Boris Break Tit-bits our day Monday 27th April
Good morning
Thanks very much for your best wishes for Mrs BODACH, I would like to report that we have improvement but unfortunately not, but as a patient but on one hand she's not as she won't lie down and rest but on the other hand she is easy to look after a drink of lemon, a cup of tea a bowl of soup and she is quite happy and I've even had time to do things about the house that she didn't think I would or could do.
I might even have persuaded her to try and speak to our own doctor so that might mean escaping to visit the surgery or collecting a prescription from the pharmacy and hoping it doesn't coincide with the arrival of Mr Tesco's van of luxury goods and who would have a few months ago items such as toilet rolls, soap, tins of soup and baked beans and many other items that we are used to walking around the supermarket and picking off the shelves are in short demand or your usual brand is not available, tragedy it's not got Heinz on the soup or beans label and the toilet rolls are not as soft as my usual brand. 70 something years ago I just have a recollection of the prized books my mother had, they were thin with a brown cover but without your copy you starved of course I'm referring to the ration book, and I'd like to think that I'm not alone on here talking about them. Do you remember them or do you only know about them by watching Dads Army.
Now I've used my exercise hour for the day walking down memory lane it brings back another memory of growing up, shopping at local cooperative society, the co-op or as "the store" of course in those days it wasn't an umbrella name but area had their own society name and where I come from you had another prized book, the divi book or the dividend book and every 6months this book had to be presented to the head office to have your divi added, and I can remember princely sums of £1 two and 6 being added and eagerly withdrawn to help buy the next weeks shopping. Attached to the books you had your membership number which you had to quote each time you bought something and again growing up as young boy in Edinburgh this number was firmly planted in your memory and to this day I can still remember my grannies, my mothers and my own numbers nothing was digital or computerised just good old paper and pencil with the assistants having a good head for figures.
Now who is going to help me out here and admit they remember their childhood memories of living in times when supermarkets were nowhere whereas big as they are now or the choice of products as vast as we (used) know them.
Help me out court surely your mum has been telling you about the "good old days" of store shopping.
As a matter of interest can you remember the original co-OP divi scheme or was there something different in the area you spent your youthful days.
Back to reality where did this expression of having a bubble of friends start and who put a number on it, I got the impression from the press conference that the government didn't know about it or have we ventured into Trumpland and the press are being fed stories that someone thinks it might be good to say in other words fake news and it's easy to say "you miss understood me I didn't mean that" really did you believe what I said about bleach!!!!!!.
I was speaking to my son yesterday and disturbed him working from home and he told me that his line manager has informed him that his new normal place of work will be his flat until (wait for it) at least September and that he might not even see the inside of their new offices that are lying empty until much later. He, my other son and my daughter in law all work for the same company in different parts of the country and all three are working from home all helping the government make sure that Boris has a country to govern on his return to work today.
Hope everyone has a good Monday, if you want to share your story about growing up and shopping experiences please do so, it's good to know how it was in different parts of the country back in the day.
Just after 2 o'clock time to grab a few hours before Mrs BODACH wants her breakfast.
Ooooops nearly forgot Kareno62 time to reveal the latest answers and if you're still game the next one or have you had enough, which I would fully understand.
Ian
CC
Hello everyone. Ian, I so hope your wife is feeling better. Well done you on being able to do the things you thought you couldn't do. I hope you are managing OK. I expect your sons are worrying. Do you have someone that does your shopping? You mentioned Tesco van...are you managing to get slots OK?
, hi. We had Fred and his van come round every Saturday morn. He was a grocer though. Must have been such a godsend to my mum as she had to get a bus into town to do shopping and carry it home which was quite far from bus stop. There is no way she would have managed carrying potatoes and veg too. I also remember the fish monger van and getting tubs of prawns. Then there were pop deliveries too. I sure it used to be called Corona ?????. And of course ice cream van and the massive queues......and sulks on the days I wasn't allowed one lol.
Oh Kareno62 I so remember the green shield stamps. I had the job of licking and sticking. Was v exciting counting the number of books.
I have now also remembered the cigarette coupons. How bad were they when looking back now? There was a catalogue to choose a gift from once you had collected a certain amount of coupons from the cigarette packs i think. With my mum and dad both smokers i was given the task of counting them.
Anyway I am excited now i got an excuse to show you a photo of my dog. - It will help you all with the answer to one of the questions....x
Marie
