Flashback to the seventies

This was more the sorts of fashions for girls I recall from the early nineteen-seventies that remains an influence on me.

The pull of time

Let's just consider a few things along the way one of which is certain times of the year have particular resonances with me because of the rituals connected with them.

Take holidays for instance.

They were always set around school life, specifically the school timetable often routed in the past but one no one has any burning desire to change and beyond the bank holidays they connected to other things like the one we've just been through.

That was when your school kit from pens, sports war and uniform was looked at and reviewed before any replacements.

 

To be honest I so wanted to wear a uniform more like this, feminine but traditional, practical as I could dress myself in it which is something I do struggle with and to be quite honest if I could go back to school on a proper basis then to be honest I would do that in a flash.

I just never felt I'd outgrown it, more rather I wasn't really ready to leave that environment.

Girlish annuals

When I grew up, I had annuals like this, that Gran bought me as she only wanted me to happy doing and reading what I liked:

She also bought me more girl centred comics too as well as teaching me how to bake cakes and playing games with me.

and their annuals like this:

She help to mould this girl into who she became and is much missed.

Up, awake and socializing

It's true I have a somewhat relaxed approach when it comes to some daily routines compared to others and this might be connected with being more child-like.

This could of easily of been a weekend on a school vacation just casually lounging having gotten up fixing a quick breakfast socializing and I did read in my teens while doing this although my folks were really fussy-strict about getting fully dressed when you were awake  and never wearing your pj's when you're up.
I am sometimes unthinking when it comes where I rest my feet and that so sometimes I feel I could use a bit of "Feet off the table" grown up authority.