Compacts!

This is a lovely compact by The Color Institute that I own.
You can get this Argos in the UK for under £ 10 making a great starter kit to which you can add to later on.

• Set comprises the following:


• 64 eyeshadow pressings.


• 32 lip gloss pots.


• 2 face powder pressings.


• 6 powder/blusher pressings.


• 1 bronzer.


• 3 pressed powders.


• 1 shimmer.


• 1 blusher brush.


• 1 face sponge.


• 3 sponge applicators.


• 2 lip liner pencils.


• 2 eye liner pencils.


• 1 black mascara.


• 3 brushes.

The youngest girl in the Fifth

Having gotten Christmas out of the way, here's the latest instalment of a series of short bits on the stories I read at boarding school and this edition dates to 1970 and isn't in quiet so good a condition as the others apart from having the price in the old UK money that was changed February 1971.

The story is is set at a all girls boarding school where fourteen and a bit Gwen Gascoyne, is moved in the middle of the term from the Upper Fourth to the Fifth Form as her Principal, Miss Roscoe feels the work in the Upper Fourth is too easy despite her years.
In the World of the school girls she is seen as stand-offish, treated very much as an outcast by all except Netta whose malicious scheming nature leads Gwen into trouble and deceit.
All of this isn't helped by a spell of bad luck either!
Gwen comes into her own during an accident during an accident in her forms geology expedition and from then on begins to earn the respect of her classmates.

The gap

 It's the return to work week after the Christmas break so we talk about how Christmas went, thing like family gatherings, places you may of visited and presents.

I like my work a lot, I know I make a very really difference to the lives of those we see even if the way we do things has changed since I first joined and compared to many of them I am privileged.

No, what I find hard going is the social expectations of my colleagues because there is a critical difference between them and me which is they have more stereotypically adult interests and that shows in things like which of course people tend to get them presents connected with.

Now with me it's basically children's things like selection boxes, tv show annuals, stuffies and dollies to play with being very much a permanent child with only really music remotely groan up, and even that's more teen.

Thus when the conversation starts I'm sounding as if their little girl talking away but then as there is one a bit like me, I'm not totally isolated but we stand apart from all our peers.

That's the hardest thing about it all really.

More annuals

I've always loved having annuals for Christmas and Birthdays and was fortunate to have girls annuals rather than yukky boys ones

I also like horses so horse plus girlie fashion couldn't be better.

This was from 1973 which I remember well as being the year of Skylab, Britains joining the  Common Market and Princess Annes Wedding to captain Mark Phillips.