Now this prompt is easy for me. I am friends with solitude and living with an enthusiastic Golfer means I have hours to enjoy it.
I like to be in natural surroundings and am lucky to live in an area where nature is all around.
I can……
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This month the theme for Times Past is “collections” and you can check out the host page here.
I’m a Baby Boomer … classified by age rather than personality type! Grew up in an Australian capital city.
I don’t think of myself as much of a collector though at various times I have started them. The first I remember was a butterfly collection when I was about nine or ten and I kept them in a little box I’d covered with shells. I guess that means I’d already started collecting shells. I do have jars of shells now, sorted into similar types but I don’t go out looking for them it just seems I often find interesting ones to bring home. The same goes for stones and feathers.
In my teens I bought an album and started a coin collection, I’d go to the nearest shop and get some coins to sort through. I learnt that in Australia there were different mints and how the place of manufacture was indicated on the coin, eg a dot after the date. I couldn’t believe it when I found an extremely rare 1930 penny. I was right not to believe it because the one I found was English rather than Australian so only worth face value.
By far the biggest collection in our house is my son’s beer bottle collection which he started over 20 years ago, it was supposed to go when he got his own house but that has now changed to “when I get my shed”. I’ve a feeling his wife will make sure the bottles and cans never get into the house ….. if they ever leave here!
Musings of a Retiring Person 