Jul 17, 2011

Sepia Saturday

Even though it is now Sunday, here's one of the few surviving pictures of Little FTSE before the limericks got the better of him and other aspects of the human condition (see picture on the post below this one) began to absorb his interest.
Pic was taken before he started school, in the back garden of the house where FTSE first made his appearance. Baby Carriages (they aren't "prams" any more) like that one now cost about £2000. The sycamores bending to the prevailing wind have gone. The field beyond is now built over, so no longer smells of manure, so the flies are fewer. He's probably laughing heartily because Twin Brother has climbed onto the roof and can't get down, or has emptied a tin of paint over himself, or something. 
When we were a bit older, one of our hobbies was making up silly words(*) to well known tunes such as the "Music While You Work" signature tune, "Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond" etc, but he's not going to tell you what they were.  That's probably where the limericks started.
Can't you just see that he was going to grow up to be VERY SILLY?


(*) A trait which later destroyed FTSE's enjoyment of the lovely slow movement of Beethoven's 7th symphony. Helpless in the grip of his mania for Being Very Silly, he added a scatological lyric - some of it in cod-German - that would have raised Ludwig's eyebrows.

There are lots more Sepia Saturday pictures HERE

18 comments:

  1. Your link to me to your previous post and at first I thought - OK it is Sepia (perhaps I had to click and enlarge it just to make sure). But then I found the correct link and thought "I had a pram like that" Which is probably a silly reaction - but I would imagine that you would quite appreciate that.

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  2. I did the same as Alan. I love that cheeky grin - and the perambulator!

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  3. Yes, a sense of humor can easily be seen in those twinkling eyes. Very, very cute.

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  4. Grew up to be a silly member of Parliament in charge of silly things?

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  5. If your brother had a similar look on his face, I can only imagine the life your mother must have had.

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  6. you look sad and burdened in that pic. really, really sad. it breaks my heart!!
    ;)~
    HUGZ

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  8. This was/is a great post and a great read.

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  9. It's the first baby pic, other than one of me, that I've ever seen which shows bags under the eyes in one so young!!!
    Perhaps bags are a given for those who have a merry twinkle from birth...

    (WV was 'hunhed'. How did Blogger know I was a war baby?)

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  10. Bags under the eyes, J. I'd probably been drinking
    But what's this (WV was'hunhed') about. Have you been drinking as well?

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  11. That looks like some of my baby pictures.

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  12. What a cute baby you were. Loved the description of your home environs and the changes.

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  13. Better late than never. V W = word verification &
    hunhed? Wartime Brits called Germans Huns... And hed, as any fule do kno is dat fing wot sitz on yer nek...

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  14. Or even W V = word verification - dyslexia again...

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  15. Jinksy . . Thanks for the clarification. "VW" made the pram, I do believe.

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Thank you for stopping by. To make life easier for you I have turned off the new indecipherable and time-wasting verification words. Would you care to "feedback" to Blogger and complain about them, like I did?