Mark Albrighton Posted June 27, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted June 27, 2019 Ah memories, like the corners of my mind. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottaloo Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 On 20/06/2016 at 01:23, chrisp65 said: Having a thruppeny bit and excitedly setting off for the shops where half a penny could get you four sports mixtures, but dropping the coin and seeing it disappear into a crack in the curb. I checked out that hole for my shiny golden coin every time I passed it for about ten years. Having what was by now an old thruppeny bit that was all cruddy. My science teacher taking an interest and offering to clean it for me. He made up some solution, we dropped it in to see it go clean and shine once again. There was a lot of fizzing and the thing disappeared before our very eyes. A misreading of the acid dilution by the science teacher. Having a sixpence that was now worth two and a half pence. Receiving this: not only receiving a letter addressed to me, as a kid, but one with an Aston Villa posting frank on it, I've never had anything remotely as good in the post in the 38 years since Great memory, that. The above pic has prompted me to think that players' autographs were actually legible back then. Now, when i see a signed team shirt or photo up for auction there just appears to be a load of half hearted squiggles or nicknames scrawled on it. One for the boring thread i suppose.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 (edited) What we should be doing, is paint drawings of our memories of locations, then go back to that place and take a photo and see just how good your recall of it is, or if it's a place of nature, how much it has changed since your memory of it. At this second, I'm remembering my mom and dads garden, which backed onto Woodgate Valley Country Park. We had a gate in our back fence which went straight into the park, but it was a piece of grass land which horses used to use (before I was old enough to remember). At the back of a patch my dad used to mow, to give us a football pitch (probably 5 to 7-a-side in size), was knee high grass, with one tree which we buried our family rabbit under when he died. To the back of that was a bit more grass, then a "triangle" of tall trees, down one side of these trees was a narrow dirt track which traveled into the country park. Edited June 28, 2019 by lapal_fan 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 And obviously when I grew older, I could go as far into the park as I wanted, which was pretty good, especially down making dams and rope swings and bike racing tracks, dens, visitors center for ice creams, football pitches and horse fields where we used to play "flung dung" which is a particularly interesting game where you use wooden fence panels to pick up horse shit and "trebuche" them towards your mates, etc. Was pretty cool thinking about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 (edited) Sometimes I go back to a place that I haven't been to for a long time, and suddenly it's as if no time at all has passed since I was last there. But am I remembering the past, or experiencing that present moment as a memory. Edited June 29, 2019 by useless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A'Villan Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 Vivid memories. There's a few. Apologies for that not all are fun and lighthearted. As a young boy there was an attempted kidnapping/abduction on me. Very, very scary sh*t people. Lord knows what I managed to escape from. We had goats when we lived on the mountain growing up. One decided to knock me of a box I was standing on to help him get the higher branches and I fell into the blackberry bush so thick it could handle my body-weight and I was suspended in branches of prickly blackberry bush. Fun times. The resident dog of a property I was walking by came barreling down to the front porch to bark at us. The resident cat was sleeping on the porch and didn't appreciate the ruckus, went straight up to the dog and bopped it on the head with her paw. Dog lets off a whimper and runs back inside. Was playing golf in the park with my sister, still at an age where we'd dob on each other for petty sh*t, and I told her to stand basically directly behind me because I didn't want the ball hitting her and her running to tell on me. What do you know? I manage to ping the ball directly back and smack her on the head. As she cried I begged her not to tell and she was as amazed as me with my efforts that she agreed. At a beach camping spot, can't remember how old I was but I still had to wear nappies at night so I dunno probably 24, only joking, but I still had to wear nappies in overnight much later than most, maybe I was 5 or 6, anyway a girl who had invited herself into our campsite asked me if I wanted to milk her cows. Two girls on school camp when I was 10 approached me and told me they thought highly of me. They would pass me all the black jelly beans that they didn't want on the bus ride. And I also remember their mothers not being happy about us kissing. Her older sister getting her male friends to surround me and hit me in the gut a few times. Then like a week later sister and her henchmen tried to get us to kiss in front of a circle of people which I'm remembering as half their class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 (edited) When I was young I used to say to myself things like, 'if you don't walk up and down the stairs fifteen times such and such person is going to lose their legs, or become blind', and then I'd rationalize to myself that's 'just silly', but then I'd think 'but what if it does happen, I would never forgive myself', so I'd end up doing the task of walking up and down the stairs or whatever it might be. And this time I was in a downstairs room doing some skills with one of my balls, and it crashed onto this old buero thing that had these glass sliding doors, so they rattled, and I heard a voice from another room shout 'what have you been told about playing with that ball in the house!', that made me quite nervous, so decided to leave that room, but when I went to turn the light out I had another one of my thoughts, I told myself had to turn it off by throwing my ball in the air and headering it onto to the light switch otherwise something bad would happen, obviously I didn't want to miss and make a racket otherwise I'd be in trouble, but I convinced myself that I had to do it, so I threw the ball in the air waited for it to come down and then headed forcefully in the direction of the light switch and thankfully it landed right on switch and turned the light out, the ball bounced back to me, and because it was transparant I could still see it despite the now darkened room, as the moon shining through a big window was reflecting against it. Strange thing is I've just thought 'I'm sure there was 'dimmer' switches in that room, that you twist to turn on. Edited September 2, 2019 by useless 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted October 15, 2019 Share Posted October 15, 2019 On 29/06/2019 at 20:27, useless said: Sometimes I go back to a place that I haven't been to for a long time, and suddenly it's as if no time at all has passed since I was last there. But am I remembering the past, or experiencing that present moment as a memory. Tune in for more Mindhunters next week folks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted October 15, 2019 Share Posted October 15, 2019 (edited) My nan lived alongside an old railway line, hadn't been used in years. We used to walk up it and just meas about, it wasn't electrified, and it was just great fun. By hadn't been used in years, what it really meant as once a month a diesel train would make the journey up it, that was a surprise! Edited October 15, 2019 by avfcDJ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Paddywhack Posted October 15, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 15, 2019 I shared a bedroom with my sister until was 6 or 7 and I remember one night, us lying in our beds, arguing about which one of us was going to get up and turn the landing light off. In the end I got up, went over to the switch and quickly turned the light on and off repeatedly for a while to annoy my sister. She was telling me to stop as I'd break the light. Next second, *pop*, all the lights and electrics in the house went off. The streetlights went out too and I found out the next day there was a power cut in the street. My sister started to wind me up, saying she was going to tell my dad and I'd be in trouble and the police would be after me etc. I was terrified. 25 years later, I'm still not convinced it wasn't me that caused the power cut. That's why I keep a low profile when I'm around cops. 1 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted October 15, 2019 Share Posted October 15, 2019 I sometimes think about all the old toys, books, stuff etc... that I had when I was little or younger and wonder where are they now? A landfill? Melted down? Recycled into something else?Someone else's house? A shop somewhere? Who knows. Also, I've always wanted to go back and see my nans old house even though someone else lives there now and it's probably completely different inside. Been about 13 years since I was there and she died in 2008 having moved somewhere else for her last few years. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 8 hours ago, Ingram85 said: I sometimes think about all the old toys, books, stuff etc... that I had when I was little or younger and wonder where are they now? A landfill? Melted down? Recycled into something else?Someone else's house? A shop somewhere? Who knows. Also, I've always wanted to go back and see my nans old house even though someone else lives there now and it's probably completely different inside. Been about 13 years since I was there and she died in 2008 having moved somewhere else for her last few years. It makes me realise my mom was throwing away toys and books behind my back, hoping I wouldn't notice. Well I've got news for you mom, it's taken two decades but I'm on to you! My son will more than likely be going to the Primary School I went to in about 4 years and I can't wait to have a good look around that place. It will be so much easier than looking at it from the bushes. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 2 hours ago, Paddywhack said: It makes me realise my mom was throwing away toys and books behind my back, hoping I wouldn't notice. Well I've got news for you mom, it's taken two decades but I'm on to you! My son will more than likely be going to the Primary School I went to in about 4 years and I can't wait to have a good look around that place. It will be so much easier than looking at it from the bushes. My primary reason for wanting my kid to go to my old school Didn't get in! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted October 16, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted October 16, 2019 11 hours ago, Ingram85 said: Also, I've always wanted to go back and see my nans old house even though someone else lives there now and it's probably completely different inside. Been about 13 years since I was there and she died in 2008 having moved somewhere else for her last few years. I googled mapped the house we grew up in the other day. From the looks of the satellite images, they've installed a pond in the exact spot we buried all our pets (when they died). They must have dug up so many rabbit and guinea pigs skeletons. I hope their pond is now haunted. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted October 16, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted October 16, 2019 I grew up in a block of flats that has now been demolished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 (edited) 15 minutes ago, mjmooney said: I grew up in a block of flats that has now been demolished. I always wondered what was wrong with your appearance.. (sub text - you were in them at the time of demolition) (sub sub text - I'm calling you ugly) (sub sub sub text - I would only do this, knowing how comfortable you are in your own skin) Edited October 16, 2019 by lapal_fan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 I think it should be legal where one day a year you can go and visit places you grew up in lol. I think I'm reminiscing and getting nostalgic about my childhood too much the last few years. Like to an obsessive degree. Makes me sad sometimes. It cant be healthy. Probably why I'm such a maladjusted adult. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 Just now, Ingram85 said: I think it should be legal where one day a year you can go and visit places you grew up in lol. I think I'm reminiscing and getting nostalgic about my childhood too much the last few years. Like to an obsessive degree. Makes me sad sometimes. It cant be healthy. Probably why I'm such a maladjusted adult. Sweden is a long way to go though innit? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted October 16, 2019 Moderator Share Posted October 16, 2019 35 minutes ago, lapal_fan said: I always wondered what was wrong with your appearance.. (sub text - you were in them at the time of demolition) (sub sub text - I'm calling you ugly) (sub sub sub text - I would only do this, knowing how comfortable you are in your own skin) That comparison with a Block of flats is floored on so many levels. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 3 minutes ago, blandy said: That comparison with a Block of flats is floored on so many levels. gimme a lift then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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