Old memories

[Cb1963]

So I'm sat here with my elderly mother, and we're watching the music channel, and David Bowie and Bing Crosby came up, and mum my pipes up, she says I've met Bing Crosby at the bottom of our road!!! Shook his hand, among a few neighbours, only a brief visit, but you never know who you meet during your lifetime, hope you all have a wonderful Christmas 🎄 😀

[mizzou7016]

Same to you....I'll be with the work/prison family for the holiday.....hope it is full of blessings

[Sillysausage234 in reply to mizzou7016]

grim places to spend xmas .

[mizzou7016 in reply to Sillysausage234]

I've been working the holidays for the last 26 years....after a while you get used to it...I tend to work because I don't have kids and my family understands

[secrets22]

A lovely story, memories are made of this.

[rescuedbydogs]

Great story and same to you. But did you meet Bowie?

[Cb1963 in reply to rescuedbydogs]

I was just a child, Bing Crosby was visiting a relative at the bottom of the road, Bowie wasn't with him 🤣

[Sillysausage234]

met the wombles when I was a kid ….shook uncle bulgarias hand .

[Arymretep]

Wow, but what was Bing Crosby doing on a road in the U.K. 🤔

[Cb1963 in reply to Arymretep]

He was visiting relatives , it was very brief visit, and onto his music and film career, my mum said it wasn't a close relative he visited, but hey , not often you get to meet the famous singer himself

[Arymretep in reply to Cb1963]

Amazing 👍

[mizzou7016]

Luckily for me I've never had a "badge" complex....I've been able to keep the perspective of what the offenders I deal with are capable of doing to me...I respect everyone on either side until they give me a reason not to....has gotten me out of a lot of potential craziness....and thank you

[Mary-intussuception]

Wow! My Mum would be envious, if she was still around.Love & A Merry Christmas ♥ xxx

[Cb1963 in reply to Mary-intussuception]

Thank you, Christmas greetings to you and your family, 😇

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Thank you hope you have a memorable Xmas and new year with your mum,patience is a vertue😩😁joking aside we know full well this could be our last Xmas and new year with our lovely mum's or mam's you say mum.i say mam been from Ull 🙄so let's enjoy there company and appreciate them whilst we are lucky enough to have them I just got back from mam's Xmas eve tea she rang her brother I joined in a bit with the conversation he's 87 now confined to the bed quite few health issue arful,has couple carers, all there in his mind, we all had a bit of a laugh too, despite his quality of life he can still have a laugh im dreading growing old, on a lighter note mam is looking into getting a silver tabby kitty I'll have it when she dies,but think when she sees the price she'll change her mind she did say think be about 8oo pound now i said i reckon 5, im not holding my beath as she tends to change her mind a lot 😩and you know i dont take after her 🤩happy Holliday's to you both 🤗😻oh mam went to school with one of the Kay sisters my dad work at new theatre and met loads of stars mam has the autographs in a book it's worth lot money Shirley basset cliff Dave Allen 3 of Beatles before they were famous many more

[Agora1]

Cb1963, it's wonderful to allow your mother to go back in time and relive those wonderful

old memories. It's what keeps the spirit alive in the older generation. New Year's Eve is

another reminiscent time when "dancing with the stars" was not about going for a prize.

Enjoy these moments , they truly are short lived. Merry Christmas my friend to both

you and your mom. xx

[Cb1963 in reply to Agora1]

Thank you so much, yes, the sands of time slowly gives us memories we cherish, and glimpses of our parents past, I'm sure if that video never came on television my mum wouldn't have mentioned this, sadly my father passed away in 2016 and never really had many father and son chats, and that's because he worked hard and long hours, and my unfortunate alcohol issues, I feel I've robbed part of my life away as well, Christmas can be a time for happiness but also time for reflection, I take each moment with extreme pleasure, we are only here for a short time, I wish you a peaceful and warm Christmas 🎄

[Agora1 in reply to Cb1963]

Thank you for your beautiful response Cb.. You are so right that we are only here

for a short time and we never know when that time will be up.

I lost my mother 10 years ago a few days before Christmas. She was 94 but

it's never enough time when we lose those we love. Merry Christmas xx