Tag: Kids

THE DAY THE GASOMETER BLEW UP – A ‘true’ story of early memories from long ago!

February 17, 2014

  A Sunday morning long ago.   I am a small child, my parents and I have been walking about Kew Gardens.   I think we are at summers end for in my hand I have an acorn cup gathered earlier.   Now on our way home I worry about something my mother had said about fairies using … More THE DAY THE GASOMETER BLEW UP – A ‘true’ story of early memories from long ago!

THE ‘WINKLE’ & THE BLOKE WITH TWO HEADS – A true story of long ago!

January 17, 2014

  I can still remember the first of thousands of jokes I didn’t ‘get.’ I was a kid and my Dad read one to me that went, “A woman was shot last evening and rushed to hospital. A spokesman has said that they haven’t removed the bullet from her yet. A reporter asked the spokesman, … More THE ‘WINKLE’ & THE BLOKE WITH TWO HEADS – A true story of long ago!