{"id":1335,"date":"2019-10-19T21:45:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T21:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2019-10-19T21:50:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T21:50:09","slug":"a-strange-collection-of-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/2019\/a-strange-collection-of-nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"A Strange Collection Of Nostalgia&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Robin Hood's Walk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jamesdavies\/1119299455\/in\/photolist-22ULCgq-2GUGJt\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1107\/1119299455_d6a1966881_c.jpg\" alt=\"Robin Hood's Walk\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Which probably won&#8217;t mean anything to anyone else in this particular clustering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro-history-heritage.org.uk\/a-hundred-years-of-ladybird-books\/ladybird-books-pic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Ladybird books factory<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-TSDjivoy-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crazy by Icehouse<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y3V0g_TyeHQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Auf Wiedersehen Pet<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/Q7Up559GHtKiN9FS6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Walking home down Robin Hood&#8217;s Walk<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zQqHCb16MNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Walk In The Black Forest<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@51.770442,-1.3276377,2436m\/data=!3m1!1e3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wytham Woods<\/a> in autumn &#8217;95<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishcornershop.co.uk\/bassetts-cherry-drops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cherry boiled sweets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I put this post together it seemed silly to just list these without some sort of explanation, so, unexpected and unplanned, here&#8217;s an attempt to explain.<\/p>\n<p>I visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro-history-heritage.org.uk\/a-hundred-years-of-ladybird-books\/ladybird-books-pic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ladybird Books factory in Loughborough<\/a> as a child of about 7 or 8 years old. It was a school trip and we learned all about book making and for ages I kept one of their 8vo spreads with colour separation marks. I remember watching them shrink wrapping the books at the end of the book-making process and something in the factory, perhaps one of the industrial chemicals made me think of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishcornershop.co.uk\/bassetts-cherry-drops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cherry drops<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One Friday night at a school jumble sale in the early 80&#8217;s I bought an old reel to reel tape recorder for \u00a31. I may not even have been a pupil at the school any more. Friday nights at that time seem all tied up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y3V0g_TyeHQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Auf Wiedersehen Pet<\/a>, but I know from hardcore date matching of my own life and the TV schedules that AWP probably wasn&#8217;t on the telly the night I got the tape recorder. But that&#8217;s nostalgia for you &#8211; am I allowed my own version of those days and years, smeared and blurred as they are, or must I be precise and accurate?<\/p>\n<p>My friend Matthew and I played with the tape recorder a lot and one day we were playing one of his dad&#8217;s old tapes at my house, and my dad heard us and said he liked the song we were playing, which was &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zQqHCb16MNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Walk In The Black Forest<\/a>&#8220;. He had lived in Germany and Austria and had a fondness for schlager.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, and I don&#8217;t know how, I match up walking home from school down <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/Q7Up559GHtKiN9FS6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robin Hood&#8217;s Walk<\/a> as a really little kid, like 4 or 5 years old, with something continental and Germanic, maybe woodlands, even though I&#8217;d never been in one back then and haven&#8217;t to this day as a middle aged man. A similar feeling popped up in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@51.770442,-1.3276377,2436m\/data=!3m1!1e3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wytham Woods<\/a>, which I first explored in autumn 1995, nearly half a life away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-TSDjivoy-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crazy by Icehouse<\/a> only turned up recently on my radar and just sounds like the 80&#8217;s, which really for me probably began in the 70&#8217;s and finished before the end of 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these associations are tenuous and some are linked, but they all seem to float together and attract each other in my inner world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Which probably won&#8217;t mean anything to anyone else in this particular clustering. The Ladybird books factory Crazy by Icehouse Auf Wiedersehen Pet Walking home down Robin Hood&#8217;s Walk A Walk In The Black Forest Wytham Woods in autumn &#8217;95 Cherry boiled sweets As I put this post together it seemed silly to just list these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,69,58],"tags":[150,126],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memories","category-poetic-thoughts","category-writing","tag-feeling-tones","tag-nostalgia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}