Would you go back

[rary]

There have been a lot of changes in my short life, some that I welcome, Health and Hospital care as an example but some things I would happily change back, for example I was what you might call a latch key child, my mother went out to work before I got home from school, but the key was just through the letter box hanging on a string, my mother didn't need to worry about me as she knew the neighbors kept an eye on me, or possibly it was just coincidence one of them was there when I did something wrong and ofcourse at this time of year there was not the demands on folk that there is now, Christmas started two weeks or so before the 25th. and there wasn't the pressures to spend more than you could afford, and Christmas day was a normal working day here in Scotland so again the pressure was less to have lots of food though it was a special dinner like having chicken or even a goose if you were lucky, people were more considerate and better mannered and you didn't have 24hr. television therefore people talked more with one another
as you may have guessed I am sitting here as its too dark, cold and wet to be out in the garden, with nothing to watch on the telly, and impatient for spring

[burnie]

I wouldn't go back permanently, but if you could nip back to see steam engines hauling mainline trains and petrol was 25 pence a Gallon, just for a day now and then. Christmas in our house was 12 days long, we put the tree and crepe paper trimmings up on the 25th and took them down on the 12th night.

[Small pumpkin]

I wouldn't go back. That would mean doing it all again.........no thanks!

[Thelma Sanders]

I wouldn't mind going back to the sixties or seventies. Most of the good things were in place, Health care, antibiotics, washing machines and other labour saving devices, relatively affordable housing.
Petrol was still cheap enough to go gadding about in the car, or on the bike, without too many people on the roads.
The greater plus was that people still talked to each other and in a language most of us could understand.

[veggiechicken]

Go back??
I never came forward.
Don't do Christmas for more than 2 days, hardly watch TV and I talk to my neighbours and strangers............and I don't get maudlin when its wet and dark like some people.

[Nicos]

Some aspects òf life in rural france do feel like we've gone back in time 40 years or so. Sometimes further back , sometimes very modern.
It's genrperally a good mix.

[Chestnut]

I’m getting itchy fingers too, particularly when it’s too dark and wet to be on the plot!

I have been doing a bit of infrastructure work down the autumn which has kept me busy til the last week or so. Catalogued my seed collection last weekend, and made a spreadsheet with varieties, sowing dates and sow by dates. Next up is planting plan. Then paper pots. I am hoping there’ll be some good tv over Christmas as I reckon I will need over a thousand paper pots for next year’s supply of seedlings ;-)

As for going back, I have often been curious as to how my life would have been had I lived in earlier times, and would love to try out a week or a year in a historical re- creation - but only if I had the option to come back to 2018 if I found I didn’t like it or got seriously ill ! I suspect I would very quickly realise how much I miss modern comforts like hot water on tap, if I didn’t have any for a while....

[SarrissUK]

I'm not so much wishing to go back in time. It's possible to have a simpler life and be happy with less even in today's manic world. But, if I had a choice, there are things I'd get rid of in today's world, but I won't list it, because this forum isn't about politics.
But then... I would go back to being younger now if I could. Not 21, but maybe early 30's. I haven't grown everything I want to grow yet

[rary]

Go back??
I never came forward.
Don't do Christmas for more than 2 days, hardly watch TV and I talk to my neighbours and strangers............and I don't get maudlin when its wet and dark like some people.

I don't get maudlin either just reminiscent, but then I can still remember my youth

[rary]

I'm not so much wishing to go back in time. It's possible to have a simpler life and be happy with less even in today's manic world. But, if I had a choice, there are things I'd get rid of in today's world, but I won't list it, because this forum isn't about politics.
But then... I would go back to being younger now if I could. Not 21, but maybe early 30's. I haven't grown everything I want to grow yet

I don't think I would go back to being younger I am quite happy being mid twenties, and I still have a lot of seeds to sow

[Squingy]

Absolutely not! I think people have a romanticised view of the past, rather than a balanced view. It was OK to kill people for their land, okay to enslave people, okay to to treat people badly just because of where they're from or their skin colour. I was reading about how, at the glorious time many of you are speaking about, mixed couples were treated so badly it's heartbreaking. Look at how for we've come from then.

Like the previous posters suggest, I think you have to take what you want from both times. If someone/society is pressuring you to do xyz...don't do it. Who's gonna die if there isn't a carcass on the table for Christmas? If you lose a friend over not buying a present, you're better off alone. I don't have much sympathy for anyone with this 'pressure to spend more than you can afford' business.

Not like I don't get what you saying tho. Told the old guy across the road good morning, he turned around to see who it was, then turned back and continued what he was doing! Then there's the grouch next door, tell him hello every time he couldn't care less! Wife's always friendly when I collect their packages though, hmph.

To get my gardening fix atm highlighting expiring seeds on my spreadsheet, reading up squash breeding and landracing (taking up loads of time). It's very satisfying. And soaking up my sun lamp light before I start feeling hopeless. (It really works).

[Guest]

I wouldn't go back but I wish so many people wouldn't be so quick to forget/ignore/ not acknowledge the past.

Asked if my Daughter had spellings last week - my response was there was no internet so the printer wasn't working! (Copy function? pen and paper?)

I know my girls are only young but have started to realise that they struggle to recognise handwritten letters and words, only things is, how much is handwritten now. (Apparently none at school the internet is down )

Thankfully (yes I do mean that) we still get quite a few powercuts so we get to be creative. It forces all of us to do things together that we wouldn't normally do.

The reason we moved is so my girls can learn basics. I have no issues with them going off and being technological but it is scarey how many people don't use their brains any more and are happy to rely on technology. People that can't read maps they have sat navs. I shall stop there or I will take all morning.

[rary]

Absolutely not! I think people have a romanticised view of the past,

Believe me I don't have any romanticized view of the past, as I implied there are some things I wouldn't change, if my mother didn't have the money we went hungry, there were no food banks then, but you try leaving a key hanging at your letter box or even leaving your door unlocked over night and see how long your house stays safe, there have been a lot of good values lost as we 'progressed" as a society

[bramble]

Would I go back....yes I would..
The world and it's people were nicer.
You had nrighbours who looked out for each other.
You could allow your children out to play safely.
You could leave your door unlocked in the certainty that it was safe to do so,
No, we didn't have so much material wealth.
What we lost in the name of progress, we will never get back.

[Small pumpkin]

Would I go back....yes I would..
The world and it's people were nicer.
You had nrighbours who looked out for each other.
You could allow your children out to play safely.
You could leave your door unlocked in the certainty that it was safe to do so,
No, we didn't have so much material wealth.
What we lost in the name of progress, we will never get back.

Most of that still happens here.
I'm not 100% sure where the front door key is