Just seen an "old friend"

[Katharine]

During the 70s one of our neighbours, here in North Wales, had regular visitors with a car numbered DA 1. We did not know her well enough to ask about her friend Dai.

I have just seen a spanking new car with the number plate DA 1, still in North Wales! I wonder how many different cars have had that number in the intervening years? How much would such a cherished number cost nowadays?

The sight of that number plate brought back memories of a time when my life was simpler in many ways - no internet, no mobile phones - come to think of it, no phone in our house! How did we survive?

[Vonny]

no internet, no mobile phones - come to think of it, no phone in our house! How did we survive?

I wonder that as well. I remember how hard I found it when going out with another blue and spent holidays etc apart from him. It would have been so much easier with mobiles, internet etc.

[englishangel]

During the 70s one of our neighbours, here in North Wales, had regular visitors with a car numbered DA 1. We did not know her well enough to ask about her friend Dai.

I have just seen a spanking new car with the number plate DA 1, still in North Wales! I wonder how many different cars have had that number in the intervening years? How much would such a cherished number cost nowadays?
The sight of that number plate brought back memories of a time when my life was simpler in many ways - no internet, no mobile phones - come to think of it, no phone in our house! How did we survive?

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[Angela Woodford]

my life was simpler in many ways - no internet, no mobile phones - come to think of it, no phone in our house! How did we survive?

It's funny to think of this.

I shudder to think how biographers of the future are going to manage without the correspondence of their subject.

The high spot of our day at CH was the giving out of post after breakfast. No matter if you had a terrible day ahead, there was always the hope of getting a letter. I would carry it around like a talisman in my pocket all day - a reminder that there was a world out there and I had contacts in it.

I've still kept bundles of love letters. Today, when romance is conducted via email and text, there's nothing to hoard and smile about (or weep over!). Or perhaps I'm just very sentimental, but I'd certainly save those letters first in case of fire.

Although I'm not very good with technology, I've now become dependent on email and mobile and am very relieved never to use an old-fashioned typewriter again. However I regret the fact that communication is now rapid, and once made, gone for ever.

Occasionally, I'll glance at some of those letters beginning "My darling Angela..." I've kept letters from my mother too, loving to see that familiar handwriting.

I will always treasure them. Those days are over!

Munch

[Katharine]

I've still kept bundles of love letters. Today, when romance is conducted via email and text, there's nothing to hoard and smile about (or weep over!). Or perhaps I'm just very sentimental, but I'd certainly save those letters first in case of fire.

You know that you are well and truly loved when the letter compares your beauty to that of a steam engine in Snowdonia.
The letter was written when we were both in Ghana, and I had never been to Snowdonia!

(Reader, I married him!! and till have the letters )

[Vonny]

the letter compares your beauty to that of a steam engine in Snowdonia.

[Angela Woodford]

the letter compares your beauty to that of a steam engine in Snowdonia.

Wonderful, isn't it? I hate to trespass on sacred ground, Katharine, but - why? how? Can you tell us?

If he had send you this romantic tribute as a text, you wouldn't still be treasuring it!

love, Munch