Showing posts with label fruit wrappers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fruit wrappers. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Christmas, The Golden Bough and orange wrappers

Today, which would have been my Dad's 128th birthday, we're finally having Christmas dinner. At this point I'm past it and would as soon move on, but Handsome Son really wants to do it, so okay.

I finally, after years and years of meaning to, have borrowed The Golden Bough. 

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Just to find out what the gist is. It's about religion, early beliefs and who knows what else, and it's high time I at least opened it. I've seen so many references to it.

And here are a few images from a really lovely blog, Spitalfields Life, about London and local history and characters. Today's is a departure, a post about a collection of fruit wrappers! 

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These are the tissue paper wrappers that used to come on individual oranges and other citrus fruits, smelling lovely and with really good graphic art. Evidently some people made collections, and this is a lovely one.

There are more, if you go to Spitalfields Life. I have it on my  feed, and it's endlessly interesting. I have no particular stake in London, but this blog makes it interesting, with quirky events and people and all the small handmaker businesses to be found if you know where to look, and they do.

Happy day everyone, enjoy your day even if you're not quite up for it!

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