Words you remember from your youth

" Eat your all your vegies or you won't grow up big and strong"

I did and got stronger but never grew up much.

My dad used to work construction, and so he would come home pretty dirty from work.  He would tell us that the dirt on his clothes and his hands and under his fingernails was clean dirt. He never explained what he meant, and, at least for me, it was only after I grew up and had to go out and work to pay bills that I understood what he was saying.

When we were kids holes in socks were known as “spuds” I can remember my Gran stretching our socks over her (was it called a mushroom or a stool ) in order to darn the “spuds” in our socks. She would use wool she had kept from old worn out jumpers or pullovers.

Yes Ruth, I heard that one as well. I think clean dirt is from honest work, dirty dirt is from dishonest stuff.

Mick, as a kid I always had spuds in my socks. And the thing that was used to help with the darning was a mushroom.