Dear Vi, you bring so much enjoyment to so many people! I too just love your stories. This one particularly brought a big smile to my face. After enjoying (and almost tasting) your potato stories recently, we are now screening off grasshoppers while eating beautiful fresh bread. All I can add here is to be thankful you are not downunder or you would be screening flies - but those pesky things manage to make it through anyway. I can't think of any Aussie kids who haven't swallowed or inhaled a fly or two. Your memories, your ability to tell a good yarn and your generously given help are treasured by us all. Robyn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 13:06:06 +0100 From: Viola Wiggins <vmaw3434@gmail.com> Subject: FERMANAGH-GOLD -Re: Grasshopper tales. To: This list is for those researching their ancestors in Fermanagh and surrounding counties in Ireland <fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <83F37ABF-8FBF-47B9-848A-155808CE9452@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Darling Sister Dee and Brother Bruce, I'm reading and hearing ye both loud and clear. If I wrote a book it would be like a Grasshoppers journey. Jumping from leaf to leaf and avoiding the cup of hot tea as in the hay field! Funnily how everyone used to get one in their tea, just as the cup approached the mouth. A hay straw folded was the best tool to remove it in the loop. No such finicky thing like ditching the contents of the cup. One was hot and thirsty and those Egg and Oinion sandwiches in Batch Loaf bread needed lubrication to wash them past the Tonsils. Batch Loaves had Square Flat crust bottoms and Crusty domed Tops. They were baked in 'Batches' of Six in Trays using Top and Bottom heat. The four sides were soft as they were so closely packed they never got direct heat and only pulled apart into ones or twos at the time of sale. Viola ------------------------------