Pasts memories and revelations

It is warmer if a little breezy as I type this entry out after morning playtime where this weeks Beano has already arrived ready for me to read, laughing my socks off but there was related post that probably wouldn't work on the main blog.

You see Minnie as anyone who ever really read that blog would understand was the cartoon heroine of mine, tomboyish, tends to get in trouble, sometimes defiant but full of spirit that nothing can ever crush.

It isn't uncommon for a cartoon strip to mirror the world of the reader and for many of us television shows where you would write in asking to do, see or meet people that would otherwise be 'in your dreams' were things we watched.

In the era I lived, one such show was "Jim'll Fix It" shown on Saturday tea times on BBC1 which boys and girls often did, sometimes for them and their friends other times perhaps for others who they felt would appreciate such a gesture.

What that strip in the short lived A5 extended story strip Beano Comic Library alludes to is because of the sheer number of requests we would feel the need to go to great lengths for our request to stand out, have our moment of fame amongst our friends and meet the presenter.

Minnie in the whole strip did tons of things to do to get on the show such was the allure and much the same applies even today to getting otherwise difficult to get access and that has it's risks even though protocols involving children and vulnerable people are much better than they were.

As you'd expect of someone who worked in the field in this country I am sadly only too well aware of the allegations widely held to be true regarding that shows host regarding historic abuse not defending for a split second his actions.

I do have to be honest however and say it the show had us transfixed and we all loved it being a memory in our childhood we adored which like a few others was been tainted by things we leaned about much later on.

To me you can hold on what you loved about the show without condoning all that came out decades later.

Your childhood memories are just that. The memories of the time you recall.

Vent time

 It's warmed up no end this week which I'm pretty pleased about as last week I was frozen to the bone during the day and felt like I'd been trapped in a freezer overnight despite having almost as much on as I might if I was going hill climbing.

I wasn't in the best of places yesterday as The Grump had gone out shopping but totally forgot to check he'd taking his credit card so while he had some money to pay for stuff, bits had to go back.

He phoned me but just as I am listening with little short term memory to the point I can't tell you what I said seconds ago, her momminess tries to start a second conversation when I struggle to stay in just one and look for where he'd put it usually one of his many coats more often than not.

That's not help by her getting confused so no we have two conversations to track with little memory which such a struggle I get super stressed out over it and lose half a day as I'm now utterly stressed out and with a big headache.

Sometimes you feel you've had enough.

Recalling the past

 

Sometimes you hear people say "You'll grow up to be your mother" rather ignoring the extent to which we mirror them from our earliest years where we dress at times in matching ways, spend time learning directly about our roles and what we need know to be good at them, outwitting men 3-1 for good measure.

For many of us we'd willing spend a day with our moms or aunts being so close to each other emotionally with a most real bond which for me include not just shopping together but baking and making things out of scraps.

Wasn't that just what we loved back then? 

The Cane

Life can seem a bit odd when it is that some high school children in the era of corporal punishment were moved to protest it.

Yet others held counter demonstrations supporting it fearing that standards would drop and the school corridors would be a no go area for any kid who was just that bit different.

Personally I felt it only impacted on those who would of incurred some other sanction that might of dragged things out and it wasn't that most of us didn't get spanked cos over 90% of us then did at home or at other family members places especially for reported bad behaviour or poor school reports.

Perhaps then it's no so much of a coincidence that in this life of mine somethings remain.

I'm usually relieved to be informed I'm in for the spanking or six of the best simply because as painful as it is, the situation and I have been corrected and it's all over with feeling the cane teasing my bottom before it makes it's decisive impact.