Yup. And you weren't allowed to leave the table until you'd finished. And no **** sat in front of the Tellybox watching The Magic Roundabout at 17:40 hours eating their meal A family meal at the dinner table may have been a trial in tortured silence but it was a family meal nonetheless Anyone got a Time Machine? I gave up trying to construct one for 2 reasons. The first being I didn't have the time. The second minor drawback was that I didn't have a ****ing clue what I was doing.
One particularly brutal winter in the 80s (1880s) my mate had a Hillman Imp that had more holes than a sieve. It also had a heater, but that took at least 15 minutes to warm up, so there was no point putting it on for short journeys. No one wanted to ride in the front with him as it meant you had to ****ing freeze.