General Chat

I was born at home same as my brother and two sisters in 1953, Bottles were cleaned useing salt and then washeed. Nappies were steaped in bleach and then washed (Terry;s) My daughter was born 1987 and we used Terry's, they saved us a fortune, today everything is throw away now there's no big hole's left to dump them (Dispoables don't rot they just sit in the ground)! We are too sterile nowadays causing infection in kid's. When I was a child I played out all day in the dirt (earth) with my Corci's and Dinkey's) I would shout to my mother for a Jam sandwich etc) she would thru it out in a paper bag. I would eat the sandwich with filthy hands, never affected me, didn't see a Doctor until I was 16. All this sterile stuff is pushed by the manufacture's. Money! Money!! Money.................. Derek

Hi Jac & Derek:)) It seems to me that the folk who are fanatical about cleanliness, seem to be the ones who are constantly sick, with one ailment or another, they must wash so many germs away, they never get any resistance. As for milton, which I used, it smelt similar bleach, wonder what that did to our childrens stomachs? My Mum was one of 13, she was number 12, bet her bottles weren't sometimes washed out, or if so, just with water. I think we are a bit too clean now.

Does anyone remember the GREEN LADY? (School Nurse)! She used to visit the school every few month's. One by one we went into the room, she would check your hair for nits and the stick her hand down your pants to check for what? Nits/ crabs no idea!!!!!!...... Didn't see her wash her hands after each pupil!! Nowadays nurses & Doctors wash their hands in anti. gel as soon as look at you! Derek

Hi Derek, in London we called her Nitty Norah:)) In the 80's when my daughter was at school they used have the nurse check heads, but by the late 80's the nurse didn't visit, due to the pc stuff, and of course the lack of funds. My Grandson doesn't have Nitty Nora come round either, so I expect she is a past luxury, although of course nits are probably more commomn now, than in the 50's

Too right Lynda about the Nits - grt neice has caught them at least five times since starting school (she's now 11) - during the last escapade she was staying with us and boy was it hard work, washing her hair (long, silky and blonde) every perishing night and using the stuff - not only the washing, but the drying!!! Apparently the school is supposed to send a letter home informing the parents of an outbreak, and thus I suppose ensuring that each kid is treated! - ha!!! God, my fingers were raw after dealing with her nits - lol I'm glad I only had a boy, with fashionably short hair whilst at school - he never had nits thank the lord - zits yes, but nits no! lol Jac

Actually, I never had nits, either. I remember hearing about five or ten years ago from my mum that she went in the chemist and a woman with a child was in there. This kid was scratching its head like mad - turned out it had head lice - but my mum said the mother didn't want to pay about £8 for the proper lice treatment and left with a bottle of tea tree oil that was cheaper. I think tea tree works on lice but my mum couldn't believe this woman wouldn't pay the extra money to treat her kid's head lice. My sister and I were always playing in the garden and getting filthy as kids. She's got asthma but she was born with it. I've always been pretty healthy - it frustrated me so much that when I was ill, I used to try to spin it out to get more time off school. Never worked, though.

Dettol was THE thing years ago wasn't it? No matter what was wrong Dettol cured it, and if that didn't do it, use TCP:)) Where 3 or 4 things were needed years ago, it's now more like 24, it takes me 10 minutes to decide what toilet paper to get, years ago it was just Izal, if you were lucky that was, as the only alternative was newspaper:)))