Random Musings

Looked up the house I grew up in as a kid on Street View. Initially struggled to find it, as it looks completely different now. Subsequent owners have had a lot of building work done, turned the garage into another room, and expanded the front of the house further out into the front garden. Even the wall between that and the house next door has completely been redone. I mean, that kind of change is to be expected after not having been anywhere near there for nearly 30 years, but I also can't get over how much smaller the whole street seemed. I remember it seeming like something that would take ages to walk the length of, but now it looks tiny to me.

I also remember there being a narrow woodland park opposite the local community centre and thinking it was the kind of place you could get lost in for ages, but seeing it in aerial view now, it could only be about two hundred yards long at most.

Same. My folks still live in my childhood home. It, and the surroudning area, has changes a lot in so many ways form when I was wee though but like you the changes have been incremental so I've adjusted over time as I visit regularly. I stil get the odd nostaligic pang once in a while mind you. What's weird (and even more depressing now) is that a few years back when I used to visit, I could walk in the woods with my boy and find the tree swings in the familiar places and he would swing on them, or the trees i used to climb and up he'd shoot. I was almost reliving childhood moments through him at the place I grew up.

Now he's too old. So even he's outgrown the places where I used to play when I was young.

My own son is now growing up.

Fuck sake I've just depressed myself again haven't I.