I was fortunate enough to meet a good friend for lunch last week. After a delightful lunch and a good chat I was on my way back to my van when I spotted the hexagonal paving stones. Nothing very strange there then. However, something as simple as that set off a wonderful chain of memories. Back in 1971 when I announced my engagement to my first husband, preparations were started to have the wedding at my family home. We were fortunate to live in a big house and loved the idea of having my wedding there. My mother thought it would be good to have the front garden tidied up and decided hexagonal tiles (green and white) would be just the job. My father and fiance set to and did such a splendid job my mother decided they could also lay a very large patio at the back of the house. I think they wished they hadn't done such a splendid job!! Neither of them were in the trade and had never laid a patio before (nor ever did again!) I remember the banter that went on during the course of these preparations! Such happy memories of my father and fiance working hard together :)
Years later, my parents and my husband and I swapped houses. The house was too big for them and we had an expanding family and I had already started running a nursery school in the house. It made perfect sense to swap houses!!
The floor covering in the toilet also had a hexagonal pattern. I used to spend much time supervising children in the loo so while they queued we had fun talking about the pattern on the floor. I even had fun teaching the children "big" words. I used to tell them a big word and then say they would never remember it but of course they did!! I remember the look on the Ofsted inspectors face when one of my little ones pointed out that the shapes tessellated!
Such happy memories evoked by these tiles. Do you have any memory jerkers? Would you like to share them?
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