Comments on: Modern Living http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2009/01/27/modern-living/ I am not a has-been. I am a will be. Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance Mon, 21 May 2012 14:18:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Magpie11 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2009/01/27/modern-living/#comment-20563 Magpie11 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:32:07 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=2311#comment-20563 Dance has been a passion for some considerable time....I specialise in English Folk Dance which has had huge influences all over.... I have heard it said that there were no jigs in Ireland before the English imported them...no evidence so I take it with a pinch of salt! Either way...the Irish have made them their own and in many styles. We do share Mumming as a tradition and a variety of other dances. Dance has been a passion for some considerable time….I specialise in English Folk Dance which has had huge influences all over…. I have heard it said that there were no jigs in Ireland before the English imported them…no evidence so I take it with a pinch of salt! Either way…the Irish have made them their own and in many styles.

We do share Mumming as a tradition and a variety of other dances.

]]> By: Grannymar http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2009/01/27/modern-living/#comment-20557 Grannymar Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:14:04 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=2311#comment-20557 Magpie, I don't remember ladies bras on garden bushes or a clothesline, it must have been TV. Mind you pants have appeared here a time or two! ;) Re the loo - If we had a problem 'starting' mammy turned on the water tap! I am amazed at how much you know about 'Dance' from different countries. Magpie,

I don’t remember ladies bras on garden bushes or a clothesline, it must have been TV. Mind you pants have appeared here a time or two! ;)

Re the loo - If we had a problem ’starting’ mammy turned on the water tap!

I am amazed at how much you know about ‘Dance’ from different countries.

]]> By: Magpie11 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2009/01/27/modern-living/#comment-20555 Magpie11 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:25:51 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=2311#comment-20555 Dance steps...I know that there is nowhere in the "English Speaking World" that has not got or has not had a tradition of step dancing of some sort..... even if it has been taken over by indigenous peoples or by the descendants of slaves. It's a fascinating subject....a lot of quadrilles in the West Indies have their origins in these Islands, particularly England and Ireland. The Masquerade dancing on Montserrat seems to have its origins in Ireland...all to do with migration from Ireland to Trinidad of Catholic Irish and thence to Montserrat (and Antigua) when the Brits took over Trinidad from the French and Spanish. The costumes echo mummers ragged costumes and the traditional drum accompaniment was played on a single headed shallow drum with a single beater! Does that not sound like a bodhran? OOps! I've gone off on one again...sorry Dance steps…I know that there is nowhere in the “English Speaking World” that has not got or has not had a tradition of step dancing of some sort….. even if it has been taken over by indigenous peoples or by the descendants of slaves. It’s a fascinating subject….a lot of quadrilles in the West Indies have their origins in these Islands, particularly England and Ireland. The Masquerade dancing on Montserrat seems to have its origins in Ireland…all to do with migration from Ireland to Trinidad of Catholic Irish and thence to Montserrat (and Antigua) when the Brits took over Trinidad from the French and Spanish.

The costumes echo mummers ragged costumes and the traditional drum accompaniment was played on a single headed shallow drum with a single beater! Does that not sound like a bodhran?

OOps! I’ve gone off on one again…sorry

]]> By: Magpie11 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2009/01/27/modern-living/#comment-20553 Magpie11 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:03:41 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=2311#comment-20553 My sister would never have done anything so helpful for me...anyway it was a sit down teatime and my mother was at the table with us. We had cooked breakfast, school dinner and tea. Ladies undies...I don't know where it was but I saw a picture of this bush and then one of electricity lines with those two cupped items on! probably on TV As for loos...various buildings down the garden...and if you "Couldn't go" you got put into an airing cupboard to warm up! Odd! My sister would never have done anything so helpful for me…anyway it was a sit down teatime and my mother was at the table with us. We had cooked breakfast, school dinner and tea.

Ladies undies…I don’t know where it was but I saw a picture of this bush and then one of electricity lines with those two cupped items on!
probably on TV

As for loos…various buildings down the garden…and if you “Couldn’t go” you got put into an airing cupboard to warm up! Odd!

]]> By: Grannymar http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2009/01/27/modern-living/#comment-20540 Grannymar Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:45:11 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=2311#comment-20540 Lily, Come in and take off your coat! Our hall-stand was a wedding present given to my mother and father back in 1941. I think my sister still has it somewhere. Lily,

Come in and take off your coat!

Our hall-stand was a wedding present given to my mother and father back in 1941. I think my sister still has it somewhere.

]]> By: lilinator http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2009/01/27/modern-living/#comment-20539 lilinator Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:37:26 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=2311#comment-20539 We still have the hall-stand exactly as you describe, with hooks and the hinged box in the middle. As I keep saying - nothing changes! We still have the hall-stand exactly as you describe, with hooks and the hinged box in the middle. As I keep saying - nothing changes!

]]> By: Grannymar http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2009/01/27/modern-living/#comment-20538 Grannymar Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:37:02 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=2311#comment-20538 Steph, Nowadays you would not slip through a hedge to go home during school hours. Security is so tight and everyone is worried about political correctness.... I often wonder when children are ever to learn about life in the real world. Steph,

Nowadays you would not slip through a hedge to go home during school hours. Security is so tight and everyone is worried about political correctness…. I often wonder when children are ever to learn about life in the real world.

]]> By: steph http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2009/01/27/modern-living/#comment-20537 steph Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:21:44 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=2311#comment-20537 Grannymar, My junior school was next door to our house. In our final years there, my twin brother and I used to sometimes sneak through the hedge at break time to go home for a pee and a biscuit. Our mother was out at work in the mornings and never knew. We'd have been in BIG TROUBLE if anyone had ever found out! Whenever we were sick at home, it was always great entertainment watching our friends play in the school playground, from our bedroom windows :D Grannymar,

My junior school was next door to our house.

In our final years there, my twin brother and I used to sometimes sneak through the hedge at break time to go home for a pee and a biscuit. Our mother was out at work in the mornings and never knew.

We’d have been in BIG TROUBLE if anyone had ever found out!

Whenever we were sick at home, it was always great entertainment watching our friends play in the school playground, from our bedroom windows :D

]]> By: Grannymar http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2009/01/27/modern-living/#comment-20536 Grannymar Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:16:08 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=2311#comment-20536 Magpie, Why didn't you swop bread slices with your sister? Maybe all these dance steps started as a means to keep warm in our cold climates! Lines of Ladies Undies? I think you need to elaborate. :roll: Magpie,

Why didn’t you swop bread slices with your sister?

Maybe all these dance steps started as a means to keep warm in our cold climates!

Lines of Ladies Undies? I think you need to elaborate. :roll:

]]> By: Magpie11 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2009/01/27/modern-living/#comment-20535 Magpie11 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:05:19 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=2311#comment-20535 Oh I forgot...where is the place where they hang certain articles of ladies underwear on the lines or on bushes? Oh I forgot…where is the place where they hang certain articles of ladies underwear on the lines or on bushes?

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