My old nan used to pour her tea into the saucer blow it to cool it down then drink the tea from the saucer
We all to visit my Nan on Wed evening, just to join her in glass of Sherry Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Think the bosses Nan did that too, old skool East Ender so I believe and her husband wore a waistcoat come rain or shine. May have been other "oddities" but English ethnic practices were a bit of a closed book to me...
That used to be my breakfast each morning on the way to lectures at Uni. 10 No6 and a box of matches.
My Nan used to smoke Kensitas and save the coupons. Most of our Xmas presents came from them, or bingo prizes.
My Gran smoked Embassey Red, and then latterly switched to B&H. I loved the smell of her house, a coal fire mixed with a solitary cigarette. Planted 3 trees in a customer’s garden last winter; when I knocked on the door to say I’d finished, it was just the same smell, nearly brought me to tears. Kids these days with their central heating and vapes have no idea I also remember when it cost 2p in the phone box to call me Dad for a lift home, and you could really annoy the Operator by repeatedly dialling 100 and asking to speak to Busby
Kensitas was the definitive Nan's cigarette. My Nan used to be able to balance a good inch of fag ash on them while holding a conversation. She also used to drain bottles of Mackeson at Christmas.
I think all London Nans are the same. Mine was a hardcore Camberwell girl She used to rush outside during the Blitz and wave a broom at the German bombers, while giving them a piece of her mind. Not a terribly effective defence against a Heinkel, but she made her point, I think.
The phone box always had a queue, the phone had two buttons A and B In the school holidays we used to buy a London Red Rover ticket for 50p,this entitled you to take any bus and any underground train, we used to have races across London
My old man worked in the Dutch Diplomatic corps, he smoked taxfree fags all his life, and..................it killed him! Tony
I couldn't afford No 6 so used to but a packet of 10 No 10's and a book of matches, one drag and it was gone!
