Loss! six feet tall and six feet under

[Paddywhereami]

It's the innocence of youth ,the memories of that time in our lives when we were learning about the world and standing in wonder at the enorminty of the new smells. every day we seemed to lose our inhibitions and in some cases we felt more afraid but thats what made us laugh and cry. In one moment it proppelled us into anger or shame but not really knowing how to deal withthe blushes or able to control the feeling of embaressment. the call from mother as the sun went down. i never felt that one of those days lasted half the time it should, and all at once we new nothing would ever be the same. twenty pence for a bag of sweets or a cheap bottle of booze would never taste the same in twenty years time even though i feel those same simple emotions.
Big strong hands once pulling us back from the danger turn into small fading lives as we take the lead seemlessly taking up the baton.

[ALF2]

..... aye, 'n wagon wheels are deffo smaller these days !

[shadow]

Them new smells and twenty pence mix ups havent gone.

Any parent could confirm it-altho I agree Alf-things seem to shrink as you get older

[Paddywhereami]

I felt like i could run all night. Fields could have been as deep as green oceans but i would have conquered them. Tommorow was gone in the flash of a dream, i didn't need to dream. i was too tired, i only slept for tommorow .
There were dogs that roamed and dogs that stood and watched, dogs with owners names and dogs than ran when you ran. dogs that stayed out half the night i felt secure with those dogs they Knew us like friends and stayed with us when we felt insecure. thank god i never married a dog.

[ALF2]

aye, pads, 'tis hard to be a pirate king,when a scurvy crew devoid of moonlight 'n rum sit and shiver amid the treacherous waves that threaten their brotherhood that was surely destined to meet the hooded man's rope on some windswept rain sodden corner of motherland blighty

[shadow]

Pads Ive got a horrible feeling youve been infected by the me me me virus.

Think yourself lucky that you can run around of a night time in fields-plenty cant

[ALF2]

...it feels safe here, this bolthole from madness,in the dark under the stairs,the crack of light gives a small but welcome comfort,and i sit among the dog eared paperbacks,and odd shoes,each one with a story to tell,Reader's Digest nov 68' did jfk really have a deformed back? or am i perusing this upside down? the cat will know,she will mark my card,no doubt,come morning.....

[ALF2]

The teapot was cold now, and uninviting, it’s chipped spout ,a proud battle scar of countless Sunday teas when grandchildren came to call for cakes ,and kindly offers of clunky washing up ,it’s lid, long gone ,replaced by a saucer that in turn was a.w.o.l. it’s contents, dried up, teabags resemble a dead rat that has made it’s weary way up a soil pipe to meet it’s fate in a child’s porcelain toilet bowel that made the caretaker wince. Soup tins stood like soldiers, lentil, pea ‘n ham tomato and chicken, in mockery of an old woman’s gnarled hands that would never set them free .Mary lay there on the make shift bed with only her memories for company and a flickering one bar fire waiting for her to gasp her last or winter to end, I t mattered not

[Ann1]

This thread should come with a health warning!!

[ALF2]

Sorry Annie, but i was under the impression that mad pads was running an Alan Bennett Masterclass thread 'n thought i' d put my Alf Pennyworth of output .......in

[Ann1]

Talking heads you mean?

[ALF2]

in my case, possibly yes,in pads case,the twilight zone is now open !

[milkhope2010]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5zFsy9VIdM

[Reginald_Bosanquet]

Oh for the touch of a vanished hand and the sound of a voice that is still.

[spacekadet]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5zFsy9VIdM

brilliant band takes me back to my youth shame the kids now only listen to rap