Reminisce

[Tony Wilding]

was in a dock street Pub one evening was offered a Standard Vanguard Car for 50 quid,in those days there was allways a fiddle.

[Red Lead Ted]

I still have an aversion to shut doors and if any of the kids shut their door in the house I would go of my head over it. Even when I got the house renovated outside I got them to take out all the bedroom windows and install glass sliding doors as I could not see the sense of all that lovely fresh air going to waste of a night and security wise if there iis ever an emergency in this house exits a plentiful. Maybe I am unconventional but safety and freedom should never be compromised. End result only have four windows in the house now. But if ever the baliff comes round he will have his work cut out getting me.

Remember as a kid when winter,s were winter,s if you didnt shut the door behind you your old man would ask ,Where you born in a field Terry.

[Red Lead Ted]

I can identify with the Suez, yes another place you had to lock your door was Kingston, Usually with you the other side of it. I went ashore there on my own one night got away with it but only did it the once.

[Red Lead Ted]

I believe if the docker,s in them day,s would not have had enough money at the end of the week for 5 woodbines without there fiddle. And a lot of the local kids were i was brought up would have gone hungry ?. One thing i can remember which is a thing of the past if your old mam was low on stores you could alway,s go next door for a feed. Remember the old saying MUCK IN LAD !!!! Happy day,s indeed Regards To, Terry.

[Neil Morton]

Hiya John and Red Lead you make us all sound like drunken scoundrels: well maybe we were but our motto was work hard and play hard, and by the holy we did. Thanks for the stories, " Then let not winter's ragged hand deface in thee thy summer,ere thou be distilled." I think old Bill Shakespeare had the right of it there. The summer of our youth was often distilled in strange liquors.

[happy daze john in oz]

I believe if the docker,s in them day,s would not have had enough money at the end of the week for 5 woodbines without there fiddle. And a lot of the local kids were i was brought up would have gone hungry ?. One thing i can remember which is a thing of the past if your old mam was low on stores you could alway,s go next door for a feed. Remember the old saying MUCK IN LAD !!!! Happy day,s indeed Regards To, Terry.

I remember hard times mate when electricty was so expensive we all sat around a candle, and when it got cold we lit it. We were so poor my mum gave me a button and told me to go next door and see if they had a shirt they could sow on it.

[John Pruden]

you lucky john my dad had to eat polo mints and we had to sit around his tongue to get a warmjp

[Red Lead Ted]

J,P, We would sit around the table of a day making paper chains, If there was no shilling for the gas we would all gather around the candles !!! If it got really cold we would light them, Toasted wedgies of bread on the end of a fork open fire great day,s Terry.

[Red Lead Ted]

I remember hard times mate when electricty was so expensive we all sat around a candle, and when it got cold we lit it. We were so poor my mum gave me a button and told me to go next door and see if they had a shirt they could sow on it.

I alway,s remember being learnt the fine art of rubbing down a halfpenny it would pass as a shilling for the gas or lecy meter. When the guy come to empty the meter they would be given back to my mam and not counted in whatever rebate was due. No prosicutions for fiddling in them day,s. Lpool would have become a ghost town. Regards Terry.

[Dennis McGuckin]

Reminisce 2.
Once again this evening I was on my sun deck having a bevy and reminiscing. [may have to stop doing that]
Was thinking of the young man who is to marry my granddaughter in thirteen days time.
I mentioned him in a previous post, and was shot down, rightly so, by Capt Bill.
However.
Was wondering what he[ Cam] may be thinking of when 50 years later he has time to reminisce.
He has never really been much further than the valley.
Will he reminess about a pay hike he received in 2200, or whatever?
I have had almost 50 years of marriage with the usual ups an downs.
But without my years in the Merch, I am not sure where I would be in my 'happy times'.
Also have worked ashore with many guys that were married young. Later in life they felt they had missed something and tried to catch up. Often ending in divorce.
I sowed my wild oats while at sea, so settled down [almost] after marriage.
Not sure what would have happened if Ann Margaret walked up my drive and offered herself though!!
Was it Nelson who said.
'We lucky few, we band of brothers'
Den.