Guest 666- Registered: 25 Mar 2008
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14 February 2010
23:1640640Hi Roger,
You are so right there Roger, but I was trying to remember tracks from the early days that I grooved to as as teenager fresh from school, the ones that take me right back to the Cat's Whiskas in Streatham and all.
Buddy's tunes were just tailor made for romance and True Love Ways is my favourite from his back-catalogue.
Sentimental Journey by Doris Day also ... the list is endless really, depends on the mood.
Oh Boy!, That'll be the day.........
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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15 February 2010
12:0740666There you go again BuddyG, the old Cats Whiskers in Streatham, bottle fights outside, Ah, those were the days!
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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18 February 2010
10:3040967Yeah I miss the past and happy bygone days of my mother crying when my brother was posted to Belfast just in time for Sunday bloody Sunday,then to Long Kesh prison and the hunger strikers (hope I spelt it correctly).I miss the riots of the 70's watching pit after pit close and communities destroyed by two peoples egos,the blackouts,the dustbinmen walk out,not being able to bury your dead.
Vietnam was a scream,watching kids being burnt to death by napalm.The roar of US planes taking off from UK bases.Then there was the Bay of Pigs fiasco,the nuclear stand off and the assassination of JFK,the attempts on the Popes life and the bombings on the streets and cities of England.
What a laugh life was for the poverty stricken slum dwelling kids of the 50's and 60's,outside loos shared with your neighbours,tin baths no running hot water and when we joked that central heating was obtained by having a fire in the centre of your 'front' room.The smog,measles polio etc.Yes I miss all that...like a hole in the head but at least we had an 'in touch' PM with MacMillan who reassured us that we never had it so good.
And don't mention the wars Mr Fawlty..I mentioned it once but got away with it....
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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18 February 2010
11:5140971Completely different thing your talking about above Marek, though some may disagree. If you adopt the above view, then you`d just as well dump all your family photo`s, granny`s gold wedding ring, scrap all the preserved transport exhibit`s, and everything else relating to the past. Regarding war, don`t forget that despite all the attrocities and bombing`s, people look back in sentiment at singing in the underground during the blitz, soldier`s meeting up with old comrades after the war they hadn`t seen for years, the list is endless and no doubt other`s will have their sentimental memories.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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19 February 2010
08:2541047I guess it also depends on whether you're negative or positive about how you feel now, as much as what experiences you had in the past.
We all know those negative/bad/bloody awful, things happened Marek, but that's nothing to do with sentimentality or nostalgia, that's history and the sad part about history, is that although we are supposed to learn from it, we never do.
Roger
19 February 2010
09:5941056It matters that we keep the perspectives, though. The past holds some brilliant memories and some bloody awful ones! Some smells and music take me back to a time when I personally had no worries and the pain was all in the future. But at the same time bad things were happening around me of which, as a child, I was not aware. And the the bittersweet thing kicks in - the accumulation of pain-memories and pleasure-memories, the growing older thing. History is crammed with nasties - but the history books do not record the pleasure as well. Read A Lucky Child by Thomas Buergenthal - he was a child in Auschwitz, is now the American judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, and records near-perfectly and with humanity and humour (yes, humour) what survival as a child in those conditions means. I guarantee you will read it in a sitting - it took me less than a couple of hours. Fascinating and humbling.