It's funny how things pop into your head when you're meant
to be sleeping! I've just been looking at Street view for a friend who's
looking for a house but I ended up looking up my old house where I grew up!
A
huge surge of nostalgia washed over me when I saw it. I could feel myself being
transported back there. My lovely house - half of it (the garage and my old room above, along with half of the kitchen on the back of the house) is what my builder father built almost single handedly with his own bare hands. The front garden which no longer has our pink blossomed
cherry tree, the bumpy slope leading from the main road down to ours which we
spent many a day rattling down on our metal skates or our rickety old scooters
and skateboards. I even “walked” via Street view to the local streets where my
friends lived, where we used to zoom round corners on our bikes not even
considering if there would be any pedestrians in our path! Once round the
corner I spied the back view of our house. Of the extension my dad build pretty
much on his own of my brand new bedroom. Of the flat roof of the garage which
was directly outside one of my bedroom windows where a smoker boyfriend used to
be banished to if he wanted a sneaky fag!
The dual carriageway adjacent to our road which we used to dash across at warp
speed when we were far too young to collect our football that we'd kicked by accident over the fence and
into the path of oncoming cars and lorries!!
The same dual carriageway that my
dog pelted across to get home when she'd been attacked by another dog in the
field opposite, into the path of a lorry that hit her so she tumbled over and
over but still managed to get up and run home and was actually miraculously
fine!
The dual carriageway I’d walk along on many a Saturday night at 3am with a
friend to get back from a night club in town. The dual carriageway I crossed
daily even though I didn't need to just so I could catch a glimpse (and
sometime an exciting snog) with the builder who had worked across the road for
several months and who made my tummy full of butterflies whenever I saw him.
Perfect memories.
