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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 50108" data-attributes="member: 22">Ethel Skinner: Do you remember Den's dad, Dennis? He was a hard man, wasn't he?Dot Cotton: He gave Den a few thick ears.Ethel: I always thought old Dennis was very handsome.Den: When I was a kid at school, some big lout used to come down to the playground every day and try and nick my dinner money. So coming from a very big family, and this family being a good family and a nice family, they used to come down and sort him out for me.Den: Only child, me. There was some cousins around, but they weren't much to write home about.Den: The barneys I used to have with my old man when I was a kid over the most stupid things you wouldn't believe. I had a quiff once.Michelle: You weren't a teddy boy, were you?Den: Yeah, I was. My old man thought a quiff was an affront to the British Empire. We nearly came to blows over it. Anyway, it was resolved somehow. Oh yeah, he got some barber in Stanton Hill to chop it off. And that was that, the war was over. Well, one of the battles anyway.Den: When I was [young], my dad took me to one side and said, "You best watch yourself. You're far too cocky for your own good. You think there's nobody in this world but yourself." And do you know something? He was absolutely right.Den: My dad told me the only face you should trust is the one you see when you're shaving yourself in the morning.Den on his mother: Older generation, facts of life, always embarrassed.Den on Angie: If I'm honest, she was a bit like me mum.Den to Angie: Do you remember my old dad? He reckoned we deserved each other.Angie: My dad never liked you. He warned me about you.Den: I didn't go a bundle on him either.Angie on spring cleaning: Do you remember the old days? I can see my mum, turban and overalls, everyone hanging out their carpets and maxis the same week and beating the hell out of them.Lou: In those days, they did things properly. They ran the house properly, regular as clockwork. Monday - washing and ironing, Tuesday - cleaning ... Arthur Fowler: And so on and so on and so on.Angie: I remember my old mum, Sunday afternoons after tea. She used to pick the cloth up by four corners, take it into the yard and give it a good old shake. Do you remember the first time you were invited?Den: Yeah. I was dreading it.Angie: Well, I'd never have known. You looked very cocky to me.Den: Salmon sandwiches and tongue sandwiches, and I hated them.Angie: But you ate them.Den: I was sick later.Angie: And you took her flowers and twenty fags. You could always get round her with twenty fags. Angie: I'm a creature of impulse, me. That's what my old mum used to say. "Impulsive you are, girl. Gonna get you into trouble one of these days."</blockquote>

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