Comments on: Present moments

By: Ian Poulton

Ian Poulton — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:40:36 +0000

I seem to have big gaps in my memory! I know I was away at school, but even from the times at home, nothing much remains.

By: Les Plant

Les Plant — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:14:21 +0000

Yes I think he did Ian, I seem to remember he suffered a stroke, I think his wife carried on doing things in the community, he also used to come into the village school once a week to do some religious teaching. I dont know what happened to him in the end, I must ask my Mother the next time I see her.

By: Ian Poulton

Ian Poulton — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:38:36 +0000

I never knew much about him – he was just part of the scenery! Did he spend his closing years more or less housebound?

By: Les Plant

Les Plant — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:30:34 +0000

Its amazing how that incident stuck in our minds, for me I think it was the Reverend Payne, I had never seen him lose his temper before, I seem to remember the poor old chap was never quite the same afterwards.It must have been the late 60′s….

By: Ian Poulton

Ian Poulton — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:34:21 +0000

Raspberries are definitely exotic!

Ravensdale as in Co Louth, close to the border? Only in recent years would we have ventured off the main road in those areas. We would have been fearful in times past.

By: Blackwatertown

Blackwatertown — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:21:15 +0000

It was always blackberries for us. Purple stains, pricked fingers and scratched arms. An audience of baffled looking cows. Ravensdale is where I remember, but I’m sure it was all over the place.
These days it’s raspberries we hunt for, alongside a well fertilized bridle path. The idea of picking raspberries still seems slightly exotic to me.

By: Ian Poulton

Ian Poulton — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:30:51 +0000

I remember the moment with Maisie! It was in Dorchester and we had parked near a pub and there were words as she stepped onto the bus!

I don’t remember lake or swans or anything like it!

By: Les Plant

Les Plant — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:46:12 +0000

Do you not remember walking past the lake with all the swans either Ian??? It was probably the excitement of getting to the beach which is the overwhelming memory…….It was a superb beach for building sand castles, the sand just the right consistency………Unlike our closest beach at Burnham-On-Mud…….I think it was Dorchester we used to stop at for fish and chips, if not it was Yeovil,and a few pople, Maisie one of them used to disapper for a swift half too…Which lead as I remember to an awful row one year between her and the Reverend Payne on the coach.

By: Ian Poulton

Ian Poulton — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:18:22 +0000

Do you know, I have no recall whatsoever of getting off the coach in Weymouth or getting on it again, though I do remember walking towards the river. In my memory we somehow just materialised at the seafront!

Did we stop for fish and chips in Dorchester, or is that something imagined?

By: Les Plant

Les Plant — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:50:13 +0000

Sorry Ian………I could have predicted the fate of the fairground……(National house builders I expect!!!)There is a picture at my Mothers taken looking back towards the coach with the faiground in the background and with Cliff Crossmans Mother and someone else in the foreground….I will try to get a copy to you somehow if you would like to see it!!!!