.128+00:00Comments on The Art of Words: What I Don't Miss About the 50s 2Lucy R. Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08632983296994349550noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2524950191725976190.post-32400412093368576242016-07-01T13:21:52.866+01:002016-07-01T13:21:52.866+01:00Thank you, Unknown! Yes, don't let's go ba...Thank you, Unknown! Yes, don't let's go back to the 30s - they were worse! My mum said she was hungry all the time, and when you got food it was horrible!Lucy R. Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08632983296994349550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2524950191725976190.post-11883584889061770552016-06-29T03:33:58.426+01:002016-06-29T03:33:58.426+01:00I was born and brought up in a back-to-back one-up...I was born and brought up in a back-to-back one-up and one-down house with an outside lavatory and midden several doors away up the street in a family of five {mother, father and three children}. It is only when reading this post that I realised what a poor start this must have been but it didn't seem it at the time and hasn't stopped us from prospering. We were all expected to do Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05151809358239030532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2524950191725976190.post-84780143450573509652016-05-24T17:23:25.351+01:002016-05-24T17:23:25.351+01:00I was surprised to find genuine back to backs stil...I was surprised to find genuine back to backs still exist in Leeds. My nephew and his fiancée have just bought one.<br />I agree that lots of people think it means something else John Styleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09748149734105085047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2524950191725976190.post-56078054123998919782014-12-01T17:13:43.744+00:002014-12-01T17:13:43.744+00:00Very glad it has stopped lingering on!Very glad it has stopped lingering on!Lucy R. Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08632983296994349550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2524950191725976190.post-59122558853029323002014-11-28T16:45:53.910+00:002014-11-28T16:45:53.910+00:00A lot of parents then thought children were natura...A lot of parents then thought children were naturally wicked, and if you weren't hard on them they would become criminals. That sounds extreme when I write it down, and I think the parents would deny it, but I 'm sure it was true. Some, at least, were pointlessly harsh, against their own instincts, because they felt they had to be. Glad that has, on the whole, gone.Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.com