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The key to the future
Looking back in time and celebrating a special birthday you would always get given a 21st silver key, and it came in a gift box. I often wonder if they are still purchased as my older grandchildren don’t seem to have received them when they came of age. I wonder if many of Yours readers have kept them?
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The joy of movement
I agree wholeheartedly with your article Walk your way to better health. I feel so much better when I walk regularly, more relaxed, fitter, sleep better and taking in the weak winter sun is good for my Vitamin D levels.
I walk to the shops with a friend once a week, in the mountains on visits to my 85-year-old mum in North Wales and with my camera at sunrise.
I have even experienced two wild swims, which were exhilarating in the cold mountain water in Snowdonia. Here’s a photograph of me swimming in the Fairy Pools on the Isle of Skye.
Wedding treasures
When my husband and I were engaged to be married in the Sixties it was the practice then to save up items which were called your ‘bottom drawer’.
My mother and aunt won a lot of these things at prize bingo sessions. I can remember that an evening out for me and my intended was often to accompany either my fiancé’s mum or mine to the local bingo hall where we had aspirations of winning these coveted items! Whether it be an iron, ironing board, kettle, bed linen, etc, anything you didn’t have by the time you were wed would be added to a wedding list of presents for people to buy for you.
It’s a shame that nowadays some young couples intending to marry ask for gifts of money.
I can’t help feeling they are missing out on a lot of the pleasures and excitement of anticipation we had.
Friends of Bagpuss
Your recent article on Oliver Postgate brought back happy memories. I had a craft stall on the seafront at Broadstairs when Oliver and his partner Naomi came by (I didn’t know who he was then). He asked about the beanbag doorstop frogs I had made, bought one, and asked for my business card. Later I got a phone call saying he wanted another frog. I was delighted and took the ones I’d made to his flat.
Some time after, I got a phone call asking me to drop by. Intrigued I turned up as requested to find the frogs in various poses on the back of a settee, trying to unwind a ball of wool that was all over them. We all had such a laugh!
