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I only wanted a newspaper


Mick H.

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It's difficult to show on the floor of a motorhome 27 items of newsprint and inserts but this is what I get when I buy the Saturday edition of my paper and the price doubles as well. I buy this one because it has a selection of stories on the front. Not many do. No wonder theres a problem with recycling.

 

 

 

Mick

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After a hard days graft I like nothing better than going to bed early to read the daily papers, with the curtains shut and the wind and rain howling down outside.

Only thing is, it is rather cold on my arms I refuse to put the heating on until the first sign of snow, I instructed my lady wife to buy me a pair of jimmy-jams but she couldn't get the fleecy type, so I might end up going back to that rather expensive old fashioned shop in Shrewsbury and buy myself one of those nightshirts they sell, but can't remember exactly where it was? somewhere on that street which leads down the the English bridge near the Abbey, anyone know where I mean?

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We must be "softie southerners" ! We usually try and hold off on the heating untill October each year but for the last 2 years have started it mid- September, after returning from our holidays in Italy - the difference between 34 degrees and 15 was too much for these old bones to take this year. :-(

 

I used to be tougher and remember scraping the ice from the inside of the windows as a child - so much easier to "flick a switch" these days, besides which we never seem to get any snow here. :-D

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Aye and when I worked in pit

I used to get up two hours before I went to bed so as to light fire

for wee uns

 

Or words to that effect, yes I agree, I think that it is to easy to flick a switch and that as a kid I was proberly healthy and have more energy that some today but we can not stand in the way of progress, well we can try but I think that we would just be trodden on

 

Geof

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All I can remember is being ruddy frozen as a kid - our house was soo cold and draughty, I used to sit on the hearth to try to keep warm, one side was nice and toasty, the other freezing! I was the one who made the 'firelighters' out of newspaper which was sort of folded into strips and then platted, and then got the fire going ... I don't think I was healthier as I go lots off coughs and colds, and croup! :-(

 

Oh what I would have given for central heating ... *-)

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michele - 2008-10-07 8:46 PM

 

I have fond memories of getting up for school in the morning and my grandad had always risen earlie . THe kitchen was like toast and he would light the fire ..Ah what my grandad did for us fond memories ..

 

Us grandads are wonderful, whenever any of my grandkids of which I have many try to show off their cool I say listen kid? what you are trying to do today I did years ago, I showed them a picture of me taken some 50 years ago in a pub with my gang, I looked like a young version of James Dean with attitude *-)

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