Oh yes, odorono.
Gibbs dentifrice toothpaste.
Drene shampoo.
Camp coffee (still use it in cakes).
Evening in Paris and Goya Black Rose perfume (Mum).
Miners and Outdoor Girl makeup from Woollies, black eyes, pale lips.?
Diamond mesh stockings.
Mary Quant coloured tights (being at school I couldn’t afford MQ clothes).
Trying to cut my hair in a Vidal Sassoon style (unsuccessfully).
Really sticky hair lacquer in squeezy bottle (Woollies again).
Rawhide, Bonanza, Laramie, The Cisco Kid, so many cowboy programmes in the 50s/early 60s.
Sunday Night at the London Palladium and the dread of school next day.
Meet the Huggets on the radio Sunday lunchtime.
Calling lunch dinner, and dinner tea.
Wandering the lanes picking flowers, couldn’t risk it today.
Tinned spaghetti on toast.
Fish fingers when they first came out.
Surprise dried peas - lovely!
Mum’s apple pudding and custard, wish I had the recipe.
Ice inside the bedroom window.
Liberty bodices.
Those woolly hats with loops all over.
Fake fur hoods (what did I look like?).
Going home for lunch every day then finally being allowed to stay for school dinners.
Bunty and School Friend comics, later Honey and Jackie.
Lovely black fake fur coat and beret, bought in pieces from Honey magazine and Mum sewed them together for me.
Blue suede knee boots, would have loved the pink too but couldn’t afford both.
Gosh, so many memories. What a lovely thread.