Jack Frost - The Painter

[pete9012S]

Jack Frost the Painter [p 27] {ill. Kathleen M. Gell}
from Enid Blyton's Daffodil Story Book (John Gifford 1949)

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I think Rob mentioned this subject in a recent post.

[Katharine]

A lovely little poem - I wonder how many of today's children would understand it though? With so many houses having double glazing and central heating, do many people wake up and see Jack Frost's work on their windows?

[Kate Mary]

I'm old enough to remember frost patterns on the bedroom windows, we had no heating in the bedrooms and we used to have piles of blankets and even coats on the bed as well as hot-water bottles. A thing of the past thanks to central heating. The poem is lovely though.

[Tony Summerfield]

Coincidentally I have just added this poem's first appearance in Sunny Stories.

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[pete9012S]

Absolutely brilliant!

Many thanks Tony.

[Anita Bensoussane]

I didn't have central heating until I was twenty-six so I remember Jack Frost's patterns too. Thanks for the scans, Pete and Tony. It's lovely to see different incarnations of the poem.

It's brilliant that you've had time to load some more goodies from Sunny Stories, Tony! I look forward to catching up with them (and this week's Teachers World letter) a bit later on.

[Rob Houghton]

As I mentioned in an earlier thread, we used to have Jack frost window paintings a lot when I was a child. I can remember copying something I read (I think) in the story of 'The Snow Queen' where one of the characters breathes on a coin, presses it to the window, and makes a spy-hole! I used to love seeing the ferms and leaves on the windows, but its something I haven't seen for many years.

As I live in the same house, and we don't have double-glazing or central heating, I'm puzzled as to why we no longer have frosted windows. Maybe the weather really isn't as cold as it used to be...or maybe its because downstairs we do have one storage radiator, which we didn't used to have. Other than that, the circumstances are the same, except we no longer have an open fire, but a 'living flame' gas fire instead, plus a normal gas fire in the other downstairs room (which was always the case). We also have electric blankets on the beds, whereas in my childhood we had hot water bottles, but I wouldn't have thought that would make much difference...so maybe winters really are warmer than they used to be, although we think they aren't!