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Another Dr Oetker cookbook from a charity shop in Austria, focusing on winter and Christmas treats this time. I don’t…
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I’ve been tired and busy lately. Here’s a great bubble gum advert from the 80s with a Kraftwerk-meets-Eurythmics soundtrack, and…
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I love using Photoshop product mockups – there’s something satisfying about creating a total lie of an object that doesn’t…
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Second volume. This time with Tove Jansson, leylines, derelict canals and a strange comic about insects.
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Another charity shop book- this time from the 70s. It’s a slightly strange mix of technicolour things made from recycling…
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While I was in Sydney, I went for the day to visit my friend Zoe in the inland mountain town…
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This edition has a behind the scenes of Captain Pugwash, extracts from Tove Jansson, Jill Patton-Walsh, an article about CS…
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Another book from a charity shop in Austria. I love how incredibly cack-handed some of the cakes are. Most themed…
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I got this craft book for kids from a charity shop in Austria earlier this year. Austria doesn’t have the…
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This charity shop fancy dress book is certainly… something. Lots of 80s actors modelling the costumes.
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In Australia, charity shops are called op shops, short for opportunity shops and Melbourne has really great ones
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In 2016 I left London to house sit in the small town where my grandparents had lived. After a sequence…
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I got this 1980s guide to using lens filters from a charity shop. Of course a lot of these effects…
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Tim and the Hidden People is a series of children’s school reading books from the late 70s/early 80s that a…
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Zdeněk Miler was a Czech illustrator and animator best known for his character the Little Mole (Krtek or Krteček).
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I found this book in a charity shop. It’s a practical guide to alternative living in London from 1969/70 covering…
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Here are some scans from a 1970s craft book I got from my grandparents’ house.
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Here’s the best stuff I got for very cheap in the excellent charity shops in Bognor Regis (the only entertainment…
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I’ve done a new zine about that time in 2006 I accidentally spent a whole summer alone in Bognor Regis.…
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Here’s some more 60s tourism slides from my grandparents’ house (you can see others here). This time from the Amalfi…
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When clearing out my grandparents’ house a couple of years ago I found seven packets of these 60s tourist slides…
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I got this late 70s/early 80s book from a charity shop a while ago. A lot of families in the…
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I haven’t found as many good charity shop items lately as over the summer, but there’s been the odd few…
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The good thing about spending the summer in a small town full of old people is that there are a…
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My flickr account has 370 albums on it, dating back to 2007, before I started this blog. A little while…
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I have a lot of fabric. Mostly remnants from charity shops or from my nan’s stash (she was a dressmaker…
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I’m fascinated by the history of the Cold War. Both the political side, and the social history of people’s everyday…
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When I was in Dresden, I bought a photography book by a local photographer. Günter Starke lived in Dresden Neustadt,…
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While I was at my grandparent’s place, I scanned some books. Here’s the Golden Hands Book of Crafts from the…
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I recently received my grandad’s stereo. He’s 89 and has moved into an old people’s home, and said he didn’t…
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Here are some scans from a 1970s interior design book- House by Terrence Conran. Some of the stuff in it…
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got this stack of 70s craft magazines in a junk shop in Devizes a few years ago. That place was…
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I was doing some residential teaching for the last 2 weeks. A group of year 9s from Chile came on…
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I like buying 70s craft books from charity shops. I’m not sure what it is about them, but maybe it’s…
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I went to see the Museum of 51 exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall a while back, which is about…
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I’ve had this book since forever. It was part of a set of educational books that were a hand me…
