[LISTEN] What You Remember From Your Grandparents’ House

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The smell of rusks and coffee, plastic couch covers, the soup mugs with recipes printed on, and that cupboard with the sweets you were not allowed to open. There’s nothing quite like the warm, nostalgic feeling of days gone by at granny and grandpa. Smile Breakfast took a trip down memory lane, because it seems that we all had grandparents whose houses looked quite similar inside.

 

First of all, what do we actually call that thing that covers the sugar pot?

 

From the treats to that secret cupboard, you really brought up some good memories:

 

And of course, who remembers this painting?

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