Dear The Journal,
Your blog is totally different style of mine or at least I am used to, but your posts are always interesting! I really feel like i am reading a magazine or a book.. …. I nominated and awarded you for Very Inspiring Blogger Award… Here’s the address.. https://itsmejlee.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/very-inspiring-blogger-award-thank-you/
Thank you for posting amazing stuff and please continue to do so!!
Reblogged this on Artzzle and commented:
Company’s a comin’. Busy . . . busy . . . busy! Cleaning, painting, yard and garden work and . . . oh, those mosquito bites! Aahhhck!
So sharing a FUNNY from one of my favorite London sites. Hope you like.
Later – Cheryl
Wow so interesting to know…we still have this alarm clock in India…when we have a wake up real early…I tell my watchman to ring the bell …pretty close to the original:-)
So funny you mention the “knocker-ups” EJ – I think we have some kind of telepathy going on. Hubby and I were just talking about that last night when deciding what to include in the next edition of How to Talk British. I about fell off my chair the first time someone over here offered to “knock me up” in the morning! Gahahaha! (p.s. – I love the old piccie! Brilliant!)
A mighty fine question indeed! I expect that the knocker-upper of all knocker-upper’s would knocker-up the knocker-upper. But of course you are still left with the question of who would knocker-up the knocker-upper of all knocker-uppers?
Could it be the knocker-upper of all knocker-uppers of all knocker-uppers? But here you see….same problem. Who would knocker-up the knocker-upper of all knocker-uppers of all knocker-uppers?
EXACTLY what I was thinking. You’d actually need a 24 hour rotating system of knocker uppers for it to work. You could probably employ a whole town just to wake each other up so they in turn could wake each other up again. A knocker-upper economy? Could work? Weirder things have!
… I am having a drink lol!
(Really enjoying your blog btw)
Loool! And thank you. 😀
Wow this is so crazy, and to took where we are at now! Little hand held devices that sort out just about anything and everything for us!
Aww, You just put a tear in my eyes. I really miss both of them. They’re such a chaotic tandem. Haven’t seen them for more than 4 months now, but I’ll be going home soon
Ah, the hard part of of your job! Well hang in there soldier! Hopefully great things will emerge also from the journals of your many trips on your blog.
I think they still exist, to be honest…… during the adolescent years of some lives.
“The Mother / Father”, societies original knocker-uppers.
An interesting note. I didn’t know it was a common practice but I have a book titled, The Wheelwright’s Shop, and it tells about there being a ‘knocker up’ for the mill employees. The book is about building wagons in early England and would be of interest to older men but not as appealing to women as correct flower arranging.
Seeing that 20+ people have liked this post already, I suddenly realized that my original comment is probably the 20th in that general vein of thought! Oh well! LOL.
-ValS
Haha I wouldn’t mind having that job. It pays and it can serve as part of my morning exercise. ((:
You’re hired!…By whom, I can’t say…but you’re hired! Actually it would be quite cool if a jogger just added it to their morning routine. 🙂
Wow! History rocks indeed! Never knew of this tho.
🙂
Dear The Journal,
Your blog is totally different style of mine or at least I am used to, but your posts are always interesting! I really feel like i am reading a magazine or a book.. …. I nominated and awarded you for Very Inspiring Blogger Award… Here’s the address.. https://itsmejlee.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/very-inspiring-blogger-award-thank-you/
Thank you for posting amazing stuff and please continue to do so!!
Hey thanks itsmejlee!
This stuff always so cool. Had to reblog it. Thanks all 🙂
Yay Cheryl! 🙂
Reblogged this on Artzzle and commented:
Company’s a comin’. Busy . . . busy . . . busy! Cleaning, painting, yard and garden work and . . . oh, those mosquito bites! Aahhhck!
So sharing a FUNNY from one of my favorite London sites. Hope you like.
Later – Cheryl
Thanks Cheryl!
thats pretty cool! loved the picture too!
Yay! 🙂
How did ‘knocker up’ get translated to ‘knocked up’ meaning entirely different things? I think it relates to the ‘banging’ effect! LOL…
Oh Miss Deborah! 😯 😀
Wow so interesting to know…we still have this alarm clock in India…when we have a wake up real early…I tell my watchman to ring the bell …pretty close to the original:-)
Yes I expect something similar still goes on in various parts of the world.
Thanks Natasha!
oh my gosh I have wondered this for the longest time! Do you Brits really say I ‘will knock you up in the morning’?
Can’t say it’s a phrase I hear a lot these days JJ but folks did used to say it.
I want one but he/she will also need to start an IV coffee-drip into my veins. LOL
Haha! 😀
Cool!
🙂
Hmmmmm…..No way. 😉
Yes way! 🙂
So funny you mention the “knocker-ups” EJ – I think we have some kind of telepathy going on. Hubby and I were just talking about that last night when deciding what to include in the next edition of How to Talk British. I about fell off my chair the first time someone over here offered to “knock me up” in the morning! Gahahaha! (p.s. – I love the old piccie! Brilliant!)
I certainly hope you established what their offer involved in time my dear Mother of Hens! 😯
It was pointed out fairly quickly that they only intended to pop in for an early coffee… *whew*! 😀 I do love the British. I so, so do…
🙂
Who would knocker-up the knocker-upper? The knocker-upper knocker-upper?
A mighty fine question indeed! I expect that the knocker-upper of all knocker-upper’s would knocker-up the knocker-upper. But of course you are still left with the question of who would knocker-up the knocker-upper of all knocker-uppers?
Could it be the knocker-upper of all knocker-uppers of all knocker-uppers? But here you see….same problem. Who would knocker-up the knocker-upper of all knocker-uppers of all knocker-uppers?
…I need a drink.
EXACTLY what I was thinking. You’d actually need a 24 hour rotating system of knocker uppers for it to work. You could probably employ a whole town just to wake each other up so they in turn could wake each other up again. A knocker-upper economy? Could work? Weirder things have!
… I am having a drink lol!
(Really enjoying your blog btw)
Loool! And thank you. 😀
Wow this is so crazy, and to took where we are at now! Little hand held devices that sort out just about anything and everything for us!
It’s nice to see progress at least in some areas eh?
hahaha! this is new to me. Another instance where technology replaced human beings.
That’s true 🙂
Definitely sorts out the snooze-button problem!
🙂
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History does rawk!
Yay! 🙂
And that’s why the Brits still say, “I’ll knock you up in the morning!”
Here in Canada, that means something totally different! 😉
Fear not Diana, it has the same meaning in the UK!
Nice to know! I prefer the alarm clock these days. 🙂
Thanks for sharing.
They are certainly easier to shut off! 🙂
Plus I am in love officially…Chucho and Chiki!
Aww, You just put a tear in my eyes. I really miss both of them. They’re such a chaotic tandem. Haven’t seen them for more than 4 months now, but I’ll be going home soon
Ah, the hard part of of your job! Well hang in there soldier! Hopefully great things will emerge also from the journals of your many trips on your blog.
I think they still exist, to be honest…… during the adolescent years of some lives.
“The Mother / Father”, societies original knocker-uppers.
Nice post. (funny)
– N.N.
Oh how true lol! 🙂
An interesting note. I didn’t know it was a common practice but I have a book titled, The Wheelwright’s Shop, and it tells about there being a ‘knocker up’ for the mill employees. The book is about building wagons in early England and would be of interest to older men but not as appealing to women as correct flower arranging.
Now there you go! Interesting stuff! Although not sure about the flower arranging!
Gives a whole new meaning to the idea that one “got knocked up this morning”! 😉
-ValS
Seeing that 20+ people have liked this post already, I suddenly realized that my original comment is probably the 20th in that general vein of thought! Oh well! LOL.
-ValS
I’m shocked at it all! 😉
Oh…you people! You people! Your minds…lets hope no children are reading this! 😀
Haha that’s great. I think “knocker-ups” would have a whole new meaning these days! 😝
Sssssh!…Lol! 😀
Pretty cool…from a human alarm to a phone alarm….haha…
‘Tis ain’t it? 🙂