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Re: Re: Kabu
I agree totally.
posted by
Kabu
on December 17, 2012 at 3:44 PM
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Re: Taps
As the lady said in her book she was not one of the poorest families those lived in squalid conditions with hardly a rag to their name. 
posted by
C_C_T
on December 17, 2012 at 8:41 AM
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Re: I was in Petco yesterday where they sold little spotted mice as pets,
Well Pat I did think earlier in the year when they started on my strawberries in the tunnel that they would have to be exterminated. I set an alive trap and caught two the first night, they looked cute so I released them down the bottom of the garden and threw two dozen pots of strawberries out as I heard that mice are apt to wet a lot. This time I bought some of those old fashioned spring traps so that they are dead on arrival but I shall not put strawberries in the tunnel again and rely on the maundering cats to police the bed outside. We do have a nice little vole, it takes a bit of bird food occasionally.
posted by
C_C_T
on December 17, 2012 at 8:36 AM
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Re: Jay
People have forgotten Jay. It is probably a safety valve to forget bad things from each generation. Just think why did so many emigrate from England to endure hardship it shows how bad it was here. 
posted by
C_C_T
on December 17, 2012 at 8:11 AM
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I love reading you. You make me feel really down to earth with all the little details of life as it was then as compared to life now.
posted by
TAPS.
on December 17, 2012 at 6:25 AM
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I was in Petco yesterday where they sold little spotted mice as pets,
and I wondered who would ever want that. My experience with mice has been like yours where they nibble and ruin human intentions and food. Then a little girl, maybe five or six years old, came to marvel at the mice all tucked into a plastic box, and one running furiously on a wheel. Look Mommie, look! and she was filled with delight and amazement. So I should try to be more like a kid and find something to wonder at, but I still have sympathy for the exotic taste you might have had and the irritation at the little critters.
posted by
Pat_B
on December 17, 2012 at 4:03 AM
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I just got through Oliver Twist, the poverty level was astounding...I can't imagine such heart ache.
posted by
UtahJay
on December 17, 2012 at 12:59 AM
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Re: Kabu
Yes, dearie we are untouched by most hardships, it was not so in your great granny's time [I bet a shilling,] or a farthing in those days. We may have seen the best times the way things are going.
posted by
C_C_T
on December 17, 2012 at 12:38 AM
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Adnohr
No Adnohr. I guess we always think there is room for improvement in our own life style. I wish I could have a dog to monitor my moods. You have three so I should feel envious, I had better avoid the cracks today.
posted by
C_C_T
on December 17, 2012 at 12:29 AM
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Re: FS
Well FS you rarely see mice if rats are around or rats if a fox is around or well we will leave it like that.
posted by
C_C_T
on December 17, 2012 at 12:24 AM
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Re: Naut
I suppose we all have a our little quirks Naut, bit nasty when one is afficted with OCD.
posted by
C_C_T
on December 17, 2012 at 12:21 AM
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Re: CCT
Yes Bill I don't think we get many season's suitable to provide a harvest. It was used as collateral in places probably still is, hard work just to pick the elusive red stamens.
posted by
C_C_T
on December 17, 2012 at 12:19 AM
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CCT
PAt the supermarket I saw saffron in the spice section of an aisle. I used to grow this autumn blooming crocus sir. BC-A, Bill’s R®st
posted by
BC-A
on December 16, 2012 at 11:32 PM
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CCT
A sad little story about the doll that wasn't...And yes, I do get the drift of your poem - I try and avoid those moments, not always successfully, though...
posted by
Nautikos
on December 16, 2012 at 6:42 PM
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Those mice can be such a pain. I'm thankful that I do not have to deal with them...Moods can change at the drop of a hat.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on December 16, 2012 at 3:16 PM
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Thought provoking poem, CCT. Yes - there are days when emotions all of a sudden turn sour for no particular reason. The dogs feel it and stay out of your way while you talk yourself into being happy again. It's a luxury we have - thinking about other people's hardships to remind ourselves how lucky we are. I suppose those people who endure the hardships have no time for grouching, they're too busy trying to survive. Not walking on the cracks doesn't cut it.
posted by
adnohr
on December 16, 2012 at 1:23 PM
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yeah i get your drift matey....LOl...and I am thinking that the World will
always be unevenly divided. Now it is more countries than within our own society. Oh yes there are the really really rich that don't touch us humble folk but imagine being in some village in Africa or part ofthe untouchables in India. No hope, no hope at all.
posted by
Kabu
on December 16, 2012 at 12:24 PM
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