Outdoor living/entertaining

[lurker172602]

I was just reading, yet another, article about the importance these days of an outdoor living/entertainment area in our homes and was struck by the fact that I don't remember such spaces from when I was a child.
We never ate outside unless we were at the beach or on a picnic. As teenagers we may have laid on the grass on our towels but there was no designated area for outside leisure.
When did this all change, or has it always been the same in Australia and I missed out because I didn't grow up here?

[j*oono]

I'm not that keen on eating with the flies but I don't think we get them in the same numbers now.

[vicr3000]

Joono

What do you mean in the same numbers now ?

[j*oono]

I mean we don't seem to get as many flies around now.  I remember when my nanna came for a holiday and she was surprised that we don't get sparrows in the garden. 

She said ' still, I suppose you've got the flies instead'.

[vicr3000]

Fly numbers, at least in Vic and NSW do go up and down based on a few things.

Everything's intertwined.

[amber-eyed-girl]

Plenty of mosquitoes.

[cherry*135]

I think the BBQ was a factor too, in cooking/eating outside. My family got a little round charcoal BBQ in 1977 (NZ). Can remember eating meals cooked on that outside. We sat on the bench seat in the garden, brought chairs out from inside. No outside table that I can remember.

The BBQ came in handy when we had lengthy power cuts after storms too.

[cherry*135]

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@vicr3000 wrote:
Fly numbers, at least in Vic and NSW do go up and down based on a few things.

Everything's intertwined.

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That doesn't really tell anyone anything you know

[imastawka]

Poor little sparrows can't make it across the Nullabor,  joono

[lloydslights]

It's so long since I saw a sparrow.  20 years, maybe.  I think an invasion of bullying Indian Mynahs caused an evacuation.

DEB

[imastawka]

Re eating outdoors.    In my day (when dinosaurs roamed the earth)

you weren't even 'allowed' to eat on the street.   Very unlady-like.

I remember as a kid, the backyard was always full of dad's half- projects

Bits of metal, bits of timber, grass growing through it.  Went into mum one day

with a plank of wood nailed to the underside of my foot.  Rusty nail.....she just

pulled the wood off, washed my foot with water, washed the blood off my sandal

and sent me back out.   Not even a band-aid!    So much for tetanus shots