Very OLD Granny Roo
I remember visiting a very very old lady with my dad.....she lived in a Prefab
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A prefab is a little small Bungalow type house....there were built around the time of the second world war....
Anyway i remember going in to visit her........ I reckon i was about 3 years old ... I can always remember the long
walk up a big hill...it seemed she lived so far away... I think we must have walked there instead of my dad driving.... Maybe
it was snowing ??....
She was actually my Dads grandmother..... no wonder she looked so old to me....lol
Her name
was Granny Roo she was a little old grey lady who wore a grey hat.....she had a HUGE great big blackdog called BOBBY .........
I also remember there was some trouble...... something about him being caught stealing washing off peoples washing
lines and running away with it... lol......
I cant remember seeing him in the house....i guess he was always out terrorising
the neigbourhood.? lol
I do remeber seeing him bounding off down the road with his big black tail wagging.... ( maybe
he had a mouthfull of socks ) :o)
I remember my Dad making granny Roo a cup of tea in some very old cups .......
(I still have them Now and will take a picture of them)
I dont remember there
ever being a Grampy ROO.... he must have died before my time.......
I remember Granny Roo must have died too......
Because I remember going to see her grave with a lot of people...... it had lots of green stones on it......
i remember
thinking how shiny and pretty they were...
it must have been springtime I can remember seeing some little purple flowers..
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*That Jogged a Memory of when I dressed
up as a Flower for Sunday School and had my photograh taken
I Must dig the picture out of the
Attic..
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This is a prefab
Forgot also to mention I WAS born in one and lived in one just like Granny Roos....... untill i was just
4 months old
Hers was in Blackberry walk
Ours was in Cranberry walk
Its gone now they were all knocked down
in the 1970's
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Little did I know then....my old prefab home was at the bottom of my future Husbands Garden
" Thats
another story "
(more on that later ......................................)
When I was about 5- 6 years old??......
I used to wear pretty dresses that MUM used to make me from all my sisters dresses she had grown out of..........
they always had waist Bows........
I Learnt to Tie the Bows..... in the dunny......
silly thing was i would go into the loo with my dress tied up properly....and would inevitabily come out
with the Bow tied at the front
Anyway thats how I learnt to tie my shoe laces.... i practiced on my dress in
the loo.....
We had some funny loo roll too as well as the normal kind......... it was called IZAL
I would go in and pinch some sometimes....and i would use it as Tracing paper for my drawings
LOL......
Also I can remember if it was placed over a hair comb..... if you Blew on the comb it would magically turn into
a musical instrument haha...... My dad used to pretend it was a harmonica
I remember it tickled my mouth and can remember it also smelt kind of anteseptic LOL
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