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Forum: Rest of the World
Apr 18th 2024, 2:55 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

Here's one for the "Back in the Day" file... I'm trying to persuade an old friend of mine (we went to school together 70 years ago) to write about the four years he spent travelling overseas in his...
Forum: Rest of the World
Apr 1st 2024, 3:38 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

One year my all-boys boarding school put on the play "The Admirable Crichton". The storyline told of a small upper-class-English household group, shipwrecked on a desert island, with Crichton the...
Forum: Rest of the World
Mar 25th 2024, 5:39 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

When Linda died, her Will left her extensive stamp-collection to a local friend for the Cayman stamps, and the rest of the collection to a relative in Australia. I phoned the beneficiaries, but each...
Forum: Rest of the World
Mar 21st 2024, 12:30 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

I put your main theme in blocks, there. And I doff my hat to you for your realization. I wasn't as understanding. I suppose six years at boarding school - aged 11 to 17 - made me both more...
Forum: Rest of the World
Mar 9th 2024, 2:01 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

In the supermarket last week I was greeted by a stranger - I thought - who gave me his name and reminded me that we used to play cricket together, back in the day. At least thirty years ago, maybe...
Forum: Rest of the World
Mar 2nd 2024, 2:53 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

I wish I'd spent more time with my Mum, back in the day. I flew across the ocean and stayed with her for a week twice a year, and we were always very close friends. But still... I should have stayed...
Forum: Rest of the World
Feb 23rd 2024, 3:29 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

Back in the days before television, we used to get our regular amusement from comedy half-hour "shows" on the radio. My earliest memory is of "Much Binding in the Marsh", with Kenneth Horne and...
Forum: Rest of the World
Feb 20th 2024, 6:54 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

I'm in regular touch with two of my chums from school-days. I bumped into Graham in London 60 years ago, and checked in with him whenever I visited Australia. Now, thanks to the miracle of WhatsApp I...
Forum: Rest of the World
Feb 10th 2024, 10:00 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

When Linda & I lived in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), back in the 1970s, we spent a weekend in Noumea, the capital of the French Overseas Territory of New Caledonia. (The French don't have...
Forum: Rest of the World
Feb 2nd 2024, 2:31 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

Was anybody else here pressed into service as an occasional teacher in a one-room school? Aged nine - or maybe ten - I taught little Jenny Cox her a-b-c in one corner of the room, while the teacher...
Forum: Rest of the World
Jan 26th 2024, 3:16 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

Back in the day... My best friend (only friend, really) among the twelve pupils at our local primary school in the Queensland "bush" back in the 1940s, later became the district's representative in...
Forum: Rest of the World
Jan 21st 2024, 9:58 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

NO, Man! Judging from the picture, I doubt you'd get two of you standing in the back! As for the pilot/driver... surely there's not enough leg-room for anyone but a midget - unless there's no engine...
Forum: Rest of the World
Jan 13th 2024, 1:04 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

Here's a question from way back in the day... When and why did we in The West get our own exclusive needles for inoculations? I can remember lining up at school - and in my brief stint in the army...
Forum: Rest of the World
Jan 7th 2024, 11:20 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

Back in the day - December 1966 in this case - I splurged on a fancy wedding-ring for Linda. $1000 or so, from memory. (Canadian dollars, but still...) It was a big step up from the first wedding...
Forum: Rest of the World
Dec 31st 2023, 9:29 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

I don't mean to indulge in one-up-manship, but... Has anybody here ridden in a car with a dickey seat? My English grandfather had a small one in Toowoomba, and my brother and I absolutely loved...
Forum: Rest of the World
Dec 24th 2023, 2:41 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

I'm very glad you weighed in! I didn't watch the mechanics fixing my tyres, back then. Our conversations were through the Minsk InTourist girl, who spoke English. I presume they had to cut holes in...
Forum: Rest of the World
Dec 19th 2023, 2:07 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

Sigh... It seems that most of our BE visitors are too young to be interested in the cars of "back in the day"! But their parents would have had to cope with such things as tubes inside cars' tyres....
Forum: Rest of the World
Dec 12th 2023, 7:30 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

Here's a snippet about one of the cars of "back in the day"... I grew up in the days of stick-shift cars, and can't remember when automatics became common in my household. My most memorable car was a...
Forum: Rest of the World
Dec 2nd 2023, 2:47 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

Oh, okayyy. But wasn't the number held in special awe long before Pythagoras? I've always thought it was revered - or at least respected - in places that never knew Pythagoras. Am I quite wrong about...
Forum: Rest of the World
Nov 20th 2023, 12:39 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

As an old codger, I naturally revel in reminiscences, which is why I started this thread - and also the Life's Turning Points thread in the Maple Leaf forum of the Canada section. The latter thread...
Forum: Rest of the World
Nov 14th 2023, 2:23 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

Back in the day, there was Stan Freberg. Well, waay back in the day! He was Top of the Pops - more or less - in the 1950s, for goodness sake. He was a comedian who made fun of some of the hit songs...
Forum: Rest of the World
Nov 6th 2023, 10:35 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

Could be. But seven seems to have been an extraordinary number in parts of the world that Pythagoras never knew. and I doubt if the mathematical oddity of Pythagoras's number-7 would have spread far...
Forum: Rest of the World
Nov 6th 2023, 1:01 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

I have long wondered why or how seven got to be a sacred/revered number. Any thoughts on this? The Bible says that God rested on the 7th day, yes, but the magic number seems to be world renowned,...
Forum: Rest of the World
Oct 28th 2023, 5:26 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

Thanks for the info, Morpeth. I don't remember ever reading about the Biblical origin of the "7 years" aspect of indentures. Wikipedia has a whole page to "The Bible and slavery": it's a fascinating...
Forum: Rest of the World
Oct 21st 2023, 3:12 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,140
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

Earlier in this thread I reported that my mother's grandfather employed nine Pacific Islanders on his cane farm in Queensland in the late 1800s. They were called "indentured labourers", usually...
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