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I always used spanish onions in my curries but cant get them now. A couple of years ago when I bought some in a seeding punnet in a nursery! I had a great crop of onions that year , crisp and tasty , we enjoyed them, even strung them up to hang. I saved some seeds from the ones I grew but...

I sat in the gutter with my friend Rosemary and we ate out jubilees there haha Happy memories.

I have made it with strawberry milk , cornflour and sugar tastes pretty good.

I was unable to get pink custard here in Australia so I bought a bottle of strawberry milk and used it with a couple of tablespoons of cornflour and sugar to make pink custard, it was delicious and as near to the pink custard. Wendy

Oh the best Christmas Grottos were at Lewis's :)

No, Maurice I have tried growing parsnips too but no luck. I use them in my split pea and ham soup , they are a bit pricey here, usually around $10 a kilo, for goodness sake they are just a root veg. I am trying to grow watercress in a pot and its going ok, I keep it in a small container in...

Thats so true, my dad always had a great veggie patch, my sisters and I loved shelling peas for sunday dinner, ate a lot on the way though haha

Nothing wrong with any of them, ate them all when I was a kid :)

Yes you can get pork pies here in Australia but they are not the same as a good british pork pie. In fact when mum and dad came to visit years ago dad tried one, he was not happy he fed it to the seagulls:laughing:

I fondly remember mum serving watercress in a salad when we were kids and I loved the peppery taste, have trouble finding it in the shops here and if I do it costs an arm and a leg so I have tried a few times growing it without much success but at the moment I have a pot of it growing quite well...

Hi Robert I hear you when you say you felt selfish at times, I also thought "how could I leave my family for new life in Oz ". However my husband lost his job in 1981 and it was a hard time finding work so we decided to give Australia a go and see how things went. My hubby got a job within a...

Hi Bob, You are correct , rain, hail or shine I walked to school, I never had the luxury of being driven to school it was really an accepted norm that as a kid you walked to school wasn't it? I even walked home for lunch when I was at junior school and back again for afternoon lessons and I...

Well, I have had a lovely morning, I read this thread from start to finish , it was so nostalgic to recall the songs , rhymes and hymns of my childhood I even sang a few to my hubby when I remembered them. My favourite hymn has to be Jerusalem :) it brings me back to my schooldays in a...

I remember the winter of 1963, I was 13 my mum and I walked up our road to go to the service station to get paraffin for a heater in the bathroom to help stop the water pipes freezing up. It was evening outside but it was earily light because of the snow and there was no traffic about , It is...

Yep i remember the Mackadown been there a few times and the chippy at the Radleys too. I went to Sheldon Heath Comp, I lived near the Celmsley pub, common lane, we had a great group of friends we used to have a drink with there, my hubby also used the Stirrup Cup when we were married and...

Hi Johnbell, I am in Australia Johnbell, but fond memories of Brum persist for me also. We emigrated to Victoria in 1983, my husband and 2 young children, we settled into the aussie lifestyle easily , bbq's, lovely sandy beaches and the easy going people. However I still have wonderful...

No but i remember Mr Blundell. Wendy

Would love to be part of your luncheon celebrations just live tooo far away, would love to know who all the faces are and who I chat to, Wendy

Hi Jim It does help, I do not have any memory of the cinema now I have seen the photo,, the information on the tells me i was only 10 when it closed, I have never been there maybe I just recall someone talking about it! thanks for the help. Ah yes I do remember Comet Electrical :D

Hi Devonjim thank you for that, I remember the name Tivoli cinema but now you have given me the address I cannot for the life of me visualise it.... does anyone know when it was demolished? Wendy