Out to Grass
Posted 19/02/2010 - 05:59
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bwichmawr wrote:
A wonderful list. Used to be milk monitor...
This reads like a prose poem: an elegy to a long lost, simpler world.
(Hope no one else reads this or we will be thought sad!)
Thanks for making my day.
Andrew
(Blimey, I'd forgotten all about dubbin and those brown footballs that got all soggy and heavy in wet weather...)
And all of this segues nicely into the very reason I was drawn to this image in the first instance Andrew - I learnt to drive on a petrol/kero Nuffield tractor. For the uninitiated - they got started (with a crank-handle, of course) on petrol, and when they were heated up, you switched over to the kerosene tank. Power kerosene was cheaper, readily available (back then), and safer.A wonderful list. Used to be milk monitor...
This reads like a prose poem: an elegy to a long lost, simpler world.
(Hope no one else reads this or we will be thought sad!)
Thanks for making my day.
Andrew
(Blimey, I'd forgotten all about dubbin and those brown footballs that got all soggy and heavy in wet weather...)
Talk about a different world...
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