Got into lots of trouble for this.......
Posted 18-11-07 at 20:43 by Magpi 47
In my last blog entry I told you all about our Tin Bath days.....I forgot to mention this little episode, which got me and my brother into lots of trouble, but now when I think about it, it makes me giggle (though I shouldn't laugh really).
It was a winters night....a Friday, Bath night.
We had all been bathed and were sitting round in the warm kitchen, the fire was roaring and though our faces were rosy from exposure to the heat, our bums and backs were cold.
Ma asked me and my brother Peter to take the bath out to the grate outside.......we ladled a lot of the water out and put it down the sink, but we really didn't fancy going out in the yard to the grate. After all we were in our jimmies and slippers, my hair was still damp and plastered with goo...... and it was howling a gale out there. Not wanting to feel the back of Ma's hand we thought it best to do as we were told. Except, we didn't do exactly as we were told.
We got the bath out to the back step and decided it was too cold to go to the middle of the yard, where the grate was.
Instead we tipped the water down the back steps, figuring the water would find it's own way to the grate.
We thought no more about it and went to bed.
Ma used to clean at the elite Snooker club in Accrington and would go out before six am.
She went out and of course it was dark, the bathwater had frozen and made the back steps like glass, she went bumpity bump on her btm all the way down the steps.
Boy, did we cop it when she got back home.
She said she was bruised and stiff, but she chased us round the kitchen before giving us a leathering.
My brother was daft enough to give her back-chat, something to the effect that we didn't deserve to catch pneumonia...so he got an extra winger for giving 'lip'.
It was a winters night....a Friday, Bath night.
We had all been bathed and were sitting round in the warm kitchen, the fire was roaring and though our faces were rosy from exposure to the heat, our bums and backs were cold.
Ma asked me and my brother Peter to take the bath out to the grate outside.......we ladled a lot of the water out and put it down the sink, but we really didn't fancy going out in the yard to the grate. After all we were in our jimmies and slippers, my hair was still damp and plastered with goo...... and it was howling a gale out there. Not wanting to feel the back of Ma's hand we thought it best to do as we were told. Except, we didn't do exactly as we were told.
We got the bath out to the back step and decided it was too cold to go to the middle of the yard, where the grate was.
Instead we tipped the water down the back steps, figuring the water would find it's own way to the grate.
We thought no more about it and went to bed.
Ma used to clean at the elite Snooker club in Accrington and would go out before six am.
She went out and of course it was dark, the bathwater had frozen and made the back steps like glass, she went bumpity bump on her btm all the way down the steps.
Boy, did we cop it when she got back home.
She said she was bruised and stiff, but she chased us round the kitchen before giving us a leathering.
My brother was daft enough to give her back-chat, something to the effect that we didn't deserve to catch pneumonia...so he got an extra winger for giving 'lip'.
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You have got me giggling as well, are you sure we aren't related? Our mums could be twins their reactions are so alike!!Posted 18-11-07 at 21:10 by bernie
- Bernie, we are all sisters under the skin, and I'm sure that Mums are alike the world over.....the good ones that is!Posted 18-11-07 at 22:05 by Magpi 47
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I onc e left the tap running in the kitchen and flooded it completly. My Mum was always cheerfull and funny, rather than tell us off . She took of her stockings and told us to paddle in it giving us a brush each to sweep out the water. My Dad wasnt well and put up with alot. Now i think it was her way of coping. We were never smacked butwe knew how far to go with her. She was well respected in our area.Posted 19-11-07 at 14:34 by Kiki - My Dad wasnt well she put up with alot...his illness was not diagnosed until later on)and he suffered with celebral -schlorrosis at an early age!Posted 19-11-07 at 19:29 by Kiki
