tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post3948348142396210163..comments2024-03-25T08:10:55.433+00:00Comments on March House Books Blog: The Best of British Homemaking 1966 Barbarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05962552429792516213noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-88772001852524116592016-03-18T14:34:34.055+00:002016-03-18T14:34:34.055+00:00Hi Anne Marie, thanks so much for letting me share...Hi Anne Marie, thanks so much for letting me share the photo and for your always interesting comments. Have a lovely weekend, BarbaraBarbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05962552429792516213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-64163647266145669552016-03-17T10:31:07.328+00:002016-03-17T10:31:07.328+00:00Barbara, it was good to see my room on your blog. ...Barbara, it was good to see my room on your blog. It is strange that I wrote the first comment about our room before my son gave me the old photos he had borrowed. I had described the room from memory but had forgotten the walking sticks and that the table was preformed plastic. In fact, that could almost be IKEA today.Campfirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06573797205145907726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-83588506496956594382016-03-14T07:13:52.417+00:002016-03-14T07:13:52.417+00:00Yes please that would be lovely! books (at) march...Yes please that would be lovely! books (at) marchhousebooks (dot) com Sorry for the odd looking email, but I hope it will prevent it being picked up by spammers. If you put it all together and replace at and dot with the symbols it should work otherwise there is an email me button top right of this blog. Barbara xxBarbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05962552429792516213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-69276669593092733712016-03-14T07:10:18.209+00:002016-03-14T07:10:18.209+00:00Hi Nikki-ann, Take That are brilliant!Hi Nikki-ann, Take That are brilliant!Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05962552429792516213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-6231544405938878672016-03-14T06:57:50.442+00:002016-03-14T06:57:50.442+00:00One of the funniest things in growing up!
Was! Pe...One of the funniest things in growing up! <br />Was! People would ask me, because of my <br />love of cats.."Willie, when you die, do <br />you want to come back as a cat".?<br />"No! No! No! Way! Knowing my luck, they would <br />call me Tom..And take me to visit the vet". <br />oooooO! No! I want to keep everything l was born<br />with...Hopefully!!! WILLIE...! =(^..^)=https://www.blogger.com/profile/14862273578655424772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-89270107685071631602016-03-13T23:18:05.367+00:002016-03-13T23:18:05.367+00:00Thank you,dear Barbara for not banning me from mak...Thank you,dear Barbara for not banning me from making more comments!! I nearly died when I realised how L-O-N-G this one ended up being! I am just so glad that I jogged a few more memories about your own bedroom!! Your bookshelf sounds as if it was filled with many of the books I had myself,even though mine came a decade later! This has been such an absolute JOY to receive your warm response to my epic Email!! I do thank you,SO very much!Love and smiles till next time,Jules in Oz xoxxoAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03152576015579792168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-85054553460886637872016-03-13T22:47:03.445+00:002016-03-13T22:47:03.445+00:00Barbara, I have just managed to take a photo of th...Barbara, I have just managed to take a photo of the slide I found - I'll email it to you so you can put it on your blog connected to this post, if you would like to. The wall is very dark, it wasn't quite so dark in reality but I simply held the half frame slide up to the light and zoomed in on it, holding slide in one hand and camera in the other.Campfirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06573797205145907726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-56480749873940756752016-03-13T17:03:17.348+00:002016-03-13T17:03:17.348+00:00G’day Julie or should I say Good Arvo (I’m never s...G’day Julie or should I say Good Arvo (I’m never sure what time it is in Oz!) <br />I guess you might get the show at a later date if it’s successful in the UK, if you do its well worth a watch. <br />I loved reading your memories, and I remember the TVs with the spindly legs. Dad came home with our first TV in time for the Queen’s Coronation in 1953. Half the village came to watch. I was five at the time but still have vivid memories of the day. I had no idea you were involved with interior design & furnishing but the way you described your lounge/dining room, and bedroom did away with the need for a photograph – I can picture it all in my mind. The carpet in my bedroom was pink with great big flowers - full-blown roses if memory serves me right – with dark-green leaves, it was ghastly, but I did love my dressing table, desk and bookcase. The bookcase was full of stories by Enid Blyton and C. S. Lewis, together with lots of books sent by my Godmother. She had a thing for anything published by Dent/Dutton in the children’s illustrated classics series, things like Wuthering Heights, Heidi and Treasure Island.<br />I can’t remember what I stuck on my bedroom walls when I was young but when I was in my teens I started collecting beer mats (the cardboard kind you find in pubs). I wasn’t allowed to visit pubs, so I had to beg everyone I knew to get them for me. By the time I left home to get married three walls were completely covered, mum had an awful job getting them down and repainting the walls when I left! The fourth wall was dedicated to The Beatles (George was my favourite). <br />I wasn’t in the brownies or the guides, but I did go along when they camped in the fields on the farm where dad worked. I was always made welcome so goodness knows why I didn’t join properly. It might have been that most of the meetings were some distance from where we lived and getting to them would have been a problem. Dad was always busy with farm work and mum didn’t drive in those days, and the nearest bus service was several miles away.<br />I loved your Eclipse story! I’m sure Willie will have a chuckle.<br />Lots of love xx<br />Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05962552429792516213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-18295726917568069232016-03-13T16:30:04.462+00:002016-03-13T16:30:04.462+00:00I'm an 80's child, so I guess that would b...I'm an 80's child, so I guess that would be my favourite decade. Although, music-wise it would be the 90's as I was (and still am) a massive Take That fan.Nikki - Notes of Lifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15116292112164268244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-86709831740321558422016-03-12T03:35:53.862+00:002016-03-12T03:35:53.862+00:00G'day dear Barbara!! We don't have this sh...G'day dear Barbara!! We don't have this show here in Oz,<br />However, though I was a SMALL child in the 60's,I do have some super memories. In about '65/6 we rented our 1st TV.It was one of those huge Box looking things on spindly legs! We had a(REAL)timber feature wall in the L-Shaped Lounge/Dining room which was very large even by today's standards.The front door opened straight into it,so dad built a long bookcase & on top of it we had a large Tropical Fish Tank which you could look into from both sides as it formed a sort of 'entrance hall' It was so unusual that all our friends thought it very clever & modern! The floor was polished with shag-pile rugs.The saddest thing was when the fire place was replaced with a Gas Heater,It DID work far more effectively,but didn't have the same magical effect of a REAL fire!!We had typical 60's furniture & furnishings though fairly muted in colour compared to what was in the magazines of the day.Mum did love to have lots of really bright comfy cushions everywhere,which brightened the whole room immensely!!These memories and also having kept all my old magazines,have always given me such enjoyment as I moved into interior decor & furnishing,after I had to stop sign writing after 20-odd years! In my childhood bedroom in the mid 60's I had gorgeous RED carpet,though to this day I've no idea how as an 8 year old,I talked my parents into it! I had posters of various countries all over the walls which were a cool,clean ice green(almost white).In those days the Travel Agencies would give the posters away for free! HOW I do wish I had thought ahead and collected them. In the later 60's my grandparents sent me some POP posters out from England.These also went up onto my walls!! I had the most fabulous one of Cat Stevens with his acoustic guitar above my bed.(even my parents enjoyed his amazing guitar-playing skills and talent!) The bedspread I had was actually a huge purple blanket which I used as a bedspread.I kept all my dolls and teddies on my bed and next to the bookcase,another made by Dad,I had a very modern looking desk.The bedroom 'suite' was white which made my red carpet look even more intense!And yes!!! I DID have Beatles and other 60's pop stuff adorning my room in small amounts!!!!<br />I have lovely memories from the 60's,when I was in primary school and also when I began my journey with the Brownies movement which back then was FAR more real and exciting,as well as practical and interesting than it seems to be in these politically correct days when everyone is so into litigation and suing others for what WE all simply considered to be the use (or not) of common sense!!<br />My mother was very stylish in both her person and her housekeeping,so I think that I had a great start to life really. We were encouraged to discuss what WE liked or didn't, when the furniture was about to be moved around,or new furnishing bought.And because we all had a genuine interest in art,there were always interesting pieces on the walls, including some truly exquisite large Copper works which involved engraving and enamel-work!!Oh!! SO very modern!!!<br />Before I go,I must tell you something which is parallel to your Tarzan/Jane tale..... A few years back when my son moved out,he got a tiny kitten which needed rescuing,and he gave her the delightful name of Eclipse.When he took her some weeks later for her FINAL needle,the vet informed him that SHE was definitely a HE!!! The only good aspect of this was that HIS name certainly could not have been better chosen, with what HE had been keeping hidden so well for so long!!!<br />Yes indeed! I know too well,just how many supurr & purrfect puns Willie could be thinking up about THIS!!! We have been there and done this ourselves!! Hee hee hee!!<br />Lovely to read this great post,Barbara.Though I may be considered more a child of the 70's,than the 60's,you have brought such wonderful early memories to the fore!<br />My love always & miles of smiles, Jules xoxAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03152576015579792168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-29366797956180681942016-03-11T09:22:48.625+00:002016-03-11T09:22:48.625+00:00Hello Stephanie, it is funny how our tastes change...Hello Stephanie, it is funny how our tastes change when I was younger I craved colour, noise and excitement. I much prefer a calmer lifestyle now.<br />Have a lovely weekend, Barbara. <br />Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05962552429792516213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-31921704802035830752016-03-11T09:07:47.785+00:002016-03-11T09:07:47.785+00:00Hi Marcia, poor old Tarzan I’m not sure how he fel...Hi Marcia, poor old Tarzan I’m not sure how he felt about turning out to be a girl! hehe Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05962552429792516213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-5368005749223304742016-03-11T09:05:42.856+00:002016-03-11T09:05:42.856+00:00Hi Tracy, I think most of the series is available ...Hi Tracy, I think most of the series is available on YouTube and might also be on 'catch up' TV. It is well worth a watch. <br />Thanks for your visit, Barbara Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05962552429792516213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-75992397080598946472016-03-11T08:57:20.622+00:002016-03-11T08:57:20.622+00:00Hello Marina, the young boy in the series really e...Hello Marina, the young boy in the series really enjoyed the experience, so maybe your son was identifying with him. <br />Shag pile carpet – now you’re talking! I had forgotten but yes, we had it too! My parents in law still have polystyrene tiles on their ceilings. My father in law put them up in the 60s or 70s, and there they have stayed, he tells me it makes the house warmer. There could be something in that, but I’m sure they must be a fire hazard. <br />Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05962552429792516213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-52159015949895025222016-03-10T09:01:04.734+00:002016-03-10T09:01:04.734+00:00Lol you took photos then and Terry takes them now!...Lol you took photos then and Terry takes them now! I love your colour combinations ~ blue, green, lemon and white. (I really like blue with lemon or blue with white, or a lot of blue with a small puddle of red). Thanks, love. xoxoYanting Guehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04788603550626277974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-33987604302361863292016-03-10T01:10:44.436+00:002016-03-10T01:10:44.436+00:00I haven't heard of this show- but what fun. I ...I haven't heard of this show- but what fun. I also love looking through old magazines and commercials because it really brings back a time period. I see lots of things coming back in fashion from so long ago. Interesting how it all come back around. :) The patterns and colors can be a bit overwhelming- but I agree that one wall with a pattern is enough. :)<br />Stephanie@Fairday's Bloghttp://thesecretdmsfilesoffairdaymorrow.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-45008494201777223232016-03-09T16:27:52.871+00:002016-03-09T16:27:52.871+00:00That Back in Time program sounds interesting and y...That Back in Time program sounds interesting and your photographs are, too--such a colorful decade. Ha ha, funny story about Tarzan, I mean Jane!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-31464392501292498422016-03-09T14:33:58.088+00:002016-03-09T14:33:58.088+00:00PS. I forgot to say I am guilty of taking the phot...PS. I forgot to say I am guilty of taking the photographs. In those days, the film had to be taken to the chemist to be developed so it was sometimes months before we saw the finished results. How different it all is now. : 0Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05962552429792516213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-53643155879538235662016-03-09T14:33:15.826+00:002016-03-09T14:33:15.826+00:00How have I managed to miss this programme?
Such a...How have I managed to miss this programme?<br /><br />Such a blast from the past. Great post, though a child of the seventies myself so much of the above was so familiar - especially the wallpaper.Felicity Grace Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17852843882007267665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-86586682649943965642016-03-09T13:16:17.677+00:002016-03-09T13:16:17.677+00:00We watched this series and strangely enough my 12 ...We watched this series and strangely enough my 12 year old son watched and loved it too! I clearly remember the wallpaper from my 70s childhood bedroom having huge graphic bright orange and yellow flowers on a darker orange background. My mum had a liking for shag pile carpet ... I had brown shag pile in my bedroom, my parents had a mottled pinky cream one in theirs and with the offcuts from their bedroom they carpeted the bathroom!! I also remember polystyrene tiles on the ceilings, spiky polytex paint and cork tiles on the kitchen floor. Great taste!! M xVintage Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03695570690989980599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-66856970855366050952016-03-09T12:30:02.740+00:002016-03-09T12:30:02.740+00:00Dearest Barbara, I see your reply here! YES YES! I...Dearest Barbara, I see your reply here! YES YES! I LOVE THE MONKEYS!I have to say that I love all the British recording artists from this special time of the 60s. I always say, "How did the British take the world by storm?" I still love to listen to and watch The Beatles. And my friend, thank you so much for coming to read my poem. Poetry is not a favorite I notice among bloggers, but I had to share this one that I wrote on Sunday, our actual anniversary. I realized that it's in the EVERYDAY of the gift we have together where the celebration lies. Enjoy your day and yes, isn't that funny about birds/parrots? We can think they are one thing, then they reveal themselves to be THE OPPOSITE! HAHAHAHACastles Crowns and Cottageshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01780241008313365707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-18987323363267616422016-03-09T11:51:10.473+00:002016-03-09T11:51:10.473+00:00That would be brilliant, thank you! I wish I coul...That would be brilliant, thank you! I wish I could advise about how to do it, but I really have no idea, maybe someone on Facebook will help. Hope so as I would love to share the photograph. <br /><br />Fancy you going in one of those houses, no wonder you remember it so well. I don’t suppose many people were lucky enough to do that. <br />Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05962552429792516213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-15095455418800097392016-03-09T11:43:30.592+00:002016-03-09T11:43:30.592+00:00The Futuro house was amazing, Barbara, it was like...The Futuro house was amazing, Barbara, it was like going into another age when we were allowed to go up the stairs, it was so 'modern' and we wanted that in those days. Then we moved over to Staffordshire into a farmhouse and nothing suited, so I started buying and restoring oak furniture. <br /><br />I found a slide this morning which showed our green wall and two of the chairs - I wonder if I could highlight it and photograph it and you could post on your blog too? I'll have a go and let you know. I have asked around on a facebook page to see if anyone can advise where I can get them copied as I have also some of me in my 20s!!!Campfirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06573797205145907726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-26068870487674403362016-03-09T11:32:40.100+00:002016-03-09T11:32:40.100+00:00Hello Claudine,
I really like blues and greens and...Hello Claudine,<br />I really like blues and greens and have just redecorated a bedroom using both plus a few touches of lemon and white – sounds awful but looks really fresh and pretty. You would have hated one of the wallpapers we had in the past – the dominant colour was purple, and it was covered with a crazy geometrical design. I have no idea how we lived with it! <br />Bless your heart Claudine. The only way for you is forward, and I can already feel the wind filling those sails. xxx<br />Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05962552429792516213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496559191887463909.post-41728497780026034752016-03-09T11:22:20.106+00:002016-03-09T11:22:20.106+00:00Hello Sue, I’m so pleased you are enjoying the fun...Hello Sue, I’m so pleased you are enjoying the fun! I always think the comments are the best bit. <br />I remember Woman and Family Circle, and I might even have some somewhere. I will have to look for them as they might come in handy for another blog post one of these days. I’m so envious of your mums Ladderax and really wish we still had ours. I don’t remember a section for the hi-fi but we did have a magazine rack (you can just see it in the photo). <br />The programs are highly entertaining so you should watch them if you get the chance.<br />Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05962552429792516213noreply@blogger.com