When I was a little girl, there was a cafe near my home.
If any such cafes are still in existence today (and I believe that there are still a few) I think that
they would be considered to be "Retro"
Ahhh this cafe.... The proprieters were Italian, the ice cream was gorgeous, the sundae glasses, and the silver teaspoons were exquisite.
In this cafe, the wall opposite the main counter,
was lined with glass fronted display cabinets
which were kept locked, untill such times, as a bona fide purchase
was about to be made! The cabinets housed boxes of chocolates, really lavish affairs, bedecked with ribbons and all...
I seem to remember that some of those
ornate chocolate boxes (once emptied)
found their way to be used for storing photographs
...I know that all the woman folks in my family had at
least one "chocolate box" full of pictures!
At the far end of this cafe, there was a flight
of stairs (very steep indeed) which descended downwards..
to a splendid little tea-room.
The decor and furnishings were minimal.
It had a fine sprung floor...with tables and chairs
around the edge of the room and in pride of place at one end stood a jukebox
As a teenager many a happy Sunday Morning I spent
there with my sister and friends... (There was a fine trade-off with our parents)
we kids would tag along to church for an hour,
and then we were allowed to repair to our
beloved cafe, where we would gather in the
downstairs tearoom armed with our bottles of coke,
and we would smoke our cigarettes
(we were able to purchase "singles" back then)
and the music from the juke box, gave out
the soundtrack to our lives...
(i borrowed that last line from a song, but I can't quite remember at the moment where it comes from)
Another memory has just come back to me...
When I was in senior school, me and some friends, used to go at lunchtime to a chip-shop which was near
our school, this chip shop didn't have a proper tea-room
as such, but did have tables and chairs lined on the wall opposite the counter, but at the far end of the chip-shop there was a table and sofa inside a little cubby hole, and that was "our table" One of my friends from
those days, has sinced passed away.
She died of ovarian cancer.
It's no secret really, and some of you have
noticed it, lol but I am quite sentimental by nature,
I think tho' that it's surely something that we would all want for our kids,
is for them to have happy memories of their youth
and their friendships.
I'm not saying that it's roses all the time,
cos it seldom is,
but the world is getting so cold out there,
and dangerous... even the word "coke" has a different connatation
these days!
Did any of yous ever hang out in the tea-rooms
with your friends and the jukebox? all very "happy days", sort of stuff, but thats exactly
this blog and wonder why their name isnt mentioned,
then I would like to say that all of my friends are
winners in my eyes!
So here is the award....
And here are my nominations...
1) Daria Daria is from shanghai and lists among her interests, languages, and when we became friends on spaces, daria opened a second space,
(the link that I published above for her)
for mainly english written blogs, so I could follow her entries,which I thought was extremely thoughtful of her..she also willingly filled out a tag for me
(when I requested her)
and she wrote it all out in english, bless you Daria I believe Daria that you are most deserving
and Jill to all of her friends... Jill is a graphic designer finest kind, and produces
stunning hand painted pictures all her own work,
Jill (under her Storm alias), has a fine
networking space, where she hopes to draw a lot
of threads and peoples of the spaces community together, I have already made a few new friends
from storm's space-please see my link
to storm's space over on the left hand columm of
my page. but to me, above all of this, I am proud to say that I am Jills friend, and she is mine
3) MizAngie I can't believe this as I look back but
I was on the verge of leaving spaces for good
(and I meant it too) and suddenly Angie appeared in my guestbook and she
beseeched me not to leave as she had only just
met me... the rest as they say is history...I always think of
angie now not only as my friend, but
she's my (spaces) angel
4) Bob Bob,is a friend of mine who is propieter of spaces cafe (i have a link to his space over on my left hand column) Bob offers rich and varied fare, for the weary but happy spaces traveller,and ably assisted by his "critters" his cafe is open 24/7 (normally) but I think that he
took spaces cafe kitchen on the road recently,
and they were last seen at the "fringe" otherwise known
as the Edinburgh festival...please be sure to check
him out on his return (unless he is "spotted" and offered a hollywood contract)
although I was a weee bit sneaky and visited spaces a couple of times via my moby-
<aheem>
But now that I am home again, I do look forward to catching up with you all!
It's my Husband's Birthday today, so I would like to wish him a Very Happy Birthday!
I am very grateful to you dear hubby, for the way you have looked after me, and all of your nearest and dearest, you are a rock and a tower of strength to all of us!
*waits for cheque in the post!
<aHem>
No seriously I do want to thank you for everything, So get your glad rags ready mister! for tonight, I am going to be taking
"my sugar to tea! "
*de-caff. I just didnt want to spoil the ring to it!
Have you ever imagined what it would be like, if the animals could actually speak?
I think there are some people who lay claim to the fact that they can whisper to Horses, or chatter with the chimpanzees! <ahem>
I'm not knocking that, at all.
I like to keep an open mind about these things, but ye have to admit, that for most of us, we can only imagine what it would be like. (and what in fact animals would actually say if they could converse with us! )
Soo it got me to thinking...
I saw this picture of a cute little doggie...
...now surely there's only one word that springs to mind, when looking at this little fellar?
DOGHOUSE
"ive been a naughty boy...just lead me off to the doghouse right now and have DONE!"
would you agree?
Now if you looked at the picture of this little cat..
...awww it's not very difficult to imagine what's being said here is it?
"FEEEED ME!"
*ive looked after cats, i know what they're about..
no...lol this little one wants somebody to play "catch" I think....errrm yeah
So anyway I have a few more pictures, can anybody come up with a caption?
what would these pets, be saying? ...
For instance...this little dog
what's he saying?
...or can you think of a caption for this lovely little labrador? ...
but personally I think that this one is my favourite... What's going on here..d'ya think?
Ive been tagged this season, not only once, but THREE times! lol I did consider doing 24 factoids and then I thought- NO I apologise to the first person who tagged me first of all, Al for my delay in responding (which is probably why I ended up being tagged for a second time) but I was sweating it, with this de-caff detox... so ditto apology to the second person, UK Lady- Jill and now I got Paul to apologise to as well! <sowee>
I think Maxine definitley had the last laugh here. I went cold turkey coming off the caffeine, and I have had a very rough week this week (UNDERSTATEMENT). 'nuff said i think?
ok to the rules -
Each person posts the rules before their list, then lists 8 things about themselves. At the end of the post, that person tags and links to 8 other people and then visits those peoples' spaces and comments letting them know that they have been tagged, and to come and read the post, so they know what they have to do.
Ok. Here is my Tag
1) Forgive me for mentioning this one, but i'm overly proud of this achievment at the moment. I have now overcome and quit 3 addictive substances in my liftetime: Caffeine (on two seperate occasions) - second time around, for health reasons. * For anybody reading this who thinks "WTF?" then i would seriously invite you to try giving up caffeine (cold turkey) -as I did- and then let me know what you think. *Caffeine is found in Tea, green Tea,Coffee,some of the soft drinks, ALL energy drinks and energy glucose sweets, Chocolate (SEE?) and some medications. I was on a very high level of caffeine consumption mainly due to my tea drinking. and Ive also quit Nicotone..and ive never gone back to the cigs. My withdrawal symptoms from Caffeine (this time round) were so horrendous, I am not planning to return to tea and coffee again-ever.(de-caff only from now on)
2) " Margaret" is a family name, and without even thinking about it, I know of at least 8 family members (accross two generations) in my family who are called Margaret.
3) My left ankle is shored up with Titanium, after I broke my heel bone in 3 places. My accident happened in a forest...
( I was with my family..) It was my son (aged 12 at the time) who ran off to raise the alarm, and came back with a hospital consultant in tow-no kidding. I had to be chair lifted out of the forest
(also no kidding)
4) My afore mentioned accident happened when we were on holiday, so My hospital stay, was in a Hospital far from home. When I was eventually discharged, I was sent home in an ambulance. I was in an amulance full of elderly woman all of whom had broken their ankles, falling from either ladders or stools (ME? I had to be in a flamin forest-
didnt I?)
When the Ambulance Driver arrived to check we were all present, he burst out laughing!
There were six of us women in the ambulance, and all SIX of us had broken our left ankle! The Ambulance driver was seriously considering whether or not to phone The local rag's photographer, to run round and take a picture of us. But he didnt
5) However I have had my picture on the front page of my own local newspaper, it was taken while I was taking part in a fund-raising event, A friend and me were dressed up as "Men in Black"
6) I had a breast cancer scare a year ago. A lump was found in one of my breasts, I found out that it was indeed a tumour, but (thank-god) it was benign * I include this in my tag, as I know how scared I was during that time, and I am willing to talk to anyone if they need somebody to talk to
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