When The Old Days Come A-Knocking

[Folly]

Does your love of the old days ever sneak in and confuse your modern life?

My usual era is the forties and I know when I've immersed myself too much when I forget what's what with the world. I live in a village tucked away from the rat race, so it's easy to forget it's all terribly modern outside my front door, as I hide away and cook from WWII recipes and sit and darn socks .. I live a thrilling life, as you can no doubt see

Just after we moved to this house, I was busy sorting the bedroom out when out of nowhere came the very eerie wail of an air raid siren. Suddenly my mind set was terribly confused, I froze, panicked and then wondered if I could fit under the bed. Unable to fit, I jumped to my feet and looked outside to see what was happening. It was only when I spotted the television aerials and what not, that the realisation dawned that it was actually 2007 and unless I'd missed something, there wasn't a war going on lol

And with air raid sirens comes my paranoia over the sounds of aircraft going over because you never know .. I MIGHT have missed something after all
Living under a military flight path, you would think I'd get used to it, but oh no! the sound of low flying aircraft often sends me scurrying to the window in a panic (I never learn) Often on these paranoid dashes to the window I've been treated to the sight of a formation of six bi-planes going over or old Russian aeroplanes doing some very fancy moves above the house, so it's not all bad. It's not really relevant, but I saw a Stealth bomber go over once.

I need to get out more lol

 

[skyvue]

If you've never read Jack Finney's time-travel novel, Time and Again, you might want to pick it up. It's a delightful read and should be right up your alley, I think, because -- WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT AHEAD...


it revolves around the theory that one can achieve time travel by the very act of immersing oneself in life as it was lived then.

 

[Folly]

I shall definitely seek this book out - thank you for mentioning it!

 

[Feraud]

If you've never read Jack Finney's time-travel novel, Time and Again, you might want to pick it up. It's a delightful read and should be right up your alley, I think, because -- WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT AHEAD...

Didn't Robert Redford buy the rights to this book years ago with the intention of filming it?

 

[Tango Yankee]

If you've never read Jack Finney's time-travel novel, Time and Again, you might want to pick it up. It's a delightful read and should be right up your alley, I think, because -- WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT AHEAD...


it revolves around the theory that one can achieve time travel by the very act of immersing oneself in life as it was lived then.

My first thought was the 1980 movie "Somewhere in Time" starring Christopher Reeve. Further research (OK, I went to IMDB.com) revealed that movie was based on the book "Bid Time Return" by Richard Matheson, who is thought to have borrowed the idea from "Time and Again."

Cheers,
Tom

 

[skyvue]

Yeah, Time and Again has been bouncing around forever as a potential movie.

It's too bad, too -- it could be a great picture.

The book captured something that I've strongly felt ever since moving to NYC in 1982, but could never really put a finger on until I read Time and Again: the idea of a through line in the life of the city, a connection between those who live there, those who lived there in the past, and those who live there in the future.

Perhaps it's because I grew up in Oklahoma City, a town with a much more brief existence, but when you live here, one really does feel a sort of kinship with those who preceded you here, as if you have a sort of shared experience with them.

 

[zaika]

folly, can i be your roommate? or at least a little house elf under your stairs? lol i like the sound of your problem.
my world is so modern that i can never forget i live in the 21st century...not even for a few blessed minutes. [huh]

 

[Folly]

folly, can i be your roommate? or at least a little house elf under your stairs? lol i like the sound of your problem.
my world is so modern that i can never forget i live in the 21st century...not even for a few blessed minutes. [huh]

Aww, that's a shame! Modern life can be quite rubbish for the most part.
Well if you want to share a room with Miss Grace, our house bunny who lives under the stairs*, then please do come on over!



* I'd like to clarify that we have a cupboard under the stairs which we have made into a bedroom for Miss Grace. The door is open at all times and she has her own en-suite bathroom area. Her decor is wood effect vinyl flooring and her little bed is covered in a lovely 1950's style design. I'm also resisting the desire to hang pictures in there on her walls lol

 

[Twitch]

As we've all mentioned before various things can stimulate old memories and we sort of flashback. I've found that often for no applicable reason I'll go back to some unrelated happening whent I was a kid or such and it is very vivid.

If you really space out you can "escape" for quite a few minutes if your surroundings permit as you consciously go from one old memory to another on purpose.

The think is that in your mid's eye it really is Christmas 1953 or whatever because everything you recall is totally that time. It's like being hypnotized and someone tells you to focus on something your mind doesn't see when conscious. You do that to some extent in memory flashes.

 

[zaika]

Aww, that's a shame! Modern life can be quite rubbish for the most part.
Well if you want to share a room with Miss Grace, our house bunny who lives under the stairs*, then please do come on over!



* I'd like to clarify that we have a cupboard under the stairs which we have made into a bedroom for Miss Grace. The door is open at all times and she has her own en-suite bathroom area. Her decor is wood effect vinyl flooring and her little bed is covered in a lovely 1950's style design. I'm also resisting the desire to hang pictures in there on her walls lol

modern life has it's uses...like medical and dental advances...and the internet. but most everything else i don't want to be bothered with anymore. oh well...
what a perfect situation! my user name "zaika" is Russian for bunny...so, li'l Miss Grace and i should get on famously. lol
i think that is SO cute, having a little "room" for your house rabbit! when i had a rabbit (the most darling lop eared who i named Mr. Buns...he was such a grump!!), i was forced by the landlord to keep him outside in a cage. he didn't like that. every so often i'd let him inside for an hour and he loved it. you could tell he felt safe.
tell Miss Grace that she's going to get a roomie soon. hehe.

 

[Miss Crisplock]

Don't resist! What fun it would be to go shopping for artwork for her walls!

Tricky getting photos that are more apealing than the wooden picture frame.:eusa_clap

 

[Folly]

As we've all mentioned before various things can stimulate old memories and we sort of flashback. I've found that often for no applicable reason I'll go back to some unrelated happening whent I was a kid or such and it is very vivid.

If you really space out you can "escape" for quite a few minutes if your surroundings permit as you consciously go from one old memory to another on purpose.

The think is that in your mid's eye it really is Christmas 1953 or whatever because everything you recall is totally that time. It's like being hypnotized and someone tells you to focus on something your mind doesn't see when conscious. You do that to some extent in memory flashes.

I often have flashes of dreams I had when I was a little girl.

I have also had very vivid flashes bombarding me for a full five minutes of being in an air raid shelter, sparked off by a news report of an expolsion in an underground store for bombs in WWII.

 

[Folly]

modern life has it's uses...like medical and dental advances...and the internet. but most everything else i don't want to be bothered with anymore. oh well...
what a perfect situation! my user name "zaika" is Russian for bunny...so, li'l Miss Grace and i should get on famously. lol
i think that is SO cute, having a little "room" for your house rabbit! when i had a rabbit (the most darling lop eared who i named Mr. Buns...he was such a grump!!), i was forced by the landlord to keep him outside in a cage. he didn't like that. every so often i'd let him inside for an hour and he loved it. you could tell he felt safe.
tell Miss Grace that she's going to get a roomie soon. hehe.

A perfect situation!
It makes me sad to see outdoor bunnies - I'm glad you had Mr. Buns inside with you on occasions

Yes, there are good points to the modern world but all the good bits have mostly gone sadly

 

[Folly]

Don't resist! What fun it would be to go shopping for artwork for her walls!

Tricky getting photos that are more apealing than the wooden picture frame.:eusa_clap

lol You're so right! I thought of Warholing her picture!

 

[Foofoogal]

I thought this was appropriate to the thread. This image above of a lunar moth is the earliest image I have. I know I was about 4 and saw one of these on a fence. I take it as a personal sign somehow. I took this last week as one was on my window. I also get a certain smell out of nowhere every great once in awhile. I also remember that smell from my early days. Amazing how freeze frames of memory come back. Everything about a particular memory is vivid. I remember where I was standing. What the room looked like. etc.
My friend had a home when I was a child I loved to visit. I can remember almost everything about that house down to the pillows on the sofa and dog food on porch. It had an incredible attic filled with toys. Such joy. I go there sometimes in my mind. Like now. A freebie trip. As long as we don't try to escape all the time I see no problem.

I love nature and Spring. Isn't the moth exquisite.

 

[goldwyn girl]

Folly, oh yes get art for her walls, my bull terrier had a photo of a handsome boy bull terrier next to her bed. I know I'm nuts !!!! Speaking of nuts, one time I was so immersed in a WW11 book I was reading when I went to bed I got up again to put up black out curtains. Fortunately we can create our own escapes even if it is only for a short time, gotta love that !!!

fftopic: You can Warhol Miss Grace in photobucket, see avatar

 

[Folly]

I really have to do this now! I don'tcare if people think I'm off with the faeries! Your avatar is fabulous!

Hehe, I love your black out curtain story!
I was talking to my mother once about shopping and started off on a long rant which basically started, "During the war you were expected to take along your own wrappings for food!" and continued complaining about consumerisim and over-packaging for some time. I stopped when I realised my sister and mother were looking at me like I was mad. "Not that I was there or anything," I added lamely!

 

[staggerwing]

A few years ago, I was writing out a check and for reasons completely unknown to me, wrote "1947" for the date. Heck, I wasn't even born in 1947. I still wonder where that came from. And no, I wasn't thinking of that time period when it happened.

 

[Folly]

I often write down the wrong year, but I haven't slipped that far back!

I'm reminded of my late father-in-law talking to me about random things when he suddenly said, "It was in the twenties - do you remember?" Now he had a good many years on me being born in 1929 and he expected me to remember?

I think sometimes due to the way you dress or what not, people or even you will forget how young you actually are as I had an elderly lady complaining to me about how most girls dress these days and that some were wearing things in public that resembled aprons she'd had back in the day! Evidently I was adorned in a manner which took her back to those days and before I knew what was going on we were chatting like a couple of housewives over the fence lol

 

[Amy Jeanne]

The only time I ever get imersed in the "old days" is when I'm watching an old movie. One time I played that "Complete Broadcast Day" from 1939 through my iPod into my stereo and I said to Joe "Let's pretend it's 1939!"

He said "Let's not." (But let me defend him -- he does like vintage! And since he's a WW2 re-enactor, he did stop what he was doing and listened to the news broadcasts!) lol lol