This is me pretending to be an inquisitive child looking in an unattended pot on the stove, for an article in a German newspaper. (Sadly I don't have the cutting, only the original photo.)
Given some of your large scale drawings packed with images, I’m wondering if you were influenced by the curtains? This is genuine interest because those curtains, and your work, are fantastic.
Happy memories of graduating from being allowed the slightly H&S averse hand-whisk to mix the Angel Delight (I really only wanted to scrape and lick the bowl remains with my fingers, if I had any left), to mixing, rolling out and cutting the pastry for cheese straws and laying out on the baking tin.
I’m looking with nostalgic fascination at all the design and built elements — the good old xpelair, of a time before cooker hoods (which we didn’t have because we had eye-level grills); the mixer, the particular style of aluminium pot.
How wonderful to have a photo like this and your mother looks so glamorous. What a cute little boy you were too, Moose! Happy Mother's Day to all our lovely mothers. ❤️
What a wonderful thing to have, especially when generally no one was taking photos of their interiors (pardon the phrase). I wish I had pics of a) my grandparents' kitchen b) the kitchen of the house where I lived until I was four. (That one must have had curtains? but no idea what they were like.)
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Those curtains are superb.
I love old photos, especially those taken before 1990-ish. They capture moments in your life when photographs were taken far less frequently.
Knowing that Women's Realm is a magazine has improved my understanding of this song considerably. Great photo.
I love those curtains. Is that your actual childhood kitchen?