25 May
This will
be a short one today. We decided that we are due a run out over to the Merry
Hell Shopping Centre, t’ther side of Brum, so we will be off out as soon as
we’ve had our morning drinks. But before we go I shall expand on two thoughts
that came to me while reading stuff on Facebook yesterday.
The first
was around encouraging kids to read and how much they miss out on when they
aren’t encouraged. I got to thinking about what my mam and dad read when I was
a kid. The
book
genres have been more different; dad only read westerns, and he would get
through two a day at one time. Mam would only Jean Pleady romances, not an
ideal choice for two young boys. I did try a few westerns but found them to be
very much the same as each other, as well as pretty light weight reading. Dave
wasn’t much of a reader at all, and never was even as an adult. Hr did loan me
Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code, and I’m
not sure why he bought it really. Perhaps it was open and clear attack on the
Roman Catholic Church, I never asked and he never said.
The next
item was on food, yes I know, me n food again. This one came when it came to
what kids eat and why. It took me back to my every night supper of two slice of
jam butty and a mug of coco. Nowt wrong with that really, until that is I tried
dunking the butty into me coco, and I loved it. For some reason they used to
find that highly amusing. I just ignored them and watched telly. Dave wasn’t so
amusing though. Vinegar was thing, and always was right up till he died. Mam
and dad took to hiding the vinegar bottle so he couldn’t get to it. One day he
shook a full vinegar bottle onto a plate of chips when they put it out too
early. That was the last of it too and dad wasn’t at happy about it.
Oh the
memories …
Today we
are off to the Merry Hell, so for today’s photo …
A photo of art work in the Whetherspoons
pub over there. It commemorates the iron and steel works that the centre was
built on.
Today’s
funny …
What did the panda take with him on vacation?
Just the bear necessities.
Just the bear necessities.
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