Archive for January, 2011


Fitting things together.

            Little children are often given something to play with which is really just a box with different shaped holes in the top, and a number of shaped pieces which are made to fit through the holes, and into the box.             When they see another person put each piece into the right hole, The [...]

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DO WE DO IT RIGHT ?

                        DO WE DO IT RIGHT ?  In the prewar days of my childhood it was the custom for many ladies to have a ‘Daily Help’ and my mother had one for years. Although the woman was an excellent worker, she had some very funny sayings.             Although our house was identical to others in [...]

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YOU DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE !

                                  In our young days before we were married, my wife and I used to attend all the concerts given by The London Emmanuel Choir, we enjoyed their singing so much.             During our first visit Audrey turned to me and said “I do like watching one of these girls in particular”. I said [...]

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A LOST BIT OF HISTORY.

                                    I found this bit out of a piece of history about 150 years ago when people did not speak to the upper class, they just bowed. It seemed that a poor farmer was taking a large sack of corn to the mill, when it slipped from the horses back and landed in the road. [...]

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A STORY FROM MY CHILDHOOD.

                                  If I needed to learn a lesson my Mother very often told me a story, and made me draw the conclusion. Just what I had done to make her tell me this story I have no idea, but this is what she said.             In Holland they have dykes to hold back the water [...]

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