The General Board Book of Pleasant Memories

[Ms_Ann]

The pall that fell upon the GB the morning of 11/9/16. Dontcha just love a good pall?

 

[magicalmoments]

I've posted this before:

My Grandma used to make me home made butter and sugar sandwiches. She would sit in front of the bedroom mirror and brush her mid-back length gray hair 100 stokes each night before bed. She was a very special woman.

Did she do this topless? I'm imagining it that way.

 

[Ms_Ann]

Did she do this topless? I'm imagining it that way.

I've never considered her in a sexual manner. Grandpa wasn't a pretty man.

 

[oggbashan]

My eldest aunt bought me a small bar of chocolate at the 1951 Festival of Britain. Chocolate and sweets were rationed and I had never eaten chocolate but the souvenir bars at the Festival were NOT rationed - just expensive.

She also bought me the special Crown coin issued for the Festival of Britain.

It was a hot day. Some of the chocolate melted in my hand. My Crown coin still has remains of that chocolate in the edge inscription.

http://www.mycollectors.co.uk/StockPhotos/coins/festival-of-britain-greenb.jpg

She bought a souvenir teapot for herself. It made just two cups of tea. She liked Darjeeling tea but the rest of her family didn't. So she used that pot for HER tea. Her niece (not born in 1951) inherited that teapot and the taste for Darjeeling tea. Now her great-niece uses that teapot.

I have acquired another souvenir teapot but it is unused:

http://www.paperandplastics.co.uk/images/otherthings-fofb/fofbtpot1a.jpg

Every time I look at that teapot I am reminded of my aunt.

 

[Ms_Ann]

My odd uncle used to give us kids silver dollars. Beats me if I know what happened to them.

 

[Ms_Ann]

Remember that time that Rory left for a year?

 

[FGB]

My Grandmother on my mothers side always serves Tea cakes(slightly vanilla flavored squares cut into three by three by three quarter inch.) and Hot sweetened tea with a dash or two of creme or milk at around two in the evening followed by a twenty or thirty minute nap.

I sometimes thought that it was a bit odd but she did not have air conditioning and it gets damned hot in the summertime and pretty cold in the winter.

Also I notice that like me she was a night owl ...stayed up till eleven or so every night and woke up between four or five AM even in her eighties!

Sigh...I guess I came by that honest!

 

[Aquagal]

I'm wondering if two in the evening is in the afternoon or early morning.

 

[Froya]

I'm wondering if two in the evening is in the afternoon or early morning.

Two in the evening sounds like afternoon to me, but two at night would mean early morning. I make no claims that it makes any sense.

 

[jezzilee]

You miss RoryN....

 

[Ms_Ann]

You miss RoryN....

I never miss.