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<blockquote data-quote="wrenbird" data-source="post: 8103556" data-attributes="member: 20404"><p>My Grandad was a farm worker all his life, so never had much in the way of income, but, on thinking about it, he and Gran were pretty much self sufficient and didn’t have the outgoings that are the norm now.</p><p>Due to his employers ill health, Grandad was foreman where he worked. He didn’t earn any more money than the other workman, but he had a few acres of his own around the tied cottage they lived in, so they could keep a cow, pigs, a few sheep, poultry, grow a patch of spuds and swedes, besides a big veg garden. The only food they bought was things like tea, sugar, flour etc.</p><p>Heating and cooking was provided by a solid fuel Rayburn, they didn’t have electricity until they were moved into a newer farm cottage in the fifties.</p><p>Water was a private supply, didn’t have a telephone until the late seventies.</p><p>They didn’t have a vehicle until my Dad left school, and they scrimped and saved to buy one so he could get a job in town instead of farm work.</p><p>In his later years Grandad could never understand people who said to him “what an idyllic life, growing your own food, being out in the fresh air”.</p><p>He used to say there was nothing idyllic about it, just bloody hard work and bad weather.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wrenbird, post: 8103556, member: 20404"] My Grandad was a farm worker all his life, so never had much in the way of income, but, on thinking about it, he and Gran were pretty much self sufficient and didn’t have the outgoings that are the norm now. Due to his employers ill health, Grandad was foreman where he worked. He didn’t earn any more money than the other workman, but he had a few acres of his own around the tied cottage they lived in, so they could keep a cow, pigs, a few sheep, poultry, grow a patch of spuds and swedes, besides a big veg garden. The only food they bought was things like tea, sugar, flour etc. Heating and cooking was provided by a solid fuel Rayburn, they didn’t have electricity until they were moved into a newer farm cottage in the fifties. Water was a private supply, didn’t have a telephone until the late seventies. They didn’t have a vehicle until my Dad left school, and they scrimped and saved to buy one so he could get a job in town instead of farm work. In his later years Grandad could never understand people who said to him “what an idyllic life, growing your own food, being out in the fresh air”. He used to say there was nothing idyllic about it, just bloody hard work and bad weather. [/QUOTE]
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