Up-Front Frills... With a Nipped-In Nape

(Click on the images to enlarge.) Modern Beauty Shop, July 1949

Only you can prevent — and prepare for — wildfires

We all remember learning about Smokey Bear and fire safety in school, but how many of us have taken that information to heart? With wildfir...

Style Tips for Bargain Decor

Creative Revamp Create stunning bookends using antique or even mismatched corbels. Can't find them at a flea market? Buy some made from...

Those Trousers In Full

Newcomers to this blog may well be thinking "Why do we need to see Mr.Ashley's new trousers?". Well, I made a thing about them...

Scratching A Living

We think now of plumbers as those chaps who turn up the day after you were expecting them and who are very adept at sharp but meaningful int...

Find The Fault No 3

I'm more at home with this week's puzzle picture, having just shoved some tulips in the Agricastrol jug. And just look at that radio...

Margarine and Phytosterolemia

Margarine is one of my favorite foods. To rip on. It's just so easy! The body has a number of ways of keeping bad things out while tak...

Coming Attraction

(Click on the image to get a better view.) Source: American Hairdresser, January 1948

Up In The Wind

You can see them from wherever you are. When you're up here you can see wherever. A clump of young beeches and the odd fir form a dark b...

Latest Study on Vitamin K and Coronary Heart Disease

A Dutch group led by Dr. Yvonne T. van der Schouw recently published a paper examining the link between vitamin K intake and heart attack (...

Christianity vs Cutting Back Customer Service

I'm on the cusp of falling into the hands of the devil. At work I am being told to reduce the time on the phone with a customer by givi...

Neatly Turned...

(Click on the images for a better view.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, November 1951

Remember to check your emergency supplies when you set your clocks March 8

It’s time to spring forward this Sunday, March 8! In addition to more light at the end of the day, (yea!) daylight saving time is the perfec...

Free Shuttle Bus Not Accessible

I spoke to the store manager of the No Frills grocery store that moved out of the downtown core in January and I asked if he could pay for t...

Village Eyecatcher

Isn't it odd how one changes one's mind about things. In the 1970's I lived in Tur Langton in Leicestershire, and just because t...

What Can Evolution Teach us About the Human Diet?

Vegetarians deserve our respect. They're usually thoughtful, conscientious people who make sacrifices for environmental and ethical rea...

Find The Fault No 2

Hallo Sailor! Not being given to hanging around dockyard gates this one took me a while. Those with maritime predilictions will get it immed...

Statistics

Ricardo just sent me a link to the British Heart Foundation statistics website . It's a goldmine. They have data on just about every ...

The Small-Head Silhouette... Smartest for Summer!

(Click on the image for a larger version.)  Source: Modern Beauty Shop, July 1949

Down at Heal's

Going on about Humbers brought to mind this little filling station. A couple of years ago I walked round here to find it painted pink, and...

June 1943 American Hairdresser on Behind the Curtain

I just found these Scans from a June 1943 American Hairdresser Magazine on Behind the Curtain . There are a lot of other neat magazine scan...

Don't Panic!

Blimey there's so much to worry about isn't there? Getting skewered on the way to the pub (or more likely coming back), getting so i...

Psyche Knot

(Click on the image for a larger version.) Source: The Hairdo Handbook, 1964, Chapter XVIII: Handling and Styling Long Hair

Figure Eight

(Click on the image for a larger version.) Source: The Hairdo Handbook, 1964, Chapter XVIII: Handling and Styling Long Hair

Cartwheel

(Click on the image for a larger version.) Source: The Hairdo Handbook, 1964, Chapter XVIII: Handling and Styling Long Hair

Cholera’s harsh toll in Zimbabwe serves as health reminder

Thanks to public health practices like sanitation, many diseases from centuries-past are rare in the industrialized world. Take cholera, for...

John Raven-Hill's Coronation

Later on I may be recruiting images for a possible book on motor cars. So, keep it to yourselves for the moment, but in the meantime I feel ...