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Things that stick in your mind

It is funny what you remember about childhood, mam bought fruit every week and we thought nothing of it but at Christmas, it was always put in a big fruit bowl with oranges and nuts that needed cracking.


A much bigger than they are now tin of quality street, metal tin alongside it on the brick stone fireplace popular then. cards strung up on the walls on bits of string. Ceiling decorations that used to fall down on a regular basis held up by drawing pins or cellotape


Created By on 26/09/2020

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Milkyway
3rd Oct 2021 18:33:09
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The end or the days telly...
The announcement Thanking you for watching
Remember to lock your doors
The National Anthem.
The white spot disappearing.
Goodnight...
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27th Sep 2020 23:04:06 (Last activity: 9th Mar 2021 16:52:46)
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Response from PurpleHat made on 28th Sep 2020 16:54:37
Lionel - I listen, I always look out for your posts and find a great deal of common sense. I am sad that you lacked a father in your early years, and it marked your life.
Mine was great. He would have loved a son, but my brother- to- be was stillborn. I was an only. and often lonely child.
My Dad took me scrambling under the pier for fishing, up to the allotment in his spare time for gardening, and Saturday football, where all his mates looked out for me. I loved the away matches and singing on the coach
My poor mother never had a "girly" girl, but it served me well! and I have good memories of the freedom and confidence he gave me.
Response from PurpleHat made on 28th Sep 2020 23:24:05
I totally agree with your last statement, the loss of family values and personal discipline and the " I want it now" syndrome in general. Will the pendulum swing again after all the present day trials and tribulations? I am by nature an optimist, but the future looks very uncertain for some time to come.
Response from PurpleHat made on 30th Sep 2020 11:19:34
Rising 89 now I have determined to take my own life day by day and try to make something of each one, however small. But I also think of the planets that have been discovered that may have once supported life as we know it, did the same happen there? and also of all the plagues and clearances that there have been in the life of earth itself. Nature has the tendency to restore balance, sometimes in harsh ways. Is this one of those times? I go out on a fine night, look up at the stars, and wonder! Such Profundity from me!!!!
Response from PurpleHat made on 1st Oct 2020 11:08:45
Wise words as ever, Lionel. Thank you!!
Response from BrianJ258 made on 8th Mar 2021 21:32:48 > @PurpleHat
I can't believe that with all the planets that you can see on a clear night we are the only one with intelligent life on it although it seems sometimes that the intelligent is getting less apt on ours.
Response from PurpleHat made on 9th Mar 2021 16:52:46 > @BrianJ258
I live in a dark sky area, and on a clear night I wonder at the worlds beyond ours, and surely there must be some form of life elsewhere. The other side of me wonders how short a time our world has before it becomes like Mars, apparently deserted.

And with all the technology we have why cannot we repair our own?

I have a new great Granddaughter, and I am so sad that she will not see the myriad of creatures I used to watch in the fields, woods and seaside that we no longer see because of our ways of farming and manufacturing. greed, mismanagement of our resources, and lack of plain commonsense.

Now a plague has come upon our house and there will be more.

But my hope is that the young ones will have more sense than our generations past, I am the eternal optimist!!!

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