Terry Groves
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, 20192 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, 20192 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, 20192 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, 20193 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, 20192 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, 20192 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, 20194 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, 20194 min
B.R.A.T.S. The Games We Played
It was all about the games.
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Terry Groves
Sep 12, 20194 min
B.R.A.T.S. Glass Houses
Why do we make some of the choices we do?
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Terry Groves
Feb 11, 20193 min
B.R.A.T.S. Cold Day in the Playground
Winter was magical when I was a kid. Being outside, even during a bitter cold Winnipeg winter was where we, my brothers and I, wanted to...
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Terry Groves
Feb 7, 20192 min
Being a B.R.A.T.
Webster-Mirriam definition of brat. (Entry 1 of 2) 1a disparaging : child specifically : an ill-mannered annoying child a spoiled brat....
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Terry Groves
Jan 21, 20174 min
B.R.A.T. Tomatos
What do an errant tomato plant and a brat childhood have in common?
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