‘TOOLS OF YOUTH’ FROM CUPCAKE AND MARIGOLD

 

I was reading a blog of a fellow twitter and I was inspired by her  ’TOOLS OF YOUTH’ post… so here are our tools:

 

CUPCAKE

• My big sister, she taught me how to pluck my eyebrows and paid for my first highlights!
• My Austin Healey Sprite, roof down, blond hair flowing, cutting up lorries!
• My Dad who helped me keep the car on the road, taught me lots of car like useful tips too.
• My Honda 250 and black leathers with black helmet… yep I was a rock chick! not a huge bike but boyfriend at that time had a Norton 1000… spent happy days on the back of that.
• Marlborough ciggies, the full hard stuff, nothing ‘light’ about them
• My flip top lighter… I could almost do the Bogart one handed flip
• Strong black coffee always….
• No cellulite! I was just under a size 8 till first born came along
• Khalil Gibran’s ‘The Prophet’ just like Marigold I loved this book.
• Walkman, don’t laugh!
• A rather snazzy little hot pant suit… yep, I own up to it, very short shorts and a matching smock top
• Worn with, soft suede grey knee high boots
• A pair of those ‘Grease.. Sandy’ very tight Lycra type black trousersI was hot!!! or so I thought   )
• Camera, a birthday pressie… caught some great fun moments
• Janis Ian, American singer, ‘at seventeen’ was her big hit…but many other songs to get us through broken hearts!
• My best friends, where ever we were we could all just pick up the phone and someone would be there to rescue or give a shoulder to cry on, or just to go out partying and getting completely smashed! we always looked after each other.
• My two brothers.. they were/are my rocks
• MacDonald’s, when at drama college I lived above one, at the beginning of term I would eat avocados and tomatoes and at the end of term it would be a burger and at the very end of term it would be just chips!
• And most important of all a vintage Chanel jacket… bought in a charity shop in Richmond, Surrey, OH GOD I loved that jacket.

 

MARIGOLD

• A battered red mini which spelt independence
• A golden tan I’d spend every second perfecting - but how I wish I’d known the dangers then
• No cellulite!
• Dubonnet and lemonade (yuk!)
• Thomas Hardy
• Two older sisters
• Two older sister’s wardrobes
• Two older sister’s boyfriends (sorry girls)
• Freckles which I hated but enabled me to  convince my father I was very, very young and needed pocket money and convince bus and train conductors I was still under age
• Dunhill international
• Khalil Gibran’s ‘The Prophet’
• Ethnic Monsoon dresses – when they were very new and very cool and very, very boho
• The arrogance of thinking I knew it all as I was no longer at school and the dangerous confidence it gave me
• Very blonde leather knee high boots which I bought with my first pay packet at 19
• Parents and grandparents who were still alive and in retrospect, the wonderful security that gave me
• My best friend whose future was robbed by cancer
• The wonderful belief that life would go on for ever.  Where did all those years go?

 

A HOMAGE TO WhimsicalWife thank you for the inspiration xx