tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post4947935304408865354..comments2024-03-27T15:59:11.066+00:00Comments on Prometheus in Aspic: Hooptedoodle #102 - Uncle ArthurMSFoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14470241067504971068noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-40262516410479735472013-10-20T14:06:11.313+01:002013-10-20T14:06:11.313+01:00Thanks for appreciative comments. As I remember, t...Thanks for appreciative comments. As I remember, the oatcake was still on the ceiling when Arthur and his family moved to their posh new house in Childwall. That must be nearly two years later. Now the ceilings in these old flats were at least 12 feet up - maybe more - so an outcrop of porridge was not so much in your face as it would be in a modern house, but it is still interesting that it was left undisturbed. At the very least, you would have thought that Arthur could have invented Artex and just painted over it.<br /><br />There's more to it than that - I think there is something about the man in there. If it had been me, I'd have removed every trace of porridge and tried to put things back to a state that looked as though it had never happened. Arthur's version of "it never happened" was exactly that - ignore the event completely. Refuse to see the oatcake. What oatcake?<br /><br />Cheers - TonyMSFoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14470241067504971068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-26281781078715752762013-10-19T02:04:17.463+01:002013-10-19T02:04:17.463+01:00A great post, hilarious. Jogged a few memories too...A great post, hilarious. Jogged a few memories too: my 'Uncle' George took me round the power station where he worked for an unofficial trip, when I was 9 or 10. Where has the time gone....<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />Pete.<br /><br />Pete.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06668389518826053090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-20638232391557748282013-10-16T15:57:08.169+01:002013-10-16T15:57:08.169+01:00Pressure cookers are getting trendy - there was a ...Pressure cookers are getting trendy - there was a whole episode of Radio 4's 'Food Programme' about them the other day.Diplomatisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04154642903216207181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-85759561820051546152013-10-16T14:57:04.621+01:002013-10-16T14:57:04.621+01:00I am silently weeping with mirth at work, after re...I am silently weeping with mirth at work, after reading about the oatcake. My students are now looking at me very warily....Benjamin of Wighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03638987247523360801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-30659551528612023642013-10-16T12:50:25.015+01:002013-10-16T12:50:25.015+01:00Oh man - what an excellent post... superb... sam...Oh man - what an excellent post... superb... same level of whimsy as a really good episode of Last of the Summer Wine, or Dad's Army... I laughed out loud at the porridge incident.... :o))Steve-the-Wargamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07077311120172727690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-56015125318994626932013-10-16T00:13:58.596+01:002013-10-16T00:13:58.596+01:00We didn't have uncles and aunts of that type, ...We didn't have uncles and aunts of that type, but we did have onion pickling, pressure cookers and explosive experiments...sadly no exotic fish, possibly because we'd added jamming and bottling to the pickling and had no time? The weirdest thing about the comparison with your reminiscing is that my first form teacher was called Mrs U-prichard..it may have been Yewprichard? But it's still a rather implausible coincidence!<br /><br />HughHugh Walterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-56493237827055759372013-10-15T23:03:48.787+01:002013-10-15T23:03:48.787+01:00Excellent read!!!
Yes, kids still have 'uncle...Excellent read!!!<br /><br />Yes, kids still have 'uncles' (not just their mother's boyfriend!) and I'm sure pressure cookers are still in use.<br /><br />I had an actual Uncle Arthur who was my favourite. He'd been in a field ambulance unit in the desert and then Italy and (probably as a result of it) the strangest sense of humour. When was in the navy I used to pass his letters round the mess deck. They were certainly well up in the top ten of the reading matter charts.<br /><br />Seems to be a generation long gone now and no sign of a replacement. Of course, we don't know what our children and grandchildren say about us . . .GaryAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06963552380378929829noreply@blogger.com