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Re: A taste of Christmas Past!
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 18 December 19 18:09 GMT (UK) »
Not so far past but does anyone remember the real candles in their little holders that clipped onto the christmas tree branches that were then lit and s the tree was covered in real flames!

Health and Safety would have a fit these days!

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I don't remember having those, the ones we had with candles were plug in ones...then we had the multi coloured lanterns.

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« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 18 December 19 18:11 GMT (UK) »
Carol the cards are so beautiful , thanks for posting them.
I have some that were sent to my family members they are my most treasured items.

As for your Mars Bar  ;D ;D

Aw...that is so special..I wish I had family ones...the oldest one I have is OH's 21st Birthday card from her Husband in the 1940s.

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« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 18 December 19 18:13 GMT (UK) »
I love the rhyme Victoria...thanks for sharing...I got my first watch when I was 15 years old and treasured it, until my Brother stood on it :'(
He bought me another, a Timex, when he started work but it wasn't the same  :-\
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Re: A taste of Christmas Past!
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 18 December 19 18:41 GMT (UK) »
I love the rhyme Victoria...thanks for sharing...I got my fist watch when I was 15 years old and treasured it, until my Brother stood on it :'(
He bought me another, a Timex, when he started work but it wasn't the same  :-\
Carol

Well, I'll be! I also got a watch from my parents on my fifteenth birthday  . . . a Timex! It lasted for many years, surviving several dunkings in the R. Trent. The winder eventually wore out and no one could replace it. I tried electronic ones but they never lasted, so I haven't worn a watch for something like 40yrs now.
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Re: A taste of Christmas Past!
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 18 December 19 19:09 GMT (UK) »
It was bought three weeks before our first baby was born and how O.H afforded it  I do  not know as we had bought pram,cot, layette etc.
Probably cut down drastically on the Senior Service.
So it means such a lot to me.
In a box with explanation as I am an emotional coward and can’t part with it even though when it was 15  years old my six year old daughter helped by winding it for me. :'(
It died.
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Re: A taste of Christmas Past!
« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 18 December 19 20:09 GMT (UK) »
One day, Viktoria, I will compile all your comments into a book of wisdom.

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Re: A taste of Christmas Past!
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 18 December 19 21:03 GMT (UK) »
One day, Viktoria, I will compile all your comments into a book of wisdom.

Martin

And it will be jolly worthwhile reading, Martin.  :)
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« Reply #16 on: Wednesday 18 December 19 22:18 GMT (UK) »
I love the rhyme Victoria...thanks for sharing...I got my fist watch when I was 15 years old and treasured it, until my Brother stood on it :'(
He bought me another, a Timex, when he started work but it wasn't the same  :-\
Carol

Well, I'll be! I also got a watch from my parents on my fifteenth birthday  . . . a Timex! It lasted for many years, surviving several dunkings in the R. Trent. The winder eventually wore out and no one could replace it. I tried electronic ones but they never lasted, so I haven't worn a watch for something like 40yrs now.

I think most of us in that era had a first watch not a fist watch that was a Timex.
Carol
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Re: A taste of Christmas Past!
« Reply #17 on: Thursday 19 December 19 00:03 GMT (UK) »
One day, Viktoria, I will compile all your comments into a book of wisdom.

Martin
Shouldn’t think it will be a fat volume Mart, I do daft things these days like having to go through the paper recycling bin as I had kept an empty envelope and disposed of one with things I wanted to save!
I am worrying now if I put a cross or a tick on my ballot paper ! ;D
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