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| Thread ID: 150946 | 2022-10-17 04:51:00 | A poem | B.M. (505) | PC World Chat |
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| 1488893 | 2022-10-18 00:01:00 | So my childhood. 60s...my mum always worked. At home at first, doing dressmaking for people. But from me aged 9 she worked in sewing factories. Yep did all the housework, womens work, my dad though wasn't a garden person either though, not even lawns, my mum mowed them too. He did do the shopping until I was 8, but that was because my mum couldn't drive for ages....and it was too hard for her on a pushbike. She had 4 kids (2 of us lived). My dad couldn't do anything while she was in hospital either, cook, clean...and she was in hospital for almost a year with my brother During and after). Then he got religion. Go to the flicks? We didn't even have a TV. Anyway if we got visitors suddenly my brother was let off his turns at dishes and such and it became me and my mum doing all that while the men sat about having important discussions about godliness. She made all her clothes and ours, wasn't allowed to have the trendy trouser suit, even if she made it. And the day I asked for a pair of jeans, lets forget that dark day. My mum used to be a clean freak, I can well see why she stopped washing the ceilings weekly and windows weekly and all that after my dad died. Exhaustion. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1488894 | 2022-10-18 00:10:00 | We were in a state house till I was about 8 when the govt. started selling them to people. (1950) Dad and Mum snatched up the offer on the house we were in (opposite a big paddock where Lynn Mall now stands now. They never looked back from then on. Dad's father was a coal miner and died when Dad was 12. They had a tough life after that. Mum's father was a piss head and they lived in a tent on the side of whichever road he was labouring on. Clothes made out of flour bags. My Nan was an incredible woman. So yes, our generation had it good! .... and yes, I am a Westie by birth! ;) Ken :) |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1488895 | 2022-10-18 01:14:00 | I sure miss having to catch the horse before I can ride to work . Ahhh yes, when your school bag had a hoof-pick in it and the school had a Pony Paddock . :) |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1488896 | 2022-10-18 01:43:00 | Sent poem to brother in law and just had a text about it. He is in his mid 80's and spends a lot of time playing his piano accordian to older folk in rest homes in BOP. He has put it to music and is going to try getting the oldies to sing along when he performs next! Say thanks to OP :) Ken :) |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1488897 | 2022-10-18 21:52:00 | Mum's father was a piss head a LIke husbands dad. He was one of those kids in the car outside the pub when he couldn't escape going. |
piroska (17583) | ||
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