Archive for September 2007
The 1940’s
Okay so where have I been for the last 3 weeks? Doing a spot of time travelling.
I am currently utterly consumed with all things 1940’s, you know learning a bit more about life in Britain leading up to and during WW2, the fashions (wow!), life on the Home Front, austerity Britain and striving to be more frugal – the whole ’make do and mend’ ethos.
I am not sure if it is because I am approaching 40 and I am currently fixated on that particular number or if I have been influenced subliminally, anyway here is some of what I have been up to.
Reading this book – £4 pounds from a charity shop.
Recording this CBBC programme Evacuation (I know it is for kids but it is great!) and then watching it when I get home from work, I just love the knitted tank tops, hhmm I think I secretly want to be the Land Girl, Miss Victoria.
Watching a host of TV and films set in the forties such as Goodnight Sweetheart , The Dresser and Varians War.
So there you have it, now I’m off to build an Anderson Shelter in the garden…………………………………………………………..only kidding!
