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There were 15 of us living in a hole in't ground...

 

Coal butties were ****ing lush.

 

You ‘ad it easy lad, we had to gerroop before we went to bed!...

 

This all sounds pretty familiar to me mate !
Getting the new catalogue with all the toys in was so exciting !
My xmas list was massive I must have looked at the catalogue every night .
Never really got much on it but a football and a kit normally did me

 

And secretly looking at the lingerie section whilst pretending you were looking for toys

 

We used to make a nourishing soup out of the coal ash left over after a fire

 

How dare you make such a suggestion

 

I think we must have been posh as we moved into a new house when I was 4 with under floor heating

 

Yeah I used to have to climb over next door’s wall made from barbed wire and write down what their fire looked like cos we never had our own fire.

 

You mean you moved into a flat above a chippy.

 

That post I made about coal ash wasn’t actually true, we didn’t have a fire either, just a picture on the wall that my brother drew of some flames.

Psychologically it kept us all warm though.

 

I had a picture of a brother, I’d have loved a real brother.

 

I had a brother made out of two lumps of coal.

We had to set fire to him back in 1987 during that big storm

 

Aye! We ‘ad it ‘ard. Tell that to the kids today and they won’t believe you!

 

Yep, I most certainly was.

 

I'd forgot all about the big storm. Not sure how, coming from Kent. Just so many roads especially in the sticks impassable due to fallen trees. I was working in Sevenoaks at that time, probably one of the worst hit areas. Wasn't it reduced to one oak! And Michael Fish

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Ahh the great storm of 87 I remember it well, we had just been evicted and I broke both legs in a freak begging accident.

 

You ‘ad it easy! We lived in shoebox in middle t’ lake.

 

I lived in Hull.

 

. I can’t beat that!...