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Happy birthday to Simone de Beauvoir, born this day in 1908.This...

Happy birthday to Simone de Beauvoir, born this day in 1908.

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Happy birthday to the inimitable Scott Walker. These prints are...

Happy birthday to the inimitable Scott Walker. These prints are available from standarddesigns.etsy.com

Well, this is lovely. Penguin Modern Poets 26 from 1975....

Well, this is lovely. Penguin Modern Poets 26 from 1975. #penguinbooks #poetry #1975 #rocks #stilllife

Here’s the other end of that pic of The Sweet. Remember...

Here’s the other end of that pic of The Sweet. Remember kids, 85p was a lot of money in those days. #seventies #1970s #glamrock #didntiseeenowearingthat

The Sweet, 1974. Are these the men your mother warned you about?...

The Sweet, 1974. Are these the men your mother warned you about? Or just the clothes? (From the inside front cover of the Look-in ‘How’ annual).

It gets better on the HOW annual - this is the back cover! I...

It gets better on the HOW annual - this is the back cover! I particularly like Mr Dineage’s ensemble/look/vibe, but at the same time… hmmmmm. It gets worse inside though. #1970s #fashion #tvpresenters #photo #book

A Look-in HOW annual from 1974. Having been both an avid Look-in...

A Look-in HOW annual from 1974. Having been both an avid Look-in reader *and* HOW viewer in the 1970s I was thrilled to find this while book-shopping at the weekend. “Based on the Southern Television series” tells you everything you need to know about how much smaller and closer to home things were back then. Even big things like networked television.

A Peacock Book (published by Penguin) from 1965, bought at our...

A Peacock Book (published by Penguin) from 1965, bought at our local country park secondhand bookshop yesterday. A strange combination of high contrast photo and gentle colour tones. Or maybe this copy just sat out in the sun too long one late-sixties summer?

I saw this check in Uniqlo recently and loved it, then realised...

I saw this check in Uniqlo recently and loved it, then realised the reason I loved it was because it reminded me of the Castrol GTX cans I used to love when I was a boy… and *then* realised that there was no yellow in that packaging, and that my mind had somehow interleaved the yellow into my recognition and recollection. The mind is a curious thing, at least where retro engine lubrication semiology is concerned. #check #uniqlo #red #yellow #white #green #castrol #oil #retro #tin #logo #design