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Have Bike, Will Travel

Posted by inspirationalley at 12:42 PM on January 15, 2008

I don't blog for months, and then I post twice in one day.

This layout has been lying around for months unfinished because it just would not go right, but I love the photo and so have have decided not to bin it.

Eric commented on how formally he's dressed with his jacket and shirt. He seems to remember that he was always dressed in this way. Life was definitely very different when Eric and I were young. We both remember having the freedom to roam for miles unsupervised from quite a young age. We'd spend hours outside only returning home when we were hungry.

Of course. all sorts of other things were different then too, television was only on for a few hours, videos, computers and dvds unheard of, so we had to entertain ourselves. Was it a safer age? Well, there wasn't as much traffic, so in that respect, yes. But, I'm not convinced it was safer in any other respect. Children did go misiing and were killed. I spent many hours in hospital because of the accidents I had. But, you learnt to be independent and most children survived despite some minor injuries. Were those days better or worse? Probably neither, just different.

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