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<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 26 January 2008 - Volume 07<br>=========================================================================<br><br>From: Geoffrey Martin <<a href="mailto:geoffmartinis@mail.com">geoffmartinis@mail.com</a>> <br>
Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2008.01.25 (02) [E]<br><br>As with Ms Wilson, I learned this 'game' in Los Angeles (Santa Monica/<br>Venice in my case) in the 40s, but it had been passed to me from my<br>mother, a native of a largely Jewish suburb of New York City, AND my<br>
father, who grew up in exurban Boston to Irish parents. The girls in<br>my neighborhood were few and not game players, at least until we had<br>hit 14 years or so.<br>Geoff Martin<br><br>----------<br><br>From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Traditions<br><br>Welcome in our midst, Geoff!<br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br><br>----------<br><br>From: <span class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Tom Mc Rae</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:t.mcrae@uq.net.au">t.mcrae@uq.net.au</a>></span></span><br>
Subject: <span class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Traditions" 2008.01.26 (03) [E]</span><br><br><div><div>On 27/01/2008, at 3:42 AM, <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span> <span><<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Times;"> wrote:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:<span> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LL-L "Traditions" 2008.01.25 (02) [E<br></span></p></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
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You'll
be pleased to know Tom that the tradition is alive and well and
continues in our family at least! I shall be introducing my grand
daughter to it this May ( aged 13 months!) as soon as our fields are in
bloom with them.</div></span></blockquote></div>Delighted to learn that at least one old tradition is still on the go.<div>Dandelions, of course, served as our inaccurate clocks when the produced seed parachute balls we'd blow on</div>
<div>saying "one o' clock etc. At school we sang...</div><div>"When I'm playing down the lane and want to know the time.</div><div>I pick a dandelion clock and say this little rhyme.</div><div>'Fairy clock so light and gay,</div>
<div>Oh tell me , please, the time of day,</div><div>Before you fly away.'</div><div><br></div><div>BLOOOOOW"</div><br> <p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">Regards</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">Tom Mc Rae</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">Brisbane Australia</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">Oh Wad Some Power the Giftie Gie Us</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">Tae See Oorsel's as Ithers See Us</font></p>
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