PROJECT F: THE LOFT 9
This strange material item is a sorta
dress-skirt. I purchased some material and got my mother to create a
dress for me - alas her sewing skills and my imagination came up
with....erm..... this! The yellow elastic straps go over the
shoulders to hold it on. The waist came either just above or below
the bra-line, and the skirt itself flew wildly in 70's style. I used
to have to tuck it between my legs when ringing church bells....
Another assortment of childhood
memories that my parents hung onto - perhaps only to embarrass me
with. The toilet seat was used by me as a child to roll marbles around. I
used to pretend they were on a ship or in a school and moving between
classes....
The chocolate box is full of magnetic
letters. The milkman board is broken or I could have sold it perhaps.
In olde world England, one put it out on the doorstep to inform the
crack-of-dawn milkfloat how many bottles of milk and other dairy
products you wanted.
That leaves us with a toy telephone
that was once used as a coin collecting box as well as a toy and a TV
set. Obviously it is a toy TV - no other TV would have a
wallpaper-roll style picture and the same 'Old McDonald' song playing
incessantly.... The TV might be worth something, but....
