Hello again all -
Now I am only up to post 160, as my husband is very ill & I've had less time to catch up with my favourite thread - so sorry if I'm repeating something someone else has already written, but just wanted to add some comments before I forget (old age !!!)
I've thought about THE SILENT GENERATION title & reckon it could also be because, in those days, we kids were told not to speak unless spoken to first, but speak when you're spoken to, watch your manners, say please & thank you, look where you are going, respect your elders, give your tram seat to an older person, eat all your vegies, pick up after yourself, & so the list goes on. I think all that discipline never hurt us.
About looking after grandchildren, or having to do something else you don't want to do, or shouldn't have to do (& this is not about everyone who wants to do this or that) I have had a paperback for many years now "Don't say yes, when you want to say no!" (I think) oh boy - what a cheek in all the examples therein, very good reading. I lent it to friend once, who kept it for ages, so I never lent her any more books & that was her fault not mine!
Jean - one of my friends had a beehive hairdo, which she kept going for a very long time & when it was finally undone, it had a nest of cockroaches in it! No - it wasn't me, I used to do my hair into a French Roll all the time.
Bluepanda - I always liked "Life with Dexter" & "Night Beat" (Randy Stone, newspaper reporter - stories start in many different ways, this one started with.... & ended with.... Copy boy!".
Darki - MH & I used to go Square Dancing 4 times a week, when we lived in England, loved it & still play our LPs now & then.
Keng - we used to do 40plus garage sales every Saturday, but when we did them last, we had to ask ourselves "is this necessary for my survival" & ended up putting things down again. We still have too much "STUFF".
Jvh - at least curling rags didn't hurt like hair rollers do!
Will call again later, unless someone gives me the boot! jb.
