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nigel Thomas's avatar

I was told that the act of putting milk in first came from when cups were made of clay and if you poured boiling water the cup could explored, milk cooled the water and stopped burns 😊

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Mary Marshall's avatar

Further thoughts. 🤔What class am I?

My maternal grandfather was a tenant farmer BUT that is far from a farm labourer as he would have been more like a manger. Deciding, organising and managing the ups and downs of seasonal work on a farm, including finding and managing many types of seasonal worker. He was numerate and literate keep books of various kinds and managing money.

My paternal grandfather, before industrialisation was a blacksmith. Again he would have been highly skilled and probably managed at least two or more people.

So I guess that puts me somewhere in middle class territory, however, it's a precarious place and life is like a game of snakes and ladders. As I mentioned my paternal grandfather WAS a blacksmith. At the end of his life he stoked the boilers at the local school, so working class.

We "wash baggers" inhabit that area where lucky, technology and social change can slide us down a snake or boost us up a ladder all in the span of a single lifetime.

My mum & dad were respectively a typist and a factory worker so very typical working class.

I via RoSLA ended up continuing my education at a FE college emerging to become a computer programmer, so middle class! Thus we are back where we started🙄

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