Triangular Scones & blue plaques.

[joette]

I was making scones a couple of days ago & I duly cut them into perfect rounds.Very nice with some raspberry jam & sunshine.
When I first made scones at my Granny& Grandpas house I always used to cut them into triangles.I tried to rack my brains as to why & as i was about eleven which is a long time ago it is lost in the mist of time.
The house is the house I was born in,the house where my Mother spent most of her childhood & young adulthood. It saw all human life,birth,illness,death & lots of laughter& joy.
You know how they put blue plaques up when somebody famous has resided in a house at some point?Well I was thinking there will never be one at 23 Laurel.
As far as I know my Grandparents/Aunt/Uncles/Cousins who lived there have never did anything of "great merit"Nobody discovered penicillin,nobody has won a Noble Prize.
Just four boys& two girls who grew up,married & between them have twenty children.They worked mainly in Singers & Browns & Babcocks.Tradesmen in the main.
Many have spread their wings with branches of the family in USA,Canada,Middle East & New Zealand.
There are no famous people in my tree.In the main they are masons,blacksmiths,shipwrights,boilermakers,ploughmen.
Their is one American Rev soldier who lived to return to Scotland & become my GGGGreatGrandfather.There are the three Great-Uncles who gave their lives in WW1.My heroes.
There are the single Dads who looked after their weans after their wives died & the parents who watched their weans die &carried on.Widows who worked to keep themselves & their weans out of the Poor House.
No literary genuises,no military heores,statesmen or actors although there is one Dancing Master.A bit of colour amidst the crofters.
As to that blue plaque-do they give them to parents who never quarrelled in front of the children,who treated each other with respect,who taught their children to respect themselves,their elders & their heritage & lineage.?To sing & to dance?
Do they give them to Mums who hang onto their children & give them unconditional love?Who make bombs falling all around you into a game.
For growing flowers that brighten up the eye & veg that feed the tum?
My families history will not appear in books only on the pages that mainly I will write.The people who will be interested in will mainly be my relatives.
As to the house that I was born in I reckon there should be a plaque there It would read.
"1936-1972 Love lived here"

[kathyc]

Joette,

This is lovely and made me teary-eyed. Nicely written.

As for the scones, my great aunt always cuts them in triangles because it doesn't waste any of the dough or need reworking to use up the scraps.

Kathy

[paddyscar]

Joette:

A piece worthy of both a Blue Plaque AND some scones.

Thanks, Frances

[sheilajim]

Hi Joette,

As Kathy noted, that was nicely written. Truth to tell, that is what almost all of us are, ordinary people just trying to do as best as we can in life, dealing with the good and the bad.

Cheers

[Anne H]

Joette,

That was absolutely beautiful! Your love, sincerity and passion comes through with each written word. Thank you for sharing

Regards,
Anne H

[ASGROOMBRIDGE]

Joette.
Your ancestors are lucky to have you, well written made me all well up. Is'nt it nice to be just ordinary folk who worked hard but left their mark on us.

On a note of scones must be a scottish thing as my grandmother always cut triangles and I still do when making cheese or apple scones.

Audrey

[wini]

I think I remember that when my mother made griddle scones they were always triangular.

wini

[emanday]

Both my grandmother and mother always made round sweet scones but triangular savoury ones.

Nothing worse than raspberry jam on a cheese scone