geoff wrote:
In message , ARWadsworth
writes
harry wrote:
On Jun 8, 9:55 am, Tim Watts wrote:
John Williamson wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article
,
jgharston wrote:
And I've always wondered how valid this "men never went
in the kitchen" thing was. Most of my ancestors on my
mother's side were fishermen, and if you couldn't cook
you starved.

My father - born around 1900 - washed and dried the
lunchtime dishes every single day. He also gave his
unopened pay packet to mother every Friday.

My mother never went out to work, but looked after the home
and kids. But had full control over the family income and
outgoings - father simply got some pocket money.

I think they balanced out running the home pretty well
between them - mother certainly never complained. Of course
these days when so often both parents go to work (or both
not) it's a different matter.

In the 60s Dad's salary, which was roughly the national
average income, paid the mortgage on a nice semi in a
pleasant area with a reasonably comfortable lifestyle for us
(2 cars, washing machine and a TV.). Just the mortgage
payments on that house now would be a bit more than the
national average income, assuming the same percentage deposit.

Ditto - engineering civil service salary (not exactly massive)
paid for a 3 bed semi with a 100' garden in a nice small town
plus car. If you compare house price inflation from the 60's to
present,
it far outstrips the inflation on everything else.

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Immigration. They gotta be living somewhere.

Usually in the country they moved to.

And you can blame both Tim and myself for introducing two legal
immigrants to the UK (that's one each not two each).

Three here

I DO hope that none of them are from a certain religious group that harry
would take offence to.


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Adam