tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251035797708672975.post8271943340701239842..comments2024-02-07T09:39:13.250-10:00Comments on Over the Hill: the Books and Stuff: New stuff for old!!JOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03127111575563904349noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251035797708672975.post-5996307124866024772012-05-14T21:50:21.470-10:002012-05-14T21:50:21.470-10:00Thank you all - it's a relief to know I'm ...Thank you all - it's a relief to know I'm not the only one with ridiculous attachments, not to 'stuff' in general but to something that is a very special part of who I am.JOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03127111575563904349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251035797708672975.post-23198770298779677352012-05-14T08:29:04.984-10:002012-05-14T08:29:04.984-10:00I know that 'new passport' feeling Jo - re...I know that 'new passport' feeling Jo - really dislike the new one I had a few years ago, and before long I will need another! My oldest, battered thing, is the teddy I got for my 1st Christmas. He's virtually flat now, his fur is practically non-existent, and he has holes! But he's my first ted, so he's kept safely in a box so that he at least stays in his current state of direpair without getting any more dilapidated! I could never part with him, or replace him.Abi Burlinghamhttp://www.abiburlingham.talktalk.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251035797708672975.post-75629402492425948672012-05-13T21:42:52.885-10:002012-05-13T21:42:52.885-10:00Oh what an excellent post Jo! I'm exactly the ...Oh what an excellent post Jo! I'm exactly the same with passports! <br />I miss the each old one....when I was very young I worked with P and O on board the ships...adn there were stamps from all over the world...and each stamp brought back a memory.OOh...St Thomas in the virgin Islands where one of the lifeboats caught fire, Barbados...my first date with my new boyfriend.....<br /><br />When I look back through them, it's the photos that get me too.I rember getting a passort in my thirties and being highly critical of the photo.Now I would give anything to look like that !<br /><br />But there's only one thing you can do now Jo - adn that's to get a trip booked pronto, and christen the new passport!Thinking of the dayshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04369739724991129358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251035797708672975.post-64403869457846789932012-05-13T21:38:35.044-10:002012-05-13T21:38:35.044-10:00Great post, Jo, and SO relevant for me at the mome...Great post, Jo, and SO relevant for me at the moment as we're renovating our house, and going through all our things, trying to figure out what to keep and what to chuck. <br /><br />One thing I've decided I absolutely *have* to keep is a copy of 'Jurassic Park' by Michael Crichton. It's a paperback that someone gave to my dad, which was then passed on to me. The cover has come off, the spine's cracked, and the pages are worn and yellowed and falling out from so much reading and re-reading; I could just buy a new copy and get rid of this one, but I can't. Why? Because this book (and before that, the film that was made from it) was the story that inspired me to start writing stories of my own, and to decide I wanted to be an author some day. It's FAR too important a part of my own story to get rid of!Emma Passhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18209194238119830841noreply@blogger.com