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