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Dec 10, 2010 at 8:08 pm #1266466
I will be giving 2 lucky people free pairs of GooseFeet Down Socks.
Will it be you?? Nope!
In the spirit of the season, I would like for you to tell me about someone you know that could really use a pair of GooseFeet. Please describe who they are, and why they could REALLY use these socks this winter. You are on your honor that you will not be describing yourself.
Just reply to this forum post with your entry (limited to one per person).
The community here at BPL will vote for the 2 winners on Friday, December 17th.
I will send the givers the pairs of socks for him or her to give as a gift to the winner.
Thanks and Merry Christmas!
– Ben Smith
GooseFeetDec 10, 2010 at 8:37 pm #1673102
josh wagnerMember
my buddy i hike/hammock with. he supports himself, his 2 kids, and his wife on his steel mill salary. they spend all their money on their kids for christmas so him and his wife don't get each other anything. the dude works his ass off and doesn't get a christmas present??? i bought him a down sweater that someone sold me here at a great price (to support my buddy). he can't afford great gear by any means.
how about you keeping his feet toasty with the best down boots available???
edited: what a cool man you are for doing this for 2 lucky people…Dec 10, 2010 at 8:38 pm #1673103
Weiyi WangSpectator
@wwyjediLocale: mid
I would love to give a pair of warm down socks to my wife. She always has cold feet, even with wool slipper. I warm her cold feet every night (both at home and on trail) with my belly in bed. I love to see her comforting smile.Dec 10, 2010 at 11:14 pm #1673138
I am writing this for my father. He 59, my hero, and has stage 4 colon cancer with peritoneal (membrane that forms the lining of the abdominal wall) implants. My dad is in the middle of intensive chemotherapy. Besides feeling sick from the chemo, it causes another rough side effect called peripheral neuropathy. Basically, when his extremities are exposed to, or are cold, they go numb. His toes, feet, and fingers feel numbness, tingling, and the sensation of pins and needles. He has to always wear gloves, socks, ect. Even with socks and shoes/slippers, he is often complaining about his feet being numb, and feeling unstable walking cause he can't feel them.
I believe that the GooseFeet would greatly improve my father's comfort and spirits while going through this tough treatment for a horrible disease.
I look forward to reading the other entries. Thanks for your consideration.Dec 11, 2010 at 6:37 am #1673164
Ken LarsonBPL Member
@kenlarsonLocale: Western Michigan
After two stem cell transplant treatments for my multiply myeloma cancer I can verify ALL that Aaron has said concerning his dads physical repercussions from his chemo treatment….neuropathy and cold feet do to his RBC count being suppressed that are the most noticeable and definitely irritating. While the GooseFeet will not suppress the neuropathy, they will definitely help with the cold feet and moral spirits….I used Feathered Friends inner down booties since the GooseFeet Company was not yet established.
"Don't be pushed by your problems. Be lead by your dreams."Dec 12, 2010 at 10:37 am #1673531
Michael WilliamsMember
@mlebwillLocale: Colorado
Well shoot. There is a nice guy who has been very kind to my family. I was thinking about writing up some stuff about him, but after reading about Aaron's Dad, I don't want to.
My vote would be for Aaron's Dad. I really hope he gets them and my best wishes are with you Aaron.
MikeDec 12, 2010 at 6:26 pm #1673665
Mary DBPL Member
@hikinggrannyLocale: Gateway to Columbia River Gorge
Another vote here for Aaron's dad!Dec 12, 2010 at 6:31 pm #1673667
It's not December 17th yet, folks!Dec 12, 2010 at 6:40 pm #1673672
Jim ColtenBPL Member
@jcoltenLocale: MN
Another vote here for Aaron's dad!
Ditto that!Dec 12, 2010 at 7:13 pm #1673676
Jeffs ElevenBPL Member
@woodenwizardLocale: NePo
People are ruining giveaways.
(sorry… I think about that thread title ALL the time…)
{:)Dec 12, 2010 at 8:22 pm #1673701
Javan DempseyMember
@jdempseyLocale: The-Stateless-Society
Well since Aaron's dad obviously deserves one pair, I'll nominate my alter-ego "El Javan(pronounced with an H sound for the J, a-la spanish!)", as someone who obviously doesn't deserve booties, but definitely still has a "pair"!
No seriously, that guy is an a-hole, don't trust 'em, dopplegangers with accents aren't cool, they're just wierd. WTF guy!#@?Dec 12, 2010 at 8:55 pm #1673710
All of y'all are amazing. Thank you so much for the support, and voting for my father (even though its early voting). Its means a lot to me. What a great community we have here. I am relatively new, but have read quite a bit and learned so much.Dec 12, 2010 at 11:07 pm #1673733
Nick TruaxBPL Member
@nicktruaxLocale: SW Montana
… for Aaron's pops. He definitely has my vote! All the best to you and your Dad, Aaron.Dec 13, 2010 at 8:20 am #1673799
John McSpectator
@hairlessapeLocale: PNW
My 21 year old cat used to frolic in the the backyard snow, but now his feet are to tender and cold. I set of down boots might solve his problem.
It'll be impossible to come up with a more deserving person then Aaron's dad…..for at least one pair.Dec 13, 2010 at 3:14 pm #1673941
B PhanMember
I agree, Aaron's dad should get a pair. I'd like to nominate my mom for the second pair, if I may. She takes care of my dad 24/7, who is nearly paralyzed after coping with Parkinson's disease for over 20 years. She herself is getting up there in years and is a tiny person, hence always cold. This summer when it was 90 degrees outside, she was wearing a wool turtleneck. And she knits copious amounts of scarves for my dad and herself. My dad sweats all the time because my mom thinks he must be as cold as she is! Perhaps keeping her warmer will help him stay cooler.Dec 13, 2010 at 3:33 pm #1673950
Samuel KauSpectator
@skauLocale: Southern California
another vote for Aaron's dad!Dec 13, 2010 at 7:25 pm #1674034
Peter LongobardiBPL Member
@paintplongoLocale: Hopefully on the Trail
Aaron's dad, without a doubt. Best Wishes, enjoy your time together!Dec 16, 2010 at 1:21 pm #1674784
Last day to nominate people for the giveaway!Dec 16, 2010 at 2:13 pm #1674803
eric chanBPL Member
id like to nominate my dad … he's getting to the point where he's getting real old and cranky, the asian bruce lee slippers just don't do it anymore … normally id get him some fuzzy fur lined slippers, but i don't believe in slaughtering cute animals to keep one's feet warm … ive also thought about polartec or primaloft, but then it comes from petrol, and we all know that using petrol kills cute fuzzy white bears …
so the only thing left is down … some poofy down socks would reduce the crankiness and makes sure im in his will … as a bonus if you send us the entire goose, i promise that we wont waste any of it … making peking duck we'll use everything
thanks!!!Dec 17, 2010 at 8:23 am #1675040
OK people, I'm going to make the executive decision to give one pair to Aaron's dad. For the other pair, I need people to send me a PM with your vote. At the end of the day (or tomorrow morning), I will announce the winner of the second pair of socks.
Thanks for your participation, and Merry Christmas!
– Ben SmithDec 17, 2010 at 6:37 pm #1675228
Any more last minute votes?Dec 18, 2010 at 11:18 am #1675387
There was a tie between B Phan and Josh Wagner, so both of them get a pair!
Aaron, Josh, and B Phan please contact me at goosefeet AT hotmail DOT com to let me know sizes, colors, down fill, and address.
If your nomination was not chosen, you can still order from now until Monday and you will get a 10% discount.
Thanks to everyone for participating! There will be another contest in mid January, so be watching for that!
– Ben SmithDec 18, 2010 at 12:30 pm #1675403
josh wagnerMember
pretty awesome of you brosef. i'm extremely grateful for my buddy. contact info comingDec 18, 2010 at 1:52 pm #1675433
Thank you so much Ben. My pops will be so happy with warm toes. Emailing you the info now.Dec 18, 2010 at 2:23 pm #1675443
Mary DBPL Member
@hikinggrannyLocale: Gateway to Columbia River Gorge
I didn't vote for the second recipient because I couldn't decide between B Phan and Josh Wagner! What a generous decision!
Kudos to you, Ben, for making the holidays happier for these folks, and also for producing a great product! Merry Christmas!
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Dec 5, 2013 at 12:30 am #1310603
The founding principle of all libertarian philosophy and the moral justification for anarchy.
What is chaff's opinion on this?Dec 5, 2013 at 4:50 pm #2051257
I think it's a fine idea but the first serious doubt I have about its implementation is whether or not technological/industrial civilization of this scale is even possible without aggression towards/exploitation of other people and/or their property.Dec 5, 2013 at 4:56 pm #2051263
Libertarians create all these terms, very complicated.
I'm for non-aggresion, but I don't see that as a justification for not paying your taxes.
Interesting about the conflict over specific issues like religion or abortion.Dec 5, 2013 at 5:14 pm #2051276
Another quick question I'll throw in concerns property rights. NAP obviously hinges pretty heavily on the concept of private property. Inconvenient fact, but most of the private property of this world has been secured through aggression of some sort against someone and it continues to go that way.
So when it comes to the legitimacy of private property, how many generation back do you want to extend NAP principles?
When it comes to the defense of "private property", it's quite easy to say history is history when your culture/civilization happens to be the victor.Dec 5, 2013 at 5:17 pm #2051279
I have sympathies towards sociocollective-anarchists, particularly those who're lgtbq and/or of color. They're aware the system has failed them utterly, and they mostly focus on taking care of their own, avoiding engageing with power structures as much as possible. They have no illusions of their communities formenting a wider revolution, nor do they want such a thing (sometimes the white ones are more aggressively anarcho-communist, but they also tend to be shitheads, so.). Libertarian anarchists dream of a law-free, gun-filled, yet inexplicably peaceful privately-owned wonderland for all, a notion that is laughable at every possible level.Dec 5, 2013 at 5:23 pm #2051281
Interesting. According to my attached link, 6 million children are abused in some way every year here in the U.S. How would this be resolved in a stateless society which has adopted the NAP? Would the abuser go to jail? If so, what if they said no?Dec 5, 2013 at 7:10 pm #2051331
Tom KirchnerBPL Member
@ouzelLocale: Pacific Northwest/Sierra
"According to my attached link, 6 million children are abused in some way every year here in the U.S. How would this be resolved in a stateless society which has adopted the NAP?"
Why, that kind of behavior would disappear in a stateless paradise. Everybody knows the only reason people abuse defenseless children is because of the pressures and frustrations of living in a modern, high speed, technologically driven society where everybody feels alienated and disconnected from their fellow man. They're just looking for luv and affection, Ian. You're just afraid your job would disappear. ;0) ;o)Dec 5, 2013 at 7:11 pm #2051332
To be clear, I'm not an anarchist. I just find anarchist/capitalist philosophy to be fascinating. I find it very difficult to argue against the non aggression principle from a moral standpoint. The argument that any form of government is inherently violent, because it uses violent physical force against those who disobey a mandate, is a sound argument.
"sociocollective-anarchists" sounds like an oxymoron unless it's voluntary. That's the whole point of anarchy… voluntary association allows people to associate in whatever way they want, be it a collective society or a free market society.
In response to Ian, I don't have a good answer for that. However I will say that many minarchists have argued that one of the few legitimate functions of government (besides protection against aggression, protection of property, protection of liberties, enforcement of contracts, ect.) is to protect children from harm and abuse.Dec 5, 2013 at 7:22 pm #2051340
If children are property, parents are free to abuse them with impunity, and defend (or not) their property from outside adults. Property rights doncha know.Dec 5, 2013 at 7:28 pm #2051343
I've never heard an anarchist argue that children are property. I suppose in a stateless society if someone abused their child and their local community disapproved of it, they could get together and forcefully take custody of that child. (self defense of your liberty, or the defense of another persons liberty is not aggression, assuming a child is consider an individual with rights)Dec 5, 2013 at 7:34 pm #2051347
Of course it's voluntary. People who're systemically oppressed by society freely decide to minimize engagement with said society and live collectively or in a mutually accountable community and make decisions by consensus. Not saying it works particularly well all the time; in fact I have seen problems with abusers and failures of community justice, albeit with rape and domestic violence instead of child abuse. In many ways it just replicates larger society right down to the problems, but in some ways it works better for the participants than "normal" living.
Edit: the children as property thing was (slightly) tongue in cheek.Dec 5, 2013 at 8:17 pm #2051377
"The argument that any form of government is inherently violent, because it uses violent physical force against those who disobey a mandate, is a sound argument."
I agree with this to an extent, but I would take it one step further to say that all forms of large scale human civilizations are inherently violent, because they require a locally unsustainable level of resources (and often labor) to make them possible, forcing them to push outward (or exploit classes within).
The Hadza of Tanzania are a pretty good example that illustrate people living in a truly communal, collective, and relatively nonviolent society. I don't think that it's any accident that they typically limit themselves to bands of a few dozen people and that they're self-reliant hunter gatherers.
There seems to be threshold in human societies at which the trouble starts- too many people to support, too many people to work together, and too many resources required to sustain a sedentary group…and the conquests and wars begin. The magic number seems to be pretty low if you study cultural anthropology and hunter-gatherer societies.
I think that anarcho-primitivists put forth the most cogent critique in this regard.
(I believe this belief of mine led someone to call me the Unabomber in an old thread!)
The problem is, there's not much of a solution if civilization itself is the root of so much of the mass exploitation and violence we see in this world.Dec 5, 2013 at 8:20 pm #2051380
There's a lot about the libertarian philosophy that I really like. There are far too many people in prison. I don't think homosexuals or polygamists should be precluded from marriage. I think the federal government is far too big and many of the programs should be handled at the state level. I think we've taken deficit spending too far. I think we need to stop trying to play the world's 911 service. I think the death penalty is barbaric.
But then I listen to that video and really get a sense that there is a lot of arm chair politicking going on and some of the proposed ideas are impractical and illogical. I'm not in a position to say he's wrong but there wasn't anything in that video that would convince me he's right.Dec 6, 2013 at 7:12 am #2051470
Jennifer MitolBPL Member
@jenmitolLocale: In my dreams....
I agree that in principle, there is a lot to like about libertarianism. The problem comes in when your rights interfere with my rights. Then who wins?
If you want to smoke, great. What if I don't want to breathe your carcinogens?
You don't want to vaccinate your kids, great. What if your kid's germs infect my child with a deadly disease?
If you want to shoot a gun on your property, great. But what if that bullet hits me on my property?
You don't want to wear a seatbelt or helmet? I honestly don't care, until you ask me and my tax dollars to support your disabled a$$ after your accident.
Kind of reminds me of the cliche "you're right to swing your arm ends at my face."
So what do we do about that? In a large society that's why we have laws and regulations…to ATTEMPT to delineate my rights and yours, and to keep you from infringing on mine. I don't think anarchists nor libertarians have come up with good answers to this.Dec 6, 2013 at 7:44 am #2051477
Conservatives or libertarians are good for keeping the liberals or progressives in line.
Don't do "feel good" programs that are expensive and not effective.
And vice versa.
But the current "do anything to make Obama unsuccessful" policy is going overboard
And both political parties have been corrupted by the huge amounts of money that has bought our governmentDec 6, 2013 at 9:33 am #2051514
Sarah KirkconnellBPL Member
@sarbarLocale: In the shadow of Mt. Rainier
Two words that show why regulation can be a good thing:
Chinese Smog.Dec 6, 2013 at 11:29 am #2051543
Ben 2 WorldBPL Member
@ben2worldLocale: So Cal
Humans need good laws and norms both to inspire and to protect. The worst abuses happen when folks try to create 'paradise on Earth'. Be it Christendom, Sharia, rabidly secular Communism, or some sort of fantasy 'lawless freedom'.Dec 6, 2013 at 5:15 pm #2051664
Jennifer MitolBPL Member
@jenmitolLocale: In my dreams....
Oh now c'mon Sarah…if you try to stop all that smog spewing you'll be a job killer!!Dec 6, 2013 at 5:51 pm #2051669
That smog doesn't hurt anyone, there's a group that does research that shows it's harmless, don't worry about it…Dec 6, 2013 at 6:29 pm #2051682
Ken MillerMember
@powderpiggyLocale: Colorado
I wonder how much of their pollution is subsidized by US solar panel rebates?Dec 27, 2013 at 6:22 pm #2058051
Hi Justin,
After watching the video you provided a link to in the OP, I stumbled upon a YouTube celebrity by the name of Stefan Molyneux. Since then I've listened to several of his podcasts and videos to better understand his libertarian philosophy.
I honestly enjoy listening to him and I think he's appropriately critical of wars, the American imprisonment binge, and laws that protect large corporations and further the exploitation of the poor. Unfortunately he has done little to change my opinion of libertarianism because he constantly talks about how he has empirical evidence and historical references to support his belief that widespread adoption of libertarian principles will solve these problems but then fails to provide them.
He has many thousands of hours of videos and podcasts and I'm rapidly losing interest in listening to any more to see if he'll ever deliver the goods but just wanted to give you some feedback.
Edit to add: While I don't agree with him down the line, I will give Molyneux his due as he does provide the sources for his research in the link below his YT videos.Dec 27, 2013 at 6:35 pm #2058055
Marko BotsarisBPL Member
@millonasLocale: Santa Cruz Mountains, CA
OK, since I seem to have gotten myself into (or been gotten into) a very churlish mood, I will just say this …
Why is it that people who are super-into-love-at-first-sight over Ayn Rand are, at least in my experience, always the ones who have barely read another political philosopher in their life, either before or after?
Now that I have launched a ping-pong ball in a room full of cats, I think I better go eat something. I'm in a seriously mean mood, either because I wasted the last few hours, or because I need food.
More likely I really *am* just a mean person.Dec 27, 2013 at 6:54 pm #2058061
Have a nice weekend sunshine:)Dec 29, 2013 at 4:21 pm #2058611
Why I fled libertarianism — and became a liberal
For the record and if there was any doubt, I'm not a liberal by the sad contemporary political definition but I appreciate this article.Dec 29, 2013 at 4:34 pm #2058622
Ahhh… Ian is another secret liberal like Doug : )
One thing about Libertarians/Tea Party, as long as they're out of power and agreeing to disagree with what's happening currently, they're okay. But if, hypothetically, they were in power, they would not agree on what to do and the whole thing would collapse.
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This chapter tells of Peter's arrival in Pears Road, gives information about his adoptive family, and their history -
and describes how Peter slowly adapts to his new life in the setting of the early fifties.
© Copyright Peter Crawford 2012
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© Copyright Peter Crawford 2012
'Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come...'
|The young Kahlil Gibran
'In the Beginning' - Well, what else could we call the chapter ?
How our Peter really began, or exactly where he came from, for most people is a now a mystery.
As Kahlil Gibran (see left), a poet often quoted by those who wish to sound profound when saying nothing, wrote,
'Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things - Life, and all that lives is conceived in the mist and not in the crystal !'.
Well in Peter's case this is undoubtedly true, and like some mythic hero he springs into the world fully formed, with no conception or gestation; no father or mother.
John Stokes, of course, knew where Peter really came from, but he would never tell.
John Stokes, of course, knew where Peter really came from, but he would never tell.
And now he is dead.
There was probably a time when some people could have explained what had happened, but by now all those people are certainly dead. Perhaps there are some yellowing pieces of paper in some file tucked away in some cabinet in some archive - but that's unlikely.
From the present perspective it seems that Peter just appeared.
There was a birth certificate, but this was issued in 1950, and Peter was born in 1946
This certificate was issued at Brentford Magistrates Court (see right), gave the name of the child as Peter Crawford, the son of John Stokes Crawford and Jane Crawford, who was born on the 31st December 1946 but, of course, he was not the real son of John Stokes Crawford and Jane Crawford, and he was not born on 31st December 1946.
And what are the first memories to which Peter will admit ?
They are of huge, silent, empty, white rooms, and a big white rocking horse - beautifully painted, which only Peter used.
Now this could be described as a 'false memory', or a 'screen memory' - but that may not be so.
It is a memory that Peter had from his earliest days, and Peter sometimes wondered if it was a real memory of if perhaps the real memories were blocked out.
If we are prepared to believe in the existence of the soul, then there is the possibility that it comes into being at conception or birth. It is also possible, however, that if the soul in fact exists, then it may have some pre-existence.
To quote Longfellow, 'we come trailing clouds of glory'.
Perhaps these large, white empty rooms are all that a child's mind can make of that other place, 'before the beginning' (see video above) - a place to which we may also return ?
And there is one other memory that Peter is prepared to recount.
It is not a cold, empty memory, like that of the white rooms, but a joyful memory.
It is on a hill, covered in grass and purple heather, and there is a beautiful red sunrise, or sunset, and Peter is with a group of other children - the 'lost boys' perhaps ? The children are all happy and beautiful, and very young, and they are walking purposefully toward the brow of the hill, and toward the glowing, red and purple clouds.
And then there is a journey by a green train, with two people that Peter didn't know, which ends up in a 'living-room' in a strange house, and a nice meal.
Peter's 'adoption', as far as we can ascertain, took place in 1949, so Peter's childhood took place in the nineteen fifties, in a London suburb called Hounslow, near Heathrow Airport (see left), (which was at that time just emerging from its wartime guise as a military airfield, to become an international airport), - and Peter was adopted by a couple called Mr & Mrs Crawford.
|Jane and John Crawford
(early fifties)
Their wartime experiences undoubtedly caused them some significant emotional scarring, but in nineteen fifty, like so many relatively young people who had survived the war, they were hoping to start a new life in, what was for them, a safe and peaceful, post-war world.
But the world, that to our Peter seemed perfectly normal, was a world that had been traumatized by years of war, and almost all the adults in that world had been equally traumatized.
|London Blitz
'Nine eleven' (remember?) may have traumatized many people, both in New York, and in many other parts of the world, but what we must imagine was a 'nine-eleven' almost every day for years on end, culminating in the London Blitz , the 'firestorms' of Dresden and Berlin, and the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
And on a lesser scale it was a world, for many years after that war, haunted by rationing, 'make-do-and-mend', and bomb-sites.
|London Blitz
So the people who had decided to look after Peter, even although they had survived the war, were not like the adults of today.
They had seen things and done things that most of us now would find hard to imagine, and hard to 'stomach', and had been forced to go through years of privation, danger and seemingly endless waiting.
So the peace was, to those people, very precious.
Something that they had been barely able to hope for.
Something that they had been barely able to hope for.
They were, for the most part, committed to make a better world for their children, but they would always be somehow disconnected and remote from those young people.
Their experiences, about which they found it almost impossible to talk, would always separate them from those who grew up with no direct experience of the horrors and anxiety of war.
But who were these people - Jane and John Crawford ?
Of Peter's grandparents he only knew one.
|Richard Walker Snr.
This was 'Granddad'; his adoptive mother's father. 'Granddad's' real name was Richard Walker, a master plumber & foreman of a small private company.
Strictly speaking he was a Victorian, having been born in 1876 in Edinburgh.
His work was one of the high technologies of the Victorian era, & his background could be found in the milieu which spawned many of those technologies; namely Scottish Presbyterianism,
Although fond of his whisky, he was, moreover, committed to hard work & the pursuit of a respectable & good living which would grant him independence & the respect of his peers.
For him, as for most people during the Victorian & Edwardian eras, with the exception of the upper classes, leisure was a rare commodity, taken, mainly for the children's sake at Christmas, Easter & Bank Holiday.
It was a precept of the Protestant Work Ethic that work, & success through work, were justified means for salvation.
That Satan made work for idle hands & that to work hard, bring up your family & leave them with a skill, a trade or a business so that they could follow in your footsteps, was a man's privilege & duty. The concept of working to finance periods of leisure & 'having fun' was totally alien to 'Granddad's' generation.
Although rather simply stated here, this attitude & philosophy was dominant among the lower classes during the decades around the turn of the century.
When, inevitably, the Great War (see left and below) came, it undoubtedly shook the foundations of these working class values, although not to the extent that it effected political, intellectual & aesthetic endeavours.
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Returning soldiers demanded 'Homes fit for Heroes' & there was even a General Strike in 1926 (see right), but still, as a result of education, the influence of the churches &, in many cases their own convictions, the majority of workers & small entrepreneurs continued to live by the values of the previous generation.
|St Cuthbert's RC Church - Felling
|Jane Walker Snr.
'Granddad's' wife, Peter's adoptive 'grandmother', Jane, was Roman Catholic, so their marriage, for that time, was unusual to say the least.
As was the custom, the children of the marriage were brought up as Catholics, which put an unfortunate barrier between Richard and his children.
When Richard Walker died in the nineteen sixties he converted to Catholicism on his deathbed, although as he was convinced during his final illness that he had won the Football Pools, and had taken to reading the newspaper upside down, this decision seems to have more to do with his rabidly Catholic daughter Mary, who was nursing him, rather than any rational deliberations or spiritual awakening on his part.
The eldest child of Richard and Jane Walker was Margaret, always known as Maggie.
The next was Richard, the only son.
Then came Mary, and finally Peter's adoptive mother.
Two years after little Jane was born her mother, Jane, died, and it was left to Maggie to bring up the family.
Richard never re-married, and the children undoubtedly missed the love and care that a mother could provide.
Richard never re-married, and the children undoubtedly missed the love and care that a mother could provide.
Peter's adoptive mother, being the youngest, and needing most care, was regularly farmed out to relatives, and most often to her great aunt, Sarah (see right), who lived in a huge apartment in Princes street, close to John Knox's house, in Edinburgh.
|Edinburgh - Carlton Hill
|Edinburgh - Arthur's Seat
Holidays were usually spent at the local coastal resorts of Cramond, Leith, Musselburgh or Port Seton, and on other occasions there were trips to Holyrood, the Castle and Arthur's Seat and the Royal Botanical Gardens.
Interestingly, our Peter met Great Aunt Sarah, his only Great Aunt when he was a little boy, probably about six years old.
Of course, Peter had no idea of who she was, and strangely nobody told him.
Jane, Peter's adoptive mother, deep down, thought of herself as being essentially Scottish, and in later life, after a few sherries, or whiskies at Hogmanay, she would become maudlin, and start singing sentimental Scottish ballads in between reminiscences of those far off days. Undoubtedly the most secure and stable times in her life were spent in the cultured air and tranquillity of Scotland's noble capital.
|Kaiser Wilhelm II
|John Crawford
Peter's adoptive father was born in Gateshead (see left), on the twenty-seventh of January 1906.
Oddly he shared his birthday with the German Kaiser Wilhelm II (see right).
Although he boasted a Scottish surname of the finest pedigree, his links with Scotland were far more tenuous than Jane's.
His father's name was Joseph Crawford, and his mother was called Jane.
The family was Protestant; Church of England, and this was to cause problems later on when he decided to marry.
|Jane Crawford Snr.
|Joseph Crawford
Jane, (yes, another Jane), Joe's wife, had five children.
The eldest was Richard, then came Ralph, then Winney, then Molly and finally John.
Wanting to provide the best for such a large brood, Jane quickly remarried.
He second husband was always referred to by John as Mr Wilkes.
It said much about the relationship between son and stepfather that no christian name was ever revealed.
It said much about the relationship between son and stepfather that no christian name was ever revealed.
Mr Wilkes died after a few years & Jane was once again on her own.
By then, however, the children were growing up.
For the first four years of John Crawford's life he was an Edwardian - difficult to believe but true.
The First Word War, (known at the time as 'The Great War'), started when John was eight years old and ended when he was twelve - so, he was a teenager in the Twenties - a teenager in the 'jazz-age' - the so-called 'Long Weekend'.
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The TWENTIES and THIRTIES
By then, however, the children were growing up.
|King-Emperor Edward VIII
For the first four years of John Crawford's life he was an Edwardian - difficult to believe but true.
The First Word War, (known at the time as 'The Great War'), started when John was eight years old and ended when he was twelve - so, he was a teenager in the Twenties - a teenager in the 'jazz-age' - the so-called 'Long Weekend'.
The Thirties, however, was effected by the Wall Street Crash, and the Subsequent Depression.
Northumberland - where Jane and John were by then young adults, was badly hit by the slump, and Richard and John Crawford found it difficult to find regular employment in the area.
The boys therefore moved out each Summer, and camped at Frenchman's Bay, and it was there that John Crawford met Jane Walker.
Northumberland - where Jane and John were by then young adults, was badly hit by the slump, and Richard and John Crawford found it difficult to find regular employment in the area.
|Hounslow High Street - 1937
In nineteen-thirty-seven, the year of the coronation of George VI, (see left) Jane and John were married in Felling, near Gateshead (see right).
They then travelled South, to benefit from the continuing economic recovery in the South East, and settled in Barrack Road in Hounslow, Middlesex, as John was stationed at the headquarters of the Army Southern Command in Hounslow barracks.
George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death. He was the last Emperor of India, and the first Head of the Commonwealth.
George VI's coronation took place on 12 May 1937, the date previously intended for Edward's coronation.
In a break with tradition, Queen Mary attended the ceremony in a show of support for her son.
There was no Durbar held in Delhi for George VI, as had occurred for his father, as the cost would have been a burden to the Government of India.
George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death. He was the last Emperor of India, and the first Head of the Commonwealth.
George VI's coronation took place on 12 May 1937, the date previously intended for Edward's coronation.
In a break with tradition, Queen Mary attended the ceremony in a show of support for her son.
There was no Durbar held in Delhi for George VI, as had occurred for his father, as the cost would have been a burden to the Government of India.
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The TWENTIES and THIRTIES
There's no time for us.
There's no place for us.
What is this thing that builds our dreams
And slips away from us ?
There's no chance for us.
Its all decided for us.
This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us !
Freddy Mercury
It was in an atmosphere of growing political gloom Jane and John began their life in their new home in Pears Road.
Inevitably they tried to shut out the horror of what might be, in the pursuance of a well ordered and pleasant life.
John had an excellent posting at the HQ Southern Command, and Jane kept house and did the odd part time job as an accountant.
They saved assiduously and carefully and, in the summer of 1937, they returned to Northumberland in order to see relatives and friends.
For them, at that time, it would have been a long and expensive journey.
Arriving at Newcastle station (see left), and then by taxi to Gateshead and Felling, however they could discretely show their new found 'Southern' affluence.
In 1938 Jane and John invited Jane's father, Richard Walker, and her sister, Mary and her husband John Faulkner to see their new home in Hounslow.
During this visit some of the few surviving photos of Richard Walker were taken by Jane and John, as Richard posed in front of Windsor Castle, and in Richmond Park.
|Richard Walker Senior
Richard (see right) undoubtedly enjoyed the visit, although he gave every indication of thoroughly disapproving of 'soft Southerners' whose morals were questionable, to say the least.
On one occasion in particular it he suggested going out for a drink.
The Tankerville Arms was close by, and so Jane and John prepared to go out. Richard was staggered, however, at the idea of Jane accompanying them to a Public House, and John had to explain that 'down South' it was quite acceptable for women to be seen in a 'pub', and he was not prepared to go out and leave his wife at home.
Of course 'Southern' pubs had 'Lounge Bars', which were unknown in the 'North'.
The Tankerville Arms was close by, and so Jane and John prepared to go out. Richard was staggered, however, at the idea of Jane accompanying them to a Public House, and John had to explain that 'down South' it was quite acceptable for women to be seen in a 'pub', and he was not prepared to go out and leave his wife at home.
Of course 'Southern' pubs had 'Lounge Bars', which were unknown in the 'North'.
Mary and John, not surprisingly, took the opposite view.
Photos of the time give the impression that they thoroughly enjoyed themselves; the generation gap has always existed to some extent in recent times.
|Windsor castle
In addition to such major events there were also regular visits to local beauty spots such as Windsor (see right), and areas by the Thames, such as Runnymead (see left) and Chertsey, Richmond park or Kew Gardens or various places of interest in London.
We, of course, know what the next two years would bring; they did not.
They could only guess, and this is another factor which makes the past so difficult to properly interpret and understand.
We always know, to some degree what is going to happen next, so for us their future is always casting a shadow on their present.
This, of course is not occurring for them, so our perception of them is radically different from their own self perception.
What would these particular characters in this story have done if they had had the knowledge that we now have of their future ?
Fascinating speculation perhaps, but of more importance to our story is the next event in the international drama being played out as John and Jane tuned in to the B.B.C in their new home in Pears Road, in Hounslow.
1938 was the year of the Anchluß.
Adolf Hitler, the Chancellor and Fürher of Germany had originally been born in Austria, and it was one of his many ambitions, for he was an ambitious man, to unite Germany and Austria into a 'Greater Germany'.
The Anchluß took place on the 12 th. March 1938.
|Arthur Seyss-Inquart
On the 13 th. of March, Arthur Seyss-Inquart (see left), later Gauleiter of the Östmark, issued a proclamation to that effect, signed by Hitler, at Linz.
The following, day Hitler entered Vienna in triumph, and four weeks later the people of Austria sanctioned the Anchluß by a plebiscite, which took place on the 10 th. April.
Austria had ceased to exist as an independent country, and was known from then until the end of the war as the Östmark; the Eastern province.
At this point the danger of war became palpable.
Did most people in England understand the significance of the Anchluß - unlikely.
Many would be only dimly aware of the geographical position of the Östmark.
John Crawford, however, certainly knew of the significance of the Anchluß, and realised that war was probably inevitable - and that he would have to play his part in it.
Did most people in England understand the significance of the Anchluß - unlikely.
Many would be only dimly aware of the geographical position of the Östmark.
John Crawford, however, certainly knew of the significance of the Anchluß, and realised that war was probably inevitable - and that he would have to play his part in it.
Air-raid shelters were dug in Inwood Park (see right), and gas-masks were issued (see left).
As if anticipating the worst, John and Jane decided to take an extravagant and memorable holiday.
In retrospect it looks suspiciously like 'one last fling'.
In retrospect it looks suspiciously like 'one last fling'.
In August, a mere five months after the Anchluß they bought a white painted, clap-boarded house boat engagingly called 'Puck'.
The house boat was moored at Horning, on the Norfolk Broads, and they spent a quiet holiday fishing, exploring in their little rowing boat and relaxing.
Today the Broads swarms with cabin cruisers and tourists, but then it was one of the quietest, most peaceful spots in the whole of the British Isles.
This was, maybe knowingly, John Crawford's farewell to England - and England that he loved dearly - and would never be the same after the whirlwind of war had uprooted some much - and not just lives and buildings, but values and traditions.
This was, maybe knowingly, John Crawford's farewell to England - and England that he loved dearly - and would never be the same after the whirlwind of war had uprooted some much - and not just lives and buildings, but values and traditions.
The Broads is a place that can reassure one of timeless values; calming the soul and relieving the many tensions of the day to day world.
And so - what did they do for a holiday in 1939 ? Nothing.
In 1939 most people in Britain thought war would bring the end of civilisation. It was their ultimate nightmare.
Their version of our nuclear holocaust, or more recently, ecological disaster.
Every age has this nightmare.
For the Ancient Teutons it was Götterdämerung (see left); for Saxon farmers, the Vikings emerging from the mists to lay waste to everything; for the pious of the Middle Ages the Second
Coming or the Black Death; for the Incas the arrival of Cortes (see right).
Every age has its ultimate fear.
In 1939 the ultimate fear for the British was the immediate arrival of thousands of bombers (see left), moments after the declaration of war, laying waste to every major city with millions of tons of high explosives, incendiaries and above all poisonous gasses, such as phosgene and mustard (see right).
Contemporary newspapers and magazines were full of articles advising people how to make their rooms gas-proof or how to deal with incendiaries, later endearingly nicknamed 'Firebomb Fritz' (see right) when the initial terror had decayed into mere routine.
|Fire Bomb Fritz
Whilst the average citizen was preoccupied with obtaining enough material for 'blackout curtains' or taping windows in order to reduce the effects of bomb blast, the government was panicking.
Top secret memoranda were drafted, detailing how it was believed that the population of major cities would dissolve into total panic and hysteria, after the first onslaught of bombing, flooding out of the metropolitan centres, causing havoc to the proposed mobilisation of the armed forces, and causing the collapse of essential industrial output and government communications.
The Government, at the time, saw only one way out of this appalling scenario, which was to turn on the civilian population and use the most violent means to regain order and control.
Such was the opinion of the British ruling class of the 'man in the street', and how wrong would the war prove this view to be; not only in 'blitzed' London, but also in Dresden, Berlin, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Such secret memos, however, were unknown to Mr and Mrs Crawford, and millions like them.
For most people Dresden meant china, and Nagasaki may well have been a character, a minor one undoubtedly, in the 'Mikado' or 'Chu Chin Chow' (see right).
For most people Dresden meant china, and Nagasaki may well have been a character, a minor one undoubtedly, in the 'Mikado' or 'Chu Chin Chow' (see right).
What John Cawford did know, however, thanks to a good deal of propaganda, was that this war was going to make the Great War look like a side show, and that thanks to 'Mr Hitler' (see left) their new life together was very uncertain.
The nightmare, however, contrary to everyone's expectations, did not come, despite the sirens sounding in London on that first September day of the Second World War.
Predictably, they were a false alarm, and symptomatic of much that was to follow, although Jane and John didn't realise that as they hurried down the narrow alley-way between Pears Road and Inwood Park, where they took cover in the public shelters which had been dug amid the peaceful flower beds and tennis courts.
Probably the main reason for the holocaust being delayed was because 'Mr Hitler' did not have thousands of bombers poised and ready to destroy the cities of England.
More significantly, perhaps, Hitler did not, and never had wanted war with Britain - he quite liked the English, despite having faught them in the 'Great War'.
With the benefit of hindsight, it seems that once appeasement had lost its appeal, the declaration of war by Britain upon Germany was just a continuation of Britain's manipulation of the balance of power in Europe.
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As if to confirm this, once war had been declared on the pretext of defending the sovereignty of Poland, no attempt was made by Britain to defend Poland by landing British troops, and ironically, one of the final results of the conflict was that Poland was taken over by the USSR. with Britain's tacit approval, despite Churchill's subsequent comments about the 'Iron Curtain' coming down over Europe.
At the time of the outbreak of war, John Stokes was at Headquarters, Southern Command, and on the night after war broke out, as John and Jane were recovering from their first experience of an air-raid shelter, there was an ominous knock at the door.
A Military Police motorcycle courier had brought a message that John was to report for duty immediately.
Thereafter there were many long night of work for John, as the ill-prepared army geared up for war.
It was probably about around 1940 John Stokes had to consider the possibility of being sent on active service.
It was September 1940 when Jane and John, for the second time, took a holiday in the tiny village of Wool, Dorset - a holiday which, for all they knew ,might have been their last holiday together.
And so, Jane and John, and John's mother, Jane, spent those days in Dorset, in the fading sunshine of Autumn, as the time of parting drew closer by the hour.
Eventually, a telegram was sent to Pears Road, shortly after Christmas, informing John Stokes Crawford, No 1757860, where and when he should join his unit.
John was sent to serve in Egypt.
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Meanwhile, Jane first returned to Felling (see left below), near Newcastle, presumably to avoid the bombing which was expected to completely devastate London.
Later, for reasons which will remain, for the moment, obscure, Jane returned to Hounslow, but then 'rented out', (let), the house in Pears Road, and went to live with her sister-in-law Gladys Crawford, in York Street, near Baker Street in London (see right - this was a street and a house that little Peter, who has not yet entered this story, was to get to know very well).
And York Street was not a safe place to live at the beginning of the war.
Two weeks into the 'Blitz', on 18 September 1940, at around 12.05am, the junction of Baker Street and York Street W1 was hit by a high explosive bomb (see left).
But all things - good and bad - eventually come to an end - and the second wr that jane and John had experienced ended in 1945 - the year before 'Our Peter' was born - somewhere............
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Nostalgia is now a burgeoning business. People look back with fondness and affection to past decades, particularly the 'Swinging Sixties', and it is easy to accuse someone of looking at the past through 'rose tinted spectacles'.
This is not always the case, however.
Life, for most of recorded history, (and probably even before that), has been hard, brutal and, for most people, short.
Wars, famines, illness and death were the common lot of all people, and people's place in society was generally fixed, and the chances for personal fulfilment few and far between.
John Crawford always viewed the latter part of the first decade of the last century, - the period of his boy-hood, - as well as the 'twenties and early 'thirties, as particularly unpleasant and hard times, and was always harshly critical of people who talked about 'the good old days'.
For, Peter, of course, the days of his boyhood and youth occurred in the 1950s.
Surprisingly, the nineteen-fifties, unlike the 'sixties' have not always been thought of with warm nostalgia.
Now there are basically two ways for someone who lived through the fifties to evaluate that decade.
The first way is to study all the relevant books, memoirs, films etc. from the perspective of the twenty-first century.
The second way is to go back in memory and view it as a lived and personal experience.
Now the first way has been undertaken by many writers, sociologists and historians, with varying degrees of success.
The second way of viewing the decade in question is obviously in no way objective, and the lived experience of the fifties is unique to the particular individual, and the area where they lived, among the people of a particular class and culture.
Some have depicted the Fifties as a decade of social and sexual repression, cultural sterility and political stagnation.
A gray, pinched time of rationing, shortages and the inevitable stiff upper lip.
Others, and particularly those viewing the decade from the American perspective, have seen it as a 'golden age'.
A gray, pinched time of rationing, shortages and the inevitable stiff upper lip.
Others, and particularly those viewing the decade from the American perspective, have seen it as a 'golden age'.
Andrew Marr, (see right) a contemporary chronicler of modern British history, has succinctly described England at that time as the 'Land of Lost Content', taking the beautifully elegiac turn of phrase from a poem by Alfred Edward Housman (see left). Strangely enough Housman was one of J M Barrie's favourite poets, (later Housman was one of 'our Peter's' favourite poets also), and the line in question came from one of Barrie's favourite poems from the collection 'A Shropshire Lad', published in 1896, - 'That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went, - and cannot come again.'
Another line by A E Housman, 'the lads that will never be old', has an eerie ring to it, because it not only elucidates much of Barrie's enigmatic character, and the mystery of Peter Pan, but also looks forward to the fates of George and Michael Llewellyn-Davies, who both knew the line, and the poem well.
But back to the fifties.
Undoubtedly, in many ways it was a 'golden age', coming as it did after the carnage and misery of the war, and before the social disintegration of the late sixties and seventies, and the complete denial of society which occurred in the eighties and nineties.
For our Peter it was an oasis of calm, of security and of tranquillity, - but of course that is from a child's perspective, and probably many of the more unpleasant aspects of Peter's experience of that time have been conveniently filtered out.
While it was not such a secure era that everyone could leave their door permanently unlocked and open, in the assurance that everyone was basically good at heart, it was a time when people could 'pop out', leaving the door on the latch, and visit their neighbour, or the local shop.
It was also a time when the 'school run' was unknown, and all children either walked or cycled, un-escorted by their parents, but accompanied by their friends, to the local school in complete confidence.
While, when Peter was very young, there was still some rationing of food, paper and other items (see left), it was also a time when every child was entitled to a free school meal, and all children were given fee school milk during the morning break (see right).
In Peter's recollection, and this may only have applied to the kind of area where he lived, crime was practically unknown.
Peter cannot remember hearing about anyone's house being burgled, or anyone being mugged or attacked in the street, or on the buses or trains.
The streets, it seemed, never resounded to the sound of drunkenness, despite the fact that Peter lived near a high street, and there were three or four pubs near by.
Children went about the streets after dark without their parents being anxious, and apparently those children were completely unmolested.
Peter, himself walked to the local library in the evenings, and to choir practice after dark in perfect safety.
Children went to visit their friends, or went to the park, walking alone and unaccompanied, and young boys, including Peter, even walked or cycled to the local swimming pool in the hot summer months, wearing just plimsolls and swimming-trunks, which makes one wonder what all the paedophiles, who apparently now stalk our streets in droves, were doing in the nineteen fifties - (there were, however, paedophiles in the 1950s, as we shall find out later).
This lack of public concern with regard to children, and particularly boys, being sexually interfered with is not just an impression that Peter seems to have retained.
An interesting article, recovered from an old copy of the 'Eagle' boy's comic, clearly demonstrates this attitude.
The article was entitled 'Enjoy the open air - cool off', and gives advice about the possibility of enjoying a swim 'when out for a hike or a cycle ride' - unaccompanied of course.
The two lads first talk to a middle-aged man on a bridge, apparently making inquiries about where they can swim in safety.
Then the youngsters are shown swimming in the brief style of trunks then commonly worn by young boys.
It would be difficult to imagine such an article appearing in a young person's magazine (there are no longer any 'boy's comics' as this would be 'sexist'), today.
There was only one murder in the area where Peter lived during his entire childhood, and that was of an old man, set upon by teenagers with the reported motive of robbery.
In this way the Fifties were a very different, and possibly would say better decade than the decades that have followed and, although we are only looking back fifty or sixty years, some aspects of the fifties are sometimes difficult to imagine.
Wages, of course, were low by modern standards, but then so were prices, and undoubtedly people didn't have the modern amenities that they have now.
Although Peter's house was number fifty-five, there were not actually that many houses in the road, as part of the road was occupied by a factory, and part by a newly built school and its playing field.
There were probably about thirty houses in all in the road but, when Peter was a boy, only a couple of people in the road had a car, and then they were only second hand models.
Also, Peter's house was one of the few in the road that had a bathroom, and none of the houses had running hot water or central heating - everybody at this time had coal fires.
A couple of houses didn't even have electricity, (that belonging to Mr & Mrs Draper in particular), and retained the old gas lighting.
In addition, when Peter was very young, refrigerators, washing machines and vacuum cleaners were few and far between, and so a 'woman's work was never done'.
The idea of mobile 'phones, of course, had not even been conceived, and even Dan Dare, (more about him later), living in the twenty-first century managed to get by without one.
Even private telephones were practically unknown for working-class people, although there were plenty of public call boxes, which it seemed were never vandalized, and almost always worked (see left).
As a result, people were not constantly at the beck and call of family, friends, neighbours and employers, and people could settle down in the evening and be confident that they would not be disturbed by the unpleasant ring of the 'phone, or the bizarre 'ring-tone' of a mobile.
Everybody, however, seemed to have a wireless (see right 'Art Deco' example of the wireless at Pears Road), and it was the wireless that for at least Peter's first three years at Pears Road was the only real entertainment, apart from books and comics.
Only a few people had a gramophone (record player), and most of these still played twelve inch records, which ran at seventy eight revolutions per minute, and were made of easily breakable shellac (see left).
As a little boy Peter would look forward to visiting his neighbours, Mr & Mrs Downing, who possessed a huge, (well it seemed huge to him), 'Art Deco' 'electric' radiogram (see right), on which he would be allowed to play Mario Lanza singing songs from Sigmund Romberg's 'the Student Prince' (see left).
Just before the outbreak of the Second World War the BBC had launched a television service, which was limited to London (see right).
With the outbreak of war, however, this service had been suspended, and was only restarted when hostilities ceased in 1945.
It was only around the time of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, however, that reasonable numbers of people, including Peter's adoptive parents, started to buy a television (see left).
(The Crawford family's first television was a 1953 Murphy V210C 12 inch cabinet model)
Because relatively few people owned a television there was only one channel, which broadcast for only a very limited period each day (from mid afternoon - Children's Television (see left) - until ten or eleven at night, with a break between five and six for 'tea' and kiddie's bedtime).
The decade of the Fifties was one when nearly everyone went to the 'films', and there were at least five cinemas in Hounslow - the 'Art Deco' Dominion (see left and interior below), (opened in 1931 and was designed by F. E. Bromige in the Art Deco 'Moderne'
style), and situated near the bus station.
The Empire was in the middle of the High Street.
The Regal, part of the ABC group and the Granada were at the far end of the High Street, and the Odeon (see right), probably the most modern cinema in the area, situated at Hounslow West, near the underground Station. In the year two thousand none of these cinemas still exists.
style), and situated near the bus station.
The Empire was in the middle of the High Street.
The Regal, part of the ABC group and the Granada were at the far end of the High Street, and the Odeon (see right), probably the most modern cinema in the area, situated at Hounslow West, near the underground Station. In the year two thousand none of these cinemas still exists.
Unlike today, if someone went to the doctor they didn't need to make an appointment a week - or more - ahead, but simply arrived, waited their turn, and were usually seen in about fifteen or twenty minutes, and it was a relatively simple matter to get the doctor to come to the house.
'Coin in the slot' meters (see left) were read by people from the gas and electricity boards, so there were no monthly bills, and the insurance man came round once a month from the Pearl to ensure that you had a decent funeral.
Finally, of course, although Peter lived in Hounslow, close to Heath row Airport, (see right) (or London Airport as it was then called), everybody who lived in the town was white.
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Late goal means a share of the spoils
United travelled to Stevenage to kick off their 2012/13 npower League One campaign and manager Greg Abbott made just one change to his starting line up from the Capital One Cup victory last weekend with Paul Thirlwell coming in for Chris Chantler.
The Cumbrians started the game in determined mood despite the intense summer heat and they quickly took the upper hand as they closed down and won the battles in midfield.
"This was always going to be a tough game because Stevenage are a decent side," manager Greg Abbott said. "I thought we started with the right tempo and I don't think Adam [Collin] was tested too much in the first half. They came into a bit more after the break but you'd expected that, and we had to earn the right to get a goal. I feel sorry for the lads that they didn't quite see it through because they've dug in and put their bodies on the line."
A series of set-pieces had Stevenage under pressure but defenders were on top as McGovern and Robson peppered the box with whipped deliveries.
The first real chance of the day fell for Liam Noble when he pounced to take advantage of a poor piece of control from Roberts. He went for a first time shot from the edge of the box and he was unlucky to see it curl just wide of the upright.
Stevenage had their first moment of the afternoon on 19 minutes when Gray beat Bugno before cutting the ball back. McGovern had followed the play and he stepped in to hook the ball clear.
Anthony Grant then found time in midfield but his shot was weak and Collin was able to gather it low.
The Cumbrians picked the pace up and reasserted their authority and Noble forced a corner with another powerful effort which had to be diverted wide by Dunne. McGovern swung the corner to the near post and Miller rose highest to crunch a header over the angle of post and bar.
Freeman tested Collin on the half hour with a tame shot after he bundled his way through challenges from Potts and Berrett, and Haber went even closer when the ball broke nicely for him following a bone-shaking tackle with Edwards. He ran into the box only to be pushed wide by Livesey and the eventual shot nestled harmlessly in the side netting.
Both teams kept the work rate up ahead of the break and space was at a premium with nobody willing to give ground.
"Defensively we worked really well, but that was down to the effort from the whole team," centre half Mike Edwards said. "They're a physical side and we knew we'd have to match that and there's a good understanding about what we all need to do. We have plenty of positives to take from this one again and we have two home games coming up now where, hopefully, we'll build on what we've done today."
Stevenage almost drew first blood within 90 seconds of the restart when Morais lost his marker to make a long ball over the top his own. It was a tight angle and his early shot was sent behind for a corner when he should really have done better.
Five corners in quick succession followed but Livesey, Edwards and Bugno all stuck to their tasks and that allowed Collin to claim the final delivery beneath his bar with the hosts frustrated that they hadn't made one of them count.
Danny Cadamarteri came off the bench to make his competitive debut for the club with just under an hour played and the game started to open up with both sides on the look-out for a breakthrough.
Luke Freeman started to get on the ball more but the blue wall was stubborn and shots were restricted to hopeful efforts from distance as Collin remained largely untroubled.
But there was half a shout for a penalty when Edwards and N'Gala tussled for a low corner delivery at the near post. The pair fell to the ground accompanied by a chorus of appeals but the referee ignored the remonstrations from the home crowd and waved play-on.
The Cumbrians eased the pressure in perfect style on 73 minutes when substitute Danny Cadamarteri controlled the ball with his back to goal. He spun his man and fed the ball through as Matt Robson went on the overlap on the left flank. One-on-one he kept his cool and drilled the ball under the advancing keeper to make it two goals in two games on his return to a wide position.
"I took a touch and turned and I could see Robbo [Matt Robson] out of the corner of my eye," Cadamarteri explained. "I heard his shout and I put the ball through and it was good to see him go on and do the rest. For me, I had the bounce game on Tuesday and half an hour today and it's pleasing to have put that niggle behind me. The manager knows what I can do and I know I'm ready if he needs me."
The feat was almost repeated six minutes later when Noble and Cadamarteri combined to put Robson through once more. Day stayed on his line and made the save with his feet as the winger tried to find the gap.
The introduction of Shroot from the bench gave the hosts renewed vigour and he thumped a volley into Livesey's back within seconds of taking to the pitch.
But the relief was short-lived for Carlisle when Akins wrapped his boot round a 22-yard volley. Collin was unsighted but he parried the effort as he reacted late and it fell at his feet. Shroot was on hand to stab it home from close range as he followed up.
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- Day, Gray, Charles, Tansey (Akins 65), Grant, Dunne, Haber (Thalassitis 90), Morais (Shroot 79), Roberts, Freeman, N'Gala. Subs - Arnold, Ashton, Furlonge, Ball.
- Collin, Potts (Simek 90), Livesey, Edwards, Bugno, Berrett, Thirlwell, Noble, McGovern, Miller (Cadamarteri 57), Robson. Subs - Gillespie, Murphy, Beck, Symington, Chantler.
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Top 10 MLB stadium
Baseball parks are included in the true customs and traditions of America. Every year thousands of people come to visit them or to spend their vacations with their loved ones. These baseball parks are acknowledged to serve two of the most important purposes. First is to cheer or support your favorite team playing in the field and second is to spend quality time with your loved ones. So basically at the end of the day, these baseball parks allow the people to cherish memories that will stay with them throughout their life.
Major League Baseball stadiums or MLB stadiums as they are conveniently called are the most accessible spots for people to relieve their tensions and stresses. One important component of th4ese MLB stadiums can never be ignored i.e. food. Food is such an integral component of these stadiums that both the terms i.e. food and MLB stadiums can be used interchangeably. People have developed the notion that is the trip to a stadium without a juicy hotdog and a chilled cold drink in hand. However as the years have passed, besides the typical food being offered at MLB stadiums such as chips, nachos, peanuts, soda and hot dogs, a lot of other delicious items have been added to the menu.
Top 10 MLB stadium and its food
No. 10 U.S. Cellular Field, Helmet Sundae:
Fans coming to support The Chicago White Sox might get disappointed after watching that their team always plays second fiddle to the Northside Rival Cubs, but the sufficiently large dessert offering at the stadium turn on their moods. They offer a large full sized three pound ice cream sundae in excess large sized helmet. The ice creams actually has the same weight as that of a pre mature baby. The sundae contains fresh fruits, mostly sliced bananas and strawberries that are topped over overly large sized 12 scoops of vanilla and strawberry ice cream. The base of the sundae has caramel, chocolate syrup and strawberry sauce. Whipped cream and cherries at the top further add to the tempting look of the ice cream. This mouth watering ice cream is offered at very affordable price of $ 17 only. This dessert comes undoubtedly at number 10.
No. 9 Turner Field, The Hammer:
Next on Top 10 MLB stadium, People who want a break from bread munching during the game, the hammer is the best option. Everybody knows that chicken and waffles are the iconic dish of Atlanta. They have now generated the hammer with a slight twist in their old traditional taste. The hammer consists of deep fried chicken that is topped with bacon, fried onions, pepper jack cheese and pecan maple mayonnaise. This scrumptious dish is a complete meal and is therefore ranked at number 9.
No. 8: Target Field, Bigger Better Burger Bloody Mary
Next on Top 10 MLB stadium, An important rule to be followed during alcohol consumption is that it should not be taken on an empty stomach. The Minnesota Twins take this rule into account with their new dish that is neither a burger nor drink. It's both. The traditional bacon cheese burger is placed neatly on top of Bloody Mary drink. So basically its not just a meal in the glass, it's a meal at the top of the glass as well. It is for you to decide where do you want to add the pickle. This unique meal is therefore placed at number 8.


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For one, I started on the Criminal Minds series about a year ago, and with it I can never part! I love Criminal Minds. I love writing and drawing.
Cooking is a hobby(when I'm bored out of my mind). Also on my list follows: Scuba diving, Karate, Sparring, Archery, training, reading, and scaling obstacle courses. And if you ever flame Criminal Minds or Fullmeatal Alchemist or SRMTHFG, i will kick your butt from here to next month. Oh, yes and I owe Linkin Park my life, so if you flame tham i will come after you and rip open you organs and feed them to the dogs. I've heard that revenge is a poison meant for others. but when you freeze someone's shirt into a solid block of ice, i disagree. I think in that case revenge is a dish best served cold. X] Don't underestimate me. I know how to do that. Anyway. I think I should introduce you to my OCs.
Watersong/Aurora Chase Viper- When Aurora was born, she was a Fallen Angel. Her father sent out an order to have Aurora's mom murdered. After a couple years of fighting and Underworldian slaughter, Aurora's mom told Death to take her soul and pass it onto the next word. When Death disembodied the soul, part of it went into Aurora it flung her into a sleeping stasis. 300 years later, Aurora's real soul went looking for a host until it was her time to learn her power and switch back into her original body. When that time is to come, it is prophesized that the Underworld will be almost fully corrupt. It is her duty to then take over the Underworld and resume power. Even if that means killing people along the way. When Aurora first awoke in her hostess's body she was raised by a human. She then joined the Sachmen Tribe of Half Wolf- Half Human hybrids. She fought her way to power and was named leader, after her mentor and leader died. She quickly chose her best friend for 2nd in command. With the two in power, nothing could defeat the tribe. Aurora was called back to her body and back to duty when she turned 14. There are only two Fallen Angels in the Underworld: Chris, and Aurora. Chris is in no way related to Aurora. Unknowing, Aurora is more powerful than her brother.
Fighter/Cody Hunter Wolf-This young Half Demon is clouded with mystery. He came to the Sachmen tribe after seeing his parents murdered in front of him. He was a half dog demon until he joined the tribe and then had Sachmen blood transferred into his blood stream. He now can change between a German Sheppard, human and half human without a tail. When Aurora was named leader she put him as her second in command. After a rough start as kids the two quickly became best friends and started to fall for each other. But Fighter still doesn't know some things about his closest ally. Maybe it's for the best.
Death/William James Viper- As Aurora's older brother it's his job to look after her. Since their father is a raving nut job out for blood and their mother was slaughtered soon after Aurora was born, Death is the only family she has left. Even though the two are close, they're still siblings and sometimes they fight. Unlike most brothers and sisters, the two usually get into a sparring match in which most cases Aurora wins. The two share a bond of power meaning if one dies so does the other. Death is mostly quiet and never sleeps. Raised by his mother, he quickly learned never to ask for anything and to control every aspect of his mind, soul and body. Unlike popular belief, Death does not carry a scythe, wear a black cloak, nor is he made of bones. It is true that he has some sort of eternal life, but he leaves the scythe carrying to his younger sister. If he ever wears a cloak, it is usually white with the symbol of Sulfur near the base. He usually wears a black hoodie and jeans tucked into leather combat boots. He keeps to himself most of the time but occasionally opens up to Aurora.
Echo/Sage Liliah Blackwell- The youngest Medicine Wolf ever in the tribe of Sachmens, she's feisty and has a habit of throwing scalpels at people. She has tawny hair and bright golden eyes. She was born to the rouge clan of Sachmens called the Zac'rons. Her mother tried to run but was killed for the attempt. But, she managed to get Echo out and safely to the Sachmen Tribe. Echo, who was known as Flame then, was taken in by Ravenflight, the Medicine Wolf at the time. Echo adopted the same personality and throwing scalpels problem. She became Ravenflight's apprentice shortly after she came, even managing to save their leader, Riverbank's, life. It was then she became a full medicine wolf. But soon tragedy struck. Fighter, Blackfang, and Riverbend, three newly made warriors left on a mission for the tribe to get an antidote for Ravenflight. A month after they left, Riverbank and Ravenflight succumbed to the poison traveling through their veins, leaving Echo as the Medicine Wolf and Watersong as the new leader. She chose Fighter as the 2nd in command but seeing as he was gone the senior warriors would carry out his duty until his and the other's return. Echo still remains as the tribe's Medicine Wolf.
Icepaw/Laura Summer Grey- For an Underworldian, Icepaw sure knows a lot about the human realm. That's probably because she studied with Aurora in the human realm for most of her life. She spent fourth grade through high school with Aurora, giving her research notes to those who studied humans in the Underworld. Icepaw is Aurora's apprentice, and best friend. They've been through a lot together, and they know each other inside and out. Literately. They've seen each other's internal organs, through x-rays and such. People say that when the two are together they're the strangest pair. But they beg to differ. They're not strange; they're just abstract in the normal mind. Two kindred spirits of a kind. But to each other, they're sisters.
Here are some of the best quotes I've ever read.
A black belt is a white belt who refused to give up.
Fall down seven times, stand up eight.
The mind is like a parachute, it doesn't work unless it's open.
Guns don't kill people, people with mustaches kill people.
Don't let your victories go to your head or your failures will go to your heart.
The best mind altering drug is the truth.
Instant diver just add water.
Instant human just add Monster.
Think like a man of action, but act like a man of thought.
If your words aren't grounded to the truth, they will backfire.
If you con't remember how you got a scar, you didn't go through enough pain to get it.
Keep smiling, people will wonder what you've been up to.
What's wrong ith falling down? Because you can always get up and start again.
You Have To Read This: This is this cat. This is is cat. This is how cat.
This is to cat. This is keep cat. This is a cat. This is idiot cat. This is busy cat.
This is for cat. This is forty cat. This is seconds cat.
Now go back and read the THIRD word in each line from the top down and I betcha you can't resist passing it on
Copy and paste this into your profile if when you were young... There were only 150 Pokemon. Digimon was popular. Yugi-Oh actually had Yugi in it. You didn't get weird looks when you went Trick-or-Treating. Nobody cared what you looked like. Hamtaro ROCKED. Catching a pidgeon was cool. Pirates before Pirates of the Carribean. Nobody knew how to spell 'Volcano'. Pinky and the brain were cartoon characters, not body parts. Saying 'moron' was a swear word. Fire was considered dangerous. The only thing you had to worry about were cooties. Cursive writing was just a bunch of swirly lines. Multiplication was scary. Dora the Explorer and that creepy monkey who follows her EVERYWHERE didn't exist. The first Harry Potter was the coolest thing since sliced bread.
The white man said, "Colored people are not allowed here."
A 15 year old girl holds her 1 year old son; people call her a slut. But no one knows she was raped at 13. People call a girl fat; no one knows she has a serious disease that causes her to be overweight. People call an old man ugly; no one knows he had a serious injury to his face while serving our country in Vietnam.
Re-post this if your against bullying and stereotyping!!!!
This is weird, but interesting! If you can raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed erveylteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!Paste this to your profile if you can read this!
Ninety-five percent of the kids out there are concerned with being popular and fitting in. If you're part of the five percent who aren't, copy this, put it in your profile, and add your name to the list. AnimeKittyCafe, Hyperactivley Bored, Gem W, Bara-Minamino, Yavie Aelinel, Crazy Billie Joe Loving Freak, Shadow929, The Astrology Nerd, brown-eyed angelofmusic, piratesswriter/fairy to be, The Gypsy-Pirate Queen, watching-waiting-wishing, 100-percent-Harry-Potter-obsessed, iluvdavidwright45, dianeandnumairareahotcouple,windsoftiti, Ilovethelittletacos...Ilovethemgood, i-have-issues-deal-with-it, Kiba Obsessed Demonic Angel, Digital98, Anime-Kunoichi,Chinbaldo,Uchiha Nara, TheDarkHyuuga, Mudstar of LeafClan, Rikkamaru, Lyon.The.Demon, Watersong77
If you are the type of person who can't and won't hate or judge anyone on this earth just because of their skin color, sexuality, religion, social status, or any other factor besides character, then copy and paste this on your profile.
If you are a chick who would rather spend your Saturday playing paintball rather than shopping at the mall, copy and paste this on your profile.
92 percent of teenagers would die if Abercombie and Fitch told them it was uncool to breathe. Copy this into your profile if you'd be part of the 8 percent laughing your butt off.
If you ever forgotten what you were talking about in a conversation copy and paste this into your profile.
If you have a really long
profile, but won't stop adding to it because it's cool and you have lots of things to say or funny things to share, copy and paste this onto your profile and make it even longer!
94% of teenage girls would scream and die if Edward Cullen was found on top of the Empire state building, ready to jump. Copy this onto your profile if you'd be part of the 6% laughing with a bag of popcorn in one hand, a video camera in the other hand, yelling into a bullhorn you stole from a rabid fangirl, " JUMP, YOU SPARKLEY FAIRY BASTARD!"
A girl and guy were speeding over 100mph on a motorcycle
Girl: Slow down, I'm scared!
Guy: No, this is fun.
Girl: No, it's not. Please, I'm scared.
Guy: Then tell me you love me.
Girl: I love you, now slow down!
Guy: Now give me a big hug.
She gives him a big hug
Guy: Can you take off my helmet and put it on yourself, it's bothering me.
In the newspaper the next day, a motorcycle had crashed into a building because of brake failure. Two people were on it and only one survived. The truth was that halfway down the road, the guy realized his brake wasn't working but he didn't want the girl to know. Instead, he had her hug him and tell him one last time that she loved him. Then he had her put on his helmet so that she could live.
...Put this onto your profile if you would do that for someone you cared about.
This will be posted over and over for no apparent reason. Copy this, put this in your profile and write your name at the end. Watersong77.
"Fiction lives its own life without asking for permission." -- Astrid Lindgren
"A book knows more than its author." -- Milan Kundera
"Fall Down 7 times, stand up 8." -- Old Japanese Proverb
"The question that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I or the others crazy?" -- Albert Einstein
"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree." -- Albert Einstein
"Let the intent and content of your writing be what's important. I'd much rather get a miss-spelled love letter than a correctly spelled hate letter. Although a miss-spelled hate letter would be even better, cause then I can pretend that the person who wrote it is really stupid." -- Petter Lidbeck
"I can't stand the distance, I can't dream alone. I can't wait to see you, yes I'm on my way home. And now I know it's true, my every road leads to you, and in the hour of darkness, your lights gets me through." --Bryan Adams.
"A black belt is a white belt who refused to give up."
"For get being a princess, I want to be a black belt."
"I love to read manga.
I love to draw manga so much I don't know what to do.
I draw therefor I am.
That's all the proof I need to know that I exist." -- Hiromu Arakawa
"It's better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." -- Cyril Connolly


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The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals in Architecture, Law, Citizen Leadership, and Global Innovation are given yearly on Founder's Day.
Fall Convocation honors third-year students who are in the top twenty percent of their class through the first four semesters of undergraduate study.
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Dogs make fantastic companions; they're loyal, intelligent, fun and loving. There are many practical barriers to owning a dog and I think it's really important to thoroughly consider your lifestyle before deciding whetheryou are ready to commit to owning a dog and which type of dog is most suitable for you. Consider fully thecosts in terms of time and money, as well as the practicalities of accommodating, exercising, grooming andgenerally managing a dog.
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How does photosynthesis affect our lives?
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Photosynthesis provides food directly to plants and, as a byproduct, creates oxygen which is needed to get the most energy from that food, turning it back into water, carbon dioxide, and energy. Almost all life on Earth depends either directly or indirectly on photosynthesis.
Most of the energy used by humans to power our modern society comes from fossil fuels, whose energy was harnessed from the sun by photosynthesis.


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