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  1. W-D Forties

    Rain Macs!

    Ooohh, I can still remember the smell of that particular plastic! I'm sure you can still get those macs.
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    Show Us Your Purchases!

    Women definitely had smaller feet then, and smaller everything else! In the UK the average shoe size in the 70's was a 5 but by the early 90's it was a 6, work that backwards whilst factoring in the post war diet and you can see why many of the sizes are so small.
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    Skin care routine. What am I doing wrong?

    Have you tried the hot flannel method? There's a thread on beauty somewhere. It seems to work very well for a lot of us without having to use many products.
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    Door Help!

    http://www.periodhouseshops.com/catalogue.php This company have some nice repro door furniture and other bits and bobs, not cheap but very nice quality. They have a couple of shops and I have had good poke around the one is Shrewsbury.
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    Show Us Your Purchases!

    Off topic! On the subject of furniture - is there a thread on restoring Utility furniture? I have several peices, including my bedroom suite and a side table that are laminated and varnished oak and over time the varnish has dried out and looks a but patchy and flakey. I'm wary of sanding or...
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    Show Us Your Purchases!

    Ooohh, Love that hat!
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    Show Us Your Purchases!

    I have 2 Utility wardrobes that cost a princely 99p each on ebay! Mind you, I had to hire a van, get help, drive a round trip of about 100 miles...
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    Titanic Centennial

    I will be popping over to Liverpool nearer to the date as there are some centenery celebrations going on, including the huge mechanical girl from La Machine. That's the same people that did La Princesse the huuuge steampunk mechanical spider that spun it's magic across the city for the Capital...
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    Most Depressing movies you've seen?

    The Pursuit of Happyness with Will Smith. An ironic title if ever there was one. Atonement is depressing, but it is the good, miserable, wallowing kind that you need sometimes!
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    Baking powder facial scrub

    The best I have found for hands is olive oil plus salt. Scrubs virtually anything off and leaves your skin beautifully soft when your rinse it off. I saw a dead sea version of this at Costco and it cost a fortune! I'll stick to my cheapo home-made version!
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    Baking powder facial scrub

    It's certainly the best textured scrub I have used. Most of the synthetic ones are either like rubbing your face with gravel or barely there!
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    Baking powder facial scrub

    I recently borrowed a beauty book from the library that recommended using baking powder as a facial scrub, mixed with a water based cleanser. I have tried it and have to say it really does work! The texture and size of the grains is just about right and it left my skin very soft and clean. It...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Harold and Maude - loved it! i can't believe I have never seen it before. I also introduced my 12 year old son to The Rocky Horror Show. His verdict 'Good, but very weird!' I tried telling him that in a few years he will be off to see it wearing ladies underwear clutching a bag of kit kats. He...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I love shadow of a doubt, but I doubt you'd get away with the kind of 'friendship' he has with his neice these days!
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Harold and Maude - what an utterly brilliant film, touching and very funny. I can't believe I have never seen it before now.
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    Comments You Get When You Dress Vintage

    I went to my son's parents evening at school last week dressed as I usually do and with my white streak in a pomp (again, as usual these days). I felt slighly out of place and did worry slightly that my son, who's twelve, might have got the odd sarky comment about me afterwards, but the next day...
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    Films that left you with a sense of wonder and awe

    The Wicker Man. I first saw it on late night telly when I was 12 or 13 and it blew my mind. I never went back to Sunday school after that.
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    Feels like fancy dress.......

    My husband is the opposite - surely your husbands appreciate the underwear, the stockings at least!
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    Weird and Forgotten Movies

    'Death Line' - classic gritty early 70's horror, very influential, especially on John Landis. 'Mind the doors!'
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    Films that left you with a sense of wonder and awe

    Reservoir Dogs - for the sheer energy and verve of it. Aliens, for the same reason.

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