Originally Posted by Hitchy

....I used to get up 3 hours before i went to bed, my da' would beat us to death with a stick, then we'd work 37 hours a day down coal mine for threepence h'penny a month, come 'ome have stale bread & fetid water for tea, sleep in cardbard box in rain.....if we were lucky....& you try tellin' yung peeple that today...& they woon't believe you!