Platform shoes DID come back. I can't believe we looked as awkward and ungraceful as the young people I've seen wearing them recently but we must have.
Hush puppies made a comeback also. I bought a pair a couple of years ago. They're still great and comfy-cozy.
we are now our parents
, wondering what with this new generation
of course like we did, the kids today think that they came up with something new. can't wait for the green, red, purple, orange spiked hair thing to come around again.
What the heck is Mapleleaf babbling about?...........Oh right! that's the topic we're supposed to be disscussing.
I was beginning to think the original topic had been trampled beneath all the shoes.
timber.
I have explained my screen name often on Abuzz also ... but, never averse to babbling, I shall explain it again.
My real first name is deborah - hence the "d" - you all following so far?
So - Lowan is the name of the sheep station owned by my mother's parents, and where she grew up happily, and is, hence, a link to my long dead mother and her heritage.
'Twas a beautiful property, now sold out of the family, and I have only been there once - but I was brought up on tales of my mum's childhood there....
Thanks Deb. I hadn't heard it before.
Wow... you guys can really take a barely-there topic and really run with it. It MUST be the P.F. Flyers!!!
Deb - I think a sheep station named Lowan sounds beautiful. Were the family originally Welsh?
Thanks Wilso...
I don't know Piffka - I haven't heard about a particular Welsh connection.
My screen name started as my grandfather's nickname.
d - my brand of breakfast cereal is Lowan!
Mine also - when I eat such things! It always makes me laugh.
I used my Abuzz name so people I knew here would recognize me. I must admit that I wish I had not picked this name for Abuzz. I did serve as a nurse in Vietnam, but it sort of identifies me in a narrow way. I probably would pick something in Scottish or Irish Gaelic if I was to choose a moniker for myself now...or something literary....like Dorothea from Middlemarch!
Hi Vietnamnurse, What a nice after Christmas present - to see you on A2K! WELCOME. c.i.
Hi CI! Glad to see you here too! I am really impressed with this site and am happy to see so many friends like you here!
Hello Vietnamnurse! Welcome! :-D
Thanks, Jespah! I feel like I am at home with so many old friends here!
Mine was our boat name (with the '2' added at AOL's insistence). The boat name was derived from the names of my hubby, son, daughter and myself and was literally selected from a hat after we had trouble deciding among several boat names. When I first signed up for AOL and then for subsequent web sites, I used the bandylu out of nostalgia for the beloved boat. Now I use it cause it's easy to remember and as I get older, 'easy to remember' is a primary reason for lots of things.
bandylu, my previous boat went by a family derived name for a good, long time. For the last year or so I owned it, its name was "For Sale". Unimaginative in my old age, I named my current boat "Current Boat"
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