RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted October 15, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2012 My trip to Le Mans was rewarded with success - half a dozen copies of the "integrated" death certificate were provided by a charming man who offered his condolences at my loss. A complete contrast to the cow of a fonctionnaire on the day of Deb's death, who was only concerned that I had yet to nominate a funeral director so she could complete her form! In hindsight I should have told her that I would do it when I was good and ready - and if she arranged for me to be locked up for defying the law then it would never get done! I believe there is a law here that forbids being rude to fonctionnaires - I wonder why such legislation needed to be passed? Every certificate, be it birth, marriage or death, I've ever seen in the UK tends to be hand-written by the Registrar on a posh piece of paper. The French ones are printed on ordinary office A4 - with a small blue stamp and a squiggle signature. I hope the Pension Fund and other UK institutions don't think I'm running some sort of scam! I could have got these weeks ago - but hoped the Notaire would have done his thing by now, so I could also go to the Prefecture to get the car registration changed, and anyway, for the past two weeks I haven't been up to the task. Today I found the walking involved left me bloomin' tired! Nice to get a couple of tram rides, though, as well as walking back through the old town, which is remarkably well-preserved, with cobbles everywhere. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted October 15, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2012 (edited) No connection with either organisation - especially since B&Q have closed their In Store toilets. Buy a plastic water butt then. Edited October 15, 2012 by BoD 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted October 15, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2012 And everyone join in.... " There's a hole in my bucket..." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium southern42 Posted October 15, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 15, 2012 dear liza Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LisaP4 Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 Off topic There's a topic? dear liza Spelt my name wrong, still heard it though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 Ian, You need to stock up on some "VIROL"........ Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted October 15, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2012 (edited) Ian, You need to stock up on some "VIROL"........ Best, Pete. Was Virol the stuff children(in the 1950s) used to get a spoonful of daily (weekly?) along with cod liver oil? I'm sure there was also something called Minadex. Probably needed vitamin supplements with the cooking techniques used at home. Edited October 15, 2012 by Tony_S Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 Supposed to be a "recovery food" - sticky glutinous - I liked it my brother hated it. I had Measles and Whooping Cough at the same time and looked like a kid from Belsen. The only thing I could eat was real beef broth (mixed with mash potatoes) and three tablespoons of Virol per day... Apparently you can still get it if you can track it down. Hopefully it is not NOS! Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted October 15, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2012 "Anaemic girls need Virol!" was the slogan. Pete - you can be very hurtful. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold grandadbob Posted October 15, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2012 Don't remember getting Virol in the Fifties but I do remember cod liver oil (horrible) and I think this was followed by some sort of concentrated orange juice which took the taste away' Happy days! Bob 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted October 15, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2012 Minadex I remember that..... and Delrosa Rosehip Syrup and Haliborange vitamin C tablets .... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debs. Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 For my early years, I did receive a daily spoonful of 'Malt and Cod-liver Oil'..............it was supposed-to; but certainly did not, "take the taste away". I did (for the most part) grow-up big and strong and seemingly without rickets....so perhaps, despite all the Gadidaeic suffering, it might have worked! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted October 15, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 15, 2012 I had Virol in the 50s, also the other main brand, Radio Malt, as featured in the Molesworth books, as any fule kno Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted October 15, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2012 Delrosa, definitely recall that now! Matthew was born in 1992 and I don't recall giving him any dietary supplements. So am I a bad parent or are modern diets that much better? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted October 15, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2012 ... Gadidaeic ... Needed Google to understand that! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 I think there's a mention of the Virol factory in one of the Ian Allan Western Region Londan area colour books, in the caption to a photo taken near Greenford on the 'direct route' to Brum....''the horrible stuff mother used to make you eat''...! Eeuughhh!! Off to work now, sleep tight ER chums.... I'll be glad when it's my turn to be back on days ;o) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixoh8sixoh Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 Needed Google to understand that! Me too! ''the horrible stuff mother used to make you eat''...! Eeuughhh!! Ah, we're back to sprouts again! I seem to remember when I worked in Dad's pharmacy (last time was probably 1999) Minadex was still available. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debs. Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 ......Gadidaeic...... Needed Google to understand that! Surely a load of old 'Codswallop' 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted October 15, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2012 Something fishy going on here..... On a huge scale. Better fin-ish now. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixoh8sixoh Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 Surely a load of old 'Codswallop' 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted October 15, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2012 Surely a load of old 'Codswallop' With the decline in cod stocks in British waters I believe we now are encouraged to replace codswallop with pollacks. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 "Anaemic girls need Virol!" was the slogan. Pete - you can be very hurtful. Ha! I don't remember that! Must be why Debs grew to be 5' 12"............ Why did we take these things? Don't forget when we were young (well, when I was) rationing was still in effect (though it was being phased out). Out of season fruit? Forget it! Best, Pete. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium AndyB Posted October 15, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 15, 2012 Lightweights. I was brought up in the 60s / 70s on a pint or two of gold top milk each day (the inch or so of cream at the top was meant to be good for you) and 2 tablespoons of Cow&Gate glucose powder before swimming lessons. Cod liver oil tablets were dished out occasionally - presumably to combat the effects of a cream and sugar diet? Liver was cooked for several hours, starting just after I was dropped off at school which gave it time to go grey and crumbly by lunchtime. Costains eventually bought the rights to my mother's fried liver recipe and she moved on to do some pioneering work on a mince recipe that was cooked in opaque liquid with fat goblets floating around anaemic onion slices. Andy 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debs. Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 Lightweights. I was brought up in the 60s / 70s on a pint or two of gold top milk each day (the inch or so of cream at the top was meant to be good for you) and 2 tablespoons of Cow&Gate glucose powder before swimming lessons. Cod liver oil tablets were dished out occasionally - presumably to combat the effects of a cream and sugar diet? Liver was cooked for several hours, starting just after I was dropped off at school which gave it time to go grey and crumbly by lunchtime. Costains eventually bought the rights to my mother's fried liver recipe and she moved on to do some pioneering work on a mince recipe that was cooked in opaque liquid with fat goblets floating around anaemic onion slices. Andy I bet at school, you could eat tapioca pudding without even thinking about 'frog spawn'! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted October 15, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2012 My mother didn't enjoy cooking and to be honest we didn't enjoy the result much either. My Dad used to joke that she was a religious cook, it was either a burned offering or bloody sacrifice. It was only the copious use of lard that probably stopped him adding "anointed with oil". 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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