Nostalgia

[Eve]

After reading Sqad's thread in H&F while enjoying the rainbow sherbet I got from a fab old fashioned sweet shop in Buxton yesterday, thought I'd post a more general thread.

What's your best nostalgic memory?

[123everton]

Gettingout of isolation in Alser Hey (6 weeks) and being able to walk through the grounds in (I think) 1973.

[Robinia]

Did you mean Schutzengel's thread Jenna?

[legendis.god]

Remember back to 1979

at a buzzc0cks concert , only 15


was crazy nite and full of energy.

joy division were the support , the lad singer killed himself 6 months later , a long time ago and so many things happened since then.


When youre young , you nevr stp to think ahead , too busy .


strange when you look back , all the memories .


long lomg gone now.

[filibuster]

Visiting the Glasgow Garden Festival several times in 1988. The atmosphere was fantastic and all the exhibits were really wonderful. I just wish the whole site could have been preserved.

[sqad617]

Boring I know to anyone else, but the question was �NOSTALGIA�.

Brought up by elderly parents who were, I gathered later, my grandparents, really working class, labourer on the railway���just a bit of background. LOL
I was leaving for Medical School in London next day (Monday) and my �parents" had arranged a going away party and had invited the neighbours around for Sunday tea.

The �front room� was opened up and the sandwiches were made of Grade 3 salmon and there was a huge teapot and Corona for the children. There were about 20 people in the front room and granddad made a speech�.he always called me �boy� LOL LOL and I was extremely embarrassed.

Next day my �mother� and my sister (who was my real mother) came to the station to see me off on the 11.10 .to Kings Cross and as the train pulled out, they walked to the end of the platform, still waving.

Well��you did ask.

[Mamyalynne]

I well remember huge family parties at my Gran`s tiny little house and her favourite game was all lights out ,then a big pile of dressing up clothes deposited in centre of room . Everyone had to grab what they could and put it on, the sight of elderly aunts and uncles dressed in Grass skirts ,straw bonnets, frilly petticoats made us kids so giddy we could hardly sleep ,tucked up top to toe in grans big bed as the party carried on below. LOL

Happy days
Mamya x

[sqad617]

mam......do you remember "Postman's Knock" and there was another, forgotten it's name....more intimate LOL

[Mamyalynne]

Ooh spin the bottle, truth kiss or dare sqad ??

[sqad617]

marm.....I'll take a kiss...............or anything LOL

[tamborine]

sqad617...what's your relationship with your birth mother now? Must have been a huge shock when you realised the truth - hope it didn't leave you with disrespect for women? Past was so hard in comparison to 'womens-rights' of today.

[mallam]

Sqad, your post of 12.04 made the tears ooze from my SSRI-deprived eyes, and that was even before I saw your grandad always called you �boy�, as I have always called my son, and as he accepts I always will.

[no-knowledge]

Paradise found down by the still waters
Joined in the race to the rainbow's end
No fears no worries just a golden country
Woke at sunrise, went home at sunset

Now life is so critical, life is too cynical
We lose our innocence, we lose our very soul

True it's a dream mixed with nostalgia
But it's a dream that I'll always hang on to
That I always run to
Won't you join me by the riverbank
Come on and join me by the riverbank.

[Postdog]

Nostalgia isn''t what it used to be.......

[sqad617]

tambo...not a big deal. I was brought up by my grandparents as my parents and when I was 16yrs old I was told that my sister was my mother, by which time she had married and had two children of her own. A bit of an identity crisis as I was applying for Med school, so I just hyphenated my presnt surname with the surname of my married mother.

She gave me way at birth because if the shame and stigma of being an unmarried mother....wouldn't be tolerated today.

I am a true "*******" and relish in the name LOL

The big deal was for my maternal mother who never got over giving me away and I could never bring myself to call her mother, although thanks to mrs sqad I forced myself, but it was never natural..........she died last year and do you know I felt no grief. Mrs sqad cried and was devastated.

[Mamyalynne]

sqad consider yourself kissed and hugged (oh am i turning into someone else?)

no knowledge, thats lovely

Mamya x

[tiggerblue10]

Christmas round at my great aunts watching the Wizard of Oz with all the other kids. Seemed to be on every Christmas during the 70's.

[no-knowledge]

not mine though mamyalynne ( confess before i get grassed) some other genius wrote it.

[sqad617]

mallam.....c'mon I have never felt underprivileged at any time in any way.......quite the opposite.......being a ba'sterd and a medic and an extrovert leads to hilarious dinner parties and conversations.

P.S Are you male or female?

[tamborine]

Sqad....you never bonded with her - such a shame.

I reared my neice as her mother was unwed & needed income for her care. My neice - now in her 40s - still turns to me altho I do refer her to her mum.

Where were the fathers? Uncaring be88ars!

[sqad617]

tambo....I am settling down for the rugby, but will reply this evening.