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| Thread ID: 34583 | 2003-06-17 22:57:00 | OT Brrr.... it's blimin cold!!!! | Chris (3346) | Press F1 |
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| 153228 | 2003-06-18 21:39:00 | >So I'll need my winter woolies when I'm down that way early July As Chris says, yus, that would be a good idea... Although a norwester this am and NO FROST is a trifle unnerving... Second letter after H is o, and final letter is s John |
John H (8) | ||
| 153229 | 2003-06-18 21:45:00 | >in the mid 50's in Shannon (...) the milk bottles (yep bottles) Wow, you were advanced! On the mainland, we had bottles with cardboard tops at school, but home delivery was out of a can in the boot of a car, into a billy. My big sis reckons she remembers the milk being delivered by horse and cart... Do you recall trying to break through the hole in the cardboard tops of the school milk bottles? And the inevitable explosion when the whole top unexpectedly caved in, usually of milk that had been turned by sitting out in the sun and norwester... And the cruel laughter all round. Arrrggggghhhhhh. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. |
John H (8) | ||
| 153230 | 2003-06-18 21:58:00 | Greetings from the sub-topical North. :D Round these parts a cold day is 17 degrees and 13 is straight from the Antarctic. Cheers Billy 8-{) :) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 153231 | 2003-06-18 22:07:00 | > >Second letter after H is o, and final letter is s Let me see.......Hopkins;) I remember Brian ?? he had a pub in Shannon in 70's |
Thomas (1820) | ||
| 153232 | 2003-06-18 22:13:00 | >Let me see.......Hopkins You might say that; I couldn't possibly comment! |
John H (8) | ||
| 153233 | 2003-06-18 23:39:00 | Talking of Horses and Carts brought another memory back :-). Used to often hear the old horse and cart of the "Nightman" and the noise he used to make clanking his cans as he went past my bedroom window on his way to the outside toilet. Many a time I would sneek a look through the front windows and watch him struggle with the full can up onto the cart, just waiting for him to have an accident and spill the contents over himself - never did though :-), and all this with no gloves or other protective clothing - yuk! No JohnH, our school milk was delivered in huge milk cans and was dispenced with an empty can, with a long wooden handle nailed to it, into the containers each of us had to provide for ourselves. |
Curly (487) | ||
| 153234 | 2003-06-19 00:01:00 | Hover your curser over your moniker on the left John . Remember rolling snowballs on the way to primary school, in Dunedin, and collecting them at the gate at school end and rolling them home . Needed a bunch of us to shift them by that time tho, if the sun hadn't come out in the meantime . The result was hopefully a snowman :D Cheers Murray P |
Muzzer (238) | ||
| 153235 | 2003-06-19 00:12:00 | >Hover your curser over your moniker on the left John. Ah, I didn't know that trick! So Thomas isn't as clever as he is cracked up to be! Or maybe I have just proved I am thick? |
John H (8) | ||
| 153236 | 2003-06-19 01:26:00 | Well, we used to live in shoebox in middle t'road. We had to get up at six o'clock in the morning, lick road clean before going down t'mill where we were paid sixpence a week working fourteen hours a day and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt........... (with thanks to Monty Python) But seriously, I am enjoying this thread and the gentle reminiscences of yore. Reminds me of going to primary school in Southland in the early 1960s. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 153237 | 2003-07-05 01:12:00 | now......today is what i call cold. | metla (154) | ||
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