The Health of The Nation
By Jane Scoggins
Concentrate
orange and cod liver oil
From
the teaspoon specially kept.
I
hated the taste, I would always recoil.
But
every winter's day before we left
The
house to walk the mile to school
I
would hold my nose to grin and bare
The
horrid dose that was my Mother's rule.
Copyright Jane Scoggins
Oh my! I remember it so well. Did you also have to take Beechams pills, Virol, and Ovaltine? Simply written and laced with memories, what a treasure...
ReplyDeleteOh, the dreaded cod liver oil, we used to get a spoonful of malt to ease the horrid taste. I liked the concentrated orange too. The gill of school milk each day was a bit iffy, horribly warm in the summer.
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