Candles

[Dee Sa]

today I saw a small child in buggy with a runny nose. "candels hanging down" we used to say as kids but you dont see them like you did years ago and snot trails like snails trails on the side of the sleeve where the kid had wiped its own nose with the sleeve. My old gran used to say why are all little girls with snotty noses called Gloria the description doesnt fit the child !

[hc4361]

I remember it well. Back in the day we didn't have tissues, wet wipes or Calpol. Not sure about Vicks and the like to ease congestion and runny noses.

We did have a hanky pinned to our jumper if we were lucky.

[Mamyalynne]

My youngest had a lot of ENT problems as a little one, so runny nose was common, we called her 'Silver Streak' - a testament to her sleeve's condition.

Mamya now prays she does not log on here tonight lol

[gness]

Pinned to your jumper? Mine was up my knicker leg......thick navy gym knickers and the nuns always made us have a hanky tucked in the leg.

[Lie-in King]

mamya - your youngest had problems with walking, talking trees? What were you adding to the Delrosa?

[ravenmiss]

Oi!! Leave my sleeves alone! :p

But yes, candles often and pillows glued to my head in the morning, so lovely but mummy (mamya) took great care of me and made me cups of tea.

[Psybbo]

Yuck, runs away

[Mamyalynne]

Oh Hello dear, fancy seeing you here.....legs it.

[gness]

Am I too old to be adopted by Mamya?

[DTCwordfan]

As the old rhyme goes:

"Don't Kiss Your Honey,
When your nose is really runny,
Cause you may think it's rather funny,
But it's snot!"

[plautus]

"Mine was up my knicker leg......thick navy gym knickers and the nuns always made us have a hanky tucked in the leg."

That is why, as a schoolboy, whenever we passed the girls from the local convent, I would ask, " Excuse me, darling, could I borrow your hanky?"

[starone]

I refused an offer for a date from a young chap once because his nickname was Candles. Left over from when he was much younger, but the name stuck.

[Mamyalynne]

Gness, never too old, as you can see my care comes with endorsements.....just have to find out who tipped her off lol

[gness]

So, Plautus, YOU are the one the nuns warned us about!

Funny what makes us accept or decline dates Star. A lad I had fancied for ages came to my house to ask me out. If he hadn't brought his bloody grass snake in a shoe box to show me I would have said yes.

[gness]

Thank you. Then next time I have a cold Mamya....bliss.

[tenrec]

I'm so glad I finished my tea before reading this!

[Sparkles62]

My navy gym knickers had a pocket in them ( posh or what ) but I could never understand why, when we were always being told to behave like young ladies, we were expected to root in our knickers for a hanky when we needed one!

[gness]

A poem in part of my A level course was comparing a snail's trail with the snot trail left by a child running his face along a shop window. Bloody relieved when I moved on to Keats.

[gness]

My protestant friends at the school down the road had green gym knickers with pockets in them....oh how I envied Sandra Colymore her knickers.