Twelve

Sometimes I feel like writing about a part of my life as if it was in the 'modern era' rather than being based very much in the past using more of what we have rather than what I had back then as in many ways our lives had more in common with the sixties and much of that continued through to the eighties.

You see computing was for most of us was very much offline with programs run from machines and only business had limited web content such as Prestel which we used in the travel business for offers and booking and generally we used things like word processing and limited gaming at the end of the eighties. In the seventies you pretty much had to type on to stencils and use a duplicator to run of copies of the school magazine.

Today the new 12 year old me would us my smartphone to take the pictures  that we'd edit using a photo editing program before adding to with text to a web page of our school magazine which would be on a part of our schools site.

We'd read it using our laptops or on our smartphones so when any of us were poorly or in hospital we'd have instant access to it.

In much the same way we'd send texts to each other enquiring about each other and what we thought of Miss Penrose's Geography class and Mr Smith's new car or add pictures when we're away which like sending a postcard but it's a image we took ourselves.

That's what the new 12 year old me would be doing today.

Where I had a old fashioned wooden wardrobe, in this era I'd of had a walk-in one with a lot draws to keep socks underwear etc in which didn't really have being given just what I needed for that day.

Another thing about twelve was the differences between my feminine gurl side and many of my peers were showing more with many of them in long trousers at school and jeans while I was okay with wearing short trousers but would loved to had gone to school wearing a skirt.

Twelve too was when I started to realize I was still very much that child compared to my peers who always appeared to be the 'older' girls to me even though we were the same age because they had matured in  away as that girl I hadn't even though this was just before the major developmental changes.

Ideally I'd of flown up from Brownies to being a Guide too

I don't think you can have a successful new future unless you feel comfortable with your own past.