Your album is pretty interesting! You always change things up! From naughty to modest, you always manage to look good. So diverse!

Hot SG , VERRRRRRY HOT !!

Its really a shame you grew up thinking you didn't have 'looks'. I can relate. I always had really big glasses and bad hair cuts. And yes, I understand about wanting to go back in time and hug her. You were absolutely adorable as a young girl and really cute as a young woman. What a waste of angst that was...huh. Yeah, but I know.

Oh dear me, I hated my looks growing up! Mind you I was regularly mistaken for a boy so that probably didn't help lol.


Great shots SG. I think you really suited the dark hair.

Was looking through some old photo albums for pics of the friends who are visiting Mum & Dad today.
Found these of a trip to Blackpool.

Both around the same time as the Christmas Party photo, but without make-up.
I thought I was so ugly without it :headshake

Look at that saucy minx, sitting right on the miner's lap in public. Cute pictures!

I don't mind admitting he was hard.

Moar!!!

Your mum hasn't aged. Wtf?

You really were sitting on a goldmine!

Well then from the pictures I conclude you have always been cute

Sweet. Not true though.

Going through old photos because one of Dad's friends is 70 this year - not the same chap who visited the other weekend.
Sorted the 'rents out with a photo card and coasters (they bought real ale as the real present.)
We plundered Dad's 50th Birthday album, put together as a celebration of his life.

This was in the Appendix; photos of the actual day.

I am 17.
And I already like a mouthful.

warning: rant starts here


Sundae, you can dismiss tora's compliment, your choice, whatever. But your logic/cellar grammar doesn't support your dismissal with the picture you posted. Seventeen, ok, young, goes to "always have been". Photo taken at mealtime by someone else obviously, you're caught mid-bite... "you like a mouthful". Um. ok. It doesn't support the "Not true though" part of your refutation of tora's hypothesis.

That picture shows a very cute girl. You resemble Gillian Anderson, and that's a compliment. I had something of a crush on her back in the day. You think I'm kidding? Here are my cites:

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/rant over

Pictures of people eating are usually unflattering.

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Thanks V (and Glatt)
But you must consider that the only photos I've kept, and those that went into my Dad's album, were flattering ones. I was joking about a mouthful - I am amazed looking back at that photo, because I remember how I felt about myself at that time.
There are other unflattering ones which exacerbated how I felt.

I used to hide when the photos came through the post.
And I used to hide behind my hands when the cine-camera projector was set up in the living room. To this day if I chance upon a smell which reminds me of hot celluloid and/or burning dust I feel nostalgic but cringe slightly.

I can't change how I felt about me then.
But a tide has turned in me since posting here.
I've discussed my ptosis, posted fat, without make-up, damn near naked, one-shot-RFN pictures etc etc.
I credit the Cellar for all of the above.

In the years before I joined I would never have met up with any other Dwellars.
Because I was fat/ ugly/ deformed/ badly dressed/ or all of the above. But I joined.
I got to know people by their minds and their decency.
The physical stopped being such a barrier for me. Online at least.
And the first Dwellar I met was DanaC who laughed at my jokes and gave me practical help for no good reason I could fathom.

Meh. Probably the wrong thread.