Friday 4 May 2007

PhotoHunter: Childhood

Inspecting the new addition to my childhood.



Our childhood was spent in Africa: here on the steps in Chisenga with me, as ever, slightly apart.


There was a little girl,
And she had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead;
When she was good she was very, very good,
When she was bad she was horrid.
(mainly the latter, or so I was told rather frequently)



In the garden, Karonga.

PS My hair is darker and even curlier now and I do NOT like it!

26 comments:

  1. Oh what fabulous photos!!! I love the first one with the baby stroller. Priceless!

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  2. Your photos are so beautiful, like scenes in Out of Africa. I hope your children and grandchildren and future descendants get to keep them and treasure them.

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  3. I love all the pictures. Thanks for sharing your childhood.

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  4. They are beautiful photos. Such wonderful memories. Happy weekend.

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  5. Oh, that first one is priceless!!I imagine you have wonderful memories of Africa. Our former youth pastor was a missionary kid in Togo and tells quite interesting tails, especially of a pet monkey.

    I remember that poem from my childhood. Unfortunately I had no curls -- my hair is straight as a board. :)

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  6. These are wonderful pictures and what gorgeous curly hair. Bongga mom is right, it did remind me of that movie... Out of Africa.

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  7. Really beautiful photos. I also got to hear that rhyme and its last line quite often in my childhood....

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  8. Wow, those are awesome photos...someone was a great photographer even back then!

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  9. Oh, I LOVE those photos, especially the first one. Wow!

    ps: My Mommie said she would trade her stick-straight hair for curls any day!

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  10. I love your photos. It's like they are up for an exhibit. :) Great really!

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  11. Precious memory, precious pictures! Thanks for sharing and for stopping by, and wish you a good week end! :)

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  12. Wonderful photos! Beautiful! Terrific memories of your childhood.

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  13. You look quite proper in those photos! I would say that these pics clear you of the naughty title!

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  14. You were beautiful! I always wanted hair like that. And I love the first photo. I have one like that too, only it's my sister inspecting me (I'm the younger one) and she has a very skeptical look on her face!

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  15. Love those old baby carriages - they sure don't build them like that anymore! And I think I'd like to have curly hair at this point, mine is SO flat!

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  16. Your pictures are all beautiful, I especially love the first one

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  17. i really love those pictures! there's something about the pause and silence in the pictures that is just so simply beautiful...

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  18. What neat pictures. My mom use to say that same poem often when I was growing up.

    My childhood picturs are up too!

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  19. Priceless photos!!
    You spent your childhood in Africa!! How unbelievable. I watched Born Free (for the umpteenth time) last week and just cried and cried. And remembered how that is the first movie
    I ever remebered watching that made me lust after Africa.
    Hopefully I will get there soon.

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  20. these are beautiful pictures! i love black and white photos, they always have this timeless feel to them. thanks for the comment on my blog!

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  21. Thank you for stop in at my photo hunt.

    It amazing how we all have different back grounds and items.
    I notice the tricycle in your last picture and I believe I have never seen one.

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  22. Awww, so adorable! I love the curly hair (I always wanted curls as a child).

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  23. all the photos are just wonderful!
    I especially love the first one - photos of older siblings getting to know the newborn are so affectionate!

    my childhood :)

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  24. Wow! Africa, France, England! I've never been out of the city. Beautiful pictures. What wonderful memories. Thanks for visiting our blog and the complement. So nice to meet you.
    Samantha & Tigger

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  25. What great photos! And what beautiful memories of your childhood!

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