The world we left behind

[Danllan]

Rampant racism...

It can't have been that f^cking bad, because many millions more have come here!

 

[Old Boar]

I bought this place in 1975, a fairly dry year, and everyone said it was a wet farm. I did not understand...
1976 was lovely, the whole farm was workable, and huge crops when others were burning up. I think it has been like that around 3 times since. This year the baler got bogged...
We all helped each other, no matter the size of the farm, shared equipment, sat down for lunch and gossiped and laughed. We all knew each other for quite a distance around. Now I dont know anyone who lives in the new houses up the road.

 

[Danllan]

I bought this place in 1975, a fairly dry year, and everyone said it was a wet farm. I did not understand...
1976 was lovely, the whole farm was workable, and huge crops when others were burning up. I think it has been like that around 3 times since. This year the baler got bogged...
We all helped each other, no matter the size of the farm, shared equipment, sat down for lunch and gossiped and laughed. We all knew each other for quite a distance around. Now I dont know anyone who lives in the new houses up the road.

Do they know you?

 

[Bury the Trash]

There's far more people around locally now but far less people who actually know what they are talking about ,they seemed to think they do tho, either that or they aren't at all interested.

 

[Danllan]

Joking apart, if I think of here over the last decade, five of the old fellows who would socialise are now dead or entirely incapacitated. Two others have had to move away to be closer to their children, for support. One has recently been widowed and will be moving to be nearer his children. A couple of the others seemed to 'retreat' from the community a few years ago - pre-Covid - for no reason I or others know of. And that out of, I think, sixteen of us in the immediate vicinity.

I really don't know all the reasons for the change in the local society around here, a few are obvious, such as new people coming in, Covid, family matters; but that really doesn't explain it all. But it does strike me that there is a definite reason to look at the internet as a mixed blessing; I also think it an irony that our children are taught 'citizenship' in schools nowadays.

There is a real risk of sentimentality clouding memory and preventing accurate recollection, and it would be a fool who said that the old days were wholly better. Everything changes, nothing lasts forever, but only the truly ignorant or foolish would claim that things are wholly better now than they were.

 

[Old Boar]

I have heard they call me the Mad Pig Lady. I have not enquired if the mad pigs are the Wild boar or me....

 

[DrWazzock]

When I was a lad everybody in the village worked on the land or was a retired servant from the defunct big house. They were completely different people to the incomers we have now. The squire, who’d left the big house but lived in one of the farms still ran the village and ran it well compared to what we have now. The vicar was ex war time military who shot moles with a rifle. People had red faces and bow legs, mumbled and juntered, or cackled and sucked on pipes. They’d push bike into town for a pint on Saturday night and wobble back home again. Folk kept pigs in Nissen huts and nettlebeds abounded. The harvest festival was an unashamed blow out around groaning tables of sandwiches and cakes not an apology for destroying the planet.
Yeah. It was great.

 

[neilo]

Farmers moan a lot more now
I the good old days ,if someone gave you a spade to go a dig a ditch you got on with it , now life's never been so good and all you lot do is f in moan

Rubbish. There were plenty of miserable old bast*rds about back then too, we were just too young to join in.

 

[Wood field]

Rubbish. There were plenty of miserable old bast*rds about back then too, we were just too young to join in.

I’ve my mum stopping over for Christmas and we were reminiscing about the old boys from the village , two of whom were notoriously tight and miserable

 

[Nithsdale]

I remember when the majority of actors appearing in TV adverts were white.

Even the Black ones

 

[Courier]

I have been farming all my life,a long time,remember 1976 36c and no ac,this year 41c very hot.After Writtle college 6 of us drove to Benidorn Spain in a 109 long wheel base land rover took 2 days no problem,those were good days.

I remember during my time at Writtle Ag Eng in 1970-71 a group of lads (and lasses) preparing to take LWB Land Rover to Safari in Africa, meticulous planning down to spare wheel bearings and number of sheets on a roll of toilet paper - A well spoken Welshman (Hugh) was the instigator - Never heard any more about it but was that you by any chance …

 

[box]

I'm always keen for a moan but there really isn't much to moan about (well, not today anyway because I'm having a good day and I'm not in one of my "moods"). As long as you don't read the newspaper, don't watch the news and stay away from social media, the world is still a pretty good place.

 

[glasshouse]

I remember during my time at Writtle Ag Eng in 1970-71 a group of lads (and lasses) preparing to take LWB Land Rover to Safari in Africa, meticulous planning down to spare wheel bearings an numer of sheets on a roll of toilet paper - A well spoken Welshman (Hugh) was the instigator - Never heard any more about it but was that you by any chance …

They got to Benidorm and said fukit? Or the landrover lay doon?

 

[Tarw Coch]

Dont worry it's the same in france just seen an advert with a gay white couple and black child.

Wonder how they managed that

 

[Lowland1]

I was 10. I carted corn from the combine all summer and was drilling mustard on august bank holiday when the weather broke. It’s all been downhill for me from then.

 

[glasshouse]

Wonder how they managed that

Stuck it in the brown

 

[spin cycle]

I like watching "minder" just to see ppl smoking in pubs

 

[thorpe]

I have been farming all my life,a long time,remember 1976 36c and no ac,this year 41c very hot.After Writtle college 6 of us drove to Benidorn Spain in a 109 long wheel base land rover took 2 days no problem,those were good days.

how did you get back?

 

[The Seeker]

I think the internet has done as much damage as good to this world

 

[Lowland1]

I like watching "minder" just to see ppl smoking in pubs

It’s the Sweeney for me. None of that community policing nonsense. A spade was a spade in those days. Or a c..n or a p.ki. Happy days.