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Offline Barman

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Old Photos
« on: December 11, 2009, 12:09:34 PM »
I'm in the process of scanning some old (very old) pictures - many of me - to archive them... they are on old 35mm slide film...

The bizarre thing is, I remember them being taken as if it was yesterday - it must be over forty years ago...

How strange...  rubschin:
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Offline Miss Demeanour

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Re: Old Photos
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2009, 12:13:42 PM »
I've done the very same recently - just a warning  - it makes you very reflective  sad24:
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« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2009, 12:14:31 PM »
p.s though most of mine are not over forty years old  whistle:




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Re: Old Photos
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2009, 12:22:50 PM »
Quote from: Miss Demeanor on December 11, 2009, 12:13:42 PM
I've done the very same recently - just a warning  - it makes you very reflective  sad24:
Agreed...  sad24:
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Re: Old Photos
« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2009, 12:25:22 PM »
Quote from: Barman on December 11, 2009, 12:09:34 PM
I'm in the process of scanning some old (very old) pictures - many of me - to archive them... they are on old 35mm slide film...

The bizarre thing is, I remember them being taken as if it was yesterday - it must be over forty years ago...

How strange...  rubschin:

I failed to retain custody of all the old family photos ~ despite promises that what I couldn't carry would be kept safely to await collection my ex burned or sold everything she deemed to have been mine within a couple of weeks of my giving her the family home as part of the divorce agreement. Only a few items, salvaged from the fury by my daughter, survived to be returned to me at a later date. Quite why the twenty years together had to be totally obliterated from history has never been explained.

Strangely items that my mother had given us (heirlooms I guess you could call them) that had any value were not destroyed but went missing. The same daughter tells me that these have now reappeared in the new home occupied by my ex and her husband.

There is a lesson in that if anyone cares to listen.
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Re: Old Photos
« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2009, 12:40:00 PM »
"a woman scorned..." and all that.

I have boxloads of my ex's photos (pre me) I asked if she wanted them and she said to hold on to them as I have more space.
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Re: Old Photos
« Reply #6 on: December 11, 2009, 12:45:38 PM »
Quote from: Uncle Mort on December 11, 2009, 12:40:00 PM
"a woman scorned..." and all that.

I have boxloads of my ex's photos (pre me) I asked if she wanted them and she said to hold on to them as I have more space.

Oh yes...?  eyes:
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Re: Old Photos
« Reply #7 on: December 11, 2009, 12:47:57 PM »
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Re: Old Photos
« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2009, 12:50:56 PM »
Quote from: Uncle Mort on December 11, 2009, 12:40:00 PM
"a woman scorned..." and all that.

I have boxloads of my ex's photos (pre me) I asked if she wanted them and she said to hold on to them as I have more space.

Had she been scorned I would have understood but it was she who ran away, she who came back after 7 months demanding the house, she who divorced me and she who offered to keep my things until I got somewhere other than my car to keep them. As soon as I did get a place the children, who she claimed she would fight me every inch of the way for, were sent to live with me as they were being "difficult" towards her new man.
No Uncle, not scorned, simply given everything she demanded but still so twisted and bitter as to want to cause me unhappiness whilst ensuring anything of value remained hers. But I dare she she saw herself in the "wronged" role. She was always very good at that.
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Re: Old Photos
« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2009, 12:54:28 PM »
I found a load of old photos a while back. I can't believe how young and optimistic we all looked, and always doing FUN things. I put them away again  sad24:
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Re: Old Photos
« Reply #11 on: December 11, 2009, 12:56:31 PM »
They'll end up on the bonfire then.
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Re: Old Photos
« Reply #12 on: December 11, 2009, 12:59:27 PM »
Well the thing is that generally people only take photos of happy events: holidays, parties, wedding, adoption, and so on. Consequently they represent a highly selective and edited version of your own past. Only the good bits



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Offline Miss Demeanour

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« Reply #13 on: December 11, 2009, 01:09:11 PM »
That's true ...but we  can also have very selective memories. It is all too easy to forget that you have had so many good times in your life when you feel down or burdened by things at the moment .

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« Reply #14 on: December 11, 2009, 01:10:44 PM »
Mine were all the usual stuff. ..... My Parent's 25 wedding anniversary party, pictures of our children growing up, pictures of us as a family on holiday.  I assumed then that was why they had to be destroyed ...... they showed us all when we thought we had a future together. But on reflection I thought "who burns their own children's photos?" ~ I never came up with a satisfactory answer.
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