LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME 2018

We used to chat to the lamplighter when coming out of school on winter afternoons.

That picture is an interesting one as it's a more modern one. The original lamplighters didn't have the technology shown in that picture. Originally, the lamplighter had to carry a ladder to access the lever to turn on the gas before lighting it. The ladder used to be propped against the crossbar that was there for that purpose. The long pole came later and had a hook on the end to pull the ring that was on a small chain that dangled from the gas tap. It made the work much quicker and resulted in a lamplighter being given more lamps to light in the same time. It also saved him having to carry a ladder.

 

Re addresses:- The name of our road is the name of the town two miles away, the village named in our address is not the parish that we belong to as our parish is the next village along (we have to go through the village of our address to get to our parish church ), the town in our address is seven miles away (not the one two miles away) and we live in different county from the one in our address. The town which is the base of our district council, to whom we pay our rates, is 12 miles away and we have to go through two other district councils to get there!

So, years ago, I declared Shineyland independent.

 

The Lamplighter
poem
My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky;
It’s time to take the window to see Leerie going by;
For every night at teatime and before you take your seat,
With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.

Now Tom would be a driver and Maria go to sea,
And my papa’s a banker and as rich as he can be;
But I, when I am stronger and can choose what I’m to do,
Oh Leerie, I’ll go round at night and light the lamps with you!

For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door,
And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more;
And O! before you hurry by with ladder and with light,
O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him tonight!

 

Actually, I like Serena and thought that for a 36 year old mother she looked well in the Catsuit. She's never been a petite person and it takes a lot to come back after having a baby.

 

I think if you asked Jennifer Ennis, Serena Williams, Shelley Rudman, Sarah Wiltshire, Helen Jenkins if they thought it was no big deal, Riley, you might get a different answer. I can't see how any of us males can understand, or appreciate, to any degree any woman going through pregnancy, labour, birth, caring for a child while trying to get back to a normal worklife. For a female sports athlete it must be even harder to have to get back to the high level of fitness that they have to achieve. I, personally, take my hat off to any sportswoman who has that experience whilst under public view and being criticised for not looking like a fashion model.

 

The marketing world, Riley, like it or not, has supplied a veritable mountain of mutations of words, straplines, and catch words to the English language as a dip into the Oxford Dictionary will show. The words don't have to make literal sense but just supply a sense of meaning or connection to whatever subject is being targeted.