Kitchen cupboard

Posted on October 31, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged 60's, 70s, Cupboard, Kitchen, Life, Memory, Old fashioned, spin dryer, Time, vinyl4 Comments

Just saw this on Facebook, from the 60s or 70s.

We had a pale green cupboard, I think the same sort? I remember the crinkly glass in the windows. We also had a cool pantry room, I don’t remember a fridge. I’m sure I remember my Mum stuck marble patterned plastic on the cupboard to make it look better. I’m not sure it did? I think it was sticky back plastic vinyl that she used? I may be wrong. We also had a boiler and mangle and a free standing top loading spin dryer, the water collected in a bowl below it’s nozzle. It dried better than my washing machine now.

We didn’t have fitted kitchens then.

Vesta meals

Posted on September 16, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged 1970's, chow-mein, crispy noodles, Food, Fun, Memories, Old fashioned, Tasty, vestaLeave a comment

Tasty 1970s food before real foreign food was a thing. I particularly liked the chow mein vesta made (I don’t know if it’s still manufactured).

This is my faulty memory, I thought it came with prawn crackers but when I saw the photo I remembered they had a little packet of thin strips of noodles that you had to fry so they puffed up into little squiggles of crispy noodles. I’m guessing that the food was cooked In pans, certainly it was before microwaves, and it was unusual to have anything like this (except dehydrated mashed potato). I remember the jingle ” for mash, get smash!”

Tranklements

Posted on September 11, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged bits and bobs, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2058, dialect word, England, Fun, Midlands, Old fashioned, Stuff, Things, tranklements, Word4 Comments

What’s your favorite word?

Tranklements is an old fashioned word meaning bits and bobs, a collection of odds and ends, shiny things like a magpie would collect.

I think it is an old historical word from the Midlands of England. Certainly I’ve only really heard it used in The West Midlands around the Birmingham area. I think its a dialect word.

In context you could say I’m just getting my tranklements together if you wanted to gather your lace making kit or a bag full of knitting stuff. Or bits of costume jewellery, a bag full of paints or makeup.

I like it because it sort of explains what it means just in the sound. It should be used more often!

The Stars like dust

Posted on November 18, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Book, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2123, Fun, History, Issac Asimov, Memory, Old fashioned, Science fiction47 Comments

What book are you reading right now?

I’m reading an old Issac Asimov book. The stars like dust. It’s one I had in the 70s and haven’t read it since.

Asimov mainly wrote books about robots and formulated the three laws of robotics. But this book is about galactic intrigue and the attempts of a young man called Biron Farill, who is the main character of the book, to escape the Tyrrani who rule the Galaxy and are trying to assassinate him.

I have completely forgotten the story, it feels old fashioned but has intrigue. I can imagine watching an old film, some of the settings, seem clunky. But it’s worth reading, and I’m enjoying it.

On Air

Posted on April 29, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Life, microphone, Old fashioned, on air, Radio, Sketching4 Comments

Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt was on air… What to do for ‘On air’ …. I had to look up an old microphone for this, except I think its actually modern? It was on a sales site. Anyway it actually says ‘on air’ at the top so I chose it….

Musicals, My Fair Lady

Posted on March 12, 2023March 12, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Audrey Hepburn, entertaining, Fun, George Bernard Shaw, Musical, My Fair Lady, Old fashioned, Pigmalion, Review, SingingLeave a comment

I’m currently watching ‘My Fair Lady’ a musical based on the story Pigmalion by George Bernard Shaw.

The story is about a flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, who is trying to improve her cockney accented voice by taking lessons from Professor Higgins. She is taken in by the Professor who says he will turn her into someone who sounds like a duchess in six months. However his methods are unfeeling and really push Eliza. The film seems to sympathise with the professor rather than Eliza.

Songs like ‘all I want is a room somewhere’, ‘the rain in spain’ and ‘I could have danced all night’.

Audrey Hepburn stars as Eliza. She was able to sing the songs but they were dubbed by a singer called Marni Nixon, whose voice is in about fifty films!

If you’ve never watched it, you may feel the ideas in it are old fashioned, but it is set in Victorian/Edwardian times. The music is amazing and energetic. Worth watching.

Black and white films

Posted on August 7, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Black and white film, celebrity, Film, film noir, Hollywood, Old fashioned, Stars, ThinkingLeave a comment

Oh I love a good black and white film noir film. Lots of riddles to solve. Not too much actual violence. Tension rising, suspenseful music (we sometimes have the subtitles on for hubby and it will say ‘suspenseful music’, ‘door creaking’ and other remarks). The films often have a moral point that makes it impossible for the victim to make a bad decision, like killing the suspected murderer before they themselves are killed. Usually they seem to have to go through great distress and danger before surviving/escaping their fate.

What I like is, despite being farfetched, they are less violent, less verbally abusive, and more thought provoking. In other words its not like watching a film that is more like a video game. I think I prefer a time of old fashioned films, real Hollywood a listers and less ‘celebrity’.

Artrage drawing

Posted on November 1, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Colour, Digital art, Digital drawing, Face, Fun, Life, Old fashioned, ProfileLeave a comment

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Drawing over the top of a green faced man, I used Artrage oils to create this profile of a woman. I had the ‘oils’ set on metallic, it gave the image an old fashioned look. I am glad I can use this app.

Codd neck bottle

Posted on September 26, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Codd neck bottle, codswallop, Glass, Old fashioned, Thinking, victorian, What is it?Leave a comment

A friend painted one of these and wondered what it was called. I thought it was a codswallop bottle, but looked it up and codswallop is a word for nonsense, for instance used in a phrase ‘a load of codswallop’ meaning a load of rubbish, or inaccurate, or something that isn’t true?

Then when I looked up codswallop bottle it came up with this: ‘A Codd-neck bottle is a type of bottle used for carbonated drinks. It has a closing design based on a glass marble which is held against a rubber seal, which sits within a recess in the lip. Wikipedia‘.

Thinking about it, could this be a cleaner, greener method of closing a bottle? I think it’s an interesting design. I think it’s Victorian?

Book Review ‘They walked like men’ Clifford D Simak

Posted on September 13, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 1962, aliens, Book review, doubleday, good read, Old fashioned, Sci fi, TimeLeave a comment

I’ve just finished an old book from 1962 by Clifford D Simak. It’s called ‘They Walk Like Men’.

A newspaper reporter is caught up in a mystery when he comes home after a night of too many drinks. Something is happening and he is pulled into a weird situation where aliens create substitute human beings. They are trying to take over the world, but it’s less great big monsters and more subtlety mixed with a type of film noirish storytelling.

Each time you think you are getting somewhere the plot twists. It could just be a shaggy dog story? But it’s deadly and serious…..

If you like old sci-fi (originally published by doubleday in 1962) you might like this. My edition is second hand. It’s a good read. X

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