tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630924445657816001.post8761453166134873318..comments2024-01-17T20:44:37.660+00:00Comments on USEFUL or BEAUTIFUL: Tootles the taxi and other rhymesLucillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14414527658216916537noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630924445657816001.post-91555231445485383202016-10-01T16:53:37.788+01:002016-10-01T16:53:37.788+01:00The illustrator of this also illustrated a number ...The illustrator of this also illustrated a number of the Railway Series books by the Rev. AwdryBenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08604572246809381132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630924445657816001.post-57743565058434325722012-10-08T15:31:49.213+01:002012-10-08T15:31:49.213+01:00My boys loved me reading this to them when they we...My boys loved me reading this to them when they were little! This lovely post brought back some wonderful memories.<br />Liz @ Shortbread & GingerShortbread and Gingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07356668729131346750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630924445657816001.post-38338599435499787392012-10-05T23:26:40.822+01:002012-10-05T23:26:40.822+01:00I can remember the big boys making slides on the i...I can remember the big boys making slides on the ice in 1963. maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13955194101659665925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630924445657816001.post-67803907946769307882012-10-05T21:21:10.243+01:002012-10-05T21:21:10.243+01:00Perhaps Grandson will enjoy it soon.Perhaps Grandson will enjoy it soon.Lucillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14414527658216916537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630924445657816001.post-36571211586384001622012-10-05T20:21:05.851+01:002012-10-05T20:21:05.851+01:00We had "Tootles the Taxi" as well - in f...We had "Tootles the Taxi" as well - in fact we probably still have it. Must look. I think I remember that we also had a more modern edition, with greatly inferior pictures. Our son (the youngest child) was and is a great fan of vehicles. Pam https://www.blogger.com/profile/12641269043817163165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630924445657816001.post-1745045181646294442012-10-04T23:27:25.691+01:002012-10-04T23:27:25.691+01:00Catching up today after a couple of weeks absence....Catching up today after a couple of weeks absence...not sure anyone noticed :) <br />Anyway, of everything here in these latest posts it is the Japanese laundered shirts that grab my attention, and remind me of the year I spent as an ESL assistant at my college. Gifts from the Japanese students included exquisitely wrapped mundane items such as coloured sugar cubes for tea.<br />I read many books like the one above as a child - but American versions with children named Tommy and Patty. Rebecca S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16409572371302109142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630924445657816001.post-79707846834588390242012-10-04T23:05:03.416+01:002012-10-04T23:05:03.416+01:00Ha! Ha! Can't remember the trousers or whethe...Ha! Ha! Can't remember the trousers or whether they lived in council flats! Years later when I married and was living on an RAF base, the binmen used to wear officers' hats and it used to make me roar with laughter. They must have taken them from bins...........menopausalmusinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12255069917743230560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630924445657816001.post-51395251182979882462012-10-04T20:34:15.416+01:002012-10-04T20:34:15.416+01:00Thank you for such an enjoyable post. It was diff...Thank you for such an enjoyable post. It was different in Scotland. Something came on a horse and cart. I think it may have been coal. Sometimes we got a delivery of lemonade and a tin of Smith's crisps. Does anyone else remember those big tins full of crisps with the blue twist of salt? On Saturdays Fisher & Donaldson, the bakers, would come all the way to our village with treats for Saturday teatimes. My sister and I would get a Tunnock's teacake and my mother would get a sort of fudge and chocolate thing with a half walnut on top which she christened "a sinker"! The joys of a Scottish diet.Arthur Ransomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15775858936238630182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630924445657816001.post-70242949571164303852012-10-04T19:54:21.032+01:002012-10-04T19:54:21.032+01:00You must know it by heart!You must know it by heart!Lucillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14414527658216916537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630924445657816001.post-47482701337977571062012-10-04T19:53:21.892+01:002012-10-04T19:53:21.892+01:00I just love the picture you have conjured up, ridi...I just love the picture you have conjured up, riding with the bin men! Imagine that now! Did they wear cor blimey trousers?Lucillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14414527658216916537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630924445657816001.post-69726026653606816042012-10-04T19:32:16.544+01:002012-10-04T19:32:16.544+01:00A brilliant post, just brilliant from start to fin...A brilliant post, just brilliant from start to finish. The binmen used to call for me when I was little and I was allowed to go with them. They would prop me up on the front seat and I could do the rounds with them. When we got back my mum used to give them a cup of tea and cakes.menopausalmusinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12255069917743230560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630924445657816001.post-83434437104802615382012-10-04T18:54:49.586+01:002012-10-04T18:54:49.586+01:00I read that book to my Son every night for a year,...I read that book to my Son every night for a year, twenty odd years ago. Happy times.The Cookie Jarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04415838664790425668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630924445657816001.post-19469496087848277682012-10-04T16:04:15.633+01:002012-10-04T16:04:15.633+01:00Goodness, I remember that book. I think my cousin ...Goodness, I remember that book. I think my cousin had a copy. Dartford Warblerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04352965211143836326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630924445657816001.post-5670899919506637262012-10-04T15:44:04.398+01:002012-10-04T15:44:04.398+01:00Because he was a grown up it was almost as though ...Because he was a grown up it was almost as though he knew better than me what my name was. I didn't much like being teased but I was getting attention!Lucillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14414527658216916537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630924445657816001.post-8553508793500935012012-10-04T15:41:55.114+01:002012-10-04T15:41:55.114+01:00Tootles the Taxi first pub.1956, Rev. Awdry starte...Tootles the Taxi first pub.1956, Rev. Awdry started in 1945. See also interesting post and comments here: http://ageofuncertainty.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/plagiarism-or-coincidence.htmlLucillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14414527658216916537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630924445657816001.post-70527747207077653382012-10-04T13:08:48.164+01:002012-10-04T13:08:48.164+01:00What a lovely, nostalgic post, Lucinda. (Still fla...What a lovely, nostalgic post, Lucinda. (Still flattering and worrying?) I was always cross that I narrowly missed the tin trunk era. Misehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01784548726623938608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630924445657816001.post-25550867354219288412012-10-04T12:57:46.040+01:002012-10-04T12:57:46.040+01:00Those faces on the vehicle illustrations put me in...Those faces on the vehicle illustrations put me in mind of "Thomas the Tank Engine". Do you know if they were they closely contemporaneous?JofIndiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05091187070268922483noreply@blogger.com