We had a real back in time yesterday morning. Somebody on FB was asking if anyone knew where they could get seed potatoes, as all the garden centres had sold out. As it happened we had some left over and we'd asked our gardener friends and no one wanted them. So I got in touch with them and..... it was someone who lived in number 1 in the street where I was brought up in number 6! It was her sister who I was friends with, as we were the same age. But I knew Gill as well.
So it was such a delight to meet with Gill and her partner, and chatting about people we both knew. In fact I knew more about the people, who used to live there than she did, and she has lived in Porthcawl all her life, while I had moved away!
It was a real lovely time. I used to go to her house to watch the tele as we didn't have one till much later in the fifties. She reminded me that it was to our house her Dad came to use the phone, when her mum was in work, because he felt really ill. The Dr was phoned and he came and in fact her dad was having a heart attack. He recovered that time and died much later. I had her in awe because I remembered our phone number was 3168! How did I do that? It was a real pleasant morning, we chatted about gardening and they said they loved our garden. .
And also at our U3a gardening group meeting on Tuesday afternoon, there was a demo of planting a hanging basket, which was then raffled, no charge tickets and I won!! I might not have it as a hanging basket, because we haven't a suitable wall on which to hang it, we're thinking about it.
So some very pleasant gardening days without the actual gardening!
Chrisxx
11 comments:
What a fun surprise. I would have loved that.
How lovely to meet someone from the street where you grew up. Such shared memories can be good for the spirit.
What a lovely coincidence. Will you keep in touch, now?
What a wonderful surprise to meet and lovely to catch up!
What a lovely trip down memory lane! It's amazing how such simple connections—like seed potatoes—can bring back so many shared memories. It's great to hear that you had such a heartwarming reunion with Gill and her partner, reminiscing about the past and reconnecting over familiar faces. The phone number memory is so nostalgic—it's fascinating how certain things stay with us over the years. And winning the hanging basket at the gardening group sounds like the cherry on top of a delightful day! Sometimes it's the little moments, like these, that make everything feel so special.
What a fun connection to make after all these years. I can remember my first telephone number as a child, too. Funny how the oddest things stick in the memory.
That sounds just as nice as can be. What pleasure!
I can still remember my phone number from 1963 "Stanton 755" even though we lived in that house for less than three years.
That must have been a lovely couple of hours sharing memories together and the hanging basket win, an extra happy bonus.
How nice to reconnect with someone you knew in your childhood and to win that hanging basket!
How lovely that sounds and the hanging basket win must have certainly put another extra smile on your face :)
All the best Jan
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