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Re: A great retospective write into what is gone forever and so recently so
Yes Kabu, donkeys years ago I remember a little boy coming over from Canada and he was absolutely fascinated by our open fire, so I don't know what heating they used in the city at that time.
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C_C_T
on February 10, 2011 at 11:23 PM
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Re: time marches on relentlesssly C.C.....
Well Rumor people are sticking solar panels on their roofs, but I don't know if it will be a fast payback some can't wait twenty years.
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C_C_T
on February 10, 2011 at 11:20 PM
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Taps dear I think that must have been some thing like liquid paraffin. This we used was the stinky nonedible type. I know I have swallowed it at times when siphoning it out of tanks and crikey it kept repeating like sucking a car exhaust.
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C_C_T
on February 10, 2011 at 11:17 PM
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I wish I had taken photos E,E One would have seen all up the main street cans of every description waiting to be filled. I doubt If I could have found a camera suitable though.
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C_C_T
on February 10, 2011 at 11:11 PM
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Sam my great Aunt managed a coal business it was one of the main sources of fuel during the 39-45 war and even afterwards a lot of lads were conscripted as Miners, Paraffin had to be brought in by shipping, I don't know how it was manages with all the Uboats sinking so many vessels.
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C_C_T
on February 10, 2011 at 11:08 PM
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Paraffin was probably the best idea for the time --- and then new and progress went forward and this reminds that one always has to have one step into the future to keep in tune with all the new steps --- this was a powerful memory and history and impressed me dear ChCh ~ E.E. (Dman recalls Paraffin days)
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elysianfields
on February 10, 2011 at 9:01 PM
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Very interesting. When I was young, my mom used paraffin to seal her jams and jelly jars. I didn't even know there were such things as paraffin heaters and delivery of paraffin. I love to learn of things from the past.
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TAPS.
on February 10, 2011 at 8:04 PM
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time marches on relentlesssly C.C.....
And we are forced to continuously move on to "something different" - not always something better, but different....it was called progress then and its called progress now...but I think we all take a step back at times and say "Really?"...interesting reminiscing on the paraffin, C.C..
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Rumor
on February 10, 2011 at 5:14 PM
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A great retospective write into what is gone forever and so recently so
I loved your last line ...such is life...perhaps one day I will write a blog as to why.
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Kabu
on February 10, 2011 at 3:14 PM
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Retrospect does give one perspective! The times change and some things just stay in the past! When I read your poems on the paraffin it takes me to the stories of coal delivery! Amazing the amount that was moved by shovel in the day! sam
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sam444
on February 10, 2011 at 2:34 PM
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