Monday, October 19, 2009

Supplementary nostalgia








I scanned the nostalgic baby picture from Saturday's Times where it was used to illustrate an article which says that the virtues of some modern supplements may be exaggerated. (The online version has removed the baby).

I am intrigued by the careful use of both pink & blue, especially as I feel sure that the baby is a boy; but in those times of austerity no one could afford to be too precious - you were happy to use or re-use whatever was available. As the other picture shows, the bottles were of course recycled too.

I wonder if mummy had left both baby & her shopping basket unattended outside while she was in another shop - unbelievable how we thought nothing of doing that right up until the end of the 1960s.
And of course, when they got home, baby was probably left alone again, in the garden

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