What, for you, may provoke a positive experience/memory from the past?

Treacle

Treacle

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Today I had fish and chips. Not my usual but hey these are 'unprecedented' times!!!!! :giggle:

My memory went back to the days when I took my wheelchair bound grandmother on several holidays to areas near the north sea coastline, England. She absolutely loved fish and chips which we had nearly every day for the week. (Can't remember any vegetables) :eek:
We would sit in my car reading our newspapers and then watch the boats out at sea and the waves coming onto the shore.
Those moments were such happy moments, absolute bliss as I love the sea and I like to think my grandmother had an enjoyable time and was reminded of the days she and granddad took us kids on holiday to Mundesley (Norfolk coast) . But this time the roles were reversed.
Haven't mentioned her love of ice - cream, another of her loves and one I endured for the week, but that's another story.....bless🤗
 

We have 2 photo frames, one on the breakfast bar, and the other in the den. I finally got some SD cards with enough memory to load all 19,000 photos we took on our trips.
They run continuously, and we will look at the photo showing, and revisit the memory of that experience.
 
Treacle said:
Today I had fish and chips. Not my usual but hey these are 'unprecedented' times!!!!! :giggle:

My memory went back to the days when I took my wheelchair bound grandmother on several holidays to areas near the north sea coastline, England. She absolutely loved fish and chips which we had nearly every day for the week. (Can't remember any vegetables) :eek:
We would sit in my car reading our newspapers and then watch the boats out at sea and the waves coming onto the shore.
Those moments were such happy moments, absolute bliss as I love the sea and I like to think my grandmother had an enjoyable time and was reminded of the days she and granddad took us kids on holiday to Mundesley (Norfolk coast) . But this time the roles were reversed.
Haven't mentioned her love of ice - cream, another of her loves and one I endured for the week, but that's another story.....bless🤗
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But aren't chips made from potatoes? Potatoes are vegetables.. :ROFLMAO:
 

When we are in Adelaide we quite often drive past the spot in the seaside suburb of Glenelg where hubby and I arranged to meet for the very first time in 1986 ....and our first date where he took me to magic mountain to have fun on the dodgem cars ( romantic isn’t he ) 🤣
Magic mountain has long gone and been replaced with high rise apartments but the memories are still there
https://www.adelaiderememberwhen.com.au/magic-mountain-memories-from-the-80s-and-90s/
 
You reminded me @peramangkelder my grandad always hummed Cool Water he would rarely say something about the war and how he related to Cool water to drink.
We quite often danced to the tune and i never fail to think of grandad when I hear it ..



Some of the lyrics as I’m not sure how to post a YouTube clip

All day I've faced a barren waste
Without the taste of water, cool water
Old Dan and I with throats burned dry
And souls that cry for water
Cool, clear, water
The nights are cool and I'm a fool
Each star's a pool of water
Cool water
And with the dawn I'll wake and yawn
And carry on to water, cool clear water
 
Kadee46 said:
You reminded me @peramangkelder my grandad always hummed Cool Water he would rarely say something about the war and how he related to Cool water to drink.
We quite often danced to the tune and i never fail to think of grandad when I hear it ..



Some of the lyrics as I’m not sure how to post a YouTube clip

All day I've faced a barren waste
Without the taste of water, cool water
Old Dan and I with throats burned dry
And souls that cry for water
Cool, clear, water
The nights are cool and I'm a fool
Each star's a pool of water
Cool water
And with the dawn I'll wake and yawn
And carry on to water, cool clear water
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@Kadee46 'Cool Water' was one of my late Mum's favourite songs and she would often hum it or sing it
Just for you @Kadee46 :)
 
Hmmm.....there are so many things that can provoke a memory, a song, a place, a smell, but my favourite by a country mile, is when a beautiful woman winks at me, even better, when she smiles and winks.......Erm, go and do your own thing, I'm having a gorgeous memory........"Hello Winky Woo" 😊
 
For me it is many things - certain foods remind me of my mother (Sunday baked dinners) and my dad (yellow pea soup, and left over stew gravy on thick bread for breakfast). Certain flowers - iceland poppies (my grandfather), gladioli and dahlias (my dad) and may bush and geraldton wax (my mother in law). Photos on the screensaver that bring back memories of overseas travels with my husband. Little items in our home that remind me of their previous owners, in particular some beloved aunts. I have enough beautiful memories to warm me all the days I have left to me. When I can no longer remember the date, or the name of the prime minister, I will still remember my past and the people who loved me, and vice versa.
 
Songs. Whenever I hear an old song, I go right back to where I first heard. them . Songs from 1963-64 bring me right back to my upstairs room, in our Cape Cod type home. The songs evoke such powerful memories that I remember how little things were ,like the feel of the wall paper in my room. During the 60s, I was a teenager, life was dramatic back then. My God! Where you sat in the lunchroom was of the utmost importance. So I had to have my tunes. And songs told of my life.
 
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Every time I hear any old song that my granny would sing, or a tune she would play on her Harmonica.. she was the life and soul of any party..or the dirges she would have me sing in front of her friends when I was just knee high like ''Nobody's child''... which got them all with a tear in their eye.. .. ..

.....or when I see people at the coastal resorts eating their own packed lunches or picnics, and it reminds me of my granny again who would take us kids to the seaside for a day trip, and inevitably it would be raining ( Scotland)... and we'd sit in the bus shelter overlooking the sea and watch the waves ever higher, us dressed in our sou'wester and rubber jackets , eating sandwiches we'd brought with us and getting excited about having an ice-cream cone 🍦 from the Italian cafe on the promenade 🥰
 
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