A beautiful and heartfelt evocation of growing up in the East End of London in the 1950s and ’60s, written by Pete Johnson, with the rose-tinted spectacles removed.
Originally posted on beetleypete:
With apologies to Marcel Proust for stealing his title, I confess to a lot of time spent in remembrance of things past. Not just lately, but for much of my life. Even as a man in my twenties, I constantly reflected on my childhood, and my early school years, developing a habit of looking back that I never lost. I was caught up in a chain of nostalgia, from which I found it difficult to escape. When I got to secondary school, I pined for my primary school, and less pressure. Once I left school and started work, I really regretted leaving education, and thought about those last few years at school with great fondness. Every job seemed better than the one that followed it, and I managed to conveniently forget my reasons for wanting to move on in the first place.
During a convivial dinner party that we were…
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Thank you for the much appreciated re-blog Sarah.
Best wishes, Pete.
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You are more than welcome, Pete. As I’ve said elsewhere, it’s a powerful piece. xx
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