Sorting old photos

[LadyA]

I've been sorting through a basket of photos that has sat on my kitchen floor for several years, and I'm putting them in albums. I've come across some wonderful ones, including one taken in 1999, about two weeks before my dad was diagnosed with leukaemia. He's standing at their front door with mum and my youngest brother, who had come home from Australia where he was living at that time for another brother's wedding. He hadn't been home for five years. The three of them look so terribly happy and relaxed in the pic. I sent a copy to my brother, and it turns out that this is the only photo in existence of my parents with just him. So needless to say, he was thrilled. My dad was dead within about eighteen months of the pic being taken.
Another gem I found was a pic of dad with his four siblings, taken in 1995. They had decided to meet for coffee, just as siblings - no spouses, no children. I was actually living in the US at the time, but was home on holiday, and happened to be in town the day they were meetng for coffee, and realised it was too good an opportunity to miss to get a photo of them all, so ran down to the cafe! And that's the only photo in existence of dad, his three brothers and only sister together as adults, without anyone else!

Now, I'm planning to get lots of pics printed. So many precious memories sitting on FB and on my phone! Better get them off and saved! I know having what my husband always called "hard copies" isn't foolproof (I've lost a pack of photos of my daughter growing up! Her first day at school, and several other occasions. Can't find it anywhere!), but I just don't trust digital means of saving alone.

The project is bringing back lots of happy memories, but also making me realise how very quickly time has passed!

 

[MadBadger]

Have you considered scanning them and posting them to a Google drive that you can share with (select) members of your family? I've just been going through some of the oldest parts of the family archive - my paternal grandmother was one of the first women to join the army during the first war and it is mostly her family photos and the ones she took in France between 1916 and 1919 that I've scanned. Since her grand and great-grand children are now scattered across the globe, it has been much easier to post the scans in a private archive online than to print stuff off and then go through the hassle of locating snail-mail addresses.

 

[LadyA]

We have a private family facebook group, and I also have a private fb group for my late husband's family. I post any pics there. I just print them for myself. I like to look back in albums, rather than online.

 

[Hen-Gen]

Curiously we had a few visitors a couple or three months back and the question of childhood came up. Amidst much mockery they asked me if I had any baby pics. They couldn’t believe it when I said that I had no family pics at all, only chickens and dogs.
I remember when our mother died myself and my brothers going through her stuff and finding a vast stash of photos. None of us wanted them so they all went in the bin.
Have I regretted this? Yes a bit especially as I’ve got older.
PS
The one I really wish I’d kept was me in a Haliborange advert. I was a blue eyed baby (in B and W of course) Now, to quote Arthur Daley, I’ve “got a boat like a slatehangers nail bag”.

 

[bigyetiman]

How did you end up in a haliborange advert, Were you in any more adverts?
The best bit about looking through old pics are the fashions and hairstyles. We have a photo of my sister with a curly perm holding up a poodle to her face, luckily my sister had glasses on as they morphed into one otherwise. But to this day we can't remember who the poodle belonged to or why she was holding it or where we were.

 

[LadyA]

The one I really wish I’d kept was me in a Haliborange advert. I was a blue eyed baby (in B and W of course) Now, to quote Arthur Daley, I’ve “got a boat like a slatehangers nail bag”.

This isn't you, is it? Although this looks like a little girl. https://www.alamy.com/stock-image-1950s-old-vintage-original-advert-british-magazine-print-advertisement-164524542.html

 

[LadyA]

Oh good grief! Look at this old ad! I wonder if these are still available? After 30 years, my asthma has flared up quite badly again, and I've had to go back on daily inhalers. Maybe I should give ciggies a go?
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/outrageous-vintage-cigarette-ads/3/

 

[Marigold]

I followed your link, LadyA, and enjoyed all the other ads in this collection. https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/outrageous-vintage-cigarette-ads/
As a fellow asthmatic, I'm glad that I never got addicted to cigarettes. I had a few in my teens, mainly to rebel against my non-smoking mother, but my boyfriend said I stank so I gave them up.

 

[Hen-Gen]

The one I really wish I’d kept was me in a Haliborange advert. I was a blue eyed baby (in B and W of course) Now, to quote Arthur Daley, I’ve “got a boat like a slatehangers nail bag”.

This isn't you, is it? Although this looks like a little girl. https://www.alamy.com/stock-image-1950s-old-vintage-original-advert-british-magazine-print-advertisement-164524542.html

Nope. Transgenderism wasn’t fashionable in those days .
1958 was a bit late for me. I was born in 1949 so I presume it was 50/51.
I think most of us flirted with smoking but fortunately most of us did not become addicted. I’ve read stuff from many addiction specialists that coming off nicotine addiction is harder to do than coming off some illegal drugs.

 

[Marigold]

Haliborange 3/9 a bottle, approx. 25p. in those days. Now it's £11.99 - but with added brain power! https://www.boots.com/haliborange-kids-omega-3-with-vitamins-a-c-d-and-e-3-12yrs-orange-syrup-400ml-10080778?cm_mmc=bmm-_-Google+Boots+PLAs-_-(GB:Whoop!)+Boots+Shopping+-+Category+-+Health+and+Pharmacy+-+Desktop-_-(GB:Whoop!)+Haliborange&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIi-fYhN3q3wIVA7DtCh2SMQHXEAQYASABEgKWFvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

"Product details;
Kids Omega-3 DHA with vitamin A C D & E. Orange Syrup.

Orange flavoured liquid food supplement with Omega-3 plus vitamins. We all want our little ones to shine in life! Haliborange Omega-3 Orange Syrup is a tasty way for your children to get the important Omega-3 nutrients and vitamins they need every day."

 

[chrismahon]

We've been going through old photos as well (bad weather job), trying to put subjects together with a view to deleting some repeats. We also have some videos, mainly of our chickens, because I used to get homesick in England and it was nice to be reminded where I would be in a week or so. Have also deleted dozens of old house viewings- think we viewed 50 places in all before buying this. We really did see some bad ones- asbestos roofing is common and very expensive to remove, surrounding vineyards sprayed with toxic chemicals, serious subsidence, driveways that even a tractor would struggle along in Winter and most so run down that the repair bills would exceed the final value (common buyer's mistake). I heard of someone who made a 300K offer on an 800K property, which was rejected initially but accepted 6 months later. After spending over 1 million (it was nice apparently) on the renovations it was then valued at- you've guessed it- 800K.

A complete aside, one thing I have discovered is that to learn French (perhaps any other language) you also need to re-learn English. I'm trying to avoid the use of the verb 'to get' now because it doesn't exist as such in French and is therefore meaningless. If you give it some thought you will realise that it is unnecessary in English and can in every case be replaced by something more exact. I've had to edit the previous paragraph.

On the subject of giving up smoking Hen-Gen, I managed once to stop for 18 months, but started again when someone lit a Hamlet next to me in the pub. Last time I tried I managed 2 weeks but at that stage had completely lost the power of speech- couldn't put a word together, let alone a sentence. After a couple of cigarettes I was completely back to 'normal'! I've met a few people with the same problem.

 

[Hen-Gen]

You have my sympathy Chris. There is a guy here who is desperate to give up and has all those devices that help you to stop. However he says that the ritual of rolling a cigarette is part of it as is the social pressure to join others in a huddle outside the bar. Is it right that there is now a drug that makes you nauseous to the point of vomiting if you smoke?