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From: "patricia salter" <>
Subject: Re: Halloween trouble - now known as "in the good old days"!
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:26:42 -0000
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...............aaaaah I remember it well.
Patti







----- Original Message -----
From: "Delia Gleave" <d@deliagleave.f9.co.uk>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: Halloween trouble - now known as "in the good old days"!


> I'm having real trouble keeping out of this thread, because husband and I
> are real "grumpy old men" about this!
>
> Help me, help me - should we, do you think, start a new one about "in the
> good old days" without actually mentioning the current nuisances? My own
> childhood was in the fifties [the nineteen fifties, that is] in rural
> Bedfordshire, but there was so little choice of things then that it was
> almost identical to husband's childhood in Clacton-on-Sea [there - got an
> Essex link in, phew].
>
> Feel free to chuck me off the list but I'll try setting us off with:
>
> Sundays - sounds of lawn-mowing, Mum sharpening the carving-knife on the
> back doorstep, two-way family favourites on the radio, being allowed to
> beat the Yorkshire Pudding mixture and that "vlap, vlap" sound the back of
> the wooden spoon made in it.
>
> Tuesdays - market-day along our High Street and the men who used to shout
> their "catch-phrases"
>
> Saturdays - Dad going to Luton Town home matches while Mum and I went
> shopping. Oh that dreadful smell, brewery and fish-market combined. I
> don't know how I wasn't poorly.
>
> November - watching all the fireworks from inside the kitchen because the
> bangers frightened me - we used to be able to buy ones that didn't bang
> then - Mount Vesuvius, Roman Candles.
>
> Ah well, back to the gin!
>
> Delia
>
>
>
> <snip> What happened to peaceful country villages?
>>
>
>
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