h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Today my village/small town held its annual party. This year's theme was "Caistor goes Seventies". We've had things like "Caistor goes Irish" or last year's "Caistor goes Olympic".
I went to the attic to find what I had from 40 years ago, washed through a couple of cotton Kaftans and made my hair look as long as possible with flowers threaded into it.
Now someone wants to borrow one of the frocks for when she's being a guest at a wedding later in the year, someone else was so taken with my floor length crocheted shawl that she gave me a commission and a third person wants me to teach her to make a macramé handbag.
Drawbacks - the weather was so hot that I had to blow up another batch of balloons for tomorrow (there's a sort of fun run)and most of the music was actually sixties rather than seventies, but few of the participants were old enough to know that.

You will be amazed how many youngsters have been brought up on 60s and 70s music. VV is already training Baby Bump in the art of Rock!


lil x

You go girl! (as they say in the 90s)

that sounds great, WS!

Macrame takes me back. In the 70s my mum and dad made those "pin & string" pictures (with glittery thread) as presents for all their friends who loved them and asked them to make others for their friends and family too.

I must have crocheted a dozen of those shawls. Still got two myself. You can't throw something away you spent hours working on, even if you don't wear it. A shawl is a really practical thing, really.

Like Lil's, my kids grew up with music of the 60s and 70s, and, strangely many of them and their contemporaries got into playing rock music by way of a BeeGees greatest hits CD, which my husband and, apparently, several of his contemporaries felt compelled to buy. I maintain that my No. 2's career in classical music germinated from Madonna's "Papa don't preach" and its string quartet intro. He always used to listen to those few bars very attentively as a toddler.

I used to make those string pictures too and had a now much missed
friend (m)who could make 3D ones to hang from the ceiling.
The race day today was even better organised . Glad I wasn't doing it as the last half kilometre is uphill. There were quite a few competitors wearing their Rod Stewart wigs from yesterday in the hottest day in these parts for seven years.