The Chocolate Box Comments

Lovely memories in this poignant piece Andrew. We have a shop here that sells all the old traditional sweets and its always full of adults buying sweets they bought many years ago, well penned 10 Lynda xx

Andrew, this is a beautiful nostalgic piece...I can see exactly what you mean...all my favourite shops as a kid - now look small and insignificant when compared with the fancy sparkling stores that have mushroomed all over the city, yet these tiny dingy shops still mesmerise me and make me think of the good old days when we had to really save or get excellent grades at school to be able to afford the chocolates & other goodies they had on display...10++

I think most of us mourn our youth at one time or another....times we can never get back. Years ago I used to go and peer into a sweet shop where the man was making the sweets himself. He would roll out the hot mixture of cough candy and let us have the bits he didn't use. Well we were rarely given enough pocket money for a bag of his sweeties in those days. Good thing too as they were bad for our teeth, heheh. Ruthie

Things like that are great memos.