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[tonicha]

What flavour magdelanas? I love them all though

[Diflower]

Lovely
Our house was pretty small but was nearly always the one everyone gathered in. Some parents were not at all keen on groups of us teenagers descending after pub-closing time, chatting happily and raiding their fridges
My mum was delighted, she came from a large family so it was how it should be to her. She would often go out to the kitchen at 11.30 at night and make great big platefuls of chips - real ones too!

[Ally]

What flavour magdelanas? I love them all though

Lemon.

[JoM]

Lovely
Our house was pretty small but was nearly always the one everyone gathered in. Some parents were not at all keen on groups of us teenagers descending after pub-closing time, chatting happily and raiding their fridges
My mum was delighted, she came from a large family so it was how it should be to her. She would often go out to the kitchen at 11.30 at night and make great big platefuls of chips - real ones too!

That sounds like my friend's house, they were a big family so nothing fazed her parents - everyone was welcome, even to stay the night

[Diflower]

There were a regular few 'safe houses' Jo, in our large group of friends.

There were three brothers, whose mother had been widowed - as is the way when you're young I have no idea what had happened to the father or when. The eldest was about 5 years older than me, the middle one a year older, and the youngest about 5 years younger.
On Sundays in winter theirs was the house for Sunday tea, she would do a whole wonderful table full of bread and butter, home-cooked ham, tongue, cheese, jam, lemon curd, crumpets and tea cakes, and sponge cakes, fruit cake and always a big trifle too. There would usually be about a dozen of us for that

In summer there was a family with a rather large house. We would go and learn to play croquet, play tennis, and then literally have a strawberry tea on the lawn
Another had a swimming pool, where in hot summers we would go after closing time for skinny-dipping and then brandy in the summerhouse
The other half living yes, but the funny thing is, all those who lived like that were the ones who would come to our little council house and sit chatting to my mum and dad till 3 in the morning