Moonbase Junior is having his final sleep of his monthly 3 sleeps at his Grandparents. He's just gone to sleep and we're already missing him. Taking him home to his parents tomorrow will, as it always is, be hard for all three of us.
Watching Junior is an education. A lesson in how to enjoy things for what they are and just enjoy them. Pure unadulterated fun. I suppose that's the key, unadulterated; no adult problems, woes and worries, which totally get in our way when we try to have fun.
I can't really remember that feeling. Just whispers and winks popping up from my past like flimsy bubbles. Having said that, Junior is only just 4 and for me that's 56 years ago, so quite a lot has happened since to blur the rear-view mirror.
I can at least recall my teenage obsessions though but that's as far back as I can go to dig up the joy I see in Junior when he's playing with his cars or his play doh or messing with apples in the garden.
Being with him is like a second childhood!
I'm already looking forward to his 3 sleeps in November!
Do you remember the joy of childhood readers?
I don't need a second childhood - I haven't grown out of my first one yet. And I remember my early childhood as though it were only the day before yesterday. Happy days.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean Kid. I'm still a Kid at heart aged almost 60. But alas I don't recall much great detail of my childhood before around 1972. I do remember all my childhood toys and games and books though, hence this blog!
DeleteI'm with Kid on this one.
ReplyDeleteWe are who we are, and are where we are, because we CAN remember this period of our lives. It's why we love the blog. This must be true of you too Woodsy, surely !
Mish.
I'm glad you guys love the blog. Makes it worthwhile. I remember all my toys, games, books, comics, posters, films, monsters and eventually records and clothes but I can't recall much detail of early childhood Mish. I can't see the people and places or any movement. just the things that were around. My detail starts around 1972 when I was almost a teenager and the first vivid phase in my mins is my adoration of Bruce Lee and all things Martial Arts. Hi Ya!
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DeleteAs you know, I often reminisce about when I was a child. Much of my memories of that time are essentially short silent movies of what I saw. Like leading up to Guy Falks Night 1965 in school. Watching an episode of Fireball XL5 sometime in 1963 and a helicopter land on the main road the same year.
ReplyDeleteAnd so much other stuff. From those pictures it's fairly easy to work out what is what.
Not many audio memories though. But with loads of family recordings from that time I can see why I had such a happy and loved childhood at home.
I love that phrase Bill. Audio memories. I'm now thinking back to certain sounds and trying to focus on them!
DeleteMy memories of the joys of childhood have been blurred by the years , although I can also distantly remember the unhappiness at times, too. I get a small window into my past when I look at books (particularly illustrations) and toys I had as a kid.
ReplyDeleteI am lucky to live by the sea, where I spent many holidays as a child, so a walk on the beach, or gazing into rockpools, also connects me back to the best of my childhood.
I love that phrase too Andy, small windows into my past. Its hard describing memories and that's a great one. I agree that the seaside is a conduit to childhood, a universal conductor. And yes, I remember the unhappiness too, every Sunday night before school started again.
DeleteAhhh childhood memories... I only have some memories from the dark,distant past (pre 1970). My brother in his cot (I would have been 3 1/2), Cliff Richard on Eurovision in that crazy jacket "Congratulations" is seared into my brain cells, Dr Who (I can get back as far as "Fury from the Deep", getting SWORD T1 and T2 on my 5 or 6th birthday (and treating them with great care ss they were my new toys), watching all the GA shows, first day at primary school, the excitement of the moon landing.....
ReplyDeleteBut I remember little of day to day happenings, just random stuff like my sisters convincing me there was a dragon in the lift that they visited at night! (They would never wake me up to go visit it either!!!)
Amazing memories Timmy. I wish I had such clarity. Really. Great Sixties memories all. Where was the lift?
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