tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post1253358446273596070..comments2024-03-28T17:44:17.403-07:00Comments on The Weaver of Grass: Andrew MarrThe Weaver of Grasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-12489497575396608902018-01-31T11:02:50.513-08:002018-01-31T11:02:50.513-08:00Derek I watched the Falkner Street programmes - ve...Derek I watched the Falkner Street programmes - very good too.<br />Thanks everyone for calling in.The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-52097558457978298182018-01-31T02:19:38.342-08:002018-01-31T02:19:38.342-08:00A Great Industrial State will arise in Northern E...<br /><br /> <br /><br />A Great Industrial State will arise in Northern Europe. The peoples of the East and the Balkans and squadrons of cheap labour immigrants will be its vassals. <br /><br />I've just started on Dickens' book Hard Times. I can't think why I haven't read it before. Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-6292341290275507022018-01-31T00:02:12.770-08:002018-01-31T00:02:12.770-08:00Thelma makes a very valid point, look at how much ...Thelma makes a very valid point, look at how much these youngsters spend on new Smartphones alone. Also, many, if not all youngsters when starting in their own homes, expect to have the <br />same standard of furniture and appliances that were in their parent's homes, ignoring the fact that their parents had spent many, many years arriving at such standards. When I first got married in 1970, our start out bed and mattress was aquired from the home of an elderly relative who had died, pretty grim but a start. Derek Faulknerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05140363868104172311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-37893589830477196132018-01-30T23:46:26.039-08:002018-01-30T23:46:26.039-08:00Funnily enough I read an article online about a yo...Funnily enough I read an article online about a young female working in London as a journalist earning a good salary but moaning that she couldn't afford a house ever. She got in touch with Paul Lewis (money guru) who told her to record her spending each day. Well it was frittered away, sometimes as much as a £100 a day, on coffees, meals out, the odd dress for a party. That is the difference between yesteryear and today. Indulgence has replaced the thrift, born of necessity, that the 30s,40s, and the 50s brought to us.thelmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-21969476840810842422018-01-30T23:20:16.022-08:002018-01-30T23:20:16.022-08:00Somehow I have missed this programme. I was born ...Somehow I have missed this programme. I was born three years before the outbreak of WW2 and as I grew up I remember family members reminiscing about the National Strike and the Yarrow March. We were very lucky to live in the country and could grow vegetables and keep hens to help the purse. The hardship that others had to endure is unimaginable.Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06826501916623305535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-56089806488344892412018-01-30T23:17:06.839-08:002018-01-30T23:17:06.839-08:00Good history lessons are so much more than repeati...Good history lessons are so much more than repeating the dry facts, aren't they, and knowing about our (recent) history can and should make such a difference to our actions today.Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-1233182104888138792018-01-30T21:57:09.067-08:002018-01-30T21:57:09.067-08:00I haven't seen the programme that you speak of...I haven't seen the programme that you speak of but another one that has just finished is one about an old terraced house in Falkner Street in Liverpool. After showing it as it is today, they researched it back to it being built and then researched every family that had lived in it over the last couple of hundred years. Fascinating stuff.Derek Faulknerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05140363868104172311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-29512931006141264382018-01-30T18:22:46.785-08:002018-01-30T18:22:46.785-08:00I hope that series comes to SBS here in Australia,...I hope that series comes to SBS here in Australia, it sounds really interesting. I heard my parents talking a lot about the depression and hard times here in Australia in the thirties. We were lucky enough to live in a country town (I was born in the late thirties) with relatives on properties (sheep stations) so had access to meat and Dad grew our own vegies. We were really lucky in that regard, but my mother often gave men 'on the wallaby' some bread and dripping and a pot of tea in return for a load of wood chopped for the kitchen fire.<br />I think films like that should be compulsory viewing for the young ones of today who have no concept of how hard life was back then.Robin Machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14306137274084617478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-50139630417330443402018-01-30T18:21:06.209-08:002018-01-30T18:21:06.209-08:00Just popping by to say I've been reading your ...Just popping by to say I've been reading your posts and it seems you are faring well...good days, bad days...life is normal as you put it.<br />We are still deep in winter though the sun is warmer and days lighter already. We've had lots of ice underfoot and have to take care. <br />Hubby and I are watching The Crown...are you familiar. We are enjoying it.Jocelyn is Canadian Needle Nanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11770193529950365462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-82361060263078224702018-01-30T16:24:13.802-08:002018-01-30T16:24:13.802-08:00I heard about living life in the slums if 1930 Liv...I heard about living life in the slums if 1930 Liverpool from my grandmother<br />No NHS no food, pawning your best coat on Monday and getting it back on Friday <br />Cockroaches in your shoes at night<br />Hard timesJohn Going Gentlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14958171262765033946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-27580503669807408942018-01-30T14:56:54.209-08:002018-01-30T14:56:54.209-08:00Modern history should be a required course for eve...Modern history should be a required course for everyone, particularly politicians.Mac n' Janethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05732924562630675589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-56171893414724961252018-01-30T14:42:07.641-08:002018-01-30T14:42:07.641-08:00My mother was also born in England, in Cambridgesh...My mother was also born in England, in Cambridgeshire, and came to the US on the Queen Mary in February 1946. Her stories of growing up were so interesting--and her sister is still living. I hope the program you are watching becomes available here in the States.Granny Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01129064020727041161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-87086388587057537352018-01-30T14:10:54.175-08:002018-01-30T14:10:54.175-08:00My mother grew up in England, born in 1924.......e...My mother grew up in England, born in 1924.......emigrated to the US in 1946. I heard a lot of stories about England in her day.Hilaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02528439226293446420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-52149781905811993082018-01-30T13:56:50.250-08:002018-01-30T13:56:50.250-08:00Sounds interesting Pat. I'll see if it is on ...Sounds interesting Pat. I'll see if it is on the television across the pond.donna bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13507579686738843451noreply@blogger.com