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Originally posted by davidgledhill:
the ageing fantasies and desires of people in their late 40s, 50s and 60s who remember a better time when they were thinner and not so wise
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Well All Right young David I am not going to shoot you down over this because by and large you are perfectly correct.although in my case I am fortunate that my weight is within a couple of pounds what it was when I left school in 1959
Firstly welcome to the Forum I see from your profile that you have already posted some 8 messages including your very intereting reminiscences of Massey Hall circa 1974
I you carry on at this rate you will leave current champion poster/poser Borderstone gasping for air!!
If you were 13 in about 1970 that makes you approaching your half century??
Speaking as one rapidly approaching retirement age I have to tell you that as you get older you will get great joy and/or frustration from looking back at highlights of your life and will fantasise on things you failed to do fully or cocked up etc.And the best parts of your life will be bathed in a tremendous rosy glow.
For me old fart that I now undoubtedly am by the time I reached 59 I had accepted that the nearly six years I spent in Montreal were definitely the most significant so that I was quite happy to sell off /jettison nearly everthing and move to the States.
My 1960's fantasy therefore would be to relive my May 1967 first ever Gord concert and this time compile a set list, take some photographs and try to chat to the great man afterwards
Now I will indulge myself by further reminiscing
and fantasise about going back to 1958 when I would this time strive to journey the 35 miles from my boarding school in Sherborne Dorset to Salisbury Wiltshire to see Buddy Holly's concert there on Saturday March 22nd 1958
instead I have to console myself that three of my classmates went
See my 1999 written anecdote at:-
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.f...b51e576d26e7ce
In 1999 my fantasing about Buddy and Gord led me to Toronto and on to Lubbock Texas
for a Holly fan's dream visit
Buddy Holly statue
and poignant moments at Buddy's grave
Plus the thrill in The Buddy Holly Center of seeing
Buddy's final Fender Stratocaster
And the famous heavy rimmed black glasses (the actual pair that he was wearing at the time of that fatal plane crash)
If anybody goes there could they please visit the gift shop and get me a 4-square fridge magnet
Finally David I note that you reside on Vancouver Island so I'll send you a private message as you might be able sometime to make contact other BC fans who post here including Ron "lighthead2toe" Jones "Islander" Richard Hkusam (also a teacher in Nanaimo, bc so you might have met him already?? we met him in Vegas in April) and young Kenyon Wallace (about to visit Ron in the City of Vancouver)
John Fowles
In these times of trial and uncertainty
I have thought what does this freedom mean to me
Is it just some long forgotten fantasy
[ November 30, 2005, 11:21: Message edited by: johnfowles ]