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‘tiny happy’ was a journal of my handmade life from 2006-2025.

jucy

January 27, 2014

Three old soda bottles arrived in my letterbox from Kelly (after this post) and they boast that lovely thick glass and interesting texture like that first one I dug out from the side of the road. Tom's Mum, Clare, stayed with us last week and bought red gladioli to display in each bottle. Elegant, non?

One bottle has the faded label: JUCY and another says 'This bottle is the property of Thomson Lewis and Co Ltd, Artesian Water, Wellington, Petone & Wanganui.

I'm wishing for a return of the days when we sent food packaging back to the factory for re-use.

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5 responses to “jucy”

Julie

January 27, 2014

I remember when I was young, putting out the milk bottles for the milkman, and occasionally walking to the dairy to exchange a bottle for 5 or 10 cents, then being able to buy lollies with that money. Boy you could get a lot for that amount in those days too.

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mac

January 27, 2014

I too did very well on the lolly front funded by returning bottles. Your table looks beautiful.

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Nancy Cook

January 28, 2014

We used to get our soda bottles refilled at a local place. We would not go that often as we didn’t drink soda all the time but i remember when my Father took me and I thought it was pretty neat. I love your new table too.

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Jacqui Dodds

January 28, 2014

Beautiful bottles Melissa – lovely how something so simple can look so good and those red gladioli are perfect in them.
Jacqui

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Therese

February 3, 2014

Hi Melissa, I did some historical research on Thomson, Lewis & Co for the artist Paul Dibble when he was creating a sculpture for Moore Wilson’s in central Wellington, which is now located on the site of one of the springs they used. It is lovely sculpture and anyone can fill up a bottle from a specially made tap on location.

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