Mrs Fox tells me that I can get my appetite outside…But always eat at home…
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Stick with what you like…
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@Bretrick … you know the youff of today would think you were talking in a foreign language with that … what about Uber Eats and takeaways and microwaves and speed dial fast food.
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Keeping dinner warm in an oven for hours, never heard the likes of it. Crazy, if you ask me. 
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Those were the days, memories of resurfacing, not a “Pot Hole” in sight 
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Then along microwaves!
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I doubt my father would have utilised them. He seemed to have an aversion to food. 
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Most people had a coal fire with an oven next to it Bretrick, so it was always hot inside…The fire made amazing toast if you hung a slice over it with a toasting fork…
People don’t know they’re born these days… 
I remember my grandma had a clothes thingy hanging high up above the hearth to dry the washing.
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I admit I’ve done that a few times in the past, hanging socks from the mantelpiece, over our fireplace. Wood, not coal. 
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I have a clothes drier fitted high up, onto the pipe of our firewood heater, it’s great for drying clothes in the Winter!
I suppose it’s nice to think that some old habits haven’t been lost entirely yet, still on the surface!
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I remember my next door neighbour has an old washer too with a mangle wringer on top … this was in the 1970’s when everyone else had a front loader automatic.
Show one of them to a teenager now and they think it was an instrument of torture.
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We had one of these…archaic by today’s standards!
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We had a washing machine with an automatic Mangle on top.
My younger brother got his arm caught in it and had his arm broken.
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Used to listen to Dick Barton Special Agent 001
Amplifier. Empty Box of >>
Woe betide, if a match had been left inside. 
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Morse QeS?
I think I’ve got one of those kicking about in the lab somewhere… 
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Thanks for giving the Twin Tub air space
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Not Exactly OGF.
A Cats Whisker Crystal Radio. With AM Reception.
Originally via Galena Cristal. Subsequently know as Diode.
Wish I still had mine.
It worked better than this QWERTY Box of Tricks.
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I had a crystal set but as far as I can remember it only got the Home Service.
I was very pleased when the transistor arrived.
It’s all about the antenna Mr Smith…
Ah yes, sorry QeS morse was probably more associated with Continuous wave transmission and a BFO at the receiving end…
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