Half passed nine and sunny
still in my dressing gown
Jack fussing for his breakfast
What's in the news today?
will find out when I go for coffee
listen to the other drinkers
regurgitate the Mail
believing every word.
I'll read my paper when they've gone
share it when I'm home
just like Dad with the Reynolds News
Chronicle and Yorkshire Post
We never had the Wizard
never saw the Beano
read the Childrens' Newspaper
do you remember that?
The little library in the corner
school prizes some from Sunday school,
most were Mum's....
Treasure Island.Bronte,
Golden Treasury, "every thing you need to know"
a forbidden book on anthropology
hidden at the back learned a lot from that;
but more and to the point from the medical book
beside the neglected Kingsley
Then Sunday nights at half passed eight
the Sunday Play on the wireless
Lorna Doone and Fumanchu
Dickens.Moby Dick,
eating supper at the table
never on our knees.
Nostalgia is not what it was
or so I've heard it said
but I think I've told the truth
This is what it was.
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jenray
Pro - http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- 2009-10-27 @ 13:06:12
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la_spice
- 2009-10-27 @ 14:34:40
Great bit of nostalgia
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ravingmad
- 2009-10-27 @ 18:21:45
Wonderful memories there Blckbird - I never had comics either, but I used to get "The Rupert Annual" in my stocking every year - that was good
and I had library books too 
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When you read your Rupert Annual did you read the short text or the longer paragraph below. I have a pair of trousers ( well I have more )with a pattern of squares so my son started calling them Ruperts don't wear them often now!-
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ravingmad
- 2009-10-27 @ 20:19:41
Not sure - probably both - I was a very good reader for my age
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murphymole
Pro - 2009-10-27 @ 21:41:46
I used to love going to the childrens section of the library, the smell of the books and furniture and the creak of the wooden floors
and oh so many books to choose from.
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Thanks murph. I did not go to a public library until my teens x x -
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loveslifeloveschocolate
- 2009-10-31 @ 09:22:33
There is a children's newspaper now. ig et it for my daughter sometimes. She is, happily, a great reader.
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The "wireless had a brief to educate as well as entertain.The part of Lorna was taken by Margery Westbury as a thirteen year old I was deeply in love with Lorna and listened to the play every Sunday night....later the story of Lorna Doone was televised the actress taking Lorna did not fit my earlier imagination. Lorna was one of Blackmore's best characterisations.I did not know there was a childrens' newspaper.Great!!!
a great deal has changed...
Loved listening to radio plays when I was younger...and had the Eagle and Girl's Own comics and I think I remember the Children's newspaper but can't be certain...did have library books around too and encyclopedias...Arthur Mees I recall...not nostalgia, blckbird...just good memories...Have a great day...GBHs...XXX