CS 17 Posts

Laura · Post by **Laura** » Mon May 23, 2005 7:30 am

Here's to the kid who played in the middens.

Kind Regards,
Laura

CatrionaL · Post by **CatrionaL** » Mon May 23, 2005 12:07 pm

Bob

Deeply moving. Moonwatcher wasn't the only one with "wetness on his cheek and the taste of salt on his lips".

Thanks.
Catriona

nancy · Post by **nancy** » Mon May 23, 2005 11:23 pm

FANTASTIC!!Brought happy childhood memories of late 40/50s in George St,Paisley.We played shops with sandstone,gravel,twigs,leaves and card board milk bottle tops.Twigs were Liquorice sticks,milk tops for pennies, crushed stone for sherbet and the others were used as sweeties.Our mums cut squares of newspaper which we rolled into a cone shape,which we called a poke.We then put our sweets in them and sold them in our "wee shop",which was usually a wash house window ledge,or on a small wall.You would then shout,come and buy,come and buy,all the shops are open. I remember coming from pics on Saturday with pals,and we would gallop though backcourts on our pretend horses,as the film had been a cowboy,usually Roy Rogers or Hopalong Cassidy.Other times we would hold a "backdoor concert"which took weeks of preparation dressing in crepe paper costumes,and singing and dancing to our favourite tunes. The other pastime was" walking the dykes".We walked along all the walls between backcourts trying to balance without falling off.Yes,all that's gone now.No more imaginary play,Everything now seems to be computerised. Thanks for the memory.Ever think in publishing small stories and letting everyone relive there memories.Thanks,Hoping for more.Cheers,Nancy.

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Mon May 23, 2005 11:33 pm

nancy wrote:FANTASTIC!!Brought happy childhood memories of late 40/50s in George St,Paisley.We played shops with sandstone,gravel,twigs,leaves and card board milk bottle tops.Twigs were Liquorice sticks,milk tops for pennies, crushed stone for sherbet and the others were used as sweeties.Our mums cut squares of newspaper which we rolled into a cone shape,which we called a poke.We then put our sweets in them and sold them in our "wee shop",which was usually a wash house window ledge,or on a small wall.You would then shout,come and buy,come and buy,all the shops are open. I remember coming from pics on Saturday with pals,and we would gallop though backcourts on our pretend horses,as the film had been a cowboy,usually Roy Rogers or Hopalong Cassidy.Other times we would hold a "backdoor concert"which took weeks of preparation dressing in crepe paper costumes,and singing and dancing to our favourite tunes. The other pastime was" walking the dykes".We walked along all the walls between backcourts trying to balance without falling off.Yes,all that's gone now.No more imaginary play,Everything now seems to be computerised. Thanks for the memory.Ever think in publishing small stories and letting everyone relive there memories.Thanks,Hoping for more.Cheers,Nancy.

Nancy

In relation to your own post,....... Wow

..... apart from anything else, precisely the type of memory that TalkingScot hoped would be posted.

As far as publication of the various Moonwatchers epistles here and on the sadly departed GROS SP DG are concerned, I encouraged Moonwatcher long ago to consider publication, and made an offer long ago to Moonwatcher to share the expenses and the risk of publication, and would quite happily now, in view of the Cyber Seance series, take all the risk, but I would need a willing author !!

Davie

Laura · Post by **Laura** » Tue May 24, 2005 2:17 am

DavidWW wrote: . . . made an offer long ago to Moonwatcher to share the expenses and the risk of publication . . .

Our Bob,
If you're passing the hat, count me in.
Laura

Alison Plenderleith · Post by **Alison Plenderleith** » Tue May 24, 2005 12:01 pm

Hello Bob,

I had saved this last one till this morning when I had plenty of time.

I've loved the whole series but you've excelled with this one.

More please.

Regards,

Alison

MaryE · Post by **MaryE** » Tue May 24, 2005 8:22 pm

Bob

I think you'd have a bestseller on your hands - and no need to worry about expenses.

Mary

tishgibbons · Post by **tishgibbons** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:40 pm

I've only just found this thread and only because I'm marooned at home with a nasty cold and can't spend any more on SP just now!!! Having read this and the Cyber Seance, my eyes are all red and I'm snuffling all over the place again! What an experience. It's uncanny because only this week I traced one of my elusive Aberdeenshire Mitchells to Glasgow, to Kennedy St, New St, Black St and Ward Street. From the numbers of families on census returns I am assuming they were tenement buildings also. So rewarding to find such a vivid description of their possible lives and surroundings within hours of tracing them. Great stuff Moonwatcher and if you do publish (which I hope you will) make sure we all know about it.

Regards

)a very weepy) Tish