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Yuch !!! Billy Connolly no have a song about " Three men fae Carntyne with 5 woodbine and a bottle of wine and black greyhound dug called Boab ".....
GAS ....
GAS ....
My mother and father smoked but then just like that when they hit about 40, stopped and never took it up again.
As a lad I used to collect cigarette and matchbox packets and I do remember Woodbines which I think you could buy in packets of 5.
As a lad I used to collect cigarette and matchbox packets and I do remember Woodbines which I think you could buy in packets of 5.
I gave up smoking 36 years ago, but before that I would try any thing. Woodbine we're supplied free to the trenches for health benefits, to burn off lice!
John
John
When I was a naughty boy in the early 1940's my friends and I would club together to buy a packet of Woodbines which (if I remember correctly) came in an open-topped green paper packet. We smoked them behind the changing rooms on the rugby field during the lunch break at school.
I gave up smoking about 40 years ago and with money saved brought new car with cash saved but me and my dad use to smoke behind the garage and he said try one of these Woodbines and i did but went back to my own cigarettes
My grandparents smoked Woodbines at 20-30 a day each. Could barely see when in their house. 😀That and the coal fire. Didn’t know that they were free in the trenches ( thank you John). My Grandfather was in the trenches, perhaps that is when he started smoking them. He also used to ride the horses that pulled the gun carriages, directing them into battle.
When he was in his 80s he had a chest infection. He got a bit confused and thought he was back in the trenches( which, in common with most, he had not otherwise spoken about). On one occasion he was sitting up in bed moving his hands back and forth as if he was holding something. We asked him what he was doing and he said “ getting the fleas out with this candle” Clearly he was holding the seams of his clothes and running them back and forth over an imagined candle.
mel
When he was in his 80s he had a chest infection. He got a bit confused and thought he was back in the trenches( which, in common with most, he had not otherwise spoken about). On one occasion he was sitting up in bed moving his hands back and forth as if he was holding something. We asked him what he was doing and he said “ getting the fleas out with this candle” Clearly he was holding the seams of his clothes and running them back and forth over an imagined candle.
mel
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Ah Woodbines. My Gran smoked 40 of them a day along two pint bottles of Guinness.
She died peacefully in her sleep aged 87 never having had a days sickness in her life!
She died peacefully in her sleep aged 87 never having had a days sickness in her life!
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