Thought of the day

[gmarkj]

As part of the #o2surprise that I received last week, there was a jar of smiles. Many were keen to see what would come out of the jar each day, so here are the ones so far!

The one that I picked out on Friday was "If you want to see the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain".

This morning I picked out "Relax and reflect. A bad day doesn't mean it's a bad life".

[RunrigForever]

'A Fair Exchange ... is ... No Robbery' ....... x

Said to me by my gran. 

[RunrigForever]

Don't close the stable door after the horse has bolted.

Yep, another old proverb ... I remember them from Junior school.

[Cleoriff]

[Cleoriff]

[Oxonian]

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@Cleoriff wrote:

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Reminds me of Robert Lindsay in Citizen Smith ! 🤣

[Oxonian]

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@Cleoriff wrote:

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Those who have or had outside toilets would, of course, have done their motions in the yard. 👍

[jonsie]

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@Oxonian wrote:

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@Cleoriff wrote:
Those who have or had outside toilets would, of course, have done their motions in the yard. 👍

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Spent many hours shivering in outside lav....

Course, those who remember those days surely remember the plastic bucket for night time emergencies?

[Oxonian]

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@jonsie wrote:Spent many hours shivering in outside lav....

Course, those who remember those days surely remember the plastic bucket for night time emergencies?

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Yes @jonsie, very much so. My elderly aunt still lives in a house with a functional outdoor lavatory but the days of chamber pots ended some time ago as she now has an indoor bathroom too. 👍

Did your outside lavatory come equipped with a small paraffin heater for the really frosty weather ?      

[RunrigForever]

@jonsie you mean a guzunder ?

Yes My gran and granddad's old 2 up 2 down back to back red brick terrace I lived in with my mum & dad = really we were in one of upstairs rooms all 3 of us & I slept in a drawer of the chest of drawers = common in them days ....... backyard had an outhouse + a coalhouse & a $h!thou$e ....... tin bath hanging up outside in backyard ....... coal mining community x

[Cleoriff]

When I lived with Mum and Dad in Coventry, we had a 2 up 2 down house. 

In the yard was a coal house and an outside toilet. 

It wasn't until I was about 10 that we had a bathroom/toilet built upstairs. Then we had gas fires installed and used the coalhouse to extend the kitchen.