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17th November 2022, 07:29 PM
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Yes cappy although i am not one any longer for Celebrations over the Holiday Period it is somethingh that ido try and do still to be with most of the Kids , especially of course the younger ones! Still have a few young Grandkids and Great Grandkids, so try and make a small something for them when the come at Xmas! Not much but enough to keep the faces Smiling! LOL
But do also so remember the Happy days we had as Kids too over the Xmas Periods!
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18th November 2022, 12:11 AM
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I am still recovering from my 89th birthday last year; when my wife told me there was no Santa Clause, we nearly came to a punch up as I know there is a Santa, my Mum told me when I was two so there. My sock will be over the end of the bed on Xmas Eve; and probably over my head on Xmas morning.
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18th November 2022, 05:13 AM
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Christmas and new year for us will be on a cruise/.
Fantastic time and Santa comes up the hawsepipe.
As a young lad I was always saying s*** and my dad said if you keep saying that all you will get for Christmas is a bag of it.
Come Christmas morning there at the foot of the bed a bag of horses s***.
What did you get fort Christmas asked my sister.
A horse I think, must be around somewhere as he left his calling card here.
Happy daze John in Oz.
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18th November 2022, 07:40 AM
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When the EU was going through the phase of making rules in produce and amongst all the new regulations was the straight banana . I immediately thought of the very first banana I ever saw was on Christmas morning 1947 It was curled around a candlestick on the mantelpiece , and have always associated of bananas being bent. It is the way God made them. I think when such a rule was made was the start of people seeing the incongruency of the law making of the future and had no wish to be part of it. I still wonder what they do with the bent ones.JS
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18th November 2022, 10:04 AM
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How well I remember my first banana, a similar time. I believe gov.uk announced that all kids would get a free banana after the end of the war. I was eating it, and walking along in the garden, when my brother, (merrily swinging on a swing) belted me under the chin with his boots. My Mum always told me that when I came around, all I wanted to know was where's my banana.
Sorry for going off topic.
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18th November 2022, 12:02 PM
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I still wonder what they do with the bent ones.JS
If they have any common sense left, hopefully they eat them??
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19th November 2022, 12:25 AM
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HI John.
Bent bananas: and where they went.
Next time you watch the overseas news on TV observe how many of the EU politicians walk with a stoop.
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19th November 2022, 04:17 AM
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Then there was the UCL first class winger looking at a cucumber and saying how straight they were.
Well he may be bent but a bent banana is no good to him.
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19th November 2022, 08:55 AM
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Might be good for the bent politician though might straighten his backbone a little .JS.
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