Cold blooded old times
Since becoming a dad I’ve started to be aware of things, like yesterday’s ‘Sunday rest’, which I remember as perfectly normal aspects of life, but which will seem ridiculous to my boy when he’s a teenager. I think it is quite a useful strategy to identify, in advance, things which will one day seem dated and bizarre to your kids; it protects you from the cold-water-shock of realising you’ve been overtaken by time and your assumptions are now old-fashioned. I wish I’d realised during the nineties that one day the haircuts on ‘Friends’ would look much too floppy to be taken seriously; then it wouldn’t be so quite frightening watching it now.
Most of pop culture, obviously, has a kind of built-in naffness to it purely because it’s so much about the here and now. If you go out on a limb with massively over-stylised costumes and design like Cheryl Cole or Lady Gaga – let alone Jedward – you’re kind of acknowledging that you’re only likely to be relevant for a very short while, and thereafter you will always look a bit silly. There’s not necessarily anything wrong with that – the Sex Pistols, the Kinks and the Manics all look pretty odd to today’s observer, but it doesn’t diminish the music; if anything their willingness to go to extremes makes them all the cooler in posterity’s eyes.
But what’s more interesting and odder is trying to work out what features of everyday life, away from the excesses of pop, are going to look comically outdated in twenty years’ time, or even ten years when this blog ends. Here are a few which occur to me but do feel free to add your own. I hope by bracing ourselves now, we’ll be less disconcerted when a young person in 2023 says ‘did you seriously do that?’ Or communicates it by whatever method’s replaced speaking by that point. SpaceSpeaking.
-Landlines. Not long ago I used to have to ask my dad if I could call my girlfriend, and then wait till after 6pm or until the weekend, and then stand in the hall trying to say things like ‘I love you too’ quietly enough for the family not to hear. Life-or-death situations, if they arose at breakfast, couldn’t be dealt with for nine hours until the cheaper rate kicked in. Now, it’s already coming to seem strange that we used to call buildings and hope someone was in there, rather than just call the person. Despite BT’s brave ‘if a conversation’s worth having, use the landline’ campaign, I doubt they’ll survive another couple of decades.
-Video tapes, obviously. ‘Wearing out the tape’. Taping over things. Your teacher not being able to ’work the video’ and having to call Mr Collins in. And so on.
-Encyclopaedias in book form. It used to be that a good middle-class family would invariably have a 67-volume encyclopaedia on their shelves, occupying an area the size of Dorset. Nobody ever looked anything up.
-Blackboards and chalk. Already it seems dated if, in a TV show, a teacher taps on the blackboard with chalk, instead of writing on a nice clean whiteboard. And thank God. I used to hate that screechy sound.
-Dare I say it, print newspapers. Well, not all of them. But in twenty years’ time I can’t imagine there will be as many of them around. Local papers, if they survive, will have to become free newsletters.
-Cash, eventually. I reckon within our lifetimes, we’ll be paying for even small things by scanning a card. Maybe we’ll have small change for emergencies, but the amount of money in circulation will be greatly reduced. Making and exchanging coins is one of these traditions which make sense to us, but will seem weirdly literal-minded to people of another generation. Likewise…
-…passports. Our kids will surely laugh at the idea of having a little maroon book to verify that you’re allowed to travel abroad. People mount strong opposition to the introduction of electronic cards instead of paper ID, but it’s an inevitable process, long-term. Surely.
-Someone tried to convince me the other day that dry toilet paper was unhygienic and everyone one day would use water or at least wet wipes. Not sure about this. This could be the area of life where people are most resistant to change. But you read it here first.
-And, of course, blogging. What’s the point? Eh? All these bloody words! Dear me.
Remember to keep posting your progress on the TYSIC challenges. The time for our first weekly report is fast approaching…
Posted by Knox on May 8, 2011
So YES to that Friends thing – i was watching an episode the other day, and couldn’t believe how old it looked – almost looked as though they were from the 80s…
I have finally had to admit defeat and offer up my VCR to Freecycle for parts/as a prop. I’ve had it since I was about 16, but it has now started either not playing, or chewing up tapes if it does.
My parents actually bought us the ‘World Book’ encyclopedias when we were kids – this sketch was actually us: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HgrhlSb7FQ
The toilet paper Vs water thing – does everyone not already do that? No? I guess it’s just an African/Asian thing then. (feel i should point out here, I am African…)
And that link to the ‘youtube closed’ thing is classic!
As for TYSIC update – I have done quite well on the sensible eating front – yesterday I made a carrot cake, and managed to eat only a little bit, today I resisted the man in the café’s attempts to make me double chocolate fudge cake (*groan*) and I’ve generally been eating proper meals. I have started taking the stairs down at all tube stations (very dizzy making!), but still haven’t done any proper exercise yet. Need to get on it!
Posted by Kat on March 9, 2010
Toilet paper will be replaced with the three sea shells…
Posted by Mel on March 9, 2010
A year 7 student (australian, so he was 12) asked me the other day why i bothered teaching them anything, as the answers were all on the Internet, so why couldn’t they just look them up. And this is the way that education is changing, i have to teach the kids how to learn not what to learn. I suppose that’s good, though not many of them want to learn things i think could challenge them or make them think. So if anything is going to become outdated it’s knowledge as something we have not something we can go find.
A couple of years ago they released wet-wipe toilet paper stuff here, it didn’t take off. We still have toilet paper.
And i love my interactive whiteboard. i have to give a seminar to 30 student teachers in a couple of days time about how it works and what it can do.
I love owning stuff too. I like having tangible objects like photos, and music and movies that i can access and not have to worry about things crashing or corrupting. I’ll miss that when it goes i think, miss that more than having tangible money or a passport.
Posted by max on March 9, 2010
Hey Catherine (and anyone else with spanish as some sort of TYSIC goal). Give me a shout if you need help or just want to practice with a native speaker. Granted, my spanish is probably awful by “textbook” standards but I can try
Maybe you could start something of the sort on the fan forum? Just an idea.
Posted by Lisa Brunders on March 9, 2010
hi again,
(glad I’m not the only one who piles up the post on the breakfast bar!)
I was struck by how far away 2023 sounds.
I’m not up with today’s technology, but I try. I can’t imagine what changes are ahead, which is probably a good thing!
You’re right about money being virtual I reckon. They’re phasing out cheques, lots of shops don’t take them any more.
Tysic doing ok. Slowly, but surely I hope.
Posted by Catherine on March 9, 2010
Hi Mark and all:
I got back my first big Spanish exam. Only made an 81.5%. That’s a B-. Not good enough. Still, it was a wake up call I needed. This week is Spring Break. Normally I would have gone to Florida to see my kids and never touched a textbook. I have stayed home and have been studying some. Word for the day: postergar, to procrastinate.
House cleaning and taxes are still goals, but so far haven’t done anything towards achieving them. Got my passport ordered finally. Spain is only 9 weeks away.
Broke down and bought new glasses on Saturday. Now the dog needs dental work. Always something.
I downloaded the first series of Mark Watson Makes the World Significantly Better. On show number three. Figured out how to put on my nano so I can listen to it in my car. Yea!
I love new technology, but it is happening at a pace that is faster than my income and brain. I’m trying to figure out twitter. BTW, I still have two VHS players. While I have and use DVD players, I can’t stand throwing anything away. Feel guilty about filling up the landfill with pieces parts that won’t decay back into dust before the second coming.
Tomorrow is the vet, the gym, going through the mail that piles up on the breakfast bar in the kitchen.
Thanks, Cathy
Posted by Olga on March 9, 2010
love the blog!
at my school we dont use black boards almost at all, mainly white boards and smart boards..
i miss the good old blackboards though..
on TYSIC.. well, im updating my blog reguraly, which is part of my TYSIC, and i do talk about my goals there. I’m not doing that well, but I’ve been going through some rough time, and I will get better. Knowing that theres like 300 other people doing this really helps haha take care xx
Posted by Chris on March 8, 2010
this cracked me up today! may be funnier for those who remember the days when TV wasn’t on for 24 hours a day…
http://www.robertpopper.com/2010/03/08/youtube-closes-down-for-the-night/
Posted by Heather Jones on March 8, 2010
Will these stll be around in 10 or 20 years?
- Television as we currently know it (including, in the UK, the BBC)?
- Petrol/diesel- fueled cars?
- Cheap flights?
- Rainforests?
- Bees?
May be our children (and/or their children) will be appalled at our profligate ways, our casual consumption of energy, our massive carbon footprints.
Maybe they won’t countenance things like disposable nappies any more? (Lucky me – I didn’t even know enough to feel guilty about using them 17 years ago!)
It’s unforgiveably pessimistic I know, but occasionally I find myself worrying that some time in the future long-term studies will discover that all our casual use of wireless networks and mobile phones (etc etc) have been frying our brains or giving us cancer or something….maybe the next generation will boggle as much at our taking of these (to them) ‘crazy health-risks’ as we do at the casual handling of asbestos in the past.
Posted by amycool on March 8, 2010
I’m trying to embrace the new technology at the library I work at, but unfortunately it’s a bit rubbish. In theory it’s great, but it fails at the not breaking every 5 minutes stage. I guess it’s like the early spectrums and trying to get online with AOL in the beginning.
TYSIC-wise. I have tried a new food and read a book from my list. I have tickets for a gig too, and I’m not going to get anxious about it (at least not for a while anyway). I love TYSIC. It’s possibly the best idea ever for someone with such a love of goals and lists. Thank you Mr Watson. xxx
Posted by CarlBurktwit on March 8, 2010
Happy Monday everyone.
Been a productive first TYSIC for me.
1) Write a novel – I’ve hunted down a synopsis and character developments I scribbled on a sheet months ago and tidied them up, think I know where I’m going with it.
2) Send a letter a week – My most ambitious one I shall ever send I think. I read somewhere that the England and Portsmouth Goalkeeper david James loves art and animation. So, yeah, I’ve sent Portsmouth a letter, headed “FAO David James” and politely asked him if he fancies doing the art work for a kid’s book I’m working on. Thought he may have some pull over some publishers and it helped me conquer steps one and two of my TYSIC goals.
3) Smile more – I’ve smiled more
4) Try to enjoy things I dislike – As written in my blog http://carlburkitt.blogspot.com/ I forced myself to get involved in the cheesey role play and ice breakers during the first few training days of my new job. I’ve actually met some nice people and my days have whizzed by.
5) Find a fifth challenge – I’ve decided to hunt new music and expand my already large collection.
For those of you who have been so kind as to read this post, My find this week is: Gil Scott Heron
I recommend “Ain’t No Such Thing As A Superman” for a funky smoothness, “I Think I’ll Call It Morning” for lyrics that make me realise the world is pretty and “When You Are Who You Are” for some splendid trumpeting.
Posted by Sarah (@misswiz) on March 8, 2010
I’m training to be a teacher at the moment and I’m glad to say that I’m not one of those teachers who can’t work the video!
If these things are going to disappear (and I think you’re probably right about most of them) then it’s interesting to think about what they are going to be replaced with. Take a look at this link…
http://2010book.tumblr.com/post/310745454/cover
It’s about a book published in 1972 about what life would be like in 2010. And although some of it is a bit bonkers (not sure why he though we wouldnt’ have tables and chairs?) a lot of it is remarkably accurate. But then technology is developing at a much faster pace now than it was in 1972.
In TYSIC news, I had a really shitty day on Friday but I didn’t console myself with pizza, chocolate or booze. This is the attitude I need to keep in order to meet the first part of my ‘maintaining a healthy weight’ goal. Also, I passed my second university assessed lesson, which means I’m also one step closer to becoming a fully qualified teacher.
I’m really enjoying the blogs Mark, keep up the good work!
Posted by MrMatt on March 8, 2010
So many of these are true I fear. I remember videos and being old to be taught how to program it.
Progress on my TYSIC is good. Having endeavoured to do so, I have so far succeeded in learning the chords of A,D,E and G. Tomorrow it may be C. Soon these shall become more than mere letters!
Posted by Kathryn on March 8, 2010
Many posts about interactive whiteboard things- we have them in our school and none of the teachers can work them either, even after 7 years of this new technology. Also, our music department spent a ridiculous amount of money on iMacs and then spend every class phoning around other teachers asking for help because the sound’s stopped working. All this technology results the modern equivalent of not being able to work the video, except in every single class; if the whiteboard malfunctions, everything stops.
Posted by Gabi on March 8, 2010
I should point out that right now some teachers cannot even ‘work the dvd’. The next step for them is surely terrifying.
As for progress on TYSIC- I have got myself a little book which I am carrying around with me, noting things I find as odd or strike me as very funny. I am slowly building these into mini routines, which seems the hardest but most exciting bit.
Posted by Misha on March 8, 2010
You may be interested to know you’ve just almost completely described the world that Margaret Atwood envisaged in A Handmaids Tale. Scary.
TYSIC
I can now play Mull of Kintyre
I spoke to cast members I didn’t really know and ate my lunch with them. I feel as if I’ve acomplished something.
Posted by Aidan Jones on March 8, 2010
I agree with everything you say, and as I’m probably the youngest person to comment on the blog (I’m 12) I kind of see things differently to older people.
I think in the future everything will be compacted, and it’s already started.
The iPhone is a phone, music player, games console, web browser and camera. Personally I don’t like this development. I like playing my brother’s old 1981 gameboy and bringing everything around separately. But I suppose it can’t be stopped.
Posted by Hannah T on March 8, 2010
Old cars. Beautiful old pieces of history, from the 60s and 70s; your square-edged holdens and your chryslers with vinyl seats that heat up in summer. They don’t make cars like that anymore, nor do they make the parts that would keep them going for another decade. I may only be 19, but I hate that such things must come to an end.
And it saddens me to think this, but I agree that CDs will be outdated in 10 years. So, I think, will books and magazines, particularly if apple keep spewing out gadgets like the ipad.
Posted by max on March 8, 2010
I also had a pen pal. He was a random dude from Africa. I never knew how he got my address though, yes, a letter just came from Africa one day and it was this guy introducing himself. It was not a scam, he was pretty cool and we traded pictures and such… oh how times have changed.
As for the future, I think the biggest change will be food-related. I’m not sure if the change will be positive or negative though. I would love it if 10 years from now, all the kids are baffled by how we could tolerate the crap we eat. I’m not talking about the dishes themselves (even though some are indeed disgusting) but in the “raw materials” we use.
Imagine how great it would be if we went back to eating cows that spent their lives outdoors, eating grass; if sugar substitutes that are more dangerous than sugar were to be outlawed; if vegetables were actually grown outside and had an actual season…
I realize that the above is wishfull thinking and the reality will be more along the lines of kids being flabbergasted when told that no, food did not always come in pills….
Posted by Lizzie on March 8, 2010
Some of the thingss mentioned on your list are already being phased out at our school. We’ve just moved into a new building that’s really modern and we dont have any white boards anymore, let alone black boards – now we use electronic smart boards which is still kinda weird to me.
We also don’t have change in school anymore and instead have to put it on a card which we use to buy food and stuff. This card basically rules our school lives now!
Posted by louise on March 8, 2010
Bamboozle was amazing!!
Posted by EmmaT on March 8, 2010
How about Teletext in analogue form? I realise it has gone already but I am sure it will be one of those things that we will reminisce about!
I thought of it as were just talking about the channel 4 teletext quiz bamboozle at work. A great way to pass some very dull rainy afternoons on holiday, and the fact that if you got a question wrong you would have to go back to the start and wait for the pages to load up again.
http://www.speedcommunications.com/blogs/speed/2009/07/16/teletext-closes-end-of-bamboozle/ (if you are wondering what I am on about)
Fun times.
Posted by Chris on March 8, 2010
and just to add – automated phone calls, not the ones where you initiated the call, but the ones that call you – do you have a credit card or loan etc… currently winds me up more than anything (I think)
Posted by Simon on March 8, 2010
Brilliant post, Mark!
“Your teacher not being able to ’work the video’”
Despite being ten years your junior, this sort of experience was still blissfully common when I was at school. There’d be some white noise, then a black screen with the number 01 in the top left accompanied by some whirring. Then some more white noise. The kids getting more and more unruly. Fond memories…
I think sports refereeing in its current form will seem crazy in ten or twenty year’s time. “What? An actual man running about the pitch? SURELY he’d get in the way and stuff! Don’t be an idiot, Dad.” Instead, I believe there will be a team of referees off pitch with access to different camera feeds, playback facilities and so on. I understand this is currently a controversial topic but I honestly cannot understand why.
By the way, this post reminded me of a segment in “Time Trumpet” when everyone looked back and remembered things like “bricks”, “ovens”, “petrol” and “the news” which naturally all seemed completely outdated. Did you feature in that bit? I can’t remember.
Posted by Rachel on March 8, 2010
:O As long as they don’t try to get us to use wet toilet paper, I’ll be happy with water/wet wipes. The thought of wet tissue makes me feel horrible.
Posted by h2osarah on March 8, 2010
My Granny still tries to pawn off her set of Encyclopedias on me. They’re from 1967. They weigh like 100lbs. She doesn’t seem to understand why I don’t want them.
I think pen-pals already are a thing of the past. I used to have one. We exchanged actual, physical letters, that I wrote myself, with a pen. Now I keep in touch with more far-away people than I could afford in postage.
Posted by Ben on March 8, 2010
the lack of money is the most inevitable, i think. no longer will we carry beautiful artifice and Charles Darwin’s face in our wallets.
Posted by Corey on March 8, 2010
I always feel more comfortable phoning a landline, not sure why though!?! my update on TYSIC is having booked to go into a pro music studio with a musician friend…..I say friend he’s more my cousin, to see what noise we can make, and we’ll try and make it a regular thing.
I’ve also been getting some advice on the comedy thing, and I’ve put my name down to go on a course in London which has been recommended, which will probably be in the autumn.
I’m also going to embarrass myself greatly by making a spoof film to show at work on April 1st.
Posted by Rachael on March 8, 2010
I think atlases fall into the same category as encyclopedias, I haven’t seen one of them for years. I hope books don’t die out altogether though.
Posted by louise on March 8, 2010
I can’t really think of anything specifically which will become a thing of the past but if money were to go then people who have problem with their finances will surely be in even bigger trouble because I know I spend way more when I just have my card rather than the money in my hands.
In regards to TYSIC I set up a blog dedicated to it, rather than just using my tumblr account. I have decided not to update my progress until next week incase I don’t go through with it but if I do I will have made a little bit of progress if I do. I read this blog not just for your entries but I also like reading everyone elses comments and reading their TYSIC blog. Well done Mark for starting this.
Posted by Chris on March 8, 2010
I bought a DVD recorder, purely to copy old video tapes (like Dave Allen’s series from the 80s and 90s) and to be free up space on the Sky Planner.
I remember the time when there was no voicemail on landlines, just hoping someone was in to take a message, for someone else to call you back.
I even had a Pager, so people can leave a message on that – sort of like instant voicemail but without the ability to call back from that unit.
In the future, babies will have chips implanted into them at birth, with built in technology to accept/make calls and ID checks, so there will be no need to ever worry about things like mobiles and passports.
Posted by clara81 on March 8, 2010
Oh dear. I seem to be bringing my son up in the wrong decade. While at school the teachers use an interactive whiteboard and the pupils have small individual whiteboards to practise their writing on, at home he uses a blackboard….
Vacuuming is made impossible (that’s my excuse & I’m sticking to it) by his extensive wooden railway and the die-cast routemasters that convey passengers to his station.
And his Dad regularly disappears upstairs to listen to his scratchy old folk records.
We even walk to places!!!
How long do you think I’ve got before his disowns me for being so out of touch, bearing in mind he’s 4 and a half and the only one of his friends not to own a DS?
On the plus side, he’s never questioned why people have different skin colour, or beliefs, or disabilities, or kinds of relationships and families. So maybe some of society’s prejudices and discrimination will seem (rightly) ridiculous by the time our kids have grown up. I certainly hope so myself!
Posted by Charles on March 8, 2010
It wasn’t Heather Mills who was tellign you about the toilet paper was it, Mark?
Posted by Natalie-Helen on March 8, 2010
On the TYSIC front I am definately failing. Pretty much all of them atm, which is definately having an impact on the fnal one. Haven’t even got half way through the essay due in at 4pm, so working hard and getting a 2:1 are out. Not learnt any french or enrolled on a course to do so. Still can’t sew or do wood work etc (though have a few ideas). This is generally not contributing to the “be happy” one. Sorry I’m being so pessamistic. Been a shit week.
I did make a poster to keep for 10 years with my TYSIC’s outlined. And a credit card sized one with little reminders to be carried around. But not sure if that counts.
Well, back to “work”. T_T
Posted by Sam on March 8, 2010
I’m at university and I still use landlines, even phone boxes sometimes. Lecturers still use video tapes (even for film studies, and fail to work them too). I have also used a blackboard in my time here. I only two days ago spent a few hours looking through a physical encyclopaedia. I regularly buy a newspaper. And the rest of them too.
Does this mean that despite being a teenager now, in a decade I will be out of date?
Posted by Jamie0S on March 8, 2010
I have a catalogue somewhere for the vast range of different looking computers during the early nineties. Frightening that such things were still being sold, so frankly anything we see as nerdy will be cool but smaller, and cool things utterly clunky and awkward and pointless.
OK, I’ll stick my neck out… in ten years time the internet will seem ridiculous. Pages of information we had to look through? What was that about?
Posted by Rachel Winter on March 8, 2010
I increasingly feel sorry for todays kids that they dont have a ‘proper’ childhood. We used to do things like playing down by the weir (can you imagine any child now being allowed to do that?!) up the park, by the river. Cycling to nearby villages, camping in the garden. um what else – making things etc etc! now children get to say ‘ooh dyou remember that year when the new Ratchety Clank came out, good times’
and…did I miss the admin blog? do we just leave comments on any blog about the 10 year thing, even if the blog that day is a completely different subject?
Posted by Anna Lowman on March 8, 2010
Nice title. I love a Beta Band moment, as Hornby (or possibly just Cusack) would have it.
CDs are clearly out – vinyl will remain because of its cache and the great artwork you can get with a nice gatefold cover; but not enough people are nostalgic about CDs (except, say, the Spiritualized tablet) for them to remain.
I remember the first time my gadget-loving uncle showed me a CD. I wasn’t impressed by the thing itself, but when he showed me that you could “skip” between tracks – actually find the start of a track without 30mins fastforwarding and rewinding – I was AWESTRUCK.
Posted by Dan Worth on March 8, 2010
-…passports. Our kids will surely laugh at the idea of having a little maroon book to verify that you’re allowed to travel abroad. People mount strong opposition to the introduction of electronic cards instead of paper ID, but it’s an inevitable process, long-term. Surely.”
Don’t call me Shirley.
Re: money becoming obsolete. Totally agree. In time it’ll all be on card, sure of it.
Posted by Phill on March 8, 2010
I agree on most things. Although I do think your list is already somewhat out of date.
- I haven’t had a VCR for years. (Although I acknowledge that some people still do, those stuck-in-the-muds
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- Whiteboards are already out of date, if by ‘whiteboard’ you mean the standard thing you write on with a pen. These days they’re all computerised and can play YouTube clips and possible even teach the class without a teacher. And administer discipline, like RoboCop.
Oh, and the problem with passports is not the fact that they have biometric information, which I agree is probably inevitable, but the fact that it’s all linked up to a massive government database. And we know how good the government are at databases.
One thing I think the next generation will think is weird is the concept of ‘owning’ music, films, even books… I haven’t bought a film in ages, just because I rent them on LoveFilm. There’s no point buying a DVD any more, unless you want to watch it a lot. (The only things I buy on DVD anymore are series, which I do watch again and again.)
Similarly with Spotify – the only thing keeping me buying CDs is the fact that I can’t listen to Spotify at work or in the car. Soon that will change.
Posted by Jude on March 8, 2010
As a teacher, we are way past blackboard and chalk! I still use a whiteboard, but am a dinosaur as I still write on it with, like, a PEN! Most (young) teachers use the INTERACTIVE whiteboard, laptop attached. More technology to get wrong (see videotapes, above!) And as for books for reference…don’t make me laugh! If it int’ ont’T'internet, it can’t possibly be true! We are losing the ability to read, write, think for ourselves. Still, I don’t suppose it’ll matter in 20 years – we’ll have computerised robots to do that kind of thing for us… progress!
Posted by Elizabeth on March 8, 2010
I still prefer landlines to phoning mobiles.
On TYSIC I have blogged daily since Thursday and shook hands with a couple of my heroes after a gig on Saturday and they said they appreciated my support, which made me insanely happy.
Posted by Greg on March 8, 2010
Smog
Posted by Katie on March 8, 2010
“Your teacher not being able to ’work the video’”
Oh this brings back many fond memories of the whole class pretending they had no idea how to work it. Half a lesson doing nothing but laugh at the teacher! Happy days.
Posted by Al Napp on March 8, 2010
Its odd the things that can catch your kids out – we bought an old banger and my kids couldn’t cope with the idea that all 4 doors had to be locked separately.
Posted by Angharad on March 8, 2010
When I lived in Indonesia they all use water instead of loo roll. I never adapted and bought huge amounts of loo roll from the western supermarket and carried it with me wherever I went.
Posted by Joelle Stanton on March 8, 2010
I love my tape player. I’d be lost without it! It fell off the wall the other day and I Was so upset that it might be broken. Luckily only the display doesn’t work now so I can’t tell how long I’ve been watching. I can still tape my favourite shows though
I like having things in paper form rather than virtual form. Technology is far too unreliable. I possibly only think this because my thumbdrive broke yesterday and I lost 2 assignments due this week.
On TYSIC I made steps toward getting a job which will fund my travels and shows as well as becoming more social and not being afraid of people.