Today is National Umbrella day ‘The Ladybird ABC, 1959’ Artist: G Robinson - ThreadSky

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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social • 108 days ago

Today is National Umbrella day
‘The Ladybird ABC, 1959’
Artist: G Robinson

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simonpartridge.com•107 days ago

Gorgeous. And the lettering alone is enough to send me tumbling back in time to infant school!

elizabethanya.bsky.social•108 days ago

That was the sign on my peg at infants school, in red & yellow. I desperately wanted a real umbrella, but my parents wouldn't let me have one because I was very active & might have hurt my eyes or someone else's. Dangerous things!

fennygoldfish.bsky.social•108 days ago

I'm not a fan of other people's umbrellas for that very reason!

mayfieldbirder.bsky.social•108 days ago

Just a day? 😂

roslynnpryor.bsky.social•108 days ago

I love this!

lbflyawayhome.bsky.social•108 days ago

Me too. What is it? The colours? The typeface?

roslynnpryor.bsky.social•108 days ago

It’s all of it in concert! It brings back some serious childhood nostalgia for me, but I don’t know why.

judiconner.bsky.social•108 days ago

Umbrellas were for grownups in my 50s childhood. We children had hoods on our gaberdine macs and windcheaters. A sou’wester if lucky!

fennygoldfish.bsky.social•108 days ago

When I was at nursery, my picture was an umbrella.

elizabethanya.bsky.social•108 days ago

Mine was too! I just posted about that above. Funny how some memories are imprinted for life!

fennygoldfish.bsky.social•108 days ago

I must have started nursery in January 1969. I still have a vivid memory of the smell of lunch cooking in the kitchen and saying hello to the cook as I went past the door every morning. And the candles on my "cake" (plate of buns at morning break) when I was 4.

bakeliteguy.bsky.social•108 days ago

Just looked outside. They picked the right day.

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