tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post7167576782048194261..comments2023-05-24T23:33:57.516+10:00Comments on My Unwelcome Stranger: Bimbo, the Blitz, and Tobacco [Part 1]Denis Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-29594736545841142082010-10-22T17:01:17.451+11:002010-10-22T17:01:17.451+11:00Oh come now, what was wrong with 'Que Sera Ser...Oh come now, what was wrong with 'Que Sera Sera?' :) 'Down in the Little Green Valley'? Lovely, they were.... :) Ahhhh, but when the Twist came, and the Beatles almost on their way.... Houston, we had liftoff....<br /><br />So you didn't know about thunderboxes even though you came from Darkest Africa? I never met up with a flush loo till I was 13 or so. And when I tell the Aunty Daisy story you will be very much reminded of the Long Drop..... if you don't get bored first with my memoirs!Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-43351006838424486112010-10-22T08:19:44.317+11:002010-10-22T08:19:44.317+11:00...Wot's more...when I first came to Brisbane ......Wot's more...when I first came to Brisbane in 1966 I was intrigued by all these cute little timber buildings outside so many houses. I thought they were toolsheds! Until somebody put me right and I heard the word "dunny" for the first time. I came from a Third World country but at least we had flush loos! (Actually my grandmother had a "long drop" on her farm, and it was known in the family as "Going down the path with Beverley Nichols" because of an English gardening personality who wrote a column under that title).Julie Lakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10268676551467882065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-87351595498912690322010-10-22T08:16:23.999+11:002010-10-22T08:16:23.999+11:00Hey, I remember that Bimbo song too! Truly chunder...Hey, I remember that Bimbo song too! Truly chunder-making! Some of the music from the fifties was pretty ghastly when you look (listen?) back...all that Rosemary Clooney stuff. Patti Page - yuk! Doris Day - ditto yuk! Lots of silly chorus type songs. Thank goodness for Elvis, Bill Haley, Fats Domino etc - and beatnik jazz!Julie Lakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10268676551467882065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-39136335443697392172010-10-15T23:48:38.844+11:002010-10-15T23:48:38.844+11:00Hey Julie, if your neighbour wasn't handling t...Hey Julie, if your neighbour wasn't handling those pans himself and sterilising them with pitch heated in a 44 gallon drum out at the dunny depot, then I can't think of him as a genuine dunny man. Sorry! :) But thanks for the memories!Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-37781521623985874652010-10-15T22:09:27.412+11:002010-10-15T22:09:27.412+11:00Pooooo! The good old dunny! Ours in Brisbane was a...Pooooo! The good old dunny! Ours in Brisbane was a pleasant outdoors affair, with the flowers of pink coral vine climbing around the door and a little red bantam that often sat on the wooden seat. Our neighbour, Cyril Hunter, owned the garbage-and-nightsoil collection business, so was a wealthy man in St Lucia. He was beyond doing the collecting personally, so suffered no stigma.His family lived in a poshy red brick house with leadlight windows, and he grew prize dahlias in his front garden.They were the kindest people ever,and Cyril provided all the fireworks for the neighbourhood bonfire night held each year in the park across the road. I admired, almost with awe, the excellent cubby house the Hunter girls had, purpose built on the back of their (also poshy) garage.They always wore frills, those girls. And I remember the Bimbo song (which I always thought silly; I was such a snob) but must mention that this very day I met a man called Boof. He is the man from the wreckers who is going to pulp my dear little blue car :( boohoo. You are reminding me more and more of Ginger Meggs!! Or -Denis the Menace!Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03796734273732243982noreply@blogger.com