After a notable absence Flashback Friday is back and it is now being hosted but the lovely mum-to-be for the second time, Emma from A Matter Of Choice. For those of you who don’t know the format, its very simple: you simply post a photo from anytime in the past from a week to a month, to a year to a decade or longer and write about it.
I found this photo while trawling through my computer tonight
It would have been taken during the summer of 1998 and I am sat in my not yet step-father’s garden at Lifton which is near Lanceston in Cornwall.
Its funny because I lived in that skirt and those clog shoes that summer! Actually, thinking about it I pretty much lived in that skirt as it was my favourite one and I wore it so much and I think it lasted me a few years starting during my last year in uni (1996). My boyfriend at that time always said he remembers me walking past his flat whilst walking my dog, swishing past in that skirt and my denim jacket!
Look at my arms – no flabby bingo wings on them at all! My hair so full and thick (still is!) – in the days before hair straighteners! No need for me to have to colour it back then either! *sighs*
Mum says when she sees this photo it reminds her of her when she was the same age (I would have been about 24) as we look very similar at around the same age.
When I see this photo it reminds me that I had only left uni two years previously, I was with my then ex-surfer boyfriend, and working as a marketing assistant in Torrington (crap money though!) and I drove a blue escort car having not long passed my driving test.
I had so many things I still wanted to do……..I can’t even remember what they all were now but I wonder what myself then would make of myself now? I know that the ‘me’ now writing this is quite envious of the young woman in that photo, who still has another 14 years of living to reach where I am now.
Would I change what happened during those last 14 years?
Hmmmm…..probably not, after all I now have my boys 🙂
What were you doing in 1998?
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14 years! How can it be 14 years ago! I’d already been with Aaron 3 years (well, on and off LOL) Seems like a lifetime ago now. Thank you for joining in xxx
ahh I’m so glad Flashback Friday is back….
amazing how one photo can bring back so many memories….I’m going to have to dig some oldies out for next week.
In 1998 I bought my first house….and was driving a red Fiesta! x
I used t love Flashback Friday, I didnt realise they were bringing it back- in 1998 I was still in school! 😉
I love this, I had just left school then 🙂 xx
Yes it’s back and starting next week there will be a prompt each week it’s over at @emsyjo ‘s blog – you should join in.
Hmmm you comment makes me feel old! Lol x
Just left school? How young atre you? I feel soooo old!! Lol x
You should join n @emsyjo is hosting it and next week she will be dong a prompt each week.
You just bought a house? Wow ! We’re you with Matt then? X
no, just on my own…got with him the following year & sold both our houses the year after that! x
1998? Well, I was living in the middle of the US, soon to move to California for about 6 months and entered into a HORRIBLE relationship with a HORRIBLE person. If I only knew then…eh? Wonderful Flashback Lovely! I’m so pleased Emma took this over…I just don’t have the time or the chutzpah to do it at the moment but it’s great that you all are carrying on! Mwah xx
🙂 Karin
1998? Eek I was 10! Love this photo it looks like it belongs in a Hugh Grant movie x