Its not until you have your own kids to bring up, that you begin to realise the job our parents had bringing us four lads up during the war.
The rationing and the scarcity of things we take for granted now. I remember seeing my first banana in 1948, mother made us eat it mashed and spread on bread and butter.
My
Parents Learned us Everything
My parents
learned us everything, how to live our life,
Helped to show
us how to cope, and all about the strife,
Little things
they matter most, and manners we did learn,
Respect for
other people, and trust that you must earn.
Father taught us
how to, feed calves and milk a cow,
Breed pigs and
rear them, then taught us how to plough,
How to cut and
lay a hedge, to fence the cattle in,
Hang a gate so
it would swing, show us where to begin.
Mother showed us
how to cook, from very early age,
Pick the peas
and beans and mint, and parsley and the sage,
Tasted all that
she prepared, even before it’s cooked,
It always met
with our delight, tasted better than it
looked.
Experience takes
a long time, to build up over years,
Learning takes a
lifetime, and sometimes brings you tears,
Knowledge is
what you try to gain, path of life to smooth,
No one knows how
long we’ve got, wounds in life to soothe.
Owd Fred
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