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Weekly Photo Challenge: Nostalgia
Nostalgia? It ain’t what it used to be, is it?
The obvious temptation is to respond to this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge by pulling something quaint or sentimental out of the archives. There’s nothing wrong with that, of course, but as a counterpoint to the rose-tinted glow of memory I thought I would post this less cosy image.
The ‘living museum’ that is the nearby village of Montrol-Sénard has many features that portray a romanticised version of local life a hundred and more years ago. However, it also has this perhaps rather more realistic illustration of the way things were.
It’s a bedroom for a farm worker: a small, rough-made bed, a lumpy, dirty straw mattress and a pair of clogs (note the straw lining: no expensive luxuries like socks). When you see an example of the verité like this it’s possible to understand why the locals seem remarkably unsentimental about their comparatively recent history.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Nostalgia
Nice scene. Nostalgia and sentimentality rarely go hand in hand. 🙂
Very true. Thanks for looking.
Wow! That photo has a thousand words to it. Look at those shoes.
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Good choice – somehow it reminded me of all of those old fairy tales, maybe Cinderella most??