Re: Oh no!

On Dec 11, 4:42 pm, Stuart Rogers
<stuart.rogers.clara.co...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On 11/12/07 17:54, "Anen" wrote:
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> > On Dec 11, 12:23 am, sooz...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> >> On Dec 8, 11:03 pm, Anen <anne.ma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >>> #Wee Willie Winkie, running through the toon
> >>> #upstairs, downstairs, in his nightgoon
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> >>> I'm sure there's more but that's all I can remember.
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> >> Rapping on the windows and checking on the locks
> >> "Are the children in their beds, for now it's eight o'clock?"
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> >> That's the way I learned it, anyway.  My mother isn't Scottish,
> >> though, so I'm sure it sounds different coming from Anen's ma.
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> > Now that you've jumpstarted what p***** for my memory, Mum's version
> > was similar but she used six o'clock. Guess she wanted us out from
> > under her feet really early.
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> Wikipedia has ten o'clock. Ho hum.
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wee_Willie_Winkie
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> Stuart

I guess each mother could choose her own favourite bedtime.

Anne