Having decided to continue my recent trend of hanging washing out to dry in the garden, I went out with a basket if wet washing this morning. I had hung two items on the line when it started to rain. The washing is drying indoors again! So it goes!
Somebody sent me a list of odd facts about books, here are a few of them:
Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham on a bet that he couldn’t write a book using only 50 words.
The word “nerd” was first coined by Dr. Seuss in If I Ran the Zoo.
[That’s 2 for Dr Seuss.)
The world’s most stolen book from libraries is The Guinness Book of World Records. (I am not surprised - my primary school teacher tells me she has three copies in her classroom library corner.)
Don Quixote is the best-selling novel of all time, with over 500 million copies sold. (I wonder if it’s a set text for Spanish school children. I read it long ago.)
John Steinbeck’s original manuscript for Of Mice and Men was eaten by a dog. (I wonder if the dog enjoyed it as much as dogs seem to enjoy eating students’ homework!)
Now for something else. Jeans have come a long way since I bought my first pair of Levis when I was a student. Back then I seem to remember you had to buy men’s jeans as they didn’t make them in proper ladies sizes. Perhaps this was a forerunner to the clothes which are now marketed as ‘boyfrined’ trousers or shirts. You also had to wash them several times to get rid of the “new denim” look. As a rule they had faded to the perfect shade just they were beginning to need patching and nobody wore jeans with holes in them at that time. There are apocryphal stories of people getting into the bath wearing their jeans to shrink them to a skintight fit. I never did that. Now you can buy them, indeed are encouraged to buy them, pre-faded and ready-ripped!
And now they come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and styles. My current jeans are slightly flared and are undoubtedly no-longer truly fashionable but as they are ten years old at least, that’s not surprising. Here’s a link to an article about jeans for different generations and featuring two women who “swopped styles”.
it was the price of some of the clothes featured that struck me most of all. For example:
“Emma, my younger colleague, chose these jeans for me (they are by Citizens of Humanity and £329 at Selfridges: M&S does a similar style for £45) because it’s what people her age wear.” £320!!!
And:
“The pair Morwenna picked for me were a Paige high-rise barrel leg style £280 at Selfridges; Jigsaw does a similar style for £95).”
Crazy! Also crazy is the mania for over-long trousers. Although I am considerable shorter than my daughter and my two older granddaughters (the younger ones are rapidly catching up too) I have always found ‘regular’ length trousers fine. Nowadays I have to chop inches off the bottom to prevent me falling over them. I have recently managed to fall over when out running - it’s an experience ai would rather avoid if possible,
Finally, here’s something that made me smile:
“Person in the sandwich shop just asked me if I wanted a ciabatta or a baguette. I said “ooh, ciabatta looks nice, I’ll go for one of those, please”. She said okay and started slicing, buttering, and filling a baguette.
Naturally, as a British person, I dealt with this by silently watching it get made, saying “thank you very much”, paying, and then eating my baguette. That’ll teach them.”
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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