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| Topic Started: Wednesday, 28. November 2007, 20:49 (477 Views) | |
| Rose of York | Thursday, 6. December 2007, 20:49 Post #31 |
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Michael, I remember mail being delivered in England on Christmas Day. |
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| Derekap | Friday, 7. December 2007, 12:53 Post #32 |
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Though mail was delivered on Christmas Day it was usually just two or three items at most - probably cards in response to people the senders didn't expect! I also remember seasonal staff, sometimes students, delivering about 7 or 8pm in the evenings and, I think, also on Sunday mornings before Christmas Day. This was in the days when if one posted a letter before about 8am it was delivered within the same town or city at lunchtime. Useful for anyone suddenly remembering a birthday or anniversary. My mother and her sister for a few years joined seasonal staff in a sorting office. They spent the time twiddling thumbs and then coping hectically with a huge volume of mail which arrived suddenly and then twiddling thumbs ... and so on. But it was extra income for Christmas. We even had bus services, though limited, on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. They were not well used where I lived - Boxing Day more so. |
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| equado | Friday, 7. December 2007, 15:18 Post #33 |
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I remember doing my spell as a student postie - over 40 years ago now - very early rises, frantic sorting and then a trudge up and down the tenements of Glasgow. It ws amazing how quickly you rememberd where individuals on your 'walk' lived so that when you sorted your mail it was in the correct order for delivery. (I don't remember much thumb twiddling - your relatives must have just been in the sorting office - softies!)
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| Gerard | Friday, 7. December 2007, 15:26 Post #34 |
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I did my spell 30 years ago. Up and down Glasgow skyscrapers - a lonely route. I took a pocket radio along for company. But it was only a couple of hours and - job done and home. Gerry |
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| Rose of York | Friday, 4. January 2008, 23:57 Post #35 |
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Here is a nice bit of Catholic nostalgia. I made some bread. When the dough was ready to be set aside to rise I found myself cutting a cross in it, and saying "Bless the Bread". My husband asked "Why did you do that and say those words?" I replied "It just happened. My mother always did it." Was blessing the bread an Irish practise? |
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| Karin | Saturday, 5. January 2008, 00:32 Post #36 |
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I don't know, Rose. My grandmother used to do that and she wasn't Catholic. But she did say, "Bless the Bread" she was baking. I was only a wee squirt then, but I can remember that (far back). |
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Karin Hvaljen Isus i Marija. Kraljica Mira, moli za nas. "Praised be Jesus and Mary. Queen of Peace, Pray for Us." | |
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| MickCook | Saturday, 5. January 2008, 00:45 Post #37 |
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Ay, when a were a lad Brass Band music wafted o're vally between Holts and Lees. We'd do our bit each whitson an walk wi our Church around Owdham. Mi mum would see the Proddies comin and put on a record, 'Faith of Our Fathers' and turn t' sound up full blast. Some silly sod made a film called "Brassed Off" that brought all these memories back - then I start talking reight odd like. |
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| Emee | Saturday, 5. January 2008, 11:14 Post #38 |
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Mick I love the film Brassed Off :D ! They filmed the band scenes at the band stand at Halifax Piece Hall. Pete Postlethwaite is a very talented actor! |
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