Scattered Pictures of the Smiles we left behind
30 Day Challenge
Day 10
Childhood Memory I had to edit because I discovered i had posted the same photo and almost exactly the same words on 7/7/2015.. who'd have thunk. At least I realise my memories haven't faded over time.
I've delved into the depths of the old photos, for my childhood memory.
A photo of a photo.
This is me, and Davie E. Probably about 4 on the beach at Troon, where summers were spent, because the weather was always better.
The swimming pool is way in the distance.
I joke to my mum that she always abandoned me on the beach as a baby, whilst she went to the sewing bee, or shopping, and she disputes this highly, admitting "I only ever left you while I went to drop your sister at school, or pick her up". There in the tale being that I must have only been 2, and not 1. there are three years between my sister and myself - if she was at school at 5, I was sitting in a hole on the beach by myself at 2.
And no one stole me.
Summers were long and hot while I was young; I remember this, because I spent most of my summers coated in Calomine lotion, and would venture out with a hand knitted cardi, sticking to the pinkness of my skin. If I didn't have the calomine/ cardi combo I would come out in a prickly rash - that prickly rash is stilll available today - I had it while we were in Tenerife.
Days were spent on the beach in the company of friends, mum and dad's friends, cousins. My uncle ran boat trips round the bay, and we would happily all sit around the small hut he kept his kit in. Oh, I don't know about anyone else, but I felt like a VIP having a special place to sit.
I can still sit happily there on the wall still, and the smell of the sea and the sand takes me back to warm summers, giggling with friends on the beach, eating sandwiches, with sandwiches made of sand.
And later on - happily tipsy on the beach after disco, lighting fires and drinking more beer, skinny dipping in the rain.
Aw.. Good times.
the extra's show the view along the prom then, and today. No pool, just a car park, but everyone still refers to the space as "the old swimming pool", even himself, who was never here when it was here.
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