This Christmas I will be.......

me too ladies - I am a woman of the seventies too...I was walking across Martin Place at the tender age of 20 in my platforms when kerboom (!) over I went ...falling over...and getting up very quickly...I loved them though...probably not the best for back, posture and keeping upright!! It's flats for me all the way now ...urghh! great to have memories though of being able to enjoy these fashion statements...xx

Platform shoes! The higher the better! I worked for a time at the Art Gallery of NSW and can still remember the sound of me clacking around in my yellow shoes on the travertine floors! 

@iserbrown  OMH I loved my platform shoes, treads and flares!!

As @patdug said "Those Heels"..................gorgeous but I reckon I would get vertigo if I tried walking in them these days - to think I was a girl of the 70s running around everywhere, trams, trains, in Platform shoes



Also owned some sensible shoes called Treads

I am loving all the wonderful Xmas comments and sentiments - and the pudding looks amazing...and those heels(!) what more can we say/! Christmas makes us really think and appreciate our family and friends...Merry Christmas everyone xx

We were told that the coins would prove if we chewed our food correctly !
There was much disappointment when decimal currency came in as they were considered not to be a suitable metal to include in the pudding - or was this a way for the adults to get away with not adding the coins ?    :)

Oh dear, @jennyss - I know just how upset I would have been if it was my best uke!  :(

Love it, @AllyJay - it really is as much about tradition & family heritage as anything!

One of my Grandmothers actually had a little bag of solid silver 'trinkets' she used to put in the cake instead of coins.  (Coins were bigger tho & probably easier not to accidentally swallow!)  Everyone was in fear of swallowing one of these trinkets, cos they knew they'd get a dose of 'something' to make it 'come out' again sometime soon ...... so we used to squash the pudding flat, to find them, before ingesting them!  LOL

@jennyss
I do hope that Santa was kind that year and brought your sister another guitar for Christmas - a bigger,  better and more louder one as revenge on the Christmas Pudding!

@AllyJay

I still have my mother's collection of Christmas Pudding sixpence coins from my childhood.  Each year the Christmas Pudding was "loaded" and Mother made sure that in my younger brother's and my slice of pudding was a sixpence or two. 

This was in the 1950's. I missed those sixpences when decimal currency was introduced - just was not the same.

After Mother died, I was given her beautiful jarrah sideboard (still have it) and when I was cleaning it out, there in one of the drawers was the little bag of Christmas sixpences. 

Our family's Christmas pudding memories are these. My most beloved mother-in-law (known by the kiddies when little as Annie and grandpa who was Pumma) would have collected five cent pieces over the year. The resulting loot was then boiled for a good ten minutes then drained and cooled.Her two small apprentices were perched on wooden steps and armed with a wooden spoon each. As each coin was added one at a time they would alternately stir in the coin with this chant... "I wish I wish a jolly good wish...and I wish that my wish would come true" Next coin...rinse and repeat. After putting in the pot to steam, Annie would then (with her helpers of course) make a delicious chocolate cake, making sure that there were plenty of leftovers in the bowl to be scraped and licked up.