"TO LEARN THEM TO RESPECT "

        

  

ANOTHER OF MY ARCHIVES RHYMES BEFORE I DO DELEAT.

AS I PRINT THEM OFF NOW J/LAND FRIENDS AND FILE THEM NICE AND NEAT.

SO I THOUGHT I'D  PLACE THIS ONE HERE AGAIN FOR ALL WHO HAVN'T READ.

I HOPE THAT YOU ENJOY AND IT BRINGS MEMORIES TO YOUR HEAD.

I WAS THINKING OF "THE GOOD OLD DAYS" WHEN I WAS JUST A KID.

SAT ALONE IN SILENCE ABOUT THE THINGS WE DID.

NO COMPUTERS PLAYSTATIONS OR BRAND NEW BIKES AND THINGS.

OWN TV OR MOBILE PHONE IN OUR POCKET THAT DOES RING

THE ONLY THING WITH WHEELS ON WAS A HOME MADE WOOD GO GART. HA-HA

              

 

BUT WE WERE GRATEFULL ANYWAY FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEART.

A PIECE OF ROPE TO STEER IT WITH NO BRAKES JUST USED YOUR FEET.

THE WHEELS DAD GOT FROM AN OLD USED PRAM AND A PLANK IT WAS YOUR SEAT.

WE THOUGHT WE WERE IN HEAVEN WHEN OUR DAD PRODUCED THIS TOY.

ALL OF THEM JUST BLAND OLD WOOD NOT COLOURS FOR GIRL OR BOY.

WE'D SET UP WACKEY RACES AND DOWN THE HILL WE'D GO.

TEARING VERY FAST WE WENT LIKE LIGHTENING NEVER SLOW.

SCREAMING AND LOUD SHOUTING ECHOED FROM OUR FRIENDS.

AND SUDDENLY ONE WOULD LEAVE THE TRACK WHEN FLYING ROUND THE BENDS. HE-HE

A TOY WE ALL WERE PROUD OF YOU NEVER HEARD US MOAN.

WE WERE THANKFULL FOR SMALL MERCY'S AND A REALY HAPPY HOME.

SKIPPING ROPES FROM WASHING LINES SPINNING TOPS AND SUCH.

NOT COSTING A SMALL FORTUNE AS OUR PARENTS DIDN'T HAVE MUCH.

YET STILL WE WERE SO HAPPY DOLLS MADE FROM A WOODEN PEG.

OUR PARENTS WORKED HARD EVERY DAY THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO BEG

IN THEM DAYS JUST FOR COPPERS (DIMES) ALL SPOKEN FOR EACH WEEK.

BUT KIDS AND FAMILIES HAPPYIER AND GRATEFULL SO TO SPEAK.

TREAT OF THE WEEK ON SATURDAY MORN AND OFF WE ALL WOULD GO.

RUNNING TO THE CINEMA TO WATCH THE WEEKLY SHOW.

FLASH GORDON AND THREE STOOGES  BOWERY BOYS AND ALL.

 

OUR ONE PENNY SPENT ON ENTRANCE AND WE REALY HAD A BALL.

 MY FAVOURITES WERE THE LITTLE RASCALS SOMETIMES THEY WERE VERY BAD..

THE LITTTLE GIRL WAS FUNNY TOO HER HAIR IN RAGS SHE HAD. HA-HA.

DO YOU REMEMBER  ALFALFA  HA-HA  HERE IN THE PICTURE BELOW

HE ALWAYS HAD A PIECE OF HAIR STUCK UP AT THE BACK AND SO..

IV'E LAUGHED FOR MANY AN HOUR ABOUT THESE THINGS WE DID OF OLD.

AND MANY STORIES  ABOUT THIS GANG MY KIDS HAVE NOW BEEN TOLD. HA-HA.

WE WOULD SIT ON WOODEN BENCHES OUR EYES GLUED TO THE SCREEN.

NO PORN OR SEX AROUND KIDS THEN NOTHING WAS OBSCENE

WITH AN EXTRA PENNY  SPENT ON A  TINY LOAF I NEVER DID BUY SWEETS.

I LOVED MY PENNY HOVIS FRIENDS LOVED THERE OTHER TREATS.

 

PARENTS NOT AROUND US WE WERE SAFE ALL SEVEN DAYS.

KNOWONE WILL CONVINCE ME THEY WERN'T "THE GOOD OLD DAYS"

CHRISTMAS BROUGHT TWO GIFTS FOR US BENEATH A BRANCH FROM A TREE.

IF DAD WORKED OVER MANY HOURS WE MAYBE THEN GOT THREE.

AN APPLE AND AN ORANGE OR MAYBE A LITTLE GAME.

A PACK OF OLD MAID  PLAYING CARDS ALL WITH DIFFERANT NAMES.

WE'D ALL SIT ROUND THE TABLE MUM DAD AND MY SISTERS THREE.

PLAYING TOGETHER FOR HOURS ON END LIKE FAMILIES NOW  SHOULD BE.

WEEKENDS  WERE ALWAYS HAPPY SCHOOLDAYS  TOO WERE GOOD.

I DON'T THINK THESE TIMES WILL RETURN BUT I REALY WISH THEY WOULD.

IF WE DIDN'T DO AS WE WERE TOLD WHEN OUR PARENTS SAID.

WE GOT A REAL GOOD SMACK OR CLOUT AROUND OUR TINY LEGS.

NO WAS JUST A WORD WE DARN'T SAY ANY TIME OF DAY.

BUT WE HAD RESPECT FOR PEOPLE NOT LIKE THEY ARE TODAY.

THIS NEXT GENERATION NEED TO LEARN TO APPRECIATE AND RESPECT.

NOT ALWAYS ON THE WANT FOR MORE THEY SIMPLY JUST EXPECT.

ONCE MORE IV'E TAKEN YOU ALL AGAIN  WAY BACK DOWN THE LINE.

I HOPE YOU HAVE HAD A LAUGH MY FRIENDS  READING "MY SIMPLE RHYME."

                             THE OLD MAID PACK HE-HE-HE.

      

"LAST NIGHT I HAD A DREAM"

        

 

                             

IV'E NEVER BEEN MONEY ORIENTATED BUT LAST NIGHT I HAD A DREAM.

 

THAT I'D WON THE LOTTERY AND THIS RHYME WAS THE SCENE.

 

IT ALSO SEEMED SO STRANGE TO ME AS I'VE HAD THIS DREAM BEFORE.

 

AND I WROTE ABOUT IT ONE WEEK IN MY ARCHIVES I AM SURE.

 

BUT I GO THROUGH MY ARCHIVES AND I PRINT THEM OFF AND FILE.

 

THEN I DELEAT THEM AFTERWARDS WELL HERES MY DREAM IN STYLE.

 

I'D BOUGHT A VERY LARGE PLOT OF LAND AT SOMEWHERE VERY HOT.

 

AND HAD MY OWN TOWN BUILT THERE WITH MY HOME IN THE BEST SPOT.

 

LOTS OF SHOPS I'D BUILT THERE A CHURCH AND A VILLAGE GREEN.

 

INDIVIDUAL HOUSES THE BEST YOUV'E EVER SEEN.

 

THE PEOPLE THAT WERE LIVING THERE WERE ALL OF MY OWN CHOICE.

 

AND I'D FLOWN THEM OVER IN A PRIVATE JET FOR ALL OF US TO REJOICE.

 

I HAD AN OPENING GALA AND GAVE EVERYONE A TREAT.

 

WHEN EVERYTHING WAS FINISHED AND THE VILLAGE WAS COMPLETE.

 

I'D NAMED THE VILLAGE LUCK-STRUCK AND I LIVED AT NUMBER SEVEN.

 

AS THE SIX BALLS AND THE BONUS HAD PUT ME THERE IN HEAVEN.

 

I'D HAD A SPECIAL CAR MADE OF MY OWN DESIGN.

 

WITH A PRIVATE NUMBER PLATE IN GOLD BOY IT LOOKED REAL FINE.

 

AND BOBBING IN THE DISTANCE WAS A LUXURY YATCH THERE MOORED.

 

TO SAIL MY FRIENDS AROUND IN WHEN THEY ALL GOT BORED.

 

THE GARDEN HAD A SWIMMING POOL IN THE SHAPE OF A RUGBY BALL.

 

I SUPPOSE THIS WAS TO PLEASE MY PARNER AND ROUND I SAW THEM ALL.

 

HIS OLD PALS HE PLAYED RUGBY WITH IN THEM GOOD OLD DAYS.

 

BREAKFAST WAS BEING BROUGHT DOWN TO ME ON A SILVER TRAY.

 

AND CLOTHES THEY WERN'T AN ITEM I HAD WARDROBES FULL ALL GAY.

 

BRILLIANT COLOURS TO CHOOSE FROM AND SHOES FOR EVERY DAY.

 

WHEN I SAW THEM ALL HUNG THERE BEFORE MY VERY EYES.

 

I WAS TOTALLY GOBSMACKED AND REALY MESMERIZED.

 

I HAD DESIGNER JEWELLERY ALL WITH DIAMOND CATCH .

 

AND NECKLACES WERE HUNG THERE ALL OF THEM DID MATCH.

 

NO WORRYS AND NO LONELYNESS EVERYTHING SEEMED JUST FINE.

 

I WAS RELAXING JUST ENJOYING IT ALL MY FRIENDS RINGING ALL THE TIME.

 

THE PRESS THEY CAME ALONG TO ME AND I FILLED  THEM OUT A CHEQUE.

 

TO GIVE TO MY FAVOURITE CHARITY TO HELP WELL WHAT THE HECK.

 

MONEY WAS NO PROBLEM AND I WANTED TO HELP SOME.

 

OF THE POOREST PEOPLE I HAD KNOWN WHERE I HAD COME FROM.

 

THIS VILLAGE WAS SO BEAUTIFUL AND VIVD IN MY DREAM.

 

PARADISE IDILIC BETTER THAN ANYTHING  ELSE I'D SEEN.

 

THEN I HEARD A NOISE  IT STARTLED ME AND I WONDERED WHAT WAS THAT.

 

AND I REALISED THE ROADSWEEPER WAS OUTSIDE MY LITTLE FLAT  HA-HA.

 

NEVER MIND I THOUGHT DEAR KATH WHAT GOOD IS MONEY ANYWAY.

 

IT DOESN'T BRING HEALTH AND HAPPINESS AND OTHER THINGS MY WAY.

 

SO I WENT INTO THE KITCHEN AND I PUT MY POOTER ON.

 

TO WRITE THIS RHYME FOR ALL OF YOU TO READ AND COMMENT ON.

 

I SUPPOSE IT WAS NICE WHILE IT LASTED AND YOU KNOW I SLEPT IN TOO.

 

SO I BEST GET ROUND THE BOARD NOW AND VISIT SOME OF YOU. HA-HA

 

THEY SAY NO REST FOR THE WICKED SO I MUST BE SIMPLY THAT.

 

AND I'LL SETTLE DOWN NOW ONCE AGAIN IN MY LITTLE FLAT.  HA-HA

 

TO PLACE MY COMMENTS THERE FOR YOU IN YOUR NICE BLOGS AGAIN.

 

AS ONCE MORE THERE'S NO SUNSHINE NO TODAY AGAIN IT'S  RAIN. GRRRR!!

 

SO I HOPE YOUV'E ENJOYED MY DREAM  J/LAND AND IF THERE EVER COMES A TIME.

 

I DO WIN THE LOTTERY  WELL I THINK I WILL STILL WRITE " MY SIMPLE RHYME" .

 

                                                  HE-HE-HE

 

                                          A LIFE OF LUXURY.

 

                    

" INSTEAD OF THE OUTSIDE LOO"

 

              

 

                   HAAAAAAAAAAAAA  !!!!

 

 

I WAS THINKING ABOUT A COMMENT ONE DAY WHAT A J/LANDER SENT TO ME.

 

I KNOW LOTS OF YOU ARE YOUNGER BUT YOU CAN JOIN IN MAYBE.

 

AS I DECIDED I'D WRITE HERE AND ASK HOW MANY WOULD SAY.

 

WHAT YOU CALLED THE RECEPTICLE IN OLDEN TIMES THAT WENT UNDER THE BED EACH DAY.

 

WHEN YOU WERE ONLY A YOUNG CHILD OR MAYBE REMEMBER YOUR GRAN.

 

OR GRANDAD USING ONE OF THESE PLEASE TELL ME IF YOU CAN.

 

THEY WERE USED SO MANY YEARS AGO WHEN OUR TOILETS WERE ALL OUTSIDE.

 

IT WAS ALRIGHT GOING THERE IN THE DAYTIME BUT NOT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.

 

DID YOU ALL PLACE YOURS UNDER THE BED DURING THE DAY I WONDER.

 

AS THIS PERSON FROM J/LAND COMMENTED SHE CALLED HERS THE GUZUNDER.

 

WELL WHEN I READ THIS COMMENT I LET OUT A LAUGH SO LOUD.

 

ANYONE WOULD HAVE HEARD ME OVER A FOOTBALL CROWN HA-HA.

 

I'D NEVER HEARD THIS RECEPTACLE CALLED THIS BEFORE IN MY DAYS.

 

SO IT GOES TO SHOW AS WELL MY FRIENDS THAT WE USE DIFFERANT NAMES DOWN OUR WAYS.

 

I REMEMBER OURS WAS KEPT DOWN THE CELLAR WHEN IT WAS PUT AWAY.

 

AFTER MY MOTHER HAD BLEACHED IT ALL AND DISINFECTED IT EVERY  DAY.

 

WE USED TO TAKE TURNS IN EMPTYING IT AND I OFTEN USED TO CRY.

 

AND SAY TO MY MOTHER I'M NOT TAKING THAT AS SOMEBODY OUT THERE MIGHT SPY.

 

ME CARRYING THIS THING ACROSS THE YARD LIKE A TEAPOT OF FRESH BREWED TEA.

 

I ALWAYS FELT SO EMBARRASSED TO THINK SOMEONE WAS WATCHING ME.

 

YOU SEE WE HAD TWO BEDROOMS THEN SO AT NIGHTIME THEY ALL CAME OUT.

 

THREE OF THEM ALL PLACED UNDER THE BEDS FOR SIX TO SHARE LAUGH OUT LOUD.  HA-HA.

 

MY MOTHER AND FATHER THEY HAD ONE AND ME AND MY SISTERS THREE

 

IN CASE WE ALL HAD TO GET UP IN THE NIGHT THAT WAS A LOT OF  PEE. HA-HA.

 

SO EVERY MORNING MUM WOULD EMPTY ALL THESE INTO A  PAIL.

 

AND THE PAIL THEN WENT TO THE TOILET EVERY MORNING WITHOUT FAIL.

 

WE  CALLED OURS A JERRY BECAUSE OF THE SHAPE IT WAS.

 

WELL I THINK THATS WHY WE CALLED IT THAT THE REASON WAS BECAUSE.

 

IT WAS SHAPED LIKE THE JERRY HELMET WHICH WERE ALL WORN IN THE WAR.

 

AND IT WAS JENNY FORM "STOP THE CLOCK " WHO GOT ME THINKING ABOUT THIS AND MORE.

 

SHE REPLIED IN HER COMMENT TO ONE OF MY POSTINGS ABOUT THE OUTSIDE LOO.

 

I'D HAVE HAD TO USE THE GUZUNDA WELL I CRACKED UP I'M NOT KIDDING YOU.

 

NO MOTHERHEN DIDN'T LAY ANY EGGS BUT WHILST SAT AT MY POOTER THAT NIGHT.

 

WHEN I READ THIS I COULD HAVE DONE WITH A GAZUNDA UNDER MY POOTER

CHAIR RIGHT. HA-HA

 

AS YOU KNOW FULL WELL MY J/LAND FRIENDS WHEN YOU LAUGH VERY HEARTILY.

 

IT OFTEN MAKES US WANT TO RUN TO THE TOILET DON'T YOU SEE.

 

SO FROM OUTSIDE TOILETS TO JERRY POTS TOGUZUNDAS UNDER THE BED.

 

TELL ME WHAT YOU ALL CALLED YOURS AND IT MIGHT THEN CLEAR MY HEAD.

 

AS I AM A CURIOUS PERSON NOT NOSEY BUT CURIOUS YES .

 

AND I DON'T THINK IT'S A POOR SUBJECT TO ME IT'S ANOTHER LAUGH YET.

 

FLIPPING OUTSIDE TOILETS JUST COULDN'T WE TELL SOME TALES .

 

I BET WE WISH WE ALL HAD A  TENNER FOR EVERYTIME WE EMPTIED THEM PAILS.  HA-HA

 

WHAT A JOB IT WAS MY FRIENDS AND OUR JERRY BLEACHED CLEAN AND IN TIME.

 

WAS USED FOR OUR  MOTHERS ASPIDISTRA PLANT  AND I MUST SAY THEY  LOOKED  REAL FINE  HA-HA.

 

I BET A FEW OF YOU HAVE ONE AND I BET YOUV'E USED AT SOME TIME

 

A JERRY SO TELL ME  WHAT YOU CALLED  YOURS RIGHT NOW IN

 

                                      " MY SIMPLE RHYME.

 

                      

 

" A FOLLOW UP FROM MY LAST POST"

 

 

     

 

 

WELL THIS MY FRIENDS IS A BELTER IT FOLLOWS ON FROM MY LAST POST.

 

I FOUND AN OLD PHOTO  OF MY PARTNER THAT MAKES ME LAUGH THE MOST..

 

EACH YEAR HE WENT ON HIS HOLIDAYS HE HAD TO GO WITH HIS GRAN.

 

AND HE DIDN'T LIKE IT ONE LITTLE BIT THIS SIX YEAR OLD RUGBY MAN..

 

WELL ONE DAY THEY WENT TO THE BEACH LIKE ME AND THE SUN WAS SHINING SO HOT.

 

SHE DIDN'T WANT MY PARTNER TO GET BURNED ON HIS LITTLE TOP KNOT.

 

SO SHE WENT TO THE NEAREST BEACHWARE STALL AND BOUGHT HIM THERE AN HAT.

 

HA-HA JUST LOOK AT WHAT SHE GOT HIM WHEN SHE FINALLY  CAME BACK.

 

WHEN SHE GAVE ME THIS PICTURE I LAUGHED OUT LOUD AND ROLLED AT HIS GRINNING FACE.

 

BUT HE ALWAYS TELLS ME NOT TO SHOW ANYONE HE SAYS THAT IT'S A DISGRACE HA-HA.

 

A LOVELY FEMENINE SUN BONNET PLONKED ON HIS HEAD TO SHADE.

 

HIS LITTLE TOP KNOT WHILST HE DUG IN THE SAND WITH HIS PLASTIC BUCKET AND SPADE.

 

WON'T HE BE SUPRIZED TONIGHT WHEN I TELL HIM HE'S GONE OUT ON THE NET.

 

IN  HIS BEAUTIFUL 1958 SUN BONNET THAT HIS GRANDMA WENT ALONG TO GET   HA-HA.

 

I CARN'T WAIT TO SEND MY URL OUT TO ALL HIS RUGBY MATES.

 

I BET THE'LL ALL  BE RINGING HIM  UP SAYING HEY  ? YOU REALY LOOK GREAT.

 

IN YOUR WIDE BRIMMED SUN BONNET HA-HA  IT WILL BE A BRILLIANT LAUGH.

 

WELL HE'S LIVED WITH ME THIRTY TWO YEARS NOW SO HE SHOULD KNOW LAUGHING KATH .

 

HA-HA IV'E GOT ONE UP ON HIM I KNEW THAT I WOULD ONE DAY.

 

 

 

IN FACT I MIGHT JUST MAKE A POSTER AND HANG IT IN MY HALLWAY .

 

FOR ALL THE NEIGHBOURS TO TELL THEM IF WE GET SOME BEWARE OF THE SUN.  HA-HA

 

GO OUT AND GET A SUN BONNET LIKE MY PARTNERS FOR SOME FUN. .

 

ANOTHER LAUGH FOR THE WEEK MY FRIENDS WHAT WOULD MY NEIGHBOURS DO.

 

WITHHOUT LAUGHING KATH AROUND TO CHEER THEM THEY WOULD BE REALY BLUE.

 

SO I HOPE YOUV'E ENJOYED MY FOLLOW UP OF MY PARTNERS SUN BATHING TIME.

 

AND YOUV'E HAD ANOTHER LAUGH HERE TODAY IN THIS FOLLOW UP  "MY SIMPLE RHYME"

 

                

 

                                           HE-HE-HE !!!!!

     I'LL TEACH HIM TO LAUGH AT ME IN MY

                           BUBBLE COSSY

 

                                                           

" I LOVED MY BUBBLE COSTUME "

 

         

 

 

 

I WAS LOOKING THROUGH SOME PHOTO'S ONE NIGHT WITH SOME OF MY OLD FRIENDS.

 

SUPRIZED TO SEE HOW SOME FASHIONS HAVE COME BACK AND SOME OF THE OTHER TRENDS.

 

I CAME ACROSS THIS  PHOTOGRAPH  J/LAND WHEN I WAS ABOUT  AGED SIX..

 

MY COUSINS CAME OVER FROM KENT ON A HOLIDAY WHICH MY FATHER  HAD FIXED.  HA-HA.

 

I REMEMBER MY MOTHER BOUGHT ME THIS SWIMMING COSTUME HERE.

 

I THOUGHT THAT IT WAS SO  WONDERFUL AND I SUPPOSE IT WAS QUITE  DEAR.

 

WHEN IN THEM DAYS MONEY WAS TIGHT AND LOTS OF OTHER THINGS THEY CAME FIRST.

 

I KNOW WITH HAVING A FAMILY OF FOUR SHE HAD TO WATCH HER PURSE.

 

IT SEEMS  SO STRANGE SOMEHOW THAT THIS PHOTO I'M SHOWING YOU HERE.

 

IS THE VIEW FROM MY WINDOW  WHERE I LIVE NOW AS  I LOOK ONTO THE SEA AND THE PIER.

 

WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT AFTER FIFTY FIVE YEARS I'DBE LIVING IN THIS PLACE.

 

STROLLING ALONG THE BEACH NOW NOT SWIMMING WITH A GRINNING FACE .HA-HA

 

THE COSTUME IT WAS A MULTI COLOUR AND WHEN I WENT FOR A SWIM.

 

IT USED TO BLOW UP LIKE A BALLOON I LOOKED LIKE LIKE MR MICHELIN.   HA-HA.

 

CAN YOU REMEMBER WHICH I MEAN I THINK THERES SOME  OUT NOW.

 

THEY WERE STITCHED IN SQUARES WITH SHEERING ELASTIC AND EACH SQUARE FORMED A BUBBLE SOMEHOW..

 

THIS PARTICULAR PHOTO AS THE YEARS THEY DID PASS BY.

 

MY SISTERS GAVE IT A TITLE TO IT YOU WILL PROBABLY REALISE  WHY.

 

" THE SWIMMER OF THE FIFTIES  "  THEY CALLED IT HE- HE-HE .

 

 

 

I THINK IT WAS SO APPROPRIATE AS THAT WAS ALWAYS ME.

 

EITHER RUNNING AROUND AND JUMPING ABOUT IN AND OUT OF THE SEA.

 

MY MOTHER USED TO TELL ME SHE NEVER KNEW SHE HAD ME.

 

I LOVED THE SEA AND THE OCEAN  IT GAVE ME SUCH A THRILL.

 

MY FATHER ALWAYS USED TO SAY  OUR KATH IS NEVER STILL.  HA-HA

 

ALL MY OLD OLD PHOTO'S ARE FUNNY AS I LOOK I THINK WAS I RIGHT.

 

IN MY HEAD LOOK AT THE STATE OF ME DON'T I LOOK A  SIGHT  HA-HA.

 

I USED TO WEAR RUBBER SHOES AS WELL AND IV'E NOTICED THAT THEY HAVE COME BACK.

 

HAVE YOU SEEN  THEM ALL BACK IN FASHION ALL COLOURS ON THE SHOE RACK.

 

JELLY BEANS I THINK THERE CALLED  NOW WELL IV'E JUST BOUGHT A FEW PAIR.

 

BUT I DON'T THINK I'LL GET A BUBBLE COSTUME TO FIT ME NOW OUT THERE,  HA-HA.

 

OH AND LOOK AT MY COUSINS CAP LOL!  I MUSTN'T FORGET ABOUT THAT.

 

THEY MADE YOUR HEAD LOOK LIKE AN EGG BUT  WE HAD TO WEAR SWIMMING CAPS. HA-HA.

 

DO YOU REMEMBER THE SIMILAR  ONES WITH A STRAP THAT WENT UNDER THE CHIN.

 

AND A LITTLE BUCKLE AT THE SIDE THAT FASTENED IT ALWAYS DUG IN.  HA-HA.

 

                         

 

 

WELL I HAD ONE TOO AND I HATED THEM BUT I WAS MADE TO PUT IT ON.

 

I FELT A RIGHT LITTLE CHARLEY IN IT RUNNING ALONG THE PROM. HA-HA.

 

ALL TODAYS  FASHIONABLE DRESSES NOW HAVE THE BUBBLE SHEAR AT THE TOP .

 

BUT I DON'T THINK THERE HALF AS PRETTY AS MY COSSY WHICH MY MOTHER  GOT  HA-HA.

 

OH IT'S A GOOD JOB I CAN LAUGH NOW  AS EVERYTHING TODAY  SEEMS BAD.

 

AND AT TIMES IT GETS ME FEELING DOWN AND MAKES ME  FEEL OH SO SAD.

 

I LOVE TO LOOK BACK AT OLD PHOTO'S SOMETIMES THEY CHEER ME NO END..

 

AND WE HAVE A GOOD LAUGH AT THEM ALL AND A NATTER ME AND MY DEAR OLD FRIENDS. HA-HA.

 

I HOPE I HAVE JOGGED YOUR MEMORIES AGAIN OF THE COSTUMES OF BYGONE DAYS.

 

A LITTLE MORE COVERED UP WE WERE TOO AT THE BEACH  IN OUR SCHOOLDAYS.

 

NOT WALKING ABOUT HALF NAKED AND SHOWING ALL WE HAD.

 

NO I'M NOT AN OLD FASHIONED BIDDY BUT I THINK SOME FASHIONS ARE BAD.

 

WELL ANYWAY I JUST THOUGHT I'D SHOW YOU WHAT AN EGG HEAD  I WAS WHEN A KID. HA-HA

 

AND MENTION SOME OF THE FASHIONS AND SOME OF THE THINGS I DID.

 

I  LOVED MY BUBBLE COSTUME AND MY MOP CAP AT THAT TIME. 

 

 

 

AND I HOPE I HAVE JOGGED YOUR MEMORIES AGAIN HERE IN        "MY SIMPLE RHYME"

 

 

                              HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

               

                   

"NO WONDER I'M AN ALL ROUNDER"

          

I WAS LOOKING THROUGH MY ARCHIVES AND THERE I SAW THIS RHYME

AND WHEN I WROTE THIS POSTING AROUND ABOUT THAT TIME.

I ONLY HAD TWO JLAND FRIENDS WHO SENT THERE COMMENTS THROUGH.

AND SO I THOUGHT I BET SOME OTHERS MIGHT  LIKE THIS POSTING TOO.

SO I'VE DONE ANOTHER VERSION  AND FOUND MYSELF MORE PICS .

HAVE A LOOK MY J/LAND FRIENDS SEE IF ANY MAKE YOU TICK..

I AM SORRY IF YOUV'E READ BEFORE BUT I SEEMINGLY  DON'T THINK.

PEOPLE DO READ ALL YOUR  ARCHIVES  WHEN YOU GIVE YOUR LINK.

SO ENJOY ALL WHAT YOU SEE HERE AND I HOPE IT BRINGS TO YOU.

MANY MEMORIES BACK AGAIN OF THINGS WE USED TO CHEW.

WELL HERE IS MY NEW VERSION SO YOU NEW ONES CAN READ ON.

ABOUT MY LOCAL SWEETY SHOP THAT  I ONE DAY DROPPED UPON.

 

I GAZED IN THE SHOP WINDOW WHAT A COLOURFUL DISPLAY.

NOT ANY  MODERN CLOTHES OR GADGETS OF A MODERN DAY.

LOTS AND LOTS OF GOODIES WHICH WE ATE IN DAYS OF OLD.

BOXES JARS CONTAINERS OF OLD FASHIONED SWEETS IT SOLD.

ANISEED BALLS AND GOBSTOPPERS LICORICE AND BUBBLY GUMS.

ALL OF WHICH WE LOVED TO EAT FILLING OUR SMALL TUMS.

 

CINDER TOFFEE BLACK JACKS CREME SODA TOFFEE BARS.

 ALL ON SHOW UP ABOVE IN LOVELY BIG GLASS JARS.

 

SHERBERT FLYING SAUCERS LUCKY BAGS GALORE

LOLLYPOPS AND CANDY SHRIMPS AND MANY MANY MORE.

BARLEY SUGAR TWISTS I SAW I HAD TO GENTLY SMILE .

AS I PONDERED STILL STOOD STARING IN THE WINDOW QUITE A WHILE.

EVEN THE OLD CONE NEWSPAPER BAG WAS LYING THERE BESIDE

I WAS BURSTING TO LAUGH OUT LOUD BUT HELD IT ALL INSIDE.

THE THICK BLACK PENNY LICORICE STICKS THE ONES WE USED TO DIP.

IN THE BAG OF CRYSTALS IT GAVE US TECHNICOLOURED LIPS HA-HA

ON SHOW THERE WAS THE COLTFOOT STICKS I REMEMBER WELL DO YOU ?

AND CHOCOLATE CIGARETTES WERE THERE I REALY LOVED THOSE TOO.

QUALITY SWEET TOBACCO WHICH WAS KNOWN AS SPANISH GOLD HA-HA.

MIXED MOJO'S AND REFRESHER CHEWS IN WRAPPERS BRIGHT AND BOLD.

AND YES AT LAST I SPOTTED MY FAVOURITE ONE OF ALL.

THE WONDERFUL SHERBERT FOUNTAIN STANDING PROUD AND TALL. HA-HA

I USED TO TRY AND SUCK IT ALL UP THE HOLE IN ONE BIG  DOSE.

AND THEN THE FIZZ WOULD ALL COME BUBBLING DOWN MY FLIPPING NOSE. HA-HA

ANGLO BUBBLY THERE BESIDE IT THICK PINK SMELLY  STUFF.

TRYING TO BLOW THE BIGGEST BUBBLE I WAS OUT OF PUFF.

    

IF IT BURST IT USED TO GIVE YOU QUITE A FLIPPING SHOCK

AS IT WOULD QUICKLY  WRAP ITSELF AROUND ALL YOUR PRETTY CLOCK . (HA-HA)

SUGAR MICE WERE THERE AND MY FRIENDS THEY USED TO SAY.

THESE REALY MADE THERE TEETH ACHE IF THEY HAD ANY DECAY.

LOTS OF LICORICE BOOTLACES DANGLING IN THE AIR.

WE USED TO SWING THESE ROUND AND TRY AND WHIP FRIENDS STANDING THEIR. HA-HA

THEN WHEN I LOOKED INSIDE I SAW SOME CANDY WHISLES TOO.

   

IF MINE  DIDN'T WHISLE I WOULD SULK AND FEEL SO BLUE.

CHERRY LIPS I LOVED THEM WHEN MY MOUTH WAS ALL FULL UP.

WHEN A GREAT BIG HANDFULL OF THESE IN MY HAND I USED TO CUP.

THE FLORAL GUMS I USED TO BUY TO MAKE MY BREATH SMELL  VERY NICE.

AND THERE LOOKED TO BE A MILLION OF THEM THERE BEFORE MY  EYES.

A WONDERFUL FEW HOURS I SPENT THEN HOME AGAIN DID TROT.

I'D ENJOYED MY AFTERNOOD IN MY LOCAL CANDY SHOP.

I COULD HAVE STOPPED ALL DAY AND SHOWN YOU MANY MANY MORE.

OF BYGONE SWEETS WE USED TO CHEW AND NOW OUR KIDS ADORE..

WELL I BOUGHT A SHERBERT FOUNTAIN AND EVERYTHING WAS FINE.

BUT I NEARLY CHOKED MYSELF TO DEATH WITH ALL THE FIZZ THIS TIME.   HA-HA

I HOPE IV'E BROUGHT SOME MEMORIES BACK OF A BY GONE TIME.

WITH ALL THE SWEETIES IV'E PLACED HERE IN " MY SIMPLE RHYME " . 

" IT WAS GOOD TO PIG OUT WITH ALL THESE IN MY CHILDHOOD DAYS"

  NO WONDER I'M ALL ROUNDER LIKE THIS GRAPHIC HERE TODAY.

                                             HE-HE-HE

             

             (Thanx to Sugar of Sugar Shack Keepsakes for this great grahic)

 

"A GIRL OF SEVEN YRS OLD"

           

          

THIS STORY I'M ABOUT TO TELL YOU WAS IN NINETEEN FIFTY THREE.

 

ONLY A GIRL OF SEVEN YEARS OLD BUT IT ALWAYS STAYS WITH ME.

 

MY MOTHER AND MY FATHER WERE  THE STEWARD AND STEWARDESS.

 

OF THE WORKING MENS CLUB IN OUR TOWN AND I HATED IT I CONFESS.

 

IN THEM DAYS THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY LIVING ACCOMODATION THERE.

 

THE CLUB  LOCKED UP AND HOME YOU WENT WHEN YOUR DUTY YOU HAD SHARED.

 

THE WORKING MENS CLUB AND INSTITUTE AS EVERYBODY KNOWS.

 

WAS A POPULAR PLACE FOR LOCALS AND WHERE OTHERS USED TO GO.

 

EACH NIGHT MY MOTHER AND FATHER  WOULD GO ALONG TO HERE.

 

PULLING PINTS AND LIQUORS FOR THE LOCALS LIVING NEAR.

 

ORGANISING MUSIC GROUPS AND ACTS OF EVERY KIND.

 

TO ENTERTAIN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD  WHO WENT FOR A GOOD TIME.

 

WELL ONE COLD WINTERS EVENING MY BABYSITTER CAME.

 

TO LOOK AFTER ME AS USUAL MRS GOODLAD WAS HER NAME.

 

SHE USED TO ARRIVE ABOUT SEVEN 'O'CLOCK SO OFF MY PARENTS WENT.

 

FOR ANOTHER EVENINGS WORK MANY LONG HOURS THERE THEY SPENT.

 

THIS NIGHT WHILST SHE WAS WALKING HERE A MAN HAD FOLLOWED HER.

 

DOWN THE ROAD TO OUR HOUSE AND THIS HAD SHOOK HER NERVE.

 

SO BEFORE THEY SET OUT DAD HE WENT AND TOOK  A LOOK AROUND.

 

BUT KNOWONE COULD HE SEE  IN SIGHT THERE WERN'T A SOUL ABOUT.

 

ON FRIDAY NIGHTS A VAN WOULD CALL ROUND INTO OUR STREET .

 

AND ALL THE LOCAL NEIGHBOURS USED TO BUY SOME PIE AND PEAS.

 

THESE WE HAD FOR SUPPER AND THE BEST THEY WERE IN TOWN.

 

THERE USED TO BE A LONG LONG QUEUE AND ALL WOULD CROWD AROUND.

 

IN THESE DAYS ALL THE HOUSES WERE ONLY VERY SMALL.

 

TWO ROOMS  UP ONE ROOM DOWN WITH NO BATHROOM IN AT ALL.

 

THE TOILET WAS OUTSIDE SO IF YOU NEEDED THERE TO GO.

 

A PRETTY LONG YARD TO CROSS IF YOU  YOU HAD TO VISIT SO.

 

THE EVENING IT PASSED BY AND MRS GOODLAD SAID TO ME.

 

WAIT HERE I WON'T BE LONG DEAR  MRS GOODLAD NEEDS TO PEE.   (HA-HA)

 

SHE ALWAYS LOOKED THROUGH THE WINDOW FIRST AND IT WAS A COLD AND FOGGY  NIGHT.

 

WHEN SHE LET OUT A VERY LOUD SCREAM AND SAID THERES THAT MAN AGAIN IN SIGHT.

 

WE LIVED AROUND THE BACK SO OUR DOOR WAS NOT ON SHOW.

 

WITH THE MAIN ROAD ROUND THE FRONT UP A GINNEL SHE HAD TO GO.   (PASSAGEWAY)

 

WELL I PEEPED THROUGH THE CURTAINS AND COULD JUST MAKE OUT HIS FORM.

 

WE WERE BOTH SCARED TO DEATH THINKING WE WOULD COME TO HARM.

 

IN THESE DAYS THERES NO TELEPHONE SO NO WAY  COULD SHE LET.

 

MY MOTHER AND MY FATHER KNOW  NOR DARE SHE GO OUT TO GET.

 

ANYONE TO HELP US SO WE SAT THERE PETRIFIED.

 

AND THE FIRE WAS GETTING LOW AND THE COAL IT WAS OUTSIDE.

 

 

MRS GOODLAD GRABBED ME TIGHT AND ON THE SETTEE WE CUDDLED UP.

 

SO TO KEEP  US WARM SOME OLD COATS ROUND BOTH OF US SHE PUT.

 

THE COAL SCUTTLE WAS NOW EMPTY SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.

 

AS IT WAS GETTING COLDER SO SHE SAID I'LL  BURN MY SHOE.

 

FIRST SHE HAD A PEEP THROUGH THE WINDOW ONCE AGAIN.

 

THE MAN HE SEEMED TO MAKE A MOVE AND SHE WAS GOING INSANE..

 

SHE WAS SHAKING WITH MUCH FEAR AND WITH THE COLD SHE SAID TO ME.

 

I'M THROWING BOTH SHOES ON THE FIRE OR WE'LL BOTH FREEZE YOU AND ME.

 

I WAS SCARED I STARTED CRYING AND I  REMEMBER TO THIS DAY.

 

SHE WAS MARCHING UP AND DOWN WITH HANDS CLASPED HARD TO PRAY.

 

A DEDICATED CATHOLIC SHE'S REPEATING ALL THESE PRAYERS.

 

WHEN SHE SHOUTED COME ON HELP ME KATH TO MOVE YOUR FATHERS CHAIR.

 

WE LIFTED UP THE ARMCHAIR IT FELT TO WEIGH A TON.

 

AND WE PUT IT BEHIND THE DOOR IN CASE THE MAN HE DID COME.

 

TRYING TO FORCE HIMSELF INSIDE SHE PILED ALSORTS ON TOP.

 

THEN WALKED OVER TO THE FIREPLACE THE POKER THEN SHE GOT. 

 

  (HA-HA)

 

IF HE TRIES GETTING IN HERE I REMEMBER THAT SHE SAID.

 

I'LL GIVE HIM SOME OF THIS DON'T FEAR RIGHT ACROSS HIS HEAD.

 

THEN SHE SAID COME ON NOW KATH IT'S TIME YOU WERE FAST ASLEEP.

 

AND BEFORE SHE TOOK ME UP TO BED SHE HAD ANOTHER PEEP.

 

I COULDN'T GET TO SLEEP AND I KEPT LOOKING OUT AS WELL.

 

AND THE MAN HE WAS STILL THERE HE WAS ROCKING I COULD TELL.

 

IN THE SHADOWS OF THE FOG I WAS WATCHING HIM STOOD THERE.

 

HANGING ON SO TERRIFIED TO MY TEDDY BEAR.

 

THE HOURS THEY SEEMED TO DRAG BY AND IT CAME AROUND FOR DAD .

 

AND MOTHER TO COME HOME AND WASN'T MRS GOODLAD GLAD.

 

A KNOCK CAME TO THE DOOR AND SHE SHOUTED HELLO THERE IS IT JOE.

 

MY DAD SAID YES IT'S US LASS AND I FELT MY FACE IT GLOWED.

 

JUST A MINUTE JOE SHE SAID WHILE I MOVE THE CHAIR.

 

I HEARD MY DAD SHOUTING BACK WHATS THE CHAIR DOING THERE.

 

SHE STRUGGLED WITH THE CHAIR AND THEN MY MOTHER AND DAD CAME IN.

 

OH! SHE SAID I'M GLAD YOUR HOME HAVE YOU BOTH SEEN HIM.

 

SEEN WHO MY DAD REPEATED THAT BLOKES OUT THERE SHE CRIED.

 

AND POINTED TO THE WALL BEHIND THE TOILET JUST OUTSIDE.

 

MY DAD TURNED ROUND AND SAID I CARN'T SEE HIM ANYWHERE.

 

THERES ONLY MY STIFF OVERALLS HANGING IN THE AIR.   (HA-HA)

 

ON THIS COLD FROSTY EVENING MY MOTHER HAD LEFT THEM OUT.

 

AND THEY HAD FROZEN STIFF ON THE LINE AND WITH NO PROP ABOUT.

 

SO THE LEGS HUNG DOWN TO THE FLOOR AND IN THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT.

 

WE HAD  THOUGHT IT WAS A MAN STOOD THERE  AND IT GAVE US BOTH THIS FRIGHT. 

 

 

WELL IT WAS A VERY FOGGY NIGHT AND FROSTY AND BITTER COLD.

 

MY MOTHER BROUGHT THE OVERALLS IN AND GAVE  ME THEM TO HOLD.

 

THEM WHILE SHE PUT THEM ON THE WOODEN WINTEREDGE TO THAW.

 

AND I REMEMBER MRS GOODLAD SAYING DON'T DO IT ANY MORE..

 

I'D COME DOWNSTAIRS TO TELL THEM I COULDN'T GET TO SLEEP.

 

AND THAT I HAD BEEN TERRIFIED EVERYTIME I'D PEEPED.

 

WHEN SHE TOLD MY MOTHER AND DAD SHE'D HAD TO BURN HER SHOES.

 

HE TOOK HER TO THE SHOE CUBOARD A NEW PAIR THERE TO CHOOSE.

 

FROM SOME OF MY MOTHERS BEST ONES AS THEY BOTH TOOK A SIZE THREE.

 

AND I CRYING AND MOANING COS I'D MISSED MY PIE AND PEAS.  (HA-HA )

 

MANY MANY YEARS AFTER MRS GOODLAD TOLD TO  ALL.

 

ABOUT THE NIGHT SHE BURNED HER SHOES AND THE FROZEN OVERALL.

 

IT WAS REALY REALY SCARY AND FIFTY THREE YEARS NOW DOWN THE LINE.

 

I NEVER IMAGINED I'D BE TELLING THIS TALE IN "MY SIMPLE RHYME"

 

 

     

 

(THANXS TO SUGAR OF SUGAR SHACK KEEPSAKES FOR THIS LOVELY GRAPHIC.)