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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1971-10-28, Page 8Pa9e 8 Tines-Advocate, October 28, 1971 ••-•-e • ,'''',.:`e:•e,ree'-ieo•••••-e...-,,tie,..„ ,• Facts N' Fancies By 6virYn Zdee a Mee ateae Wear a Poppy FOR REMEMBRANCE Campaign Starts Nov. 1 Royal Canadian Legion R. E. Pooley Branch 167 Mr. and Mrs. Russell Schroeder, RR 2, Cenkalia MR. AND MRS. RUSSELL SCHROEDER Winter CAR COATS New Styles • New Colors PRICED $20. FROM BOYLE'S LADIES' WEAR . MAIN ST. EXETER qeeitatiatearo ftewa The Salvation Army Band of Goderich and Wingham visited Huronview on Sunday afternoon and played a concert in the auditorium. The Huronview Women's Auxiliary met in the craft room on Monday to finalize plans for the annual bazaar to be held in the auditorium November 10th at g p.m. Twenty-five residents celebrating birthdays in October were honored at a party on Wednesday. Birthday gifts and cake were supplied by the Lon- desboro Women's Institute who were not able to attend as a result of an accident in their com- munity. Slides were shown that had been taken of several events at Huronview during the year along with musical numbers by the Huronview orchestra and a vocal duet by Jan Bylsma and Alice Hoorda accompanied on the piano by .Jake Roorda. Volun- teers from the Beta Sigma and Womens Auxiliary assisted with the party. Representati ves of the .C.N.1,B. met with members of the Staff and several residents with visual problems Thursday and arrangements were made to have Mill Philpott, and instructor with C.N.I.B, visit Huronview each month, Rev. Bob Raymont of North Street United Church, Goderich arranged the program for family night which featured the McMillan family. To lose control of your car, just teach your son to drive. People who live in glass hoeseS might as well answer the doorbell. Ladies Curling Night Wed., Nov. 3 7:00 p.m. for all members and new curlers Instructions will be given If further information required, Phone Helen Webber 235-0227, Marj Pollen 235-0990, Janet Lovell 262-5030 Expecting? How Nice! Come in and visit us for a complete I i ne of Maternity Wear, including pant suits dresses, blouses and slacks e•'( Don't miss our Newly Arrived Fall & Winter Stock Join our Lay Away Plan for easy Monthly Payments -1"-c OPEN DAILY Friday nights till 9:00 p.m. "Stork Shoppe (irind Rend HWY 71 NEXT TO THE SUNOCO TWO AWARDS — At Friday's Commencement of South Huron District High School, Mrs. Elaine Bogart presented awards to Karen Rodd on behalf of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority and to Betty Jean Miller for the Exeter Kinettes. T-A photo Daughter surprises parents 7% oz. tin 65' 1 lb. Vac Pak Phone 236-0212 .OPEN FRIDAY UNTIL 9.00 p.m. Fall into the Saving Habi Rise' t nike E CRYSTALS Pkg. of 5 AT PI Vanish BOWL CLEANER 48 oz. Fresh Ground By the piece lb. Pure Pork 1 lb. Vac Pack 2 roll pkg. Free Jello $1 79' 67' 57' 59' 'HAMBURG Coleman's BOLOGNA Coleman's SAUSAGE Gold Seal Sockeye Salmon Coleman's Epicure BACON 11 ;A 77° FROZEN FOODS Swansons 11 oz. TV DINNERS 69' lieef, Turkey, Chicken Somerdale PEAS 21b. choice 39° Old South ORANGE JUICE 12 oz. tins 2/89' McCain 2 lb. bag SHOE STRING POTATOES 49' Halloween Candies At Special Prices We have a good assortment of Pumpkins for your Jack-o-Lanterns, FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Aylmer choice PEAS 14 oz. Red Rose TEA BAGS Orange Pekoe Nescafe Instant Coffee Giant 10 oz. Jar Fresh Aylmer Wax Beans Green Beans Cream Corn Choice / Mix or Match 5 89 Laundry Detergent Giant Size '99c special APPLES Fancy Macs or Snows 31 2 9 California ORANGES 113's Dozen 6 9 4 Washed SPINAC H 10 ot. bag 25° Canada No. 1 TURNIPS Waxed 6 od Size ea. 25' 25 lb, bag 59 0 Viva White or Coloured HOUSEHOLD TOWELS DREAM WHIP 4 oz. • Allen's Vitaminized APPLE JUICE 48 oz. tins 3/ Aylmer PEACHES or PEARS 14 oz. choice 2 /6 5' 2/35' How do you see England in two and a half weeks? The obvious answer is, you don't. Although it's a tiny place, England, like other European countries, is so steeped in the past and so crammed with historical and interesting towns and buildings that it must surely take .a lifetime to cover them all. fcen- brief holiday was like opening a bottle a rare wine, be/rog.able to savour only a few dkleettible sips before having to rash Of in the hope of returning sciOn to enjoy some more. ylhile we did visit several la'rger centres and famous hiStorical places,a good deal of our time was spent on the by- ways and winding country lanes that criss-cross the country in erery direction. It meant we nre lost a good deal but this (Oen. proved to our advantage a , provided us many happy saprises and a flow of hap- penings we shall never forget, At first we worried about getting lost but soon found out one cap really never go far astray in • England for there's such a mish-mash network of roads that you can miss your turning to a to'/n half a dozen times and still find yet another sign pointing to yo(Ar destination further on down the road. Our first introduction to Lo;hdon traffic left us weak- kneed, dizzy and cowering while perspiration poured off by the bucket. On our arrival, we were met at Victoria station by our cousin with her mini-minor Morris. This gal knows. London like the back of her hand and she zapped us through traffic like we'd never believed existed at what seemed breall'Arieck speed and all on the wivngside of the road, of course. or Canadians, who had ex- pelienced nothing worse than the 401 just north of Toronto at rush hOurs it was a fearfully, bewildering experience. Red lights seemed kept to the minimum, stop signs almost unseen and the code of the roads is'that everyone gives the right of way to the fellow on the right. The cars that pour through that huge metropolis at peak times is phenomenal. (We were told that next to Tokyo the London area is the most densely populated area in the world and I think everybody must drive a car:— We were neither strong or brave enough to commence our driving experience under those conditions so later in the week we boarded a train to a nice quiet village about 10 miles away to hire our first car. The pleasant, young man in charge explained to us in his friendly English way that the rate of accidents among North Americans was rather high and that we might be well advised,for an extra pound per day, to add the 'horror' clause to our agreement. We didn't know whether this was the proper or colloquial name for the accident coverage he was suggesting, but we agreed it was a good idea. Now, I know that 'horror' is the right word. During the first half hour on the road I experienced such sheer and utter horror that my hair stood straight out on end and couldn't be persuaded to lay flat again for several days. Imagine my poor husband, who has driven an automatic for ten years, suddenly being confronted by a brand new (never on the road before) mini-Austin with the steering wheel on the right side, struggling with gear shifts with his left hand, driving on the left side of the traffic over hilly roads that were so narrow you had to back into the hedge to let an oncoming car past and so win- ding we were lucky when we could see a straight 25 feet ahead. During the first half hour I climbed the wall of that tiny vehicle while we either bounced over the left hand curbs or turned corners ending up on the right side (which was wrong). Whew, we must have frazzled our guardian angels that day. (By the next day he was an old pro and we zimmed along with , few problems and had no need of the `horror' clause.) On that particular day we were out to locate a cousin of my husband's whose address was, `Buck's Hill Bottom House, Buck's Hill, Hertford'. With a name like that we ex- pected something special. We weren't disappointed. We found it (strangely enough) at the bottom of Buck's Hill after we'd wended over what seemed miles of perhaps the narrowest hedged-lined lanes we ever en- countered on our whole trip. The largish house had been built in 1532 and part of the foundation was an a ncientRoman wall. Going into the home was like being transported back into the dim and distant past. In a land where old houses are the usual rather than the unusual this one is unique enough to have been written up in several magazines with its black) roughly hewn beams, white-washed walls, small paned but sunny windows and fireplace you could roast an ox in. Incidentally, the house was about the right temperature to house an ox, too. When our relatives told us it had its own private ghost it was too much and we stifled unbelieving chuckles until we realized they were in dead ear- nest. It's a little girl ghost whose supposed to have been seen and beard on several occasions as she skips happily through the house and out on the terrace and garden, • After a few hours it was easy to believe the story and I hoped fervently for her to put in an appearance but sad to say she didn't, The only thing wrong with this charming setting was its lack of heat, Had we stayed there long we both would have come down with double pneumonia and, no doubt, turned into ghosts our- selves in very short order. Our English relatives con- stantly referred to us as their hardy Canadian cousins and marvelled at our endurance of long winters fraught with blizzards and below zero tem- perature. Believe me, they are the `hardy' ones, When the temperature drops, the average Englishman simply pulls another sweater over his head and glows a a little ruddier a little healthier, We were amused, and sometimes not so amused, when our hosts apologized for having a fire on and making the house too hot for us while we desperately tried to keep our teeth from chattering and our knees from shivering. Most of the homes we visited did have central heating of a sort but their owners certainly would never think of leaving it on through the night, While they slept with their windows wide open and with few covers on their beds we were by-passing the cold, cotton sheets to creep between the wool blankets, sneaking in hot water bottles and sometimes sleeping with our sweaters over our night clothes, Nonetheless, we felt extremely lucky to be able to visit such a variety of English dwellings. Besides the Buck's Hill house, other interesting ones included a gracious Georgian home built during the reign of King William IV; a spacious Victorian house that rambled all over the place at serveral different levels; a typical semi-detached London house, built about the turn of the century and exactly the same as every other one of the street with its bay windows, tidy rose garden in front, and private, fenced in back garden. We didn't stay in one, but we got a peek into one of the tiny houses that lean and stagger up and down the streets of the old villages that date back to feudal times and from which the serfs went each day to till their bit of land. (It's now become something of a status symbol to own or live in one of these.) In contrast, we were en- tertained in a newly-built home equipped with all the mod-cons (modern conveniences) one could hope for. But, whatever the house, it was the hospitality that warmed our hearts. Never let it be said the English are a cold lot. A merrier, friendlier people we have yet to meet. Special thanks to Mrs. Southcott for carrying on in my absence. This lady has in no way lost her touch with the newspaper business. Mrs, Pearl Thomson, St. Marys, Fred Thomson, Granton visited Wednesday afternoon with Mr. & Mrs. William Thomson, Andrew St. celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary Monday. They were treated to a dinner by their family in London, Saturday and were pleasantly surprised with the arrival of their daughter Mrs. Ila Baldwin of San Bernadina, California while the dinner was in progress, They travelled to Lucan by horse and buggy to be married on October 25, 1916 by Rev. 11.1-1. Barnaby, Mr. and Mrs. Schroeder have four daughters, Mrs. Sam (Dorothy) Semple, London; Mrs. Baldwin, California; Mrs. Lloyd (Norma) Hewitt, London; Mrs, Benny (Bernice) Webb, London and two sons Jack and Bill, both of London. Two daughters Shirley and Wilma are deceased. '',,,,eeeteeee,zireee,•••