No it is the glow you get in the sky when you put a bob in the meter! ..... (Now that will take you back a few years)
My mother used to like it when the meter man called to empty the meter as she always ended up with a pretty good rebate and we knew that we would all be in for a treat.
It was a treat for us kids to put the bob in the meter...you turned the key and it made a satisfying clunk. Where's the fun in a direct debit?
Now how true is that.....those were the days...... I used to know when the meter man was due to call on my nan's and I made sure I was around on that day or as near as could. I used to get at least two bob out of it!!!
They get a bad press but in the main the ones I know are fine and a credit to their parents. I would be hard pressed to say I know a bad child. It is all to do with how you treat them. Be as courteous to them as you would an adult and I have found they are fine.
Children well brought up and loved are all out there working hard and getting on with life. The main problem is that welfare payments have allowed some to not work and survive merely by having children. I work with people on near minimum wage + working tax credit who are great parents and they get really angry about this. I think most young people are decent and, though they won't thank me for saying it, will be just like us when they are older
If any child is going to grow up to be anything like me then in fairness to the poor little blighter he should be shot now. I am reminded of that saying: Every woman becomes like her mother and that is her fate. Everyman becomes like his father and that is his destiny.
Oscar Wilde's perspective was: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. OK, it was Algernon Montcreiff's perspective. A lead character from The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde.
I think my version is better than Wilde's. I am proud to say I am like my dad but most women shudder if you tell them they are turning into their mother. Try it and see.
I've learned that lesson after falling out with my sister for even daring to suggest it. The very lovely Mrs Godders is becoming increasingly like her mother but that is a thought I have not dared to utter and never will. PS Her mum was a really lovely lady.
My Mum was lovely and a great parent. Although I would have hated it when I was very young, I'm proud to be considered like her now.
Well, I just wanted to say that I appreciated that, SaintDon. Just the sort of thing I might have posted but you saved me the trouble.
