Following On From Jjconne..

[gness]

just a little and I'll put it in CB.....

When I was fourteen I knew I was in bother when, walking home from school, I saw the mother standing at the gate, arms folded and mouth like a cat's bottom...

She took me by the hair...dragged me into the kitchen and told me that my dad had found a French Letter in the garden and what did I know about it! Was it anything to do with me?!!!

Being really green and innocent I replied....It can't be Mum....we don't do French in school so I can't write in French.....

I got a slap and spent the evening locked in the outside loo for my insolence....

And I really, truly didn't know.........☺

[shoota]

Yeah....

[gness]

Humour me, Shoota.....I really didn't......☺

[shoota]

So where did everyone have a pee then?

[gness]

In the comfort of the inside loo.....following the dinner I didn't get.....☺

[shoota]

Toulouse? No trek up the garden then?

[mazie]

Why would she think at 14 you would know anything about such things gness?

[ummmm]

What's a French letter?

My grandad was a violent dictator ( kind to us though ) why did they think it acceptable to be so violent towards their children?

You're lucky, Gness, like my mother the mistreatment seems to have made you stronger...others it destroys...and that is really sad.

[gness]

No....and no dock leaves either...x

Mazie....whatever it was it was my fault.....☺

[shoota]

Maybe it was he (Toulouse) who wrote the letter you knew nothing about?

[Prudie]

Shut in an outside loo with my terror of spiders would probably have given me a breakdown, that's barbaric

[marval]

I used to have a French penfriend, when he wrote to me I would say I had another French letter. I am not sure my mother was impressed.

[gness]

Is it still the name for a condom? I guess it was back then but it must have been some time before I realised why I spent hours in the locked loo for not being able to write in French......☺

Ummm...last year I found out that my mother had done something horrid years ago that affected me and that she should have put right.....it was evil, nasty and mean....and now can't be undone.

Now I visit less often and for shorter periods.....and I can only thank her for teaching me how not to treat your children....

[mazie]

Awww...Are you the Eldest? I was and always got the blame for everything

[shoota]

They (the French letterwriters) call them 'un capote Anglais'.
(An English overcoat.)

[gness]

If only, Shoota....we could have run away together and lived in an attic in France......'cept I couldn't have answered, could I.... :-(

I got to know the spiders in our loo quite well.....☻

Lord, Marval....imagine if I had yelled....Hey mum....I've got another french letter!!!

[gness]

I am, Mazie....but the sister didn't fare much better....Mum only wanted a boy.....and in a lucid moment last week told me so....

Overcoats have buttons....why were they named...French letters...anyone know?

[shoota]

You'd only have ended up with freezing hands and dying of consumption....

[gness]

But it could have been a romantic end.......♥

[Jeza]

What your Mum did Gness was truly awful. My Mum did an awful thing to me when I was 17, the main reason why I left home. I still came back though 30 years later when she became ill and unable to take care of her self. I still wonder why.

[Jeza]

Here you go Gness.

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