Sally has decided not to be shy
Fifty years have passed, little has changed. I am sat down. I have a fringe, temporarily, almost. I smile and I am, generally, happy to be alive.
posted by Sally at 9:55 pm
Monday 18 December 2006
Fifty years have passed, little has changed. I am sat down. I have a fringe, temporarily, almost. I smile and I am, generally, happy to be alive.
About Me
- Name: Sally
- Location: South West, United Kingdom
"What I am is not important, whether I live or die - it is the same for me, the same for you. What we do is important. That is what I have learnt. It is not what we are, but what we do." (James Fenton: Children in Exile)
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8 Comments:
You look happy in that picture!
What a cute little girl!!! I used to have the same shoes by the way...
prefabs in the background?
Thank you all for the welcome :-)
SE - my sister was not yet born !!
BM - I think they must have been 'StartRite' shoes - but I was never allowed the red ones, only blue.
CD - yup, prefabs, which shows our age - did you live in one too ? They were so sophisticated given the housing stock at the time; refrigerators, back boilers for hot water, kitchen units and built in cupboards throughout.
Alas no, but my uncle and aunt did - everyone else thought it was marvellous. We were living in a house that still had working gas lighting and an outside loo and no bathroom.
Course, that was years before they know about the dangers of asbestos.
Erm, asbestos in prefabs ?!
Oh yes.....
But don't worry, it's when asbestos starts ageing and disintegrating that problems arise for the unsuspecting occupier.
That's when the disposal experts have to move in and charge an arm and a leg, though it may have been causing no danger for years previously.
Little Sally and her family were in no danger back then.
Thanks Charles - I didn't know that about ageing asbestos, I knew that when it was exposed it became dangerous, but as all asbestos now is old asbestos, when it is exposed now it would be old wouldn't it ! That makes sense.
Its all about manufactured processes - am I right that asbestos is a mineral and causes no harm in its natural state (whatever that may be), but we have taken it, done something with it and then put it where it didn't ought to be = dangerous to health.
I have been reading more of Dorothy Hartley, a wonderful writer, and can't help thinking that her books should be on the list of survival gear should the worst happen to the industrialised west.
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