It must be nearly fifty years ago. But I still remember the brown paper parcel tied up with string and the Eire stamp. The postman had struggled up the garden path and banged on our front door.
I would only be about five or six but I still remember the parcel so vividly. I think my mum made us wait until my dad came home from the mill before opening the parcel.
"It's from Ireland"
Said my mother.
One of the grown ups brought the scissors and cut the string and me and my brother ripped the brown paper.
We looked at the turkey, the headscarf for my mum, two pairs of leather boots for my brother and me, a pen knife for my dad and a Christmas card and a letter! There was no internet or telephone, just dear old snail mail.
We wouldn't see our grandparents until next July but they had not forgotten us and sent us all some Christmas presents! We knew why the parcel was lumpy too.
I would only be about five or six but I still remember the parcel so vividly. I think my mum made us wait until my dad came home from the mill before opening the parcel.
"It's from Ireland"
Said my mother.
One of the grown ups brought the scissors and cut the string and me and my brother ripped the brown paper.
We looked at the turkey, the headscarf for my mum, two pairs of leather boots for my brother and me, a pen knife for my dad and a Christmas card and a letter! There was no internet or telephone, just dear old snail mail.
We wouldn't see our grandparents until next July but they had not forgotten us and sent us all some Christmas presents! We knew why the parcel was lumpy too.
That's lovely Dave. Great memories.
ReplyDeleteThank you Rachel. Hopefully other fellow bloggers will share their early Christmas present memories too.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely memory. You can feel the love in that parcel from your description.
ReplyDeleteYes Jaycee it is a lovely memory. We have 7 patchwork patch covered blankets that she sewed by hand. They are still keeping us warm after all these years.
DeleteHairy string I bet. I missed the earlier posts about the Pogues and the 🙀new clothes. Now caught up.
ReplyDeleteYes Gwil, hairy string. Thanks for commenting.
DeleteHairy string I bet. I missed the earlier posts about the Pogues and the 🙀new clothes. Now caught up.
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DeleteOh that is a lovely memory Dave and almost identical to mine! Irish and living in London, there was a parcel every Christmas from home. My Granny reared turkeys and we got the biggest and best! Presents too. all wrapped up in brown paper and hairy string! Lovely, lovely memories Dave, Thank you. Oh, do you remember the box of shamrock on St. Patrick's Day? Warmest wishes to you and yours
ReplyDeleteHello Irish Maureen. My grandma raised turkeys too. My wife who had Irish parents from Galway and Mayo remembers the box of shamrock. Warmest wishes to you and yours and thanks for sharing your memories with us.
DeleteOh that's a lovely memory..I wonder what the royal mail would say of sending a Turkey through the post nowadays?
ReplyDeleteMy great grandma came to Liverpool with her parents in the 1870's ,I think to flee the potato famine. I have no way of tracing them. Every avenue turns a blank. She was in a Liverpool orphanage with her sister but there's no trace until 1891 when she's on the census as living here in Blackburn, lancs.
Her and her sister state place of birth as Liverpool but after spending a fortune and not being able to find a birth for either of them, I have to assume they were born in Ireland but thought they were born in Liverpool because they were so young when orphaned.
I don't think the two of them had a particularly great time in the orphanage even though their lives were saved.
I often think about Ireland and wonder where they came from.
A very lovely memory this must be for you.
Hi Christina. Someone sent me some Cumberland sausages from England. So it it still possible to send meat through the post. I have traced my dad's family back two hundred years. Don't give up tracing your ancestors. There is supposed to be an Irish diaspora of ninety million in the world and only four and a half million in Ireland. The postman walking up the garden path with the Turkey in the parcel is engraved in my mind. He must have cursed and sweated when he carried it around in his postbag. Thanks,
ReplyDeleteThose are the best presents, the mysterious ones. Leading up to my 8th birthday, there was a long, tall box stored behind a chair where we did laundry in the basement. There was an oval hole in the cardboard, and I could put in my finger and spin a wheel. I hadn't a clue. Come my birthday, I had a bicycle and the box was gone.
ReplyDeleteGreat eighth birthday memory Joanne. I once bought my wife a Border Collie pup for her birthday. She said it was the best ever 'living' birthday present. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteYour memory is excellent. I wish I could think that far back.
ReplyDeleteNot really Valerie. It's just the sight of the postman carrying the Turkey leaves an indelible mark in my memory. I don't think he was pleased having to carry it around in his postbag on a cold winter's morning. Wonder if Amazon make lumpy deliveries? Thanks!
ReplyDeleteGreat memory!! A turkey on the mail . Wonderful grandparents
ReplyDeleteYep we didn'see them much apart from the yearly trip in July. Two years later they had gone to heaven and the parcel stopped sadly. Thanks LA.
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