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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 15, 2017 14:53:24 GMT
I think it's pretty much the same with all of us. But they were brilliant. Damn these new electronics!
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Post by htmb on Oct 15, 2017 15:19:40 GMT
I have a couple of trunks that contain some of my sister’s favorite things. I’m sure her view master is in one, plus her favorite viewing wheels (what are those things called?). The wheels were purchased on a trip we took when I was 16 and she was about 7. I haven’t looked through the trunks in years, but I remember seeing pictures of Disneyland, plus a (Flintstones?) cartoon. Since she died in 1974, these items are now pretty old.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 15, 2017 17:12:30 GMT
To this day, whenever I see huge fat puffy clouds, my very poetic thought is always, "Ooooo ~ Viewmaster clouds!"
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 26, 2017 13:48:39 GMT
When I moved to Paris, mail was delivered 3 times a day.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 30, 2017 10:44:42 GMT
I remember the ceramic bricks in my grandmother's wood burning oven. She would wrap them up in kitchen towels, sealed with safety pins, and deliver them to us to slip into the bottom of the bed when the bedroom was freezing. They would still be lukewarm in the morning, when they would return to the oven.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 30, 2017 16:25:25 GMT
What a charming memory! I'll bet you always think about those toasty bricks this time of year when your house gets cold.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Dec 30, 2017 18:47:33 GMT
We had hot water bottles....wrapped in a tea towel initially. I remember that sometimes I would forget to remove my cool hot water bottle from the bed when I made it in the morning...Cold water bottles aren't very nice.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 30, 2017 22:18:01 GMT
What a charming memory! I'll bet you always think about those toasty bricks this time of year when your house gets cold. It was my freezing bedroom last night that made me remember this wonderful item. I would have loved to have a hot ceramic brick when I went to bed.
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Post by patricklondon on Dec 31, 2017 6:18:49 GMT
Oh goodness me, I'd forgotten that sort of thing. We had hotwater bottles, but my frugal mother occasionally used a couple of old irons that way (the solid cast iron kind that would have been heated on a kitchen range. Cold winter nights would be occasionally punctuated by the thump of one being inadvertently kicked out of someone's bed. My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by questa on Dec 31, 2017 8:12:47 GMT
Indigenous Australians in the Central Desert country would keep warm in the cold nights by having their dog sleep alongside them. If it was very cold, they used 2 dogs. Sometimes it is freezing and that is a "three dog night".
My dog will come up onto my bed and snuggle in to me if it is a cold night, keeps me warm, too.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 31, 2017 9:25:49 GMT
Three Dog Night. Good group.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 31, 2017 17:11:31 GMT
I'd heard about the origins of the "3 dog night" expression before, but never about arranging cats as bed warmers. I'd think cats would be easier to use as nightcaps than dogs would be, too.
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Post by Kimby on Dec 31, 2017 20:11:48 GMT
If your cat chooses to sleep on your head, you’ll have a hard time convincing her NOT to be your nightcap!
Our Miss Pearl has decided she likes sleeping up against Mr. Kimby’s legs, which means he wasn’t getting much sleep, since he couldn’t change position. Till we found a cat bed she loves that has padded sides she can lean up against. We put it on the foot of the bed between our feet, and she sleeps in it all night. (Now if we could do something about her snoring!)
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Post by questa on Dec 31, 2017 23:21:35 GMT
Kimby, my dog likes the curve of my back and legs and I find myself trapped as well. Yes, she snores too, but it is when she is twitching around chasing something in a dream and dream-barking...wuff, whufff, wuff...gentle sleepy talking, that makes me laugh.
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Post by patricklondon on Jan 1, 2018 6:23:09 GMT
A forgotten New Year custom that just occurred to me - spending a few minutes to write the new year on the next few cheques in the book, to avoid having to correct mistakes later. My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 5, 2018 23:51:19 GMT
A forgotten New Year custom that just occurred to me - spending a few minutes to write the new year on the next few cheques in the book, to avoid having to correct mistakes later.
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Post by questa on Jan 6, 2018 3:51:49 GMT
creative...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2018 5:48:40 GMT
I missed something here...I don't get what your image means/implicates/conveys Bixa.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 6, 2018 6:31:48 GMT
Probably because it should be on a thread called "Too old to remember!"
It is to prevent a person from typing 2017, I suppose.
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Post by lagatta on Jan 7, 2018 16:33:44 GMT
Livia may be small, but she is a champion bedwarmer.
I got a laugh out of the anti-2017 spear.
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Post by rikita on Jan 9, 2018 9:20:49 GMT
We had hot water bottles....wrapped in a tea towel initially. I remember that sometimes I would forget to remove my cool hot water bottle from the bed when I made it in the morning...Cold water bottles aren't very nice. hm, we used and still use hot water bottles mainly for stomach aches ... and occasionally against the cold/for calming kids down ... agnes has a big soft toy elmo with a hot water bottle in its tummy ...
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Post by patricklondon on Jan 9, 2018 11:14:29 GMT
we used and still use hot water bottles mainly for stomach aches ... When I had what turned out to be appendicitis as a child, my mother had me clutching a hot water bottle to the spot for most of the day, until she finally called the doctor. The hospital doctors who eventually decided to operate seemed most intrigued at the red marks from the hot water bottle (and this was fifty years ago). I don't know if they were pointing out folk medicine to some trainee or maybe suspected my mother of ill-treating me! My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by questa on Jan 9, 2018 11:47:40 GMT
These days the hospital staff are just getting used to seeing red circles on kids' backs from the Asian practice of "Cupping". I have had it done and also the "scraping" of the skin on the back with a coin to let the "bad air out". Both leave red weals for a couple of days. Cupping doesn't hurt...rather pleasant feeling, but coining is a bit uncomfortable and you wouldn't do it on a little kid. Despite my doubts both treatments were efficacious.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 26, 2018 23:35:35 GMT
There is a colic treatment for babies here that involves pinching up the skin at the small of the back and giving a tug. You can also do it to adults, but it's a little harder since our skin is no longer as flexible. You can discern a slight >>pop<< when the skin is pulled up. And it does work to alleviate stomach upsets!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 26, 2018 23:51:33 GMT
I am well aware of cupping and this is done regularly in Chinatown in Paris. I am a bit skeptical of pinching adults other than for sexual pleasure, and even then perhaps not everybody would like it. I am looking forward to more information from Bixaorellana.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 27, 2018 0:24:01 GMT
You use the pads of the thumb and forefinger -- not the fingernails. I guess I should have said the skin is gripped, rather than pinched.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 1, 2018 3:58:23 GMT
Does anyone else remember glassed-in “crying rooms” at the back of movie theatres? Moms could take fussy babies there to avoid interfering with other patrons enjoyment of the film, and watch the movie through the glass, listening on speakers in the room.
Haven’t thought of this in 50 years.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 1, 2018 4:26:30 GMT
Yes, churches used to have them also. Wonder if they still do.
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Post by rikita on Feb 1, 2018 10:35:13 GMT
never heard of that, here ... could ask my mom if she knew anything like that ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 1, 2018 11:44:17 GMT
There was one cinema on the Champs Elysées in Paris that had a glass booth for that, but it closed more than 30 years ago. However, most of the bigger multiplexes (the ones with at least 15 screens) now have a special 'family screen' or at least special showings for parents with small children. They promise that the lights are just dimmed rather than totally turned off during the movie and that the volume of sound will not be distressing. And I suppose that crying and whining are completely tolerated.
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