Do you ever miss and yearn for the great old times that you have lived? Let’s relive those days and enjoy those precious moments with our good old days quotes.

As a new BBC TV series follows a family asked to live off the food Britons ate over the past 50 years, an accompanying book looks back at the foods which revolutionised our nation and the way we live.

As the year winds down and we've finished most of our "have to" curriculum, it's time to do some activities just for the fun of it, like a memory book.

As a new BBC TV series follows a family asked to live off the food Britons ate over the past 50 years, an accompanying book looks back at the foods which revolutionised our nation and the way we live.

If you're wondering what are the different types of memory, wonder no longer. In this article, we cover sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory.

It's easy to forget the importance of photos and family stories when they are stashed away in a box somewhere. Yet they have the power to strengthen families.

A trip to a toy store these days boggles my mind. It's hard for me to believe that young children today really need all the expensive, high-tech toys on the market, especially when I see how much fun my grandsons have making a bird feeder out of a plastic soda bottle or drawing with erasable Crayons on a laminate tabletop. When I was a kid growing up in the 50s, entertainment was much simpler. Instead of watching movies on a long road trip, I passed the time playing with one of these. Sliding number puzzle artskooldamage.blogspot.com A piece of sting could entertain me for hours...and there were still some tricky moves I never mastered. Cat's cradle tumblr.com - simplejustin When friends came over, there were no movies to rent and no computers to play on. We played Chinese checkers or Sorry. Chinese checkers on metal board that turned to store marbles life123.com Sorry board game etsy.com - revivecrafts I must have made a million potholders for my mother and my grandmothers. It was my entry into the world of crafts...and, hey, a kitchen can never have too many potholders, right? Even ugly ones. Making a potholder with stretchy loops flickr.com - penmarklet Another favorite alone-time activity was playing jacks. Nothing was quite as satisfying as a successful "tensie." For those of you who have never played, that means picking up ten jacks in one swipe. Jacks and ball etsy.com - sweetkate An intense game of Pick-Up Sticks could also keep me occupied for hours, taught me patience and honed my manual dexterity. Pick-Up Sticks boardgamegeek.com Give me a few pop beads, and I could make you a fashionable necklace and bracelet set. I blame these for my jewelry addiction. Pop beads pinterest.com - Diana Finlay Or give me a piece of notebook paper, and I could tell your fortune. Pick a color...any color. Foldable fortune telling game instructables.com Sunday morning comics were the best for Silly Putty. That stuff was magical. Silly Putty imremembering.com And, yes, I remember a time when I thought looking at a set of Viewmaster slides of national parks was really exciting. Like I said, I was easily entertained. Viewmaster etsy.com - birdiesattic But did you notice? Not a single electronic device in the lot...and I don't particularly remember my childhood as deprived. In fact, I remember all these activities very fondly, which is why I'm enjoying doing simple crafts, playing old games and reading books from my childhood with my grandsons. Playtime doesn't have to cost a fortune to be fun.

Mercurochrome.... Merthiolate... If you read the words above and have no clue what I am talking about chances are you are much younger than me or at least younger than your early thirties. If you read the words above and cringed then you know exactly what I'm talking about! It came in a little bottle with a cap that served as a dropper or just had a stick on it. It was this reddish orange color that stained everything it touched including your skin for days. And it was what my momma used on every cut, scrape, or injury involving blood throughout my childhood. Just the mention of it brought tears to my eyes. Sometimes I wouldn't even tell my momma if I cut myself or had a bike wreck for fear she'd break out the mercurochrome. What made me remember the good ole days where all cuts and injuries were treated with this reddish orange antiseptic from the devil? My little one was running the other night and fell on the concrete driveway- scraping the crud out of his knee. He came running up to me, big tears streaming down his face and a small stream of blood running down his leg. "Don't touch it momma! No I don't want you to wash it off!" I ran in the house scrambling for something to clean it with. I pushed the peroxide aside and grabbed this Instant Antibiotic spray foam - the creators of Band-Aid produce it and in big letters on the front of the bottle it reads... HURT-FREE. So as I sat there coaxing my little one in to letting me spray this on his leg, promising it wouldn't hurt I had flashbacks of the cleansing antiseptic my momma dabbed on my cuts and scrapes. It was most definitely NOT hurt free. It stung like the dickens and she never promised it wouldn't hurt. In most cases the application of mercurochrome to my injury was more painful than the injury itself. I think peroxide would have been a welcome alternative. But before you start thinking of my momma as some demented woman who took pleasure in dishing out more pain and if you are younger, just know that it was what the doctor recommended. And did you know that whatever properties it possessed, it also apparently aided in minimizing scarring? So if you grew up with mercurochrome then you are probably as thankful as I am for all of the research and progress and for companies like Johnson and Johnson that produce hurt free antiseptics. And I guess what doesn't kill you makes you stronger... In 1998 the US Food and Drug Administration said that mercurochrome was not generally recognized as safe and effective as an over the counter antiseptic. Oh yeah and it contains mercury. Ok FDA- coming out with that observation 20 years earlier would have saved me a lot of pain!

Take a musical trip down memory lane with songs inspired by memories.

A lot of the work we do here at Good Life Photo Solutions is around preserving memories, so quotes about memories are some of our favorites. There will come a day when memories are all we have, so saving yesterday's and today's memories for tomorrow is important.

Stumped about what to write? Writing prompts, tips and ideas for keeping a Grandmother Journal.

This Thanksgiving season I’m thankful for good memories. First and foremost. Memories I have made with my wife, with my family, with my fishing rod. Memories of happy childhood days, memories of minor triumphs, of people who loved me, and memories involving beer. Yes. I am infinitely grateful for pleasant memories. Because nothing in this […]

The loss of memory can be frightening for anyone at any age, and can occur for a number of reasons. For some, mild forgetfulness is transient and related to a particular situation or illness. For oth...

Actress Violet Carson looking out over the early 60’s industrial landscape of Manchester. @itvcorrie

sapphire & Steel one those sf shows that stuck in my mind even that i was grown up with DR.WHO at the time i think like like DR.WHO , Sapphire and steel was different and new kind of sf which was first too mix sf and supernatural . i found this show one the rare shows that stands up well today even if show faced it difficulties like tun down by Thames television from London South east regional part of itv then went atv and some episodes never been shown in some itv religion becouse of a itv strike and last sapphire and steel adventure never shown partly because atv lost its brodcasting itv franchise and in the review report of lack of commitment to reional programming

Vintage photos from yesteryear provide wonderful reminiscing opportunities for the elderly living with dementia. Remembering the past helps the elderly affirm their lives and uncover deep-seated memories. In this article we cover: Benefits of Reminiscing with Vintage Photos How to Plan a Vintage Photo Reminiscing Activity Vintage Photo Reminiscing - Group Session Vintage Photo Reminiscing - One-on-One Session Download Vintage Photos Samples and Conversation Starters

Take a musical trip down memory lane with songs inspired by memories.

A photograph (half of a stereoview) (September 21, 1859) by J. Q. A. Tresize. John Quincy Adams Tresize was commissioned by the Fairs Fine Arts Committee to document the fair. Used courtesy of the Ohio Historical Society.

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Colour slides of the old Bull Ring market, Birmingham, England, taken on September 11 1959. The last day for street trading was September, 12th 1959. The photographs were taken by Phyllis Nicklin (1913-1969), who was a University of Birmingham geography teacher. She made these colour slides as lecture aids for her lectures on the geography … Continue reading "17 Colour Snapshots of Birmingham’s Bull Ring Market (September 11 1959)"

Roma was only 9 when he was sadly killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943

Yehudit was sadly killed at Belzec extermination camp in 1942 at age 2

Roza was only 2 when she was sadly murdered at Auschwitz on July 7,1944

Their very name still deeply divides opinion. For some, the Eleven-Plus exams, which determined whether a child would go to a grammar school or the academically inferior secondary modern, set the educational benchmark.

1959 was a pivotal year in John Stanley's comics career. He ended a 14-year relationship with Dell's best-selling Little Lulu comics franchise. He moved laterally into a recent Dell acquisition--Ernie Bushmiller's Zen comic strip Nancy. Stanley applied most of his Lulu formulae to the Nancy universe, with the added spin of a genuinely supernatural character (his own creation): Oona Goosepimple. Most importantly, Stanley's comedic sense took a sharp new direction in '59. The 1950s, for Stanley, had been largely devoted to the calmer, gentler, more internalized world of Lulu, Tubby, et al. He was able to summon some of his wilder humor tendencies in a series of side-projects. You've seen most of them here: Krazy Kat, The Little King, Howdy Doody and Rootie Kazootie. Stanley's Little King is the only example of his 1950s work that I would consider major--outside of Lulu and Tubby, of course. Slapdash as his other non-Lulu '50s work may be, the seeds of a new comedic sensibility were slowly developed in those quickie side-projects. The world of Little Lulu is tightly wound and hermetically sealed. Like Chuck Jones' "Road Runner" animated cartoons, Lulu functions on a series of strict rules and formulas. Stanley worked in the manner of other pulp fiction authors of the era. Lester Dent's Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot formula reveals the methodology that enabled such writers to keep up their tremendous output. Stanley was no exception. He had a series of master story lines for Lulu, and by the end of the 1940s, it was just a matter of plugging in new elements, shuffling the deck of familiar locales and predicaments, and, voila! Story after story could be created. It is to John Stanley's credit that he sought to augment the rigid formulas with some wild flights of imagination. Otherwise, his Little Lulu would be dull reading. We hate to admit it, but we're hooked by formulas. We like the template--we find comfort in the set-up and its familiarity. This may explain the lasting popularity of Stanley's Lulu--why it continues to hook readers. But formula on its own leaves no lasting legacy. Without the human touch of the unpredictable, the incongruent and the surprise of twists and tweaks, even the sturdiest formulas lose their sheen in time. I think that John Stanley understood this. He knew that he had a responsibility to write to the formulas--that's what the large Lulu readership wanted and expected. He also knew how to subvert the formulas just enough to keep them fresh and rewarding. My study of Little Lulu has, until recently, been hampered by my lack of the last few issues that contain Stanley's work. Thanks, in part, to Jon Barli at Rosebud Archives, I have been able to peruse the long-missing issues 132-136 of Lulu. (In fact, thanks to him, I now have a complete run of the Stanley issues in digital form. Bless you, Jon!) These unaccountably hard-to-find late issues reveal two important things: Stanley was not burned out on Little Lulu, even to the end of his association with the title Western Publishing transitioned another writer into the title while Stanley still worked on it For years, I've wondered if the error-riddled Overstreet Price Guide had it right in stating that #135 was Stanley's last issue of Little Lulu. They've gotten so much else wrong about Stanley's comics work... but they're almost correct in this case. There is one Stanley-written story in Lulu #136 (the fairy-tale). I have not seen issues 137-139. I don't hold my breath, but it's possible there may be one or two other Stanley left-overs in those issues. I'll know when I finally see 'em... This is a huge preamble to the meat of today's posting, I realize. But it's important to lay these cards on the table. The myth that Stanley's Lulu, post-1955, is a work in decline is wrong. It is, in fact, thrilling to see how Stanley picks at the iron-clad formulas in the last four years of his Lulu tenure. Substantial changes, many which you'll see in these late stories, include (yep, more bullet points): the use of typography to depict changes in dialog and sound-effects volume (which can go from a whisper to a full-throated shout) a tendency to fill the panels with verbose word balloons (including multiple balloons and balloons with motile tails) a harder edge to the comedy situations--in general, a more brassy approach to humor a tendency of the characters to have bigger emotions: when they're angry, they're ANGRY All these aspects point the way to Stanley's comics masterworks of the 1960s. In a sense, John Stanley had outgrown the world of Little Lulu by 1959. In the 1950s, Stanley tended to tamp down the wilder flights of his humor and imagination in the service of the deeply-established Lulu universe. He became extremely sensitive to the actions and reactions of his characters. The stories are largely driven by character, and not imagination. Stanley's free-form imagination is confined to the monthly installment of Lulu's improvised fairy-tales, usually told to the excitable brat-next-door, Alvin. These segments were Stanley's playground in the 1950s Lulu comics. Though some argue that the stories are too word-heavy to be considered true comics, the fairy-tales are a lone outpost for Stanley's wilder creative tendencies. Via the discipline of having to write at least 12 of these a year, Stanley found a formula for brilliance. The tension between the mundane and the far-flung is at the core of Stanley's 1960s work. His late comics are all about their characters seeking refuge from the crippling order of their everyday lives, trying to break free, and failing--usually to the derision of others in their community. That they try, and try again, despite impossible odds, is a strong agent in the bittersweet, sometimes-painful comedy of Stanley's finest work. Having said all that, I'll present some stories from issue 132 of Little Lulu. As you read them, look for the ways in which Stanley skewers his longstanding formulas. Stanley had written this story over and over in his Lulu tenure. Note the density of the dialogue--characters reveal much more about who they are and what they want. This will be common in Stanley's 1960s work. As well, note the awkward moment of paralysis that overcomes Tubby and Th' Gang on p.3. Such a moment would be unthinkable in a 1951 Lulu story! "School Crasher" stars agent-of-chaos Alvin, who wreaks havoc as he seeks a change in status. He destroys school property, bites the teacher, and embarrasses Lulu, Tubby and other "big kids" in his orbit. Lulu's deadpan exit line shows her resignation to the reality of her bratty young charge. She attempts to stem Alvin's wayward tendencies with yet another on-the-fly fairy-tale in our next selection... An incident of spanking marks this as a product of the 1950s. That aside, "Ol' Witch Hazel and the Wasted Talent" stands out for its devotion to the cranky, self-deluded character of Witch Hazel, whose manic, desperate actions dominate this very funny, brassy story. Finally, in an odd late twin of the Peterkin Pottle story I recently posted, Tubby stars in "Strong Kid." "Strong Kid," of all the stories here, points the way to Stanley's 1960s work like a beacon. The epic levels of self-delusion exhibited by Tubby is the stuff of divine comedy. I love his rant on the top tier of p.2. The inclusion of streamlined stereotyping (the Fifi and Pierre characters) is another quality we see so strongly in the '60s work. The last tier on p. 7 looks forward to many similar sequences in Dunc 'n' Loo, 13 Going on 18 and Melvin Monster. A more sophisticated touch, and one I don't recall seeing elsewhere in Stanley's work, occurs earlier in the story. We get a strong glimpse inside Tubby's psyche during several panels in which Fifi and Pierre talk in French. Stanley begins their dialog in French, but then switches to what Tubby hears--"jabber jabber jabber." By giving us this sliver of Tubby's experience, Stanley helps us to further identify with his social dilemma, and the embarrassment and humiliation that trample him at every turn. I'll return to these final issues through the rest of the summer. I believe it's time to put the belief to rest that Stanley's late Little Lulu is lesser work. I hope that this and subsequent posts on this topic will help cancel out that wrong notion.