Terry Groves
B.R.A.T.S. Clean Windows
It is peculiar how some memories remain so vivid while others fade. Perhaps that is just the course of your life. I know this one shows...
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Terry Groves
- Dec 11, 2019
- 2 min
B.R.A.T.S. Down the Up Stairs
When you're a kid, nothing has to be what it was designed to be. A youthful imagination can turn just about anything, into just about...
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Terry Groves
- Dec 5, 2019
- 3 min
B.R.A.T.S. Eating Out Before Fast Food
As you can imagine, money was tight in our family of eight. Us boys were growing fast and our furnaces needed constant stoking. Eating...
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Terry Groves
- Nov 28, 2019
- 2 min
B.R.A.T.S. Dippity Do
Did you ever do things just to annoy your parents? My brothers and I came up with a few things along that track. I remember, back in the...
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Terry Groves
- Nov 22, 2019
- 2 min
B.R.A.T.S. The Base Theater
Going to the movies was quite a tradition when I lived in the PMQs in Clinton in the 60s. The theater was called The Pegasus, and had a...
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Terry Groves
- Nov 14, 2019
- 2 min
B.R.A.T.S. That's A Jip
My older brother Robin and I headed to the store. It was in a strip mall near Jameswood School. We were not supposed to go there but...
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Terry Groves
- Oct 30, 2019
- 3 min
B.R.A.T.S. The Summer Hollywood Came to Clinton
It was the summer of '67 or '68 and we were living in the PMQs at CFB Clinton. I guess my older brothers, Mark and Robin, were feeling...
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Terry Groves
- Oct 23, 2019
- 2 min
B.R.A.T.S. Jameswood Drive School Winnipeg
I don't have a lot of memories of Jameswood Drive school even though I went there for grade 1 and 2 beginning in 1963. Here is what I do...
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Terry Groves
- Oct 9, 2019
- 2 min
B.R.A.T.S. Slush - The Food of Dinosaurs
I don't know where this bit of trivia came from but I recall being told it by my older brother Mark. I am not certain why I recall this...
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Terry Groves
- Sep 28, 2019
- 4 min
B.R.A.T.S. Up In Smoke
In about 1968, when I was ten or so, I had a bit of a fascination with fire. I wasn't running around lighting them, I just liked how a...
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Terry Groves
- Sep 19, 2019
- 4 min
B.R.A.T.S. The Games We Played
It was all about the games.
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Terry Groves
- Sep 12, 2019
- 4 min
B.R.A.T.S. Glass Houses
Why do we make some of the choices we do?
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Terry Groves
- Sep 5, 2019
- 4 min
B.R.A.T.S. When We Knew It All
Do you remember when you were young and knew everything? Yeah, me too. In grade six, while living in Clinton PMQs, my best friend, Paul...
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Terry Groves
- Aug 22, 2019
- 4 min
B.R.A.T.S. First Love
Growing up the brat life you get used to leaving friends behind and making new ones at the other end of the move. Too, you get exposed to...
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Terry Groves
- Aug 17, 2019
- 2 min
B.R.A.T.S. Cardboard Tanks
Sometimes the simplest things bring the most reward. As you can imagine, growing up in a single income family with five brothers, there...
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Terry Groves
- Aug 4, 2019
- 3 min
B.R.A.T.S. Blumbedy Glass
When I was about six or seven I had my first encounter with the law. My older brothers, Mark, and Robin, me, my younger brother Paul and...
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Terry Groves
- Jul 27, 2019
- 5 min
B.R.A.T.S. Lessons in the Country
A brief experience on a farm.
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Terry Groves
- Jul 19, 2019
- 5 min
B.R.A.T.S. Pocket Money
Exercising an enterprising ambition.
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Terry Groves
- Jul 13, 2019
- 5 min
B.R.A.T.S. La Salle Secondary
I attended La Salle Secondary School in Kingston for grade 9 and 10. I liked the school and a lot of the teachers there but these were...
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Terry Groves
- Jul 6, 2019
- 3 min
B.R.A.T.S. Strong Benefits
While there were lots of sacrifices that had to be made living the brat life, I am talking about giving up a parent unexpectedly,...
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