Blast from the past

[Icefever]

I want to make a Lentil wash today (day off work) I have not made one for...maybe 2 years????..so off shopping later for a bag of red lentils.

I needed to refresh my old grey noggin on the weight of said lentils in a 25-litre wash....so I hit the search button for lentils. What I didn't realise then was that I used the Archive search, and bang back to Forum number 1....all the old member's names, the chat room..what a blast, anyway I now know the answer to my question.

Ice.

[WelshGin]

Yes, well, avoid bumping into x wives.

[Moss]

I want to make a Lentil wash today (day off work) I have not made one for...maybe 2 years????..so off shopping later for a bag of red lentils.

I needed to refresh my old grey noggin on the weight of said lentils in a 25-litre wash....so I hit the search button for lentils. What I didn't realise then was that I used the Archive search, and bang back to Forum number 1....all the old member's names, the chat room..what a blast, anyway I now know the answer to my question.

Ice.

That has been there since day 1

[Icefever]

I want to make a Lentil wash today (day off work) I have not made one for...maybe 2 years????..so off shopping later for a bag of red lentils.

I needed to refresh my old grey noggin on the weight of said lentils in a 25-litre wash....so I hit the search button for lentils. What I didn't realise then was that I used the Archive search, and bang back to Forum number 1....all the old member's names, the chat room..what a blast, anyway I now know the answer to my question.

Ice.

That has been there since day 1

I know mate...just a surprise

Ice.

[Mash]

I had the same moment with the recipe cachcha recently.

[Icefever]

I had the same moment with the recipe cachcha recently.

That's another one, I've forgotten cheers dude.


Ice.

[WelshGin]

Shit! I have been married 4x. The last one for 30 years.

You guys have more history that the F****** Archive.

Glad your there, I still make the same mistakes you guys did, but then you advise me so I do not repeat, repeat, repeat the error.

[Mash]

Anyone remember the pick n mix in Woolies

[WelshGin]

Yes. Is that how it was spelt? Of course it was Woolworths!!!!! Another life time eh?

60 years, gone in the blink of an eye. Feeling melancholy today.

You started it.

[Icefever]

Anyone remember the pick n mix in Woolies

Yes....I remember the Parcha floors...and they had assitents to serve you...


Ice.

[WelshGin]

What's an assistant?

And there were those little scoops that children licked as they were not tall enough to reach the sweets above.

Great times....

[Mash]

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[WelshGin]

Wow! My Daa was a butcher for a time in Wellington or Shrewsbury, it may have been Dewhursts. I recognise the name obviously but memory is evading me until I sleep/ASC then I will be able to recall.

Yes, my Daa said everything was so cheap/low cost, he had previously slaughtered on farms.

Dewhurst was a huge chain outlet.

Your post has sent me through a cascade of memories of which shops were present in the local towns of my childhood and youth....Thank you.

[Moss]

Both my wife and I come from competing families of butchers.

[Salar6]

I'm a butchers boy too! Ran away to sea then just like my bro.

[WelshGin]

My father worked for a time at Galliers the butcher in Wellington. After a nap the answer 'raised' itself to the visible surface of my consciousness.