Pat's Poppy & Margaret's Verse

Good Morning Ladies,

Todays card is another of Pats masterpieces, she has used a lovely Poppy Stamp and a

stunning swirls stamp to fill in the background.

I love Poppies they are so beautiful and poignant too.

A beautiful sentiment finishes the card.

Next I have added a very funny but true statement sent to me by Margaret,

it is very, very true and brings a smile to your face.

So grab your coffee, sit back and relax and read about how we lived and enjoyed

our youth, it is so very true!

I am looking forward to seeing Sue's Launch today, I will however find

it very hard not to comment on the few  that will Leech on to see what

they can gain from our dear, kind Sue, I wish there was a way that Sue could

only include the regular blog members in her draws!

It does frustrate me as they don't even had the common decency to stick around for

a couple of posts afterwards, the post each draw and then again when they come

back to see if they have 'gained'!

I think a few of us will be spitting feathers tomorrow, who is willing to bet

the blog posts go over 300, which hasn't happened since last launch.

Sadly the most affected by this is the kindest lady in the Crafting World,

Our Amazing Sue Wilson x

Huge Hugs Everyone,

Don't forget to read below and leave your comments,

Sandra xxxxx

WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER !!

“And we never had a whole Mars bar until 1993"!!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930’s,40's, 50's, and 60's

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank Sherry while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos...

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, bread and dripping, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking..

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds , KFC, Subway or Nandos.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on a Sunday, somehow we didn't starve to death!

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers and Bubble Gum.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter, milk from the cow, and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because.......  WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.   No one was able to reach us all day. And we were OK.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY ,

No video/dvd films, or colour TV no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms...........WE HAD PROPER FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no

Lawsuits from these accidents.

Only girls had pierced ears!

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time....

We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet because we didn't need to keep up with the Jones's!

Not everyone made the rugby/football/cricket/netball team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT

Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and throw the blackboard rubber at us if they thought we weren't concentrating ....We can string sentences together and spell and have proper conversations because of a good, solid three R's education.

Our parents would tell us to ask a stranger to help us cross the road.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.   They actually sided with the law!

Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL !

And YOU are one of them!