Thirty days hath September, thirty things we remember … (#25 of 30)
On Saturday evenings Dad took us out in our 1953 Ford Prefect always to the dairy on Constable Street in Newtown, to buy the Saturday Evening Post. Rob and I were given three pence to spend on sweets and all the way there we would debate what our purchase would be - 6 spearment leaves of 6 oddfellows, perhaps 3 of each, or a hokey pokey bar or 6 milk bottles. At home we tried to make our sweets last as long as possible while we read the centre pages of the paper with Ripley's Believe It Or Not! column and Jeeves and Neville Lodge among the cartoon strips. [I] fondly remembered fun and simple pleasures in our lovely home city of Wellington where I especially loved going up and down our hilly streets and discovering new and interesting places. (Judy, Visitor Services Host)
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