Smokeless Zones

[StephenFord 866]

All very well everyone going smokeless, but do miss that Autumn smell of leaves burning. When I do very occasionally get a whiff, immediately reminds me of those days with the evenings drawing in, hot dumpling stew on the stove and a kitchen with all the windows steamed up, yet warm and cosy inside.

"And greasy Joan doth keel the pot..." to quote a memorable line from an otherwise forgotten poem, that I vaguely recall captures similar sentiments.

[alisoncc 379]

One of Bill's poems.

When icicles hang by the wall
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail
And Tom bears logs into the hall,
And milk comes frozen home in pail,
When Blood is nipped and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
Tu-who;
Tu-whit, tu-who: a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

[StephenFord 866]

Yep - that's the one!

[loppylugs 8,427]

None of us getting any younger Michael, but come to think of it one of those Nottingham pea soupers of 62/63 might have kept old Bill the conquerer out. He'd never have gotten off the beach.

[Trevor S 2,003]

And Harold would still have been able to look people in the eye, if you get the point, which he did!

alright...I'll go

[carni 10,094]

Remember what the day after Bonfire night was like in those pea souper days, what with the smog and the smoke from the bonfires, the air was thick, any one with chest problems like Asthma had a real struggle. On the walk to the bus stop for work the next morning , if you couldn't see the people in the smog, you knew they were there because of the little coughs coming from all directions. And still i would light up my Parky on the top deck of the bus.

[Commo 1,292]

A few of us from the office had night school throughout the Autumn and Winter in 1963 at Claremont School, and it seemed that our walk through town and up Mansfield Road was always in thick fog, even though in reality it couldn't have been EVERY Monday evening, could it?

[Bilbraborn 1,594]

Didn't greasy Joan use to have a café down Radford? Or was that greasy Lil?

[Bilboro-lad 294]

I remember coming home from Glenbrook infants in fog that thick you had to just hold onto the hedge and try and see in your minds eye. I remember I got home one day and left the back door open and my mum shouting "Close the door quick, it's coming in". I turned around to see this big thick greeny black wave rolling into the house. It was like the 'day of the triffids' or something. Then you blew your nose and found a load of greeny black stuff up there too.

Kids today think coke's just for snorting.