Joanne Limburg
Stephen McGannNothing of my past stays vertical. My childhood neighbourhood - my old school - reduced to rubble and replaced with something else that faded faster. I've watched prefabricated estates rise and die in the time it took for puberty to scar my face and ruin my grades. The constant rubble-making has given my life the feel of the cartoon train escapee, hurriedly laying new tracks in front of a speeding train locomotive as the old tracks disintegrate. The forced smile of interesting times.
Coach Pāṇini ®@StephenMcGann “they paved paradise and put up a parking lot”
Awatha #FBPE #FBPA #FBPPRWelcome to entropy. The third cast iron certainty after death and taxes.
Make it Blue@StephenMcGann
Heart-tugging, without being overly wistful. Harder than it looks.
Heart-tugging, without being overly wistful. Harder than it looks.
🦇 Jennie Rigg 🏳️🌈 (she/her)@StephenMcGann *cuddle *
I know you don't know me from Adam but... you've just got to keep on keeping on. Hold the memories precious and stay true to who you are.
I know you don't know me from Adam but... you've just got to keep on keeping on. Hold the memories precious and stay true to who you are.
Keiþ 🔭@StephenMcGann The discovery of something from my distant past that still exists amazes me. Was I there or do I just have the memories of the person I was, because I’m not really him now?
Kate Bevan@StephenMcGann so long as you and everyone you love stays vertical ...
simon gray@StephenMcGann Be thankful you don’t live in Birmingham, buildings are built and demolished in the city centre over the course of 15 years…
Hen Gymro Heb Wlad@simon @StephenMcGann Birmingham is wild. When I worked there it felt like they switched the roads around every weekend. I swear the place exists on some kind of space-time faultline where the road you took to get to work no longer exists - and never has existed - by the time you try to head home again. There are 1000s of Brummies who have to start new lives in a new part of town, just because they went out shopping one day and the road home disappeared!
@hengymrohebwlad @StephenMcGann I was once responsible for keeping up to date the ‘how to get here’ leaflet for one of the (at the time) Selly Oak Colleges; there was a point when I was sure the bus stops along Corporation Street we’re moving quicker than the buses
@simon @StephenMcGann "You can never get off at the same bus stop twice"
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Julie Fann@StephenMcGann Not that it restores what's been lost, but you are vastly loved.
Daria_QT@StephenMcGann Truly the change is exponential, certainly has happened to parts of my past too - like my old primary school.
Jenny Baverstock@StephenMcGann all very true. That toot is quite poetic.
Cathie Lloyd@StephenMcGann it’s accelerated too. In 1990 something I went to use a very atmospheric university library I last used in the 60s. Everything was the same. Within ten years the library had moved to a new building which had a completely different vibe, could have been anywhere.
Je suis Moi!Both school and childhood home have been demolished. Tbf, I'm glad the home has gone; too many bad memories there. Though the school has gone, far ebook gave me the best parts back and thw ability to turn some of the bad oarts positive.
Annette Skade@StephenMcGann I ask a woman for directions . Her reply ‘turn left where the working men’s club used to be ..’