I Remember When

And  I  remember,  as  a  right  'green'  apprentice  climbing  my  first  telegraph  pole  in  deepest  winter.  Boots,  jeans,  great  big  heavy  overcoat  and  very  heavy  leather  safety  belt  to  manipulate .

Not  sure  which  was  worst,  the  cold,  the  fear  or  the  sheer  blooming  weight,  and  that  was  before  I  got  down  to  working  out  why  I was  up  there  at  all  !

With our recent weather in mind ,,,

I can remember when local Councils cleared the footpaths too,afraid of public accident claims !!.

Cold and damp Gaberdine macs for school all through the snowy weather and feet with chilblains...

Rows of wellies at school that start the day with remnants of snow after the morning walk ................none at the end of the day hopefully finding a pair!

Making a long slide in the playground when it was frozen over.

Not a chance these days. 

I remember when we had to leave an eggcup out the front door so that the Milkman could cover the Silver top to stop the early morning birds nicking the cream off the milk.

I remember when mothers would leave their babies outside the shop in their prams whilst shopping 

I remember seeing some Mother's using a Camp Coffee bottle with a teat on filled with milk to feed their babies.

Yes  Paulsy,  &  lines  &  lines  of  white  towelling  nappies  blowing  in  the  breeze  !

I remember the dreaded nappy bucket with the used nappies in. Our son was very quiet in the awning and we found him filling the bucket with sand nappies were coated!!