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That was the best laugh I have had all week, and no CC I will not re-invent them.
posted by
UtahJay
on September 9, 2011 at 6:58 PM
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Well jay when one washes one's socks and does not have as spin dryer or a wife one pegs one's clothes on a clothes line. Today as you may know there are plastic and wooden articles that hold the socks on the line. In the olden days when men were men and women appreciated it. The gypsies made pegs basically it was a 5- 6 inch willow stick cut to that length a V shape made at the base it was then I assume fixed with a strip of tin about an inch from the opposite end to the first cut and then split as far as the tin. The old country women preferred them to the pincher pegs that were apt to break easily or dolly pegs machine made but not very efficient. So you can imagine to sit and make a three dozen of these after cutting the willow rods was not a very profitable occupation, outlay nothing except a few tacks reward if we bought them twelve pence to resell at sixpence a dozen. Don't try to reinvent them I have the patent.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 8, 2011 at 7:11 AM
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Shobana cross my hand with silver and will tell your fortune.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 8, 2011 at 6:51 AM
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CC I still don't know what a peg is, you probably told me in a previous blog, but I'm old. Your mother would have fit right in at my house.
posted by
UtahJay
on September 8, 2011 at 1:13 AM
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Wow, quite a story there CC.
posted by
shobana
on September 8, 2011 at 12:50 AM
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Sam they did make flowers out of willow I think it must have been and dyed them with bright colours, of every thing was cheap a loaf three pence sell a dozen pegs for sixpence and buy fish and chips. lovely. When a housewife caught was by one of those old gnarled faces at the door, I expect if they did not have money they would have given them a bit of bread or a couple of eggs. Better to be blessed than scorned.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 7, 2011 at 11:04 PM
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Re: CHIFFCHAFF
Have not thought about it for years Bill your time will come.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 7, 2011 at 10:55 PM
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Thank you adnohr she liked to let her hair down occasionally.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 7, 2011 at 10:54 PM
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Ithink they occasionally asked for a bit of bread Wiley and of course there were rabbits and ways of catching birds with large nets at night, Some told fortunes and sold lucky heather which was not heather at all but not many knew that. We would have made a good couple of gippos Wiley.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 7, 2011 at 10:53 PM
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Kabu the comments stuck or froze
posted by
C_C_T
on September 7, 2011 at 10:47 PM
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Re: I have a feeling my Dad would have run them off with a shot gun but
Kabu they were renting the ground I suppose and no one cared as long as they were not in one's back yard. Eventually some took council houses
posted by
C_C_T
on September 7, 2011 at 10:47 PM
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Re: C.C..it sounds like the gypsies could be a regular nuisance if they
Rumor.. It must have been a very weak donkey or a wide topped hole in the stone quarries there were lots of large deep holes where the water had dissolved the limestone I suspect it was a deep hole Rumor. Not much health and safety around at thast time. Yes we could scare em.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 7, 2011 at 10:40 PM
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CHIFFCHAFF
J You write very nice nostalgia sir. BC-A, Bill’s R®st
posted by
BC-A
on September 7, 2011 at 9:21 PM
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I bet I'd have really got on with your Mom!!!
posted by
adnohr
on September 7, 2011 at 7:09 PM
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CHIFFCHAFF
I could 'bearly. stop laughing at that one my friend. Interesting life you'fe had.
posted by
WileyJohn
on September 7, 2011 at 4:54 PM
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That was too funny on the bear and your mum was outstanding! I think they used the five finger discount! LOL, I'm joshing for I do not know how they would have survived! sam
posted by
sam444
on September 7, 2011 at 4:27 PM
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I have a feeling my Dad would have run them off with a shot gun but
then we have or had no concept of Gypsy life or what one was expected to toerate.
The donkey down the well??????? No wonder Mum shooed them away with her bear trick. LOL. This is so interesting...a life long gone.
posted by
Kabu
on September 7, 2011 at 4:26 PM
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C.C..it sounds like the gypsies could be a regular nuisance if they
wanted to be...(how in the world did they ever get a donkey down their well??..
..)...and that must have been quite the fright your mum gave them when she dressed up and pretended to be a bear.
..bet they didn't sleep too well that night..
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posted by
Rumor
on September 7, 2011 at 2:20 PM
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