Past lives

This week has been trying on so many levels, physically with the heatwave that as someone that runs on the warm side has had me on the edge of a Heat Stroke, the loss of a person while loud and at times a little overbearing was nevertheless generous with their time in organizing get togethers and a influence for the good when it came keeping things in bounds.

In connexion with that some misunderstandings and actions by others that rather tainted affairs for days, leaving me well out of things that much of the political business from the Peace Deal with Iran that fell apart within hours to Keir Starmer's resignation announcement on Monday with the likely appointment in July of Andy Burnham as Labour Leader and appointment as Prime Minister in time for the September reopening of Parliament.

My thoughts have been more centred around past lives as we'd sooner of had them and the era immediately before my arrival on this planet.

Things back then for females were very different, few worked beyond the single woman with the notion of being married, having children and working being looked down upon, there were restrictions when it came to banking and getting loans being treated very much as a child requiring a man, even your father to underwrite it even if you were over 21 (the then age of becoming an Adult).

Annuals for older girls were different because you were a girl for long even if at the age of 15 you might of gone to work - you were a child labourer in effect - and so this one looked more at art, the interests of her and a good deal about fashion even if unlike in America wearing jeans wasn't a thing.

You aspired to look like a younger version of your mother and other adult females showing sophistication and traditional femininity.

This copy for 1960, so published in 1959 isn't in bad shape although the spine is a bit damaged superficially with the printed section torn.

I'll carefully restick it with Scotch "Magic" adhesive tape that holds things together without living permanent markings which restorers tend to use unless they were going to attempt to stick it to a paper based backing,

I find such topics and even some stories fascinating as much as during the 1970's many books like this was tossed out going for mere pence on jumble sales as utterly outmoded.

It was the sort of thing my mother had.