My T-bars were brown…
Did you know I’m the mother of a Year 9? It’s such a big year isn’t it?
I’ve been chatting in the car with my freshly minted Year 9 all about how things were for me “back in the day”. When I say stuff like “when I was at school” I feel like my mum. I think to myself…who cares?…that was about 100 years ago…things are different now! I’ve come to realise that actually things aren’t so different. Year 9 girls will have the same issues today that they were having when I was there and for that matter when my mum was there too.
My Year 9 year honestly feels like it was yesterday. The smell is as fresh in my nostrils today as it was all those years ago. I run the streets I walked as a Year 9 and reclaim my 14 going on 15 year old self. I hear the voices of my peers as my girl recounts conversations from her day.
It’s like looking in a mirror at my place at the moment…except that my T-bars were brown.
I thought I might revisit some of those moments that shaped me during 1987 and use it as a bit of a click brief too.
mel @ loved
88 days ago
Isn’t it funny how it seems like ancient history to our kids, as it did to us when our parents would talk of the ‘olden days’. It does feel just like yesterday for me too. Oh boy, year 9, yep that’s a big year!
Tania
88 days ago
That brief there? That’s a brief with legs.
librarygirl
88 days ago
Today my oldest kid is EIGHTEEN and in YEAR 12!! (younger one is year 9). In some ways it seems like all that was yesterday for me, but in others a thousand years ago…
flowerpress
88 days ago
Hey snap, I’ve got a year nine girl here too! How did that happen?
I’ve been remembering what its like and you’re right, the more things change…
Kate
88 days ago
And she’ll survive, just like we all did x
Jennie
88 days ago
That must bring back so many memories – running where you once walked with your friends. Its shocking how quick the time goes, feels like a blink of the eye!x
Kate
88 days ago
Year nine has such a bad rep.
Teachers, parents, friends, everyone talks about it like it is/was the worst year, the hardest year, the bitchiest year.
I wish you and your girl smooth sailing and fair weather.
I will be hitting you up for words of wisdom when the time comes. xx
Kirsty
88 days ago
I might start a space for this…
thesh itbits
do you think it would fly?
xxx
Ruth Bruten
88 days ago
my T-Bars were brown too…only in Adelaide they were called PaddleSteamers- because of the pattern on the front of the shoe.
x
Kirsty
88 days ago
Much cuter. x
Nic @ Yardage Design
87 days ago
I was in Year 9 in ’88 ~ it is a strange year (9 that is) ~ kind of in between fun high school and more serious high school. All I can remember bout it were the endless bicentenary celebrations and free stuff!!
Nic @ Yardage Design
87 days ago
I was in Year 9 in ’88 ~ it is a strange year (9 that is) ~ kind of in between fun high school and more serious high school. All I can remember about it were the endless bicentenary celebrations and free stuff!!
Marijke
87 days ago
Had that exact convo today with my 3 yo. “Mum were you a little girl in the olden days” This shocked me – I remember asking this of my dear grandmother but.. come on.. I’m not much older than her 3… surely! I’m struggling with a double figure boy … year nine – wow – and only just a blink ago!
Kellie
87 days ago
Memory lane ~ a fabulous place to visit. Only today I walked into my local bulk foods place and it smelled exactly like the health food shop around the corner from my dad’s work when I was a kid. Brought back so many memories!
eat my shorts
86 days ago
Oh those shoes bring back memories!
Laurel
84 days ago
When I was in high school, back in the mid 80′s you were not allowed to wear T-Bars. It was lace ups all the way. In year 9 I fondly remember riding my bike down a big hill wearing brand new leather lace-ups and dragging those new shoes ALL the way down that very big hill. Needless to say they no longer looked new and shiny (and Mum was far from impressed) Funny thing now at my daughter’s school they have outlawed T Bars starting this year. Something about students not doing them up properly. So now, she (Year
is not very pleased at having to wear the dreaded lace-ups. Needless to say I have not shared my own experience, just in case!
Andrea
80 days ago
And to think I thought they were the daggiest things ever…where now I find them quite cute and wouldn’t mind a pair…in red maybe. My how times change.
Andrea
80 days ago
(and yet they stay the same)