Turn around

@Anne18 (11029)
November 24, 2009 11:27am CST
Isn't it funny how things can turn around 360 degrees. My children came in running very excited the other day as they was a horse and cart go by, I'm 46 and I remember being so excited about the same thing as a child...... on the other hand my mum and her peers got excited about a car going past there house. What turn arounds do you know?
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@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
29 Nov 09
My daughter was telling me how she caught a tram today. I remember trams when I was a little girl but only vaguely. They had them in Sydney Melbourne and Adelaide but they took them away from Sydney...now they are back!! Now my daughter, living in the city, can ride a tram and because I live in the bush, i can't even see them.
@Anne18 (11029)
20 Oct 11
Wish I lived in the bush away from everyone, I want to be a hermit!!! I have been on a tram , Blackpool has lovley trams. I have also been on a tram in the Isle of Mann and somewhere else but it slips my mind at the mo.
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@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
21 Oct 11
Hi Anne, actually, I classify myself as a bit of a recluse. I keep to myself pretty much but I do volunteer some of my time as a community driver and also now at the Day Centre once a week. It's a place where the elderly, mostly ladies, can go and do crafts. They have lunch too. Sometimes they go for a walk, sometimes a bus trip or a shopping trip. Each year they have a week away and they have the best time. I'm hoping to join them for the trip in 2012. When at home, I garden and keep house if I can or if I'm in the mood. I rarely have visitors so I do things to please myself. I have low self esteem and self worth so I need to work really hard on the "pleasing myself" part. LOL. I would love to travel to your neck of the world. England seems so pretty. I think it would be able to explore all over. My nephew is living and working there at the moment. He catches a train with his bicycle to various places, explores for a day or two then travels to where he stays ready for work again. He seems to be having a great time.
@Anne18 (11029)
15 Feb 12
I'm a bit like you, I don't go out unless I have to go ot work /shopping or with the family. I have been known to stay in the house for a whole week without getting bored and not talking ot many people and that was before the pc days. Where I live isflat and there are no hills!
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@drannhh (15219)
• United States
25 Nov 09
I was thinking about the Kindle from Amazon being free online now as a turn-around because when it first came out the idea was to be able to take it away from the computer and get "content" wirelessly and now they have a Kindle "reader" that can be downloaded to the computer to read the books there. I just downloaded Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who would be King.
@Anne18 (11029)
20 Oct 11
Hope that you are still enjoying the kindle and having fun reading your books from it. Did you enjoy The Man Who would be king? I haven't a kindle, I don't know how to use one. I do like to carry a paper book around with me to read.
@Anne18 (11029)
15 Feb 12
Glad that you enjoyed that book, I have just finished what I call a run of the mill book, it was a good read and I was finding time to read it as well as it was good
@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
20 Oct 11
My little Niece lives in London,but my brother brings the family back to Ireland for family catch up visits..during the summer,they went for a drive in Donegal,and his Wife was telling me from the back of the car there was this constant stream of excitement each and every time She saw a Sheep! Her little Brother is a "Thomas the Tank Engine" fan,and I heard from my brother Yesterday they'd taken him recently to a train museum..it was like sensory overload for him! For Me,there were Catalina flying boats operating out of nearby Lough Erne during WW2..there was a seaplane festival organised here in September,and 2 of them were guests..first time I'd ever seen one of them operating on water,though I've flown in a smaller one that charters from the local airport!
@Anne18 (11029)
15 Feb 12
Very late but thank you for answering my discussion, lots of different answers here
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
3 Dec 09
hi anne when I was little the railroad cut through our farm land and at that time the locomotive was a steam one. then when I grew up they changed to modern locomotives so never saw another steam locomotive until we went to the adams memorial museum and saw the old time locomotives,wonderful and so huge and all nicely shined up. then just a year or so ago I saw a special on television showing some old steam locomotives and my son was awed by them he was fifty but had never seen a real steam locomotive. so turn Around for sure.
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
15 Feb 12
I remember reading The Railway Children for school when I was about 11. I loved watching Casey Jones after school too...Casey Jones, steamin' and a-rollin', la, la lala..
@Anne18 (11029)
19 Feb 12
Casy Jones, wow someone else who watched him as well, can't reember any of the stories but it was fab. My hubby is five and a half years younger than me and doesn't remeber that show at all.
@Anne18 (11029)
20 Oct 11
Steam engines, remains me of the film Railway children, there were also some steam engines on Little House on the Pierrier. Oh and I reember Casy Jones and him being on a steam railway
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@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
27 Nov 09
I discovered one for my children just the other day. My family moved to where we live in Lexington, KY 26 years ago and then the city was very small and all around us was the country. If you were simply driving to church you would see farms with horses on them and the thought of being in the country wasn't an extraordinary thing because it was all around us. Now, however, the city has grown outside of the main circle road that used to divide the suburban area and the country and what used to be farmland is now houses and shopping areas. Last weekend we took the kids down to a friends house where things are not developed and they really got a kick out of seeing horses in his backyard and the fact that the neighbor was not right next door to him.
@Anne18 (11029)
20 Oct 11
We have neighbours next door ot us but our children find it exciting that ot get to the next town we have to go down roads that are green firld either sides of the roads. Where I used to live when I was a girl it was like a conserte jungle and all you saw were houses etc. Its good ot live in the country where you see so much greeny and see the fields and tractors etc
• Boston, Massachusetts
26 Nov 09
Hi Anne, The sound of the ice cream man can make my kids turn around be hyper. They love ice cream and they will really plead to have one LOL. Even i loves it too and is excited every time i hear the ice cream tune/music!
@Anne18 (11029)
20 Oct 11
Ice cream man, yes and he has so many more choices than when we were a child. I was never ever fodded off with the saying if he is playing his music it means he has sold out!!
@PeacefulWmn9 (10420)
• United States
25 Nov 09
I'm old, and little things still excite the dickens out of me lol. I hope it they always do! Karen
@Anne18 (11029)
20 Oct 11
The little things still do excite me, like going out to see a horse and cart with the children. Takes me back to when I was a child and we used to run out to see a horse and cart. I think there is always a part of us that never grows up and keeps us in touch with our children