Over 50's club

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GlennR Aug 2023 9:18pm, 7 Aug 2023 71,919 posts	0 GlennR I made cheesy scrambled eggs on toast in Home Economics. And knitted a cat puppet. From real cats?
Hanneke Aug 2023 9:24pm, 7 Aug 2023 108,306 posts	0 Hanneke Gosh, we never got anything arty or crafty in the Netherlands. It was all academic stuff. I did end up speaking 6 languages though...
LindsD Aug 2023 9:35pm, 7 Aug 2023 63,294 posts	0 LindsD It was thought of as life skills rather than arty-crafty tbf.
Hanneke Aug 2023 9:38pm, 7 Aug 2023 108,315 posts	0 Hanneke Ah. I suspect with Dutch as a mother tongue, learning English was an essential life skill
Velociraptor Aug 2023 9:42pm, 7 Aug 2023 64,856 posts	0 Velociraptor I made cheesy scrambled eggs on toast in Home Economics. And knitted a cat puppet. From real cats? Have knitted with worse.
Rosehip Aug 2023 9:50pm, 7 Aug 2023 29,614 posts	0 Rosehip My first woodwork project, then we did metalwork - a copper bowl with enamelling which is on mum’s mantelpiece and then a wrought iron lamp stand thing - no idea where that went. I left halfway through making a box in woodwork the next year - From a mixed comp to a girl’s high and had only needlework and cooking for the next couple of years
alpenrose Aug 2023 10:13pm, 7 Aug 2023 60,520 posts	0 alpenrose We had a copper that Mum did the washing in, got it out with the copper stick. I was a few years old when my other grandmother bought a spin drier for Mum. Eventually she had a washer to go with the spinner but we never had a twintub. Girls didn't do woodwork, metalwork or technical drawing. I still have a little round table that my brother made and he's probably got the little ?copper dish that he made. Me? I just made cheese & tomato sandwiches and lemonade in my 1st cookery lesson and I remember making macaroni cheese.
Derby Tup Aug 2023 10:44pm, 7 Aug 2023 60,795 posts	0 Derby Tup Anyone else get threatened with the copper stick for misbehaving?
cathrobinson Aug 2023 11:20pm, 7 Aug 2023 11,579 posts	0 cathrobinson Wooden spoon here.
leaguefreak Aug 2023 11:31pm, 7 Aug 2023 11,464 posts	0 leaguefreak I still have my father's tool box which was the first thing he made as an apprentice carpenter. It's among things that I have not figured out what to do with yet. I also have an old reel to reel tape recorder from mum's loft and no way of getting it going. I'm going to persist finding help with that one as there is a very slim chance it has a recording of my grandma's voice on one of the tapes and I've never heard that as she died before I was born.