Going backwards for Christmas

This weekend may not seem up to much so I'm getting this done earlier than usual as it is blowing a gale outside as I type this.

That if you did not recognize it is the front cover from Princess Tina in an 1971 edition, a comic from the 1970's drawn by the Spanish comic artist Purita Campos who died in 2019 aged 82.

What you may not know is she was a prolific contributor to girls comics in the UK throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

Her most popular strip was Patty's World which began in Princess Tina in 1971. She also illustrated many covers for that comic and others.

To me such series were very much the whole nature of girlhood specifically as it applied to school life writ large.

That was taken in these conditions too, this years "Christmas" tree to which majority opinion is somewhat under impressed by paid and put up by the Council.

The cottages  in the background date to the late Victorian era built for workers at the local mill since demolished for housing and yes the ground they are on is lower than the road thanks to subsidence.

Things for Christmas are arriving here as I get on with writing a few cards with torch at hand lest the power go off today.

Until next week, bye.