The Fallen Feather - Kinetic Video

This was the dinning room. The
staff the teachers had a dinning
room in here. But this was the girl’s
side over here. And our food in the
morning, they had great big vats like
that. We would have to make
porridge the day before. We had
porridge every morning, a piece of
bread, no toast, just a piece of
bread, and a little chunk of butter
with a glass of skim milk. That was our daily breakfast every morning. Once in a
blue moon, like on a holiday, we would get a dish of corn flakes. And that was a
big treat. .
Dr. Mary Thomas
And you could smell their food. The principle use to have his table right here.
And they would come in with trays with roast beef mashed potatoes, you name it.
The apple sauce, they had an orchard of apples, we never even got a taste of
apple sauce. And you could see their table, just full of every good thing to eat.
Then in comes the cake. I would say to myself, “I’ll get a chunk of that cake,
don’t you worry.” Before they would take it back into the kitchen you made sure
you walked a little bit too close to the table (Mary takes a scoop with her finger).
Dr Mary Thomas
But it was always about food. Like if you were playing marbles and you would
have a lot of marbles. Well marbles was like a currency. Were you could give
somebody five marbles for a slice of bread. You know, that’s what you did. If
you were a good marble player, you would have a lot of marbles you could buy
somebody’s apple, buy somebody’s piece of bread. You kept in pretty good
shape that way. I wasn’t too bad. I use to bull-fudge quite a bit. But you had to
eat so, yeah so you had to gamble.
Richard Jules
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