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  1. W-D Forties

    Comments You Get When You Dress Vintage

    She clearly doesn't get out much!
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    The general decline in standards today

    I think your dad may have been spot on. I was watching something on tv set in the late 30s the other day and the household had a stay at home mother, a car and a domestic help - all on one salary! That seems quite bizarre now. I know people had less holidays and gadgets then, is that part of the...
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    The general decline in standards today

    On the earlier question of where the fault lies and where the line is drawn, I'd say this: I am a strict parent. My son knows where the boundaries are and the difference between right and wrong. I would never use physical punishment. If the kid has been bought up properly that is not necessary...
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    What my grandmother told me about life in the 1940s.

    My grandma always unwrapped any present you gave her, neatly folded the wrapping paper and put it away for reuse. Used to drive me nuts as a child, now I find myself doing the same!
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    Who Did You Just See Live?

    I don't get out to gigs as often as Id like, but the last one I saw was Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer in Liverpool last month http://youtu.be/6t28COxEp2k
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I watched Bram Stoker's Dracula again for the first time in ages last night. Very good fun. I still think the scenery was out-acting Keanu, who puts Dick Van Dyke in the shade.
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    What my grandmother told me about life in the 1940s.

    My mother in law is of the same ilk. She grew up just after the war and has always like anything 'new'. Even if it's nowhere near as good as the 'old'. An example of this is recently she got into baking cakes using this new (weird) flour 'especially for cakes' It's absolutely horrid and makes...
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    The Middy Thread

    Someone on another hair thread said something about 'all hairdressers' having to master picurls, etc as part of their training. I'm really not sure this is true in the UK mine (who is actually very good), was flabbered by my reverse victory rolls last time I went in to get my colour done, but...
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    Funny skits in the style of 1930's British public information films

    Spend enough time watching Pathe newsreels and it impressive how spot-on they are. My fav is the football match with 'Charles Charlie-Charles, one of the famous Charles brothers'.
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    Show us your hair do's....

    Does anyone know where to get those elastic bands from in the UK? My hair's a bit short at the back, but it's growing!
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    Have You Ever Met A Movie/TV Star or Celebrity?

    Tenuous, I knw but.... Terry Jones from the Pythons used to live not far from my old job and used to buy his shoes from me, as did lots of small screen British actors and their kids. Terry's a really lovely man.
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    Iron Sky - Nazis on the Moon

    Dead Snow was an excellent slasher/Nazi/zombie mash up. I was very impressed. And lets face it, if you are going to be so tacky as to ....(thinks how to put it)... make lurve to a guy whilst he is actually on the loo then you do deserve to be eaten by a Nazi Zombie, don't you think?
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    songs that make you shiver/cry

    Stray Cat, I had never hear this track before you posted it, but the first time I heard it it stuck in my head like glue and I'm sitting here crying listening to it now :( Thank you for posting this - I think!
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    What my grandmother told me about life in the 1940s.

    My mum, who was a teenager in the 40's told me they used to style their victory rolls using either soap or sugar-water as a setting lotion. I had a large mohican in the 80's and I tried the sugar-water idea, jsut to see if it worked - it did, but blimey, what a faff! And I can imagine what would...
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    Forbidden items in my home...

    Agreed! Any china knick-knacks. My mother-in-law collects 'novety' tea pots......
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    Miu Miu goes 40s for fall 2011

    Don't forget the 80's saw a large rehash of the 40's too. Think Sean Young in Bladerunner and The Hunger too. Fashion always looks back when times is hard! Given the current global recession of the last couple of years I'm surprised its taken this long. And, yes, death to the 70's maxi dress...
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    Pale or Tan?

    Pale. Or a little fake tan to make me feel thinner! If I do apply a little of the old fake tan, it's only a very light one, and then usually just the legs as nine NEVER tan (or even burn). I would love to be one of those girls that tans to a lovely golden colour, but I just go red and I just...
  21. W-D Forties

    True Blood Season 4 Episode 1

    I do quite like the series, which is arguably better than the books, but I also admit to feeling like strangling Sookie. I really only watch it for Eric Northman. Let's have more Eric and less Sookie!
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    Wallpaper in Atonement

    Whilst watching Atonement again last night I spent far too much time drooling over the fantastic interiors at the start of the film. This may have cropped up when the film was released, but anyone else really want that floral nursery wallpaper? I'm not really a floral sort of woman, but...
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    100 years ago today

    The old White Star building is still in Liverpool by the waterfront. It used to have plaques with the names of all of it's ships all over the outside of the building and you can still see the holes where they were attached. It was from the balcony of this building that the anouncement of the...

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