After this week's post about Chair Grandma, you would know that it was Cuckoo Grandma who sent me these picture letters.
You would also know that she was not mentally unbalanced. She just had a Cuckoo Clock. Mind you, in my opinion people who have noisy, chiming clocks of any description have got to be either good sleepers or a little bit nuts.
Sometimes when things were busy, or when there was other interesting stuff that she could send, she wouldn't have to draw at all:
In my last post I was attempting to date the letters. This one has a newspaper clipping with the date on it! We're in May 1976, people! I was 2 years old and my little brother was 2 1/2 months (which explains why he wasn't getting letters yet).
And the chance that I'm not enjoying having to find inspiration for a post today?
... Approximately None!
5 comments:
I love old newspapers. I have a page from a really old one, in the 1910s I think, where it has one of those police report columns. People were being charged for crimes like swearing, and colluding to divorce amicably!
Crimes like swearing! WoW
Thats a fantastic news clipping!! Its so cool that you still have these things :)
How exciting to find them - they look like a great read!
Funny how we love reading TODAY'S newspaper and then in 24 hours it becomes old news and not worth reading. Then once it's years old, it becomes interesting again.
As an ex-news hound - I LOVE this!!! And I also wanted to alert you to some terrible plagerism Jen... mine. Of you. At my place. (Hope it's OK!)
:-)
BB
Love old letters and newspaper clippings, great to step back momentarily to 'hear' voices from the past ;)
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