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The )DFHERRN Daily Sparkle The Reminiscence and Activities Newspaper

TODAY IN HISTORY

On 26th February 1936, a new design of car was launched in Germany. Hitler himself opened a factory in Saxony that was to manufacture a mass-produced cheap family car. It was to be a rival to the Model T Ford. The new car was called the ‘people’s car’ which in German is ‘Volkswagen’. It’s a familiar name all over the world now. It was a streamlined design, with a revolutionary new fourcylinder air cooled engine. And the engine was at the back. Hitler hoped that the new car would transform the German economy.

Sunday 26th February 2012

THE WAY WE WERE

I’m always amused when I read in magazines today that handbags have names! ‘The Birkin Bag’ and ‘Chloe’ to name but two. We had ‘shoulder bags’, ‘ordinary bags’ and ‘clutch bags’. I always thought that was a strange name for a bag. I suppose it meant you had to hold on to the bag itself instead of dangling it over your arm or shoulder. I remember trying to manage big bags of shopping whilst climbing onto the bus with my clutch bag clamped under my arm. It wasn’t easy. They were quite dainty as evening bags, when you had nothing else to carry.

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OVER TO YOU

Dear Mary and Jimmy One summer we went on holiday to Northern Ireland. Travelling through County Antrim, we came across a place called Patterson’s Spade Mill. Intrigued, we stopped and were fascinated by what we saw. It’s the last working waterdriven spade mill in use in the British Isles. As we went in, we could hear the thud of steam hammers, and smell and feel the heat of traditional steel-working. We saw white hot metal being turned into unique spades. Dad drooled over them. They only produce 200 or so hand-made spades each year. You guessed it Dad bought one!

Do children today still do tracing? We used to spend hours tracing complicated pictures out from books or catalogues. When you had traced the image, you could turn the paper over and scribble on the lines. You could then transfer the picture to a notebook or a piece of paper by going over the outline again. Greaseproof paper was good if Mum could spare it, but the most commonly used tracing paper in our house was toilet paper. It came in handy sized sheets and it was perfect for tracing as long as you didn’t mind the whiff of Izal! Best wishes from Irma

BAGS OF BAGS

TAKES TWO TO TANGO

Who might use the kinds of bags pictured here?

You can haunt any house by yourself Be a man or a mouse by ---You can act like a king on a ---There are lots of things that you can do ---But it takes ---- to tango two to tango Two to ---- get the feeling of romance Two to tango two to tango Do the dance of love You can ---- on a ship by yourself Take a nap or nip by yourself You can get into debt on your own There are lots of things that you can do alone But it takes two to tango two to tango Two to really get the feeling of ---Two to ---- two to tango Do the dance of ----

1. a) student b) artist c) paper boy 2. a) hiker b) artist c) chef 3. a) doctor b) soldier c) secretary 4. a) shopper b) doctor c) horse rider 5. a) sailor b) plumber c) gardener

ANSWERS 1. yourself 2. throne 4. two 5. really 7. romance 8. tango

ANSWERS 3. alone 6. sail 9. love

1. student 3. soldier 5.gardener

2. hiker 4. shopper

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