I wanted to like patchouli but I think I am allergic to it.
I remember the peacock feather thing. Along with having other dried grasses died various colours. I’ve since read that having peacock feathers in your house is unlucky - any bad luck stories to back this up? Apparently having a lilac bush in your garden is also unlucky. if there’s one thing from my childhood that I remember is my parents procuring lilac from a neighbour’s garden (with permission) and having bunches on our dining table exuding that heavenly odour. It must have been a 70s craze because you rarely see it growing these days.
I remember the plastic rockets with weighted front ends. You’d put a cap in a particular place, throw the rocket up into the air, and it would land, nose-down and the cap would go bang!
There were cardboard “crackers” (or “snappers”), free, in comics, which, when wafted downwards, rapidly, would emit a loud, percussive CRACK!
I was a fanatical reader of “Hotspur”, “Dandy”, “Beano”, “Topper”, “Whiz”, “Boys World” and “TV 21”.
Also, I couldn’t walk past a creosoted fence without taking my time and going high from the smell of the creosote!
This was early 70s - Sainsbury’s still had counter service but Tesco was a new style store with shopping trolleys and the concept of the customer adding value to the business with self-service. Something we now take for granted was at the time the ultimate in business to customer delegation.
This reminds me of those paintings of the children with huge sad eyes and small faces, holding a puppy/kitten/flowers. I saw of a few of those when I was little and they always gave me the shivers.
I’m kind of glad you said that.
When I was a very young child this picture of Harriet used to hang on my bedroom wall, it actually gave me nightmares. Looking at it now I can’t begin to imagine why, kids tune into things in a different way I suppose.
Haha! Trust you to come up with one of them! This looks really cute actually…and I know what you mean about viewing it as an adult. Maybe it was the eyes back when we were little…they are very starey, even the cat is glaring!
This looks really cute actually…and I know what you mean about viewing it as an adult. Maybe it was the eyes back when we were little…they are very starey, even the cat is glaring!
