Hi Vi! Och! Wonderful Lady that Yis are .....at all ! Not only did I see you , on Irish TV, thanks... ! ! .... I believe it may have been due to Eilish giving us all a Weblink... but now, I can read even more aboot Yer early History ; which , although ten years older than mine , is nae sae different ! Well do I remember the SUPER smell , of the Toast, being 'done' on the open Fire ! Well do I recall the Chestnuts , on a wee Hearth Shovel , also 'on the fire '.... Well do I remember the boggors , simply EXPLODING, because someone had , in their excitement to " Get another lot on, before the Fire cools"....had forgotten to make a wee nick in the skin/shell, before putting them on the heat ! And so , Vi....did you go around the District " An yer we Pony", with the word going out "Milko , Milko " etc ? This is what I learned my Grandma ( Mary Elizabeth Jones , of Pyll Dhu Farm , in Monmouth )used to do as a child/teenager. With a Pony and Trap. a gert big Pail of newly 'drawn' Milk on the back, and go all around the Neighbours, before getting ready to go to School !...This was a Place ,where I may have told you before, she , nor any other Student was allowed to be heard speaking ONE WORD of the Welsh language, on pain of getting the cane , in front of the whole School ! Rotten Sods that they were ! God's Blessing Vi, and I hope your Easter , is one worth remembering , for MANY years to come. "Lottsa Luv ", and all the Stuff, X X X X Bruce and Rosemary GRAHAM, in NZ ! -----Original Message----- From: Viola Wiggins via Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2016 1:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: FERMANAGH-GOLD British Summer Time and HAPPY EASTER Just to remind everyone that our clocks Spring Forward one hour tonight. Also to wish one and all a very happy Easter. We used to build a special wee shack using all sorts of materials. It included a fireplace and a bar to hang a "Sweetie Can" over the fire. We got the fire going while the adults milked the cows and fed the calves and animals. We filled the can with eggs, and put a kettle on to boil. We'd toast bread using long handled three pronged Toasting Fork in front of the fire. The tea was 'wet' when we heard the buckets being washed and put 'to draw' beside the fire, then the can of eggs, two per person with cold water, so the shells did not crack. By the time everyone was ready the eggs were cooked, toast buttered and cups of tea handed out. No breakfast of the year ever tasted as good as the one in our Easter House. When the Evacuees were with us we had to have three sittings. Being from Belfast City they had never had such a treat. That old custom seems to have died out now but children now would never be allowed to work over an open fire with boiling kettles and cans of eggs in boiling water in case they hurt themselves! I think we were born with that instinct or it was drilled into us, or perhaps we were just lucky that we never had any accidents. TG for my wonderful Parents again. HAPPY EASTER to everyone in our Golden Family. Viola Sent from my iPad ========================= https://www.facebook.com/groups/FermanaghGold/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

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