mint Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 Weather vile......just too hot for doing anything too physically demanding. Only so much lying about and reading that you can do....No new topics on the Forum, so I am going to try and get some of us talking. So how about talking about nostalgia? Maybe, it isn't what it used to be but let's have a go anyway[:)]Please post something that you remember from the past whether it be with revulsion or regret, affection, pleasure or loathing. I'd like to see whatever comes readily to your mind: a snip of conversation, a piece of eloquent prose, a snatch of poetry, a song, a piece of music, a photo....anything goes...Here is my contribution[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq0yhizu0y8[/url]Dates from the early 1960s.....hell, I was young then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kong Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 So was I (young). Benjamin Britten's War Requiem performed in Westminster Abbey in 1962. A really powerful experience for someone still just in his teens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted August 8, 2020 Author Share Posted August 8, 2020 Kong, a really powerful experience for anyone of any age! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroTr@sh Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 Getting a phone call from a friend on the evening that Elvis died, she'd just heard it on the news, and we both cried.Thinking how glam I looked in my yellow blouse and black velvet hotpants!Drinking Cherry-B and lemonade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judith-aka-Judith Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 Remembering the shock of hearing of JFK's assssination, and saying "we don't believe it!", and only a few years later, hearing about the Aberfan disaster .. with roughly the same response ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lehaut Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 Taking a picture of the moon landing on the TV with my camera to have a permanent record of the event.Still find it incredible that lots of people believe it never took place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddy Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 For me, like Judith, it's Aberfan. It happened on my birthday and so I'm reminded of it every year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 Shark fishing with my father off the long pier at Durban Harbour and seeing the whale boats coming in with their cargoes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 https://youtu.be/LQqj-cmFMO8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardian Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Radio programmes on a Sunday - The Navy Lark, Round the Horn, Two-Way Family Favourites etc.Sunday drives down to Brighton from Surrey in Mum & Dad’s Austin 7. It usually failed to get up Reigate Hill without ‘boiling up’ halfway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cajal Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 On the 18th of next month it will be 50 years, yes that's half a century, since Jimi Hendrix tragically died. What a phenomenal legacy he left for someone so young, 27.I have difficulty in getting my head around the time span. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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