http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kiwifamily/fat.html ~ a long way to go ~ Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:57:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kiwifamily/fat.html/comment-page-1#comment-6298 Fiona Taylor Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:34:28 +0000 http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kiwifamily/fat.html#comment-6298 I love the idea of playing together at the castle :-) What a lovely way to pass the time! Sounds like everyone had fun. I love the idea of playing together at the castle What a lovely way to pass the time! Sounds like everyone had fun.

]]> http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kiwifamily/fat.html/comment-page-1#comment-6293 nova Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:22:07 +0000 http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kiwifamily/fat.html#comment-6293 ooooh lindisfarne!! i was fascinated by the causeway as a kid too :D ooooh lindisfarne!! i was fascinated by the causeway as a kid too

]]> http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kiwifamily/fat.html/comment-page-1#comment-6289 Mike Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:31:02 +0000 http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kiwifamily/fat.html#comment-6289 PS - Sorry about the weather! PS – Sorry about the weather!

]]> http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kiwifamily/fat.html/comment-page-1#comment-6288 Mike Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:29:05 +0000 http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kiwifamily/fat.html#comment-6288 That's a long gap between "web site" and the "comment" box! Anyway, when I (and Grandad) were lads in England strict rationing was in effect and there were very few FAT people (except "Winnie!"). Everyone walked everywhere or rode a bike as there was no petrol for cars. If one went by bus one often RAN for it and jumped on the back. We also learnt to drop off before the stop and RUN to avoid falling over (usually). There were also no teles or video games so one tended to go for WALKS or play (if one was a boy) fairly nasty games e.g. catapult fights or British Bulldog(!) or simply climb lamp-posts and swing on the ladder arm (used to prop up a ladder when the man came to change the mantle (now there's a word you may not know!!)). When rationing ended (finally in the early fifties) FAT boys, and I suppose girls, with rich parents ate lots of doughnuts and cakes (i.e. carbohydrates) and mostly stayed at home so they weren't called names (like Tubby, or Chubs), but the rest of us still went out with our mates on bikes. The problem in England, and to a larger extent in Scotland, is that cheap ready-to-eat food of very doubtful origin is available everywhere and one is encouraged to eat it. Just look at the number of KFCs, McDonalds, Subways, Fish and Chip shops, Pubs serving as much as you can eat for a fiver (or in the South a tenner)etc., etc.. In the East it's a culture thing. Fat people are just displaying their wealth. Thin people are poor! The rich may have a low fot diet but eat masses of carbohydrate based food which, because they have very little excercise, are metabolised into FAT - init?! Anyway, enough of this. We (Fernande and i) hope you enjoy Lindisfarne and pay particular attention to the way the wind and sand have, over the centuries, carved the columns of the Abbey. That’s a long gap between “web site” and the “comment” box!
Anyway, when I (and Grandad) were lads in England strict rationing was in effect and there were very few FAT people (except “Winnie!”).
Everyone walked everywhere or rode a bike as there was no petrol for cars. If one went by bus one often RAN for it and jumped on the back. We also learnt to drop off before the stop and RUN to avoid falling over (usually). There were also no teles or video games so one tended to go for WALKS or play (if one was a boy) fairly nasty games e.g. catapult fights or British Bulldog(!) or simply climb lamp-posts and swing on the ladder arm (used to prop up a ladder when the man came to change the mantle (now there’s a word you may not know!!)).
When rationing ended (finally in the early fifties) FAT boys, and I suppose girls, with rich parents ate lots of doughnuts and cakes (i.e. carbohydrates) and mostly stayed at home so they weren’t called names (like Tubby, or Chubs), but the rest of us still went out with our mates on bikes.
The problem in England, and to a larger extent in Scotland, is that cheap ready-to-eat food of very doubtful origin is available everywhere and one is encouraged to eat it. Just look at the number of KFCs, McDonalds, Subways, Fish and Chip shops, Pubs serving as much as you can eat for a fiver (or in the South a tenner)etc., etc..
In the East it’s a culture thing. Fat people are just displaying their wealth. Thin people are poor! The rich may have a low fot diet but eat masses of carbohydrate based food which, because they have very little excercise, are metabolised into FAT – init?!
Anyway, enough of this. We (Fernande and i) hope you enjoy Lindisfarne and pay particular attention to the way the wind and sand have, over the centuries, carved the columns of the Abbey.

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