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17-10-2005, 02:14 PM   #1

Old picture, old friends


Rediscovered this pic a few weeks ago. Apologies for the quality of scan of poor original.
It is from summer 1976 and shows me, my Katie in her first year and 3 old friends.
Lassie (yes! from the dogs home and I didn't know then that you could change dogs names easily )
Sissons (B&W) obtained as a kitten from a house near Tranmere Rovers football club
Roger (Black) described to me as 'clerical grey' by the colleague who persuaded me to take one of his kittens.



(Told you I was ancient!)



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17-10-2005, 02:26 PM   #2

Re: Old picture, old friends


Ah - I remember 1976 well it was a very, very long hot summer made all the more memorable by the fact that I was seriously excited by the prospect of going to secondary school the following September. The holiday really did seem to go on for ever!!

It's a really sweet picture that is, thanks for sharing it - and it makes your daughter what? 30? Cripes doesn't time fly



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17-10-2005, 02:30 PM   #3

Re: Old picture, old friends


Well, she will be 30 in December if she lives that long - I have threatened to take out a contract on her, on the grounds that it's no good me knocking years off myself while she keeps going up and up!!!!

That was a fab (!) hot summer - Katie spent most of it wearing only a sunhat and factor 50 (plus a nappy and frilly nicks if we were going out!)



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17-10-2005, 02:52 PM   #4

Re: Old picture, old friends


Great piccie, my where do all the years go 1976 I would have been 10, so just about to go up to the comp school myself Yola...you must be a similar age to me?



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17-10-2005, 03:21 PM   #5

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I remember that scorching summer too....it just went on and on and on. At long last, on a September day, we had a torrential thunderstorm...the first rain for endless months. Everyone went out in their gardens to stand in it, just to get some relief from the sweltering heat.....Those were the days!



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17-10-2005, 04:19 PM   #6

Re: Old picture, old friends


Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Kitty
Great piccie, my where do all the years go 1976 I would have been 10, so just about to go up to the comp school myself Yola...you must be a similar age to me?
I was 11, born march '65 (and some)



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17-10-2005, 06:13 PM   #7

Re: Old picture, old friends


great pic DM
but i am sorry to say i missed what sounded like a good summer that year
(i was born in 79 )



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17-10-2005, 07:54 PM   #8

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Originally Posted by yola
I was 11, born march '65 (and some)
I was born just over a year later June '66



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17-10-2005, 08:42 PM   #9

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This is me in 1976 with my neice.........




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17-10-2005, 09:18 PM   #10

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What a smashing picture Moli!



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