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Glad to hear Archie and you are both holding together
despite twinges and tumbles. Have you considered making yourself a suit of bubble-wrap?
posted by
Ciel
on April 5, 2015 at 9:33 AM
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hope the knee is better and you dont eat too much chocolate
posted by
Lanetay
on April 3, 2015 at 7:27 AM
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ChiffChiff
Good description of folks living beyond their means in that Bro.
posted by
WileyJohn
on April 2, 2015 at 9:52 AM
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Re: I think kids in the time of scarcity, when chocolate was a rare treat
Well chocolate certainly tasted sweeter Pat. Unless it is the old taste buds wearing out.
I really don't care for it too much. Prefer jelly sweets as long as they do not have beef gelatine in them.
posted by
C_C_T
on April 2, 2015 at 9:14 AM
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Well A. there was not enough money to go round hardly in those days and folk probably did not believe in being over indulgent towards children.
posted by
C_C_T
on April 2, 2015 at 9:09 AM
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Re: Jimmy
In the first war my mother told me Jimmy that they only had lard and it was so horrible that she just ate plain bread.
In the next war two ounces was the butter ration for each person a week I know I collected it from an Aunt who owned a small shop. It was for an old chap that another of my Aunts befriended, I am afraid he never received it but the lard was better quality.
posted by
C_C_T
on April 2, 2015 at 9:07 AM
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ReFS:
Yes it is the next day that things reveal the problems. You have a long way to fall/
posted by
C_C_T
on April 2, 2015 at 8:59 AM
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Re: CC
Times change I suppose K. Once parents tried to give kids what they did not have themselves I suspect. It then became the norm. Had to scrub my last remark out
A minute in the mouth a lifetime on the behind kind of remark. I did not want be cheeky.
posted by
C_C_T
on April 2, 2015 at 8:57 AM
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Re: CCT
I know I'll try and contact him Naut When I am lonely in my shroud
And have no further ails or chills
I'll search the heavens,cry out loud
One of my favorites by Bill Wordsworth. Anything for a nickel.
posted by
C_C_T
on April 2, 2015 at 8:47 AM
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Re: Taps
Thank you you could half fill it with old newspapers. Or oranges.
posted by
C_C_T
on April 2, 2015 at 8:38 AM
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Ha,ha adnohr I left school at 14 the brightest kids could not spell Wednesday.The teachers were always in a hurry to mix with the Yanks. 'Got any gum chum.'
posted by
C_C_T
on April 2, 2015 at 8:35 AM
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Re: Vermont
Believe me Vermont quoting anything poetical is a turn off. Prospects are more enchanting.
posted by
C_C_T
on April 1, 2015 at 11:25 PM
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Dear me Kabu, I only copied what your Mummy and Daddy used to sing together.
posted by
C_C_T
on April 1, 2015 at 11:22 PM
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Re: Jeansaw
I guess there will always be the haves and the have nots Jean . By the amount of charity letters I receive there are still a good many suffering.
posted by
C_C_T
on April 1, 2015 at 11:20 PM
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cct
i have heard said that children of today most of them could not handle hard times as they have never had to do without. but there are children that are terribly poor and have to stand in soup lines with their parents. there are soup kitchens in town but none in the northern end of our county where i live. if we are going to help i guess we just have to do what we can, one person at a time. i liked your poem.
posted by
jeansaw
on April 1, 2015 at 6:47 PM
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Love the poem...you are so clever...and what ccan I say about the fall...you and Wiley drive me nuts just be more careful ..Sigh!!
posted by
Kabu
on April 1, 2015 at 6:40 PM
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Love hearing about the childhood. I would think that poem is good enough to impress
and keep her.
posted by
Vermont01
on April 1, 2015 at 6:36 PM
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Yes - we were not allowed to fill our faces with candy even those times (few) it was available. But that was then and this is now. Even if ways have changed, the beat goes on, and we eventually accept how it is. Sorry about your fall. I'm such a klutz, have done it often, so probably know how you feel. Another great poem. Did you ever teach literature?
posted by
adnohr
on April 1, 2015 at 4:57 PM
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Love the ending to your poem.
So sorry you fell--glad you didn't break anything.
I have an old, really pretty hatbox sitting up in the closet that would make a really pretty Easter decoration. I think I will fill it with candy bars and candy eggs and set it out for Easter nibbling. Thanks for the idea.
posted by
TAPS.
on April 1, 2015 at 4:35 PM
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CCT
Glad you have no cinders in your greenhouse! And you don't have to apologize to me - maybe to Ben Jonson...
posted by
Nautikos
on April 1, 2015 at 4:14 PM
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CC
Not watching where you were going, huh....probably thinking of how you would get out of it when found out for sending flowers to one with name of another...you cad! A wreath you might well deserve! Still I am glad you were not hurt beyond some stiffness. My husband has bits of cinder on both his knees from track days... I don't think many of these helicopter mom's with their health consciousness would let the kids eat all the chocolate! I agree they don't appreciate what they have....isn't it funny, though, how we talk like that is their fault?
posted by
Krisles
on April 1, 2015 at 3:56 PM
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I fell down the steps at my morher's about five years ago. The worst I felt after it was the next day...I wonder if she will return the wreath.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on April 1, 2015 at 2:36 PM
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I recall my dad telling us tales of growing up during WW II. Their big 'treat' was a slice of bread smeared with a tad of butter, with some sugar sprinkled on it. And they were damned happy to have that! Kids today have no idea how good they have it! Hope the knee is doing better . . .
posted by
JimmyA
on April 1, 2015 at 1:18 PM
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I remember my mom always rationing out the candy. She even rationed out the halloween candy
posted by
Annicita
on April 1, 2015 at 12:38 PM
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I think kids in the time of scarcity, when chocolate was a rare treat
and not par for the course, had a lot more appreciation and knew a lot more about what was necessary for the good life.
posted by
Pat_B
on April 1, 2015 at 11:31 AM
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