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with my two little scottie dogs, when I thought
I would get a nice cup of tea and start thinking
about dinner, but as I filled the electric kettle and press the switch I notice that the kettle didn't light up, I then tried the T V and there to my annoyance I see there was no electricity, so I found out that the good old workmen working just just the road had broken into a cable, it always seems to happen at meal times and as my house is all electric I could not make a nice cup of tea, so it looks like a fish and chip dinner from the fish and chip shop. Thanks for the local chippie, as I mention in my previous story, there was always a queue of people waiting for their fish and chip supper on a Friday night, but now our local chip shop doesn't seem to have that queue, I supposed it has a lot to do with all the other shops that have open such as the Chinese, India and McDonalds and all the take-away shops that we have now.
After the nice hot meal and a cold glass of water, no TV to watch and no wireless to listen to, I could not help wondering how my family managed years ago. I remember as a six year old, right up until I was ten I used to rely on the jolly old wireless to listen to "Listen with mother", "Children's hour" and the famous Children's favourite which was on every Saturday morning at 9 to 10am I don't know if anyone that is reading this, can remember a guy called "Uncle Mac" that used to present the program. Looking back on all the records that they played were one of my favourites "Spiky and the magic piano" also please don't laugh "Champion the wonder horse" by Frankie Lane. I used to love to watch that programme about that wonder horse, when I was so lucky to have a new TV brought us when I was 10 years old brought by money left from our dear old auntie May. Up until then we used to go around to my late sister Joyce and brother-in-law Peter's house to watch their TV, luckily they lived just around the corner at the time so I used to spend a few hours at the weekends watching their Black and white TV. Come to think of it, they were the only couple in our family to own a TV, so it was with great excitement for all the family to be able to crowd in their little room to watch the Queens coronation in 1953, there was so many of us around that small black and white TV that my brother Bill and my other sister Nora and husband had to sit on the table, but it was really worth being uncomfortable to watch a once in a while history. I hope Peter will not mind me mentioning this but I think it was so funny at the time. My late sister Joyce came around to us one morning and said that they had now got a coloured TV and again coloured TV's weren't in the shop at that time, so we were wondering how they had been able to get they hands on one, so we all march around to see this great invention and the cowboy film "The Cisco Kid" happen to be on at that time and what a laugh on the screen the cowboys hat and forehead were blue and the other part of his face was red and his shoulders was green, so what Peter did was buy a colour paper what you could buy to put on you TV screens to add a bit of colour, it was all right for sceneries but no good for faces From this day on, I will never forgot that and when you look at coloured TV today you think nothing of it, but in the fifties, people would have gone to great lengths to have been able to watch a nice coloured TV specially for the Coronation (Sorry Peter I just had to tell them one of your little jokes). Great news, the electricity has come back, now for a nice cup of hot tea and to start, to put this story on to my computer and email it to Peter.
Thanks for reading my stories.
