General Chat

I have a nice china ornament my MIL bought me one Christmas it's not an original just one of a mass production made in japan and sold by M&S but when I got it said thanks mum and she replied it will remind you of me when I,m gone!!
Blimey I said I hope you ain't going soon and we all had a laugh

She was right though it does remind me of her and all the family Christmases we had with that side if the family .

I would never get rid of it . It's still in perfect condition some 40 plus years later

Quite a few things Rose.
The three oldest that I treasure are my Dad's hide trunk which he brought back home in 1945 from WW2, carrying handmade presents for our family.

Mam's small filigree scabbard brooch from the Holy Land.

And a 50 Franc note (kept in acid free paper) sent from Le Havre Beach, Normandy signed with love to my Mam & children...with lots of kisses and the date 6th June 1944
Mam died in 1959 but we found Dad had always kept this in his wallet and we didn't find it until after he died in 2003

I still get very emotional when I look at it.

My teddy who is threadbare and has been re-built a few times after he was taken apart and washed.

Filled with straw-like stuff, hard, faded.

He is sixty now and is one of the few toys that were not given away without my being consulted.

Not what I imagined then Rose, but really attractive - no wonder you like it so much.

I just remembered that I have an open work wicker basket that my mother lined with material and used to put talc and all the pins and baby bits and bobs for my youngest brother, I was 5 when he was born and had forgotten about it till just now. Mum took the fabric out when it was no longer used for baby bits and used it as a fruit bowl.

Lizx