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🦍CURMUDGEONS' CORNER XVIII🦍

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  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    Oops, none of this is very curmudgeonly. Sorry!
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    JennyJ said:
    I'm too young to have listened to Children's Hour, or Children's Favourites (and remember it) but I'm half pleased and half horrified that I remember quite a lot of those songs (I am a mole and I live in a hole!!) I'm wondering if my parents had records with some of them on.
    I think many of the same playlist turned up on Junior Choice on Radio 2, which was a regular thing right through the 1970s and possibly longer. That's where I learned all the words of Right Said Fred, anyway. Still in my hind brain if someone says something to trigger it
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    No Pooh in my childhood.  Met him in my 30s when a friend said I had to read them but  was not enchanted but I did buy them for Possum and OH and read them to her but she wasn't too bothered either.  On the other hand, she loved the Disney version.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Afraid the Disney version is regarded as an abomination in this household.  That is not the real Winnie the Pooh !!! 😲

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    JennyJ said:
    I'm too young to have listened to Children's Hour, or Children's Favourites (and remember it) but I'm half pleased and half horrified that I remember quite a lot of those songs (I am a mole and I live in a hole!!) I'm wondering if my parents had records with some of them on.
    I think many of the same playlist turned up on Junior Choice on Radio 2, which was a regular thing right through the 1970s and possibly longer. That's where I learned all the words of Right Said Fred, anyway. Still in my hind brain if someone says something to trigger it

    Radio 2 is a definite possibility.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    I remember reading 'What is the matter with Mary Jane?' to my niece when she was about 5 years old. At the end there was a pause, and then she said "I think Mary Jane's tired!"  :D
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Afraid the Disney version is regarded as an abomination in this household.  That is not the real Winnie the Pooh !!! 😲
    No, real Winnie the Pooh is Willie Rushton reading it on Jackanory
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    In primary school, I was one of about half a dozen children of over protective parents who would not allow their children to go to St Mary's Bay for a week. (I still feel deprived)
    Anyway, we were babysat  by an elderly , kindly teacher who could do a mean lugubrious voice. Eyore a speciality. She read Winnie the Pooh to us every day.  I can still hear her voice and see her controlled brillo pad  hair but her face is indistinct.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    After many fruitless attempts to make a telephone appointment as advised by a GP, I was ready to give up. Tried phoning. Tried ask first app. Sat by the phone for hours Just In case the appointment booking app had worked. No joy.
    Out of the blue, a copy of a letter sent from the consultant ,whom I won't  'see' again until next July, to my GP practice arrived.
    My intention is to list all the medical terminology, Google them and see if I can piece everything together and see if I have something to worry about.
    What else can I do?
    Seven years at medical school might have been useful.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    B3, try popping in to your regular Pharmacy and see if the Pharmacist can help you with the terminology.   I did that for people several times, when they didn't want to bother the doctor. Of course now actually getting to speak to a doctor is nigh on impossible. Mine actually sent me a text asking me to get a blood pressure reading done "somewhere", (so long as it's not their nurse or doctor) and email in the result. Presumably so they can hit a tick box somewhere. Fat chance.

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