Memory lane does it ever make you sad?

I would love to go back for a day. the carefree days when you came home from school and your mum had the dinner on the table for you.

You slung your schoolbag on the bed, got changed and went out to play.

Coming home dirty after being out all Saturday from after breakfast until tea time. There were never any worries where we were or what we were doing. We went up the country and made swings in trees and jumped the burn (brook).

But it is nice to have the memories and talk you your kids or grandkids about it. I tell them all of what i got up to when i was a kid and they are amazed at the freedom we had. Not that they don't go out to play and enjoy themselves, but the fact that no one came to look for us all day. These days, kids are molly coddled more, and i can understand why.

And i miss my old Ford Escort when i passed my test. Mini skirts, Mary Quant make up, my first record player which was a box which could play 10 singles at a time...lol

See you've made me go into a dream now...lol......................x

They are having a remember the 60's week on radio York and it's very emotive. Beehive hairdo's, mini skirts and cars, all the old songs and groups, flower power, free love and the introduction of the pill, dinner parties where you ate tinned ravioli, spag. bol.,blackforest gateaux, flambes, cherries jubilee, crepes suzette and washed them down with chianti in the ruffina bottles which then were prized as candle holders, liebfraumilche, black tower, babycham, ponys, baby seals and lambrusco - and we thought we were the bees knees! Very free, easy and happy days - great to have lived through them.

Edit: Hi elsie 19, yes i remember how very precious those days were too. We could go off from dawn till dusk with a bag of sandwiches and buns and some pop, sometimes there were around twenty of us, we looked after each other, ran, laughed, climbed trees, built dens and didn't have a care in the world. We didn't have paedophiles then - or i should say they weren't as obvious! and a murder made the headlines for at least a week. I was born in 1951 just after rationing had disolved, my father was a farmer and we really did have the best food available, all fresh and home grown - but seasonal - no tomatoes at christmas in those days! I really do think my generation have been so very, very, lucky with the immense changes we experienced. My kids think its hilarious that we had black and white tv but we only got that in 1957! no tv before that!

I go down memory lane from a time I never lived and never could live, and it upsets me because I know for a fact I was born into the wrong generation. But even when I go down memory lane of my own life, I don't regret anything that Ive experienced, I just wish I did more with my time. I made the most out of every day but there are things that I wish I were old enough to wisely add into my days.

No, It doesn't make me sad, just glad that I was part of that time in life, great times, the freedom, you felt safer, had loads more fun, the music was brilliant, the clothes were so much fun than todays, it was the best time to grow up, I would feel sad if I was a teenager now, knowing how I had missed out on all that.

Not really. I had fun at the time, but I am just as happy now, and I have some nice memories to look back on. I don't think I've got the energy for all the things I used to get up to anymore anyway!

Well, like my grandpa always said...it's not the road you're on...it's whether you're headed in the right direction or not...lol...now, for me...Memory Lane is a road I'd rather be headed right on...so, I try to remember only the good times...though there are plenty of bad times too...in the other direction...

Hey, get another T140. My old man is 81 and still goes out on his old bikes. Make new memories :)

I miss the family members I have lost. Often a tune will come on that reminds me of my younger, happier days

It makes me sad, but as you say, I'm glad I can remember them with love and joy

my childhood wasn't a happy one,, but it wasn't all doom and gloom,, i do have some happy times, i wouldn't want to go back and dwell on anything, the last 28yrs have been the best of my life,, i wish my children were small again,, as it was an amazing time bringing them up, but now i am having an amazing time with my grandchildren, so as the song says

""things can only get better ""

Mine is the summer of 69 went to the free concert in Hyde Park.It was brilliant only John & Yoko did not turn up.Seen Arthur Brown he was brilliant.