Quote: None of the places we've lived in since have been as nice as that Railway cottage. We were there 4 years and I wished we'd never left. I got married whilst living in that house, and brought my first two babies home there. We had two first birthdays there, H's 21st and dd1's Name Day, so it has loads of fond memories associated with it.
Jo, I have talked to a couple of older women who remarried due to the death or divorce of the first husband after a long-term marriage. Most say they are happy with their second marriage but feel something is missing.
They say the second man is sometimes a better friend than the first H was (not including the early years) but they still miss those feelings of early married and baby making years.
I think there is a strong set of feelings attached to those first years where people set out on their own to build their new adult life. Things must have seemed so optomistic then.
Also the feelings of building your own small empire and family seems to make one have special feelings associated with our early little parts of heaven and our own little part of a magical world where both of you intended to work on being happy till you were old and decrepit (Syn. infirm, feeble, dilapidated, frail).
I can just guess how special that railway cottage was to you that I got teary-eyed imagining seeing you, Anndy and D1 living there back in time.
Quote: I noticed in Florida you'd be hard pushed to find a house with an upstairs).
I live at 3 different places from 1952 to 1958. Back then 1 story buildings did not need much of a foundation and maybe hurricanes did not damage 1 story buildings as much as 2 story buildings. I am not sure about the hurricane comment but I did hear comments about not putting all of that money in a house's foundation just to add a second story. I guess peopl most do what the "Romans do when in Rome". People mostly copy their neighbors.
Quote: It's like the 'big brother' house in here
George Orwell's book 1984?
from www.spy.org.uk/1984.htm June 8th 1999 was the 50th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell's book "1984" BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU
"The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and except in darkness, every movement scrutinised.")
O NO Jo! that means they are watching me too
Quote: but the council would only let me have a 2 bed place
Jo, here in the US you might even have less or something more delapitated/trashy. Sorry it is not larger but from what you post it is afordable.
Quote: I just want H to hurry up and marry me
I will drink to that. But I am an old sentimental type, wanting everyone (almost any way) to be secure in the arms of their lover and best friend, nurturing their children.
Quote: I'm rambling again
Ramble on anytime Jo. That is where our dreams and wishes get experssed.
