Nostalgia

I was looking for quite a different book today when I found this scrapbook, which has been in my proud posession since I was two or three (note my second birthday card on the front!). I don't remember putting it together with my mother, but I do remember looking through it with her at various stages in my childhood, and asking her about why I'd chosen particular pictures. I remember this little Christmas girl very well.

Here's a little Scottish boy - some years later we moved to Scotland for a while, and I wondered if we'd need Eskimo clothes!Most of these were obviously from cards sent to me or the family in the very early 1970s.But there were some magazine and newspaper cuttings too - I was obviously very taken with the 'live' Beatrix Potter characters.I think I thought this little girl looked like me, but I can see now why my mum never thought so.This was quite mature taste for a tiny girl, wasn't it?Someone drew the donkey picture by hand. It's initialled M.C. but I don't know if we knew the artist.I must have quite liked donkeys. Son 1's favourite toy was a blue donkey, so it's obviously carried on....Still like that donkey best...And these dogs are textured! I can see why a little girl loved them.Some favourite British and American childhood friends, here.And look at those blue flowers - I still love them!

Fantastic, surely already dated, child on her bike, and a mum and baby - a great image for a mother and daughter making a scrapbook together. I am so delighted that my mother made scrapbooks with me, and that I've kept at least this one.And look what came in the post - Ben's jam badge, so we can take some appropriate pictures for Snapdragon's most inventive catalogue...