Sunny Days

I haven't done a Friday Photo Flashback for a little while, so thought as it was such a gorgeous sunny day today, that I would share another sunny day from my past.  

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This is a holiday photo from the 1960s of my sister, my dad and me, probably somewhere in Cornwall.

Happy ever after.

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Still thinking about weddings.  I might have posted this before but here is a photograph of my Mum and Dad's wedding in 1954, the bridesmaids in green and coral are my aunts.

Red Leather Seats

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This is a photo of my Dad's Rover. I think it is a Rover 500, it wasn't his first car but it is probably the first one that I really remember.   It was black and absolutely solid and had beautiful red leather seats.  It is parked in the backyard of the house that my mum still lives in. Although there have been a few changes to the garage, and there are paving blocks rather than gravel on the ground, it is still very recognisable. We moved to this house in 1965, so it is probably around that time.

Wedding Photos

There are wedding bells in the air (for my son), and my friends are all desperate to see what I am wearing and I'm not showing them lol!  So instead I thought I would entertain you with a photo from an earlier wedding.

In fact it was my uncle Johnny's wedding, my mum's brother.  That's my mum, dad and my gran with me (in the blue hat and matching gloves) and my sister in the pink.  Look at those hideous, 'sensible' shoes! 

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This is me in my pram, strapped in and ready to roll!

Friday Photo Flashback Family

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I promised that I'd show a picture of me with a perm.  Now I have some really horrible photos of a perm I had in the early 1980's, it went completely wrong and my hair actually broke off!!  Well I'm not going to show you those... at least not this week.

This is a later 1990's perm when I had long hair again, it was much easier to grow my hair if it was permed.  But in the end, because I have such thick hair, it just took too long to dry it in the morning and I got fed up and had it cut off.  Andrew looks about 5 or 6 so this must be about 1994/5.

From left to right: Steven, my mum, my sister, my gran (dad's mum), Andrew, me, Dad.  Behind me is my Uncle Fred and Aunty Phyllis.

Friday Photo Flashback and a Sunshine Award

I received this Sunshine Award from Tattered and Lost Ephemera.  If you haven't visited this blog before you really should, the ephemera is often in the form of old advertisements and the commentary is amusing and informative at the same time.

I'd like to pass this award on to a few blogs which I enjoy visiting, not so much for their crafty content but for the way they are written or the inspiration they provide.

Feeding Family For Fifty - Helen McGinn has blogged off for a little while and I miss reading about how she tries to feed her family well for £50 a week.  There is lots of other interest in her stories too.  Even though she isn't blogging right now, read back through her posts and hopefully she will be back online soon. 


Millie Motts There isn't often any text on this blog, just fabulous vintage fashion images.  They are so interesting and inspiring, they don't really need any text.


With a Grateful Prayer & a Thankful Heart Lorraine provides a warm mixture of crafts, cooking, photography and family life and blogs pretty much every day.

 and now for Friday Photo Flashback.  Helen of 'Feeding a Family for Fifty' wanted to see what I looked like in my 'hippy' phase.  So here I am aged nearly 15 on holiday in Italy (1974) with long hair. Spot the enormous watch with double strap, unfortunately, you can't see my flares. There really aren't many photos of me at this age as I was really self-conscious and avoided the camera whenever I could, there is even cine film of me turning and walking away from the camera taken in Venice.  A very different stage in my life from the one where I happily posed for the photo I showed last week!

PS I have posted this photo before, I used it in my blog header when I turned 50 and was asked to post the original photo.  But when I went to look for a 'hippy' photo, it was the only one I could find.  

1978 - Friday Photo Flashback

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I'm sharing a photo of me this week for Friday Photo Flashback. I changed my Facebook avatar to this picture a couple of days ago and had a lot of very positive comments, so thought I'd share it here too.

My dad was an amateur photographer in the days before digital, he build himself a darkroom inside the outhouse at the back of our house and did all his own developing. Anyway, we were often required to act as photographers models so got quite used to posing.

I think this would have been taken in 1978 just before I returned for my third year at university, so I would have been 19. It is so hard to believe it is over 30 years ago :o

I nearly forgot about Friday Photo Flashback. Here is a picture of my boys in one of their earliest 'fancy dress' costumes for the village show and sports. It is one of my favourites. I'm not sure if Penguin biscuits (cookies) are available in countries other than the UK, but basically they are a chocolate covered sandwich cookie. This must be around 1993/4

Happy Birthday Andrew

It seems appropriate for this week's Friday Photo Flashback that I should feature my DS2, Andrew, as it is his 21st Birthday today. This photograph is from his 9th Birthday and you can see by his big grin, just how much he was enjoying his birthday tea of crisps, sweets, chocolate fingers and the 'Gameboy' birthday cake which I made for him.

If you click on the FPF logo above you will be able to link to some other blasts from the past!

The Birds!

This was the experience that gave me a lifelong fear of birds and pigeons in particular! Feeding pigeons in Trafalgar Square, London. That's my mum with a pigeon on her hand and me trying to become invisible so that the birds didn't flap at me.

Friday Photo Flashback

This week for the flashback I thought I'd show you an earlier verison of 'Me and my boys' circa 1989!

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Upwardly Mobile!

I haven't done a Friday Photo Flashback for some time, but remembered about it tonight and thought I would share this photograph of my paternal grandparents.

When my gran left school she worked in the jute mills of Dundee. My grandpa left school at 12 because his father was killed by a bale of jute in the docks, and he started working for his uncle who was a butcher. Eventually, he had earned enough to buy a side of beef to sell himself. The story goes that he couldn't afford the transport so carried it all the way from the market to the shop on the 'Hill Town'. Anyone who knows Dundee will know that this is a steep and long hill, very aptly named. Eventually, he had his own shop and he and my gran worked in it all through the war. They bought their own home on the outskirts of the town with fields and farms behind them, and was able to stop working in the shop. My gran was the 'upwardly mobile' one for whom appearances were very important, my grandpa was a quiet and reliable man who worked hard to make her dreams come true.

This photo would be on one of their 'runs' on a Sunday, when they went out to local beauty spots in the car, that symbol of all they had achieved!

First Christmas Flashback

No, not mine! This is my DS1, the one who is getting married next year. As his birthday is in January he was able to take in all that was going on on his first Christmas in 1987.

Those Sixties Hairstyles!

Another episode of 'Down on the Farm' the story of my husband's childhood!

Those 60’s Hairstyles

"This must be around 66 or 67, I would be around 10 or 11, the yard had been concreted, but unfortunately, my dad still cut my hair with, believe it or not, the electric cow clippers, which I am sure had exposed cable hanging out the back. Despite my protestations about wanting a Beatles haircut, it always looked like this. I think this was taken shortly after such a haircut.

I'm sure my sister's was the height of fashion at the time, not sure about mum's though, but at least she was wearing her nylon coat which she used to go into the henhouse to collect the eggs and then clean them ready for collection."

Kit & Alpha - Strawberry Fields "Designs by Redju of Digiscrapbook"
Fonts - Ravie & Fingerpop

If I couldn't join an Irish Boy Band...

Journalling:...If I couldn't join an Irish Boy Band, I might try my hand as a Andy Stewart impersonator (a one time favourite Scottish singer). My failure to break into this market left me so traumatised I never wore a kilt again...and that yard still hasn't been concreted!

Continuing the series of of layouts featuring my husband's childhood photographs for Friday Photo Flashback. Here we see him in a kilt, indeed he has never worn one again, but hee hee hee, all that will change next May as our son is getting married and yes, you guessed it, it will be a kilt affair - so you will see him in Scottish national dress after all.

Kits: Time Passages - Lisa Bowman, Rebel without a pause for Digital Craft Cottage
Remembrance of Times Past - Digital Craft Cottage
Denim Fancy - Donna, for Digital Craft Cottage
Frame/Tag - Finuf

Irish boy band good looks

It's Friday Photo Flashback again and here is another of my DH's childhood memories in his own words!
Journalling on the tag: This photo must be around 1959, the yard is still cobble stones. In fact one of my dad's half brothers refused to help with concreting as he maintained that cattle would never keep their footing on concrete, unlike cobble stones which were so uneven they couldn't walk. This turned out to be completely unfounded and cattle and pigs, dogs and hens had absolutely no problem with it. Concrete was also much better for cycling roudn the yard than cobbles!

Journalling at bottom of page: My sister is on the left aged 6, I am on the right aged 3 (and my Irish boy band good looks are starting to develop) my cousin Gordon McGinley aged 2 is in the middle.

Papers: Betsytuma for Two Peas
Crayon Frame and Alpha: Amy Sumrall
Paint Splashes: Cottage Arts.com
Font: Scrap Round

We made our own entertainment...Friday Photo Flashback

I'm continuing in the 'down on the farm' series of photos of my DH's childhood on the farm, we have gone back in time to around 1958, this time.


The journalling is written by my DH and reads as follows:

Around the edge of the layout: We made our own entertainment in those days. My sister was dressed in the nurses outfit with her hand on my head. Our friend neighbour, Janice Penman, joined in and we would wheel those dogs around for hours in the pram (or me if the dogs got fed up). It must be around 1958, I look younger than 2, my sister around 5, and the yard hasn't been cemented. "

On the squared paper: This may look like a pile of old junk, but dad would never throw anything away, and all of the items in this pile could come in handy one day. They also provided amusement for me and Davie Penman in our alter egos as "Jock and Joe the scrapmen".

The day the pig family escaped

Here is my Friday Photo Flashback in the form of a digital LO. Why not pop over to see some of the other flashbacks by clicking on the link to go to the More Than Words blog which hosts the challenge.

After the popularity of last week's photoof my DH on his tractor, I asked him to scan in a few old farm photos. He has given me enough to keep this going for weeks! Here is what he said about the bottom left photo of him with the pig, "This photo must be around 1962 as the yard has been concreted, but I don't look much older than 6. Shortly after this I lost interest in pigs in favour of Beatles."

Digital Kit is 4Melissa by Ellie Lash

Friday Photo Flashback

For the Friday Photo Flashback this week, I'm posting a photo of my husband with his tractor. Not a lot has changed, different tractor but the house and farm yard look very much the same.