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Awesome, heavy, excellent sir
posted by
BC-A
on February 8, 2018 at 9:59 AM
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Re: Pat
The chicken were lucky to be alive. I did know one chap he said folk wondered why he did not work. He told me late in life that he kept at least a score of cockerels in his back yard and every so often took one up to London and sold it on the Black Market. 
posted by
C_C_T
on February 8, 2018 at 1:20 AM
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Re:FS
Surprising how soon it is forgotten. But then one does not see many lamplighters around .
posted by
C_C_T
on February 8, 2018 at 1:16 AM
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Re: Ciel
One had to be a bit of an artist to be a road sweeper leaning on the broom and looking exhausted was a part of the exercise. Seems like it might have been Universal.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 8, 2018 at 1:14 AM
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Re: C_C_T
They did cut little channels in the verges of country roads occasionally to drain away excess rainfall but I think it was more cosmetic. Tin saucepans and kettles were in use as every piece of spare metal was taken to help the war effort, make bombs I suppose. Railings were easy to cut through and take away.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 8, 2018 at 1:11 AM
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C_C_T
How interesting about the street sweeper. I don't believe I have ever seen one, except at Disneyland years ago... One had to make do in wartime, and your poem about it certainly illustrates that idea. Very nice. 
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on February 7, 2018 at 1:42 PM
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Your tale of the sweeper reminds me of a side character in an old Jacques Tati film, MON ONCLE. It opens with a scene of a French village street where there is a street sweeper--he reappears every time that street is shown, carrying a poised broom or leaning on it while chatting with some passer-by. The one thing he never ever does, is sweep a lick of the street!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8FgRYhBof4
posted by
Ciel
on February 7, 2018 at 12:19 PM
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a different world to the one I grew up in. I hardly know this world.
posted by
Kabu
on February 7, 2018 at 11:18 AM
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I see street sweepers once in a while...It is interesting to read of people's experiences during wartime.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on February 7, 2018 at 10:25 AM
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It's probably true the chickens didn't give a
tinker's dam whether they had the patched tin kettle or the enamel one.
posted by
Pat_B
on February 7, 2018 at 10:24 AM
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