Most blokes got married in June because they took their yearly baff in May and were still smellin' pretty good by June. However, right, they were startin' ter smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers ter hide their body odor. Yer can't 'ave a knees-up wivout a joanna. Baffs were nuffink more than a big tub filled wiv 'ot water. The bleedin' man of the bloomin' house 'ad the bloomin' privilege of the nice tidy water, ffen came all the uvver sons and men, ffen the chuffin' tarts and finally the bloody children. Last of all the chuffin' babies. By then the bleedin' water were so dirty yer could actually lose some bloke in it. So the sayin' 'Don't frow the baby out wiv the chuffin' baff water'.

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     Houses 'ad thatched roofs made wiv fick stror piled 'igh wiv no wood underneaff. It were the only place for animals ter get warm, so all the pets.. . dogs, right, cats and uvver wee animals, mice, rats, right, bugs lived in the roof. Wen it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the bloomin' roof. So the chuffin' sayin' 'It's rainin' cats and dogs'.

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     They cooked in the kiffen in a big kettle that always 'ung over the bloomin' fire. Evryday they lit the fire and added fings ter the pot. They usually ate mostly vegetables and didn't cop much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner leavin' leftovers in the pot ter get cold overnight, and then start all over the next day, do wot guvnor! Sometimes the bloody stew 'ad food in it that 'ad been in there for a monff. So the chuffin' rhyme: 'peas porridge 'ot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the bloomin' pot nine days old'.

     Bread were divided accordin' ter status, right? Workers got the bloomin' burnt bottom of the chuffin' loaf, the family got the middle, right, and guests got the bleedin' top, or the chuffin' 'upper crust'.