For some reason I've been feeling rather nostalgic of late. I feel very lucky to have had a happy and carefree childhood and have lots of vivid memories, some of which are triggered by a particular piece of music or a smell or perhaps an object. When I saw these glasses in the Pedlars catalogue I was suddenly swept back 35 years to my Gangan's kitchen, because the exact same ones always sat in a little stack on a shelf in her glassware cupboard.
When I was growing up my family would always visit with my grandparents on a saturday morning. My Gangan would brew coffee and the grown-ups would talk in the kitchen while my brother and I watched saturday morning tv in the living room - Tarzan and the Osmonds featured heavily in the early '70s and then later it was swap shop or Tiswas. There was always elevensies - either my Gangan's special concoction of drinking chocolate, dessicated coconut and the cream from the top of the milk mixed into a delicious goo or maybe some cake or cookies. To drink it was either a glass of robinson's lemon barley or some PLJ in a glass exactly the same as these.
I love that every time I drink from these glasses I have a little blast from the past and despite the fact that both my grandparents are no longer with us, they feel close again. Funny how inanimate objects can conjure up such intense feelings.
Is there anything that makes you feel nostalgic about your childhood?
