Some may say that's too far back to be thinking about, but I sometimes wonder if life wasn't much simpler then. I do know time seemed to travel much more slowly, and it was a lot quieter in terms of noise levels around us, even in the cities or towns.
We seemed to be able to eat, drink, do things with far less fear or concern about what it might do to us personally. There didn't seem to be the fears of harm from food oractivities that might be dagerous, although I do know that at times we may have taken risks that put us in some harms way. I recall when I was about 7 years old, walking to scholl and home again skirting the bank of the local river, feeling that I was doing something adventurous by walking along the waters edge less that a foot away, a little fearful of what might happen should I fall in. No one seemed to take much notice of this although I suppose I might have gotten a severe reprimand had I fallen in.
So many of the things that I remember fondly have disappeared. I can recall the first time we had a radio in our home. We were living in a small town and this was something we had never experienced. I recall that there were families that had a radio, but it was a battery operated appliance. Now I don't mean one that you put a couple of D cells into and it runs for several weeks. No indeed. These were operated using a B batery and an A battery, and you needed both of them for the radio to work, and great care had to be taken not to overuse them because they were expensive to replace. The radio we got was one that was plugged into a wall socket so it was a very up to date model. By the way Television was not something we new about at this stage.
I have many more memories I'll share as time goes on, so stay tuned.
