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Poetikat's Blasts From the Past

Poetikat's Blasts From the Past

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Random clips from the 60s, 70s and 80s. Movies, music, television - whatever pops into my head. A trip down memory lane for Generation X adults.

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  • Reigning cats and dogs (and birds, and fish and rodents) - Part One.

    Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 15:01 in Dogs, pets, cats, childhood, turtle, goldfish, gerbils

    It all started with Smoky. I’m not really sure where Smoky came from in the first place, and I’m even fuzzier about where he ended up. I was five years old when Smoky came into my life. He was my first kitten. He was small, all-black and h...

  • A Room of One’s Own

    Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 12:48

      As a child, I was fortunate to have a father who had a good job and a mother who had good taste.  This facilitated a number of things to my benefit: plentiful food on the table, a charming and well-appointed wardrobe and a lovely big bed...

  • What’s that buzz?

    Posted on Thursday August 20th, 2009 at 12:17

    It’s August--my least favourite month of the year. Why? Well, I’ll tell you. It isn’t just the fact that August brings waves of heat and humidity. No. It is also the peak season for one of my worst fears: the dreaded wasp. I have a few phobia...

  • The Drowning Pool

    Posted on Tuesday August 4th, 2009 at 11:55 in drowning, swimming lessons, diving board, treading water, superfish, pollywogs, huron park pool

    Pool Party – That’s mom in the middle and I’m the one looking off to the left (in the pink). Around about Grade Five (in 1971), some bright spark in the education system decided that it wasn’t enough to torture me with physical edu...

  • I’ve come a long way, baby!

    Posted on Tuesday July 28th, 2009 at 15:24 in anniversary, gen-x, favourite posts, gen jones

    Poetikat does not endorse smoking, but these girls “came a long way” first. It’s my one year anniversary on July 29, for Blasts From the Past, so I thought I’d dig up some earlier posts and let you all have a peek at some of my favo...

  • Summer Retreat

    Posted on Thursday July 23rd, 2009 at 11:55

    Click pic for source. Hello fans and friends of Blasts From the Past.  As I’ve been laid up with a sciatic nerve issue, I am taking a break from BFtP for the time being.  I hope to be back on track once again some time in the not-to...

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