- Oldham, Oldham UK
- Ogallala NE
- London UK
- Buckingham UK
- Pullman WA
- Jonesboro GA
- Coeur d'Alene ID
- Washington D.C.
- Madrid Spain
When we get on the blog, the traffic feed lists Coeur d'Alene ID. I'm not sure why since we live 80 miles south of Coeur d'Alene. So....this accounts for seeing Madrid Spaid instead of Jonathan and Rachael's small town in Spain. Also the UK cities - we can't exactly pin point to whom they belong. The other places - GA and NE can be attributed to the fact that some of Sharon's friends and relatives are looking at the Singleton family blog as well as our travel blog and the Phillip family blog. The Washington D.C. one is a mystery to us. OK....now it's official....Sharon has become an obsessive blogger....trading the smoking obsession for blogging.
Anyway, back to the point of this blog. In the later years of Sharon's Dad's life, during Phillip family dinners, we all took turns asking Dad questions about his life - questions that Sharon had gotten from a very cool book called "Dad, Share your life with me" written by Kathleen Lashier. Hopefully all of you will also answer the questions either by a comment at the end of this blog, an email to Sharon or Tony (singo2@verizon.net) , or preferably by writing another post to this blog. If blogging is not your thing, you can email the answers and we will post your answers on the blog. The questions are below as well as Tony's answers to them.
Tony's answers:
- What bones have you broken and how? Left wrist bone. Trying to vault off the deck of a flatbed truck and missed the end of the deck, landed on the concrete with a straight left arm – this was just after I started the ASC business – 1977.
- How much do you remember paying for an ice cream cone? I remember paying 3d in the 1940s (threepence) (old currency) (for U.S. people – this is ¾ of a cent). The 3d was for a wafer – ice cream slab between two wafer biscuits. Price for a tub was 4d if you wanted more ice cream and a wooden spoon. We used to live next door to an ice cream shoppe. This was an ice cream shoppe in the 40s and changed to a cigarette store in the 60s – Harold Welbourn’s Sweet Shoppe.
- Is there anything you have now that you have kept from your childhood? Tony’s first reaction/answer was "beauty", "cuteness". "It certainly isn’t hair! Just a lot of memories."
- Tell about board games and card games you played as a youth. Snakes and Ladders, Ludo, Wist, Rummy, and Snap. Snap was a game we were playing with our parents at a very young age. Simple game that brings out your alertness.
- Tell about a time when you got lost. Couldn’t find the car once which was a bit worrying, but don’t think I have ever gotten lost. (footnote from Sharon: Tony obviously has forgotten about our time in Boise ID when we were lost!!)
And...now for the good and/or bad news...the cute book with all the questions has a question for every day of the year. Isn't that something to look forward to and very exciting!!!
maybe washington dc is the fbi scanning the blog for dodgy insider info on the brit that managed to wangle his way to the green card.....its just we;ve been watching prison break recently, there must be something bad going on in washington!!!
ReplyDeleteok bones....thats easy...
ReplyDeleteleft wrist like dad and left heel, falling off ladder trying to carry a sheet of 16mm chip board up 4m ....STOOOOPID!
pelvis...falling through a floor that i was trying to dismantle..(a bit like daffy duck when he saws a circle in the wooden floor around him then fallls in the hole!!...StOOOOPID.
collar bone...fight with a drunken greek that was pissing in my workshop!!
small bones in my right hand, hitting said drunken greek
and finally ...does this count... the greeks front teeth.
(i was very protective over that workshop and he really was a prat!)
icecream... not sure i have always assumed , 99's were named that because they cost 99p. i do remember being able to have a great time down the pub on a friday, get drunk, have chips and get home again for £3 though.
anything from childhood....the house is full of all the old toys and games from when we were little, the kids use them all the time, lily even keeps my teddy when i was a baby.(my most prized is the big black and white foto of me in nappies on the sheep skin rug though.
board games. never really liked them, hate puzzles and cant play cards, monopoly brings out the worst in everyone
getting lost....?always in sheffield, its a labyrinth, also barnes in south london, 3 train stations and always forget which one i should use
Dawn's answers
ReplyDeleteWhat bones have you broken and how? None, smart i am you see!!
How much do you remember paying for an ice cream cone? No idea, that was parents job to pay!
Is there anything you have now that you have kept from your childhood? Roger, my Monkey. Who remembers Roger?
Tell about board games and card games you played as a youth. A beatrix Potter board game, Peter Rabbit.
Tell about a time when you got lost. Its strange, but i dont remember any. Ive forgotten a lot of my childhood
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Question & Answers
ReplyDeleteBones--none that I know of.
Ice cream--honestly can't remember, or what I had for dinner last night. But I vaguely remember buying a pint of Mild (beer) for
1s 11d. I might not have been old enough to drink at the time though.
Keepsakes from childhood-- none
Board games & Cards-- Lotto, monopoly, snakes & ladders,whist, rummy,chess and later on canasta, poker and bridge.
Lost--oddly enough,yes. One afternoon in Cyprus (1964 I think) I went for a walk with a crazy Welshman.Temperature over 100 degrees and we walked many miles and were totally lost and very dehydrated. Eventually stumbled on an english couple sunbathing alone in a quiet cove who fortunately had some water.I even borrowed a pair of spare swimming trunks he had to go for a swim.