Build a time capsule

Perhaps there’s an element of selfishness in making a time capsule, as if projecting some of personality into the future will keep a bit of us from dying. Still, I love time capsules…

..and my dad was doing up the house. We put in newspapers and photos, I think, but not much else. I can’t really remember, it was about 1979 and I was five! I was unbelievably excited to think that a spaceman in the future might find it. In actual, fact, the treasure was found by my dad a couple of years ago when he did some DIY. Boring. But the whole family (minus brother, who was but a bump at the time) stamped our palm prints in concrete on the floor under the door mat and as far as I know they’re still there!