80's-90's MEMORIES

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    Digging potatoes with my Granda.
    He'd sometimes hide sweets in the soil so I could dig them up.
    He was a full time gardener all over the city, but none of his kids learned how to keep a good garden.
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    • I drive past this house now and that area is a concrete drive way.PhanLo
    • awesomeKrassy
    • utopian
    • neverscared
    • Where is it?SimonFFM
    • The whole country is concreted over to park cars.shapesalad
    • My childhood street used to have lovely front gardens full of roses and hydrangeas - now flattened, concreted our and cars parked. Looks miserable.shapesalad
    • My Paw had a garden, but it was more of a "get out here and pick beans you little shit" type of situation. +1 for your Granda.garbage
    • This is lovelyStoicLevels
    • @SimonFFM it's North Edinburgh, still looks fairly similar now apart from as Shapesalad says loads of cars, almost end to end.PhanLo
    • My family had a Facebook group in lockdown where they shared old photos, here's another my aunt found
      https://i.imgur.com/…
      PhanLo
    • I thought I posted here? Minds me of my Gran's bit, PhanLo - shingle rows with orange tile tops and privet hedgerows and rockeries out front, veggies back. :.)Nairn

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