I am hoping someone has come across this story

shrimp


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Message Posted:
05/12/2010 13:06

Many years ago, my grandma used to tell me a story in Nicosia about a tiny dwarf called Itchin-ditichin-doitchin-higglety pigglety- Q-block-House and his best friend "i"...........there was a king called Fizz and his three sons called sheck, shecksherfreck and sheckserfreckshersromie and his three daughters called bip, bipsy- bip and pispsybipsy-babymere...... and that is all I can remember.............does anyone else know this story as I have been trying to find this for the last ten years, and nobody has ever heard of it.....

Deniz1


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Message Posted:
05/12/2010 13:55

Tred googleing it?

shrimp


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Message Posted:
05/12/2010 14:11

yes Deniz1 tried that so must now rely on people's memories, there must be other people apart from me and my sister who remembers this........forgot to mention that 'i' is the name of the giant........!!

TopTen


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Message Posted:
05/12/2010 15:44

Was this after she had come back from the pub

Jeannie


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Message Posted:
05/12/2010 16:04

Shrimp - is it possible that your Grandmother made up this story herself, just for you?

shrimp


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Message Posted:
05/12/2010 16:37

yes Jeannie, I suppose it is possible but then if she had made it up (and from what we remember it was a blinking good story ) there would surely have been other stories too.....I wouldnt have put her in a literary circle by any stretch of the imagination.........but as time goes by and nobody else has ever heard of it then yes can only assume she did make it up......or someone she knew made it up..................shame!

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
05/12/2010 17:20

A very wise old King wants an honest child to take his place on the throne.

He gives each of his 3 sons a pack of flower seeds and tells them that the one who grows the most beautiful flowers from these seeds will have his throne.

Six months pass and the king checks the flowers.

The first 2 had beautiful flower beds while the last child had nothing in his plot but weeds and no flowers.

Yet, the king chose this last child to have the throne.

Why?

shrimp


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Message Posted:
05/12/2010 17:35

why No1D??????????

Groucho



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Message Posted:
05/12/2010 17:44

He didn't cheat? All the seeds were weeds....?

Lilli



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Message Posted:
05/12/2010 17:48

shrimp what year was that. as i do recall a tale like that in 56 . Other than that i can only think like jeannie as i make up stories all the time for my grandkids. Bill still WHY, whats the moral of the story x

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
05/12/2010 17:53

Wrong Gavin.



The third son was the only son who never cheated. The King had baked the seeds so that they would not grow. This meant that the first two sons didn't use the seeds from the packets they were given.

shrimp


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Message Posted:
05/12/2010 18:39

Lillie, it would have been around 1956........yes!! Can you remember any more from it??? x

Lilli



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Message Posted:
05/12/2010 18:48

Shrimp I will look into it, sadly mum and dad are dead but i keepthe memory alive. Was your dad in the forces. I will look into it for you love . all my love xxxxx

hilda


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Message Posted:
05/12/2010 19:16

shrimp

I thought i had found it on google,but it was your request about the storyi think Jeannie might have the answer,but will still be looking for you.

shrimp


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Message Posted:
05/12/2010 19:46

Thanks hilda, I have searched and searched but to no avail.......and Lilli, yes my father was in the RAF and we were based in Nicosia, we had many happy years there but sadly my father had a heart attack at the young age of 32 so that was the end of that until we grew up and then we came back for most summers.......We plan to retire there within the next couple of years......x

Groucho



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Message Posted:
05/12/2010 21:49

Bill, the effect would have been the same would it not?



Only the third son didn't cheat... he planted the seeds his father provided and his plot was all weeds... the other two cheated and didn't use the seeds....



Either way only son three was the winner.

shrimp


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Message Posted:
05/12/2010 22:03

Maybe no1/doyen, you could write me a story re these charactors that I have mentioned??? (The King was called fizz as that was the noise he made when he flicked the ash off his jacket). The giant's name was "i" but pronounced ey to rhymme with key............that is all I can remember, but please be my guest and maybe between us we can resurect another grim fairy tale.....??

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
05/12/2010 23:16

I'll get my thinking cap on! )