Re: Olden day good times!

by Nightjar Tue Sep 17, 2024 10:18 pm

cosmictanya wrote:
Nightjar wrote:

Was that your pram? Nightjar and mummy of out for a walk.

That looks like that sh*tty row of tatty shops at South Ken tube station.

Nightjar wrote:No.

It is not.

Not a single blond or blonde or ginger in the family.

We simply don't allow it.

Also, my Mum would never have ever dreamt of posing for some crap like that.

She was - and is - neither an actor, model, poser or poseur.

She is a garment maker, designer, graphic artist and fount of all knowledge re: textiles and sewing machines non pareil.

It just seemed an amusingly naff photo from (about three years after things were actually cool) that had gay colours in the foreground and then crummy backgrounds behind them.

As for the location, it looks a bit like Shepherd's Bush Market.

Anyway, FO.

That said, at the time, my Mum (and Astley-Dupee) had a shop by So-Ken Station called...

Hems and Buttons and Stitches or something...

by cosmictanya Tue Sep 17, 2024 10:21 pm

Nightjar wrote:No.

It is not.

Not a single blond or blonde in my family.

We simply don't allow it.

Also, my Mum would never have ever dreamt of posing for some crap like that.

She was - and is - neither an actor, model, poser or poseur.

She is a garment maker, designer, graphic artist and fount of all knowledge re: textiles and sewing machines non pareil.

It just seemed an amusingly naff photo from (about three years after things were actually cool) that had gay colours in the foreground and then crummy backgrounds behind them.

As for the location, it looks a bit like Shepherd's Bush Market.

Anyway, FO.

F- sake, I was only being friendly. I thought it was a fun pram.

by Nightjar Tue Sep 17, 2024 10:48 pm

It is an hate pram.

by Nightjar Tue Sep 17, 2024 10:49 pm

And I never once called my Mum "mummy".

I was never a baby.

by Nightjar Tue Sep 17, 2024 10:59 pm

I'm going to email that picture to my Mum and tell her you said it was her with me when I could still just about fit into a garishly painted Edwardian-era perambulator in order to create an ersatz photographic representation of a 'Swinging '60s' London that never actually existed for some kind of for-hire stock photography library.

She's gonna be hella mad at you, girl. evil

by cosmictanya Tue Sep 17, 2024 11:05 pm

Edwardian era? That’s just a standard Silver Cross isn’t it? There are pictures of me in the same, only it was brown and cream.

by Nightjar Tue Sep 17, 2024 11:45 pm

My Mum put me firmly straight regarding the Silver Cross pram.

I was abashed.

What came next though simply tore the rule book into shreds.

by cosmictanya Yesterday at 5:43 pm

Abashed isn’t good enough. She should’ve dropped the A from the start before delivering what was deserved.

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