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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...

Terry Groves
Dec 19, 20192 min read
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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...

Terry Groves
Dec 11, 20192 min read
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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...

Terry Groves
Dec 5, 20193 min read
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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...

Terry Groves
Nov 28, 20192 min read
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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...

Terry Groves
Nov 22, 20192 min read
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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...

Terry Groves
Nov 14, 20192 min read
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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...

Terry Groves
Oct 30, 20193 min read
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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...

Terry Groves
Oct 23, 20192 min read
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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...

Terry Groves
Oct 9, 20192 min read
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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...

Terry Groves
Sep 28, 20194 min read
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B.R.A.T.S. The Games We Played
It was all about the games.

Terry Groves
Sep 19, 20194 min read
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B.R.A.T.S. Glass Houses
Why do we make some of the choices we do?

Terry Groves
Sep 12, 20194 min read
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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...

Terry Groves
Sep 5, 20194 min read
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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...

Terry Groves
Aug 22, 20194 min read
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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...

Terry Groves
Aug 17, 20192 min read
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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...

Terry Groves
Aug 4, 20193 min read
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B.R.A.T.S. Lessons in the Country
A brief experience on a farm.

Terry Groves
Jul 27, 20195 min read
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B.R.A.T.S. Pocket Money
Exercising an enterprising ambition.

Terry Groves
Jul 19, 20195 min read
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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...

Terry Groves
Jul 13, 20195 min read
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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,...

Terry Groves
Jul 6, 20193 min read
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