#but yeah there is never a time i don't yearn for penzance and for the 2000s. and for happy hippos... | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

kitchensinksurrealism · 28 days ago

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thinking about the scary thing I saw as a kid on the way to my great grandparents' house in penzance, except for over 20 years I haven't been able to remember what it was lol

#i remember walking there so i'm guessing we were either walking from a car park? or maybe the train station. but i feel we would've driven #anyway i just remember being scared enough by something on the way there that i was dreading walking past it on the way back #i think it was a statue or some sort of face in stone or something. but i have no idea #i also remember walking past a shop and it having happy hippos in the window and i wanted to buy some but i wasn't allowed rip #and i just looked it up on google maps and it's literally just on the corner at the opposite end of the street from my great grandparents #but it felt so much further away at the time like genuinely it's taken me 20 years to realise it was on the same road as them #anyway i don't know if i remember the outside of their house or if i've just seen it google maps since but i do remember it being on the en #of the road. and then after that i don't remember much #i remember my great grandparents but i can't picture them in my head. i just remember them being in the room #i vaguely recall a glass cabinet by the window that had ornaments in it and idk what any of them were but they gave me some sort of #nautical nostalgia I've had ever since. and tbh it probably came from that. ground zero for nautical nostalgia #and then the defining memory is of me and my sister trying to act like adults when they say ''right i'm off to bed''#so we told everyone we're going to bed. and then everyone was like okay. but we didn't actually want to we just wanted to sound like adults #but it was the evening and we'd probably just accidentally reminded them it's about time we went to bed anyway #and i remember us both being so annoyed lol #anyway god i love you early 2000s i wish my memories of you weren't blocked by infantile amnesia #although my yearning for the early 2000s is probably entirely bc of the infantile amnesia. the forbidden memories...#but yeah there is never a time i don't yearn for penzance and for the 2000s. and for happy hippos...#and i still need to know what the scary thing was #ramble

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