I picked this up at the oppy more for the fabulous snapshot of bygone technology than the actual knitting patterns, but happily the patterns I might be tempted to try (…if it gets even colder & I forget I’m crap at knitting because I don’t want to go out the back to sew in the ice-box) are on the simpler side so Punk may yet be forced into some sort of mismatched thrifted yarn creation.
I personally have memories of clicking the dial on the telly; fuzz, fuzz, fuzz, cartoons with a line scrolling across the screen, fuzz, fuzz, fuzz…
Accidentally opening the back of the camera when it wasn’t wound off enough…
Not having a rewind on the cassette player so having to fast-forward on the opposite side to the one you wanted to listen to in order to listen to a song again.
Headphone’s so big & padded that I felt like I was a fighter pilot & having to hold them there if I wanted the music in my ears & not circulating around my neck.
Which of these do you remember?
Oh I remember way too many of them.
ReplyDeleteAt least I am not old enough to have started forgetting them :P
I wish I had written Tas's comment.
ReplyDeletethat kid is very lucky... I was never allowed to touch my parents very expensive camera and it looked exactly like that one! I used to fast forward, flip over, hear a few more lyrics, try and write then down, turn over, fast forward, flip over again, get the lyrics I missed...dedication!
ReplyDeleteMy mum has that knitting book and I used to parade around in one of those stripey rainbow jumpers - and I actually used to look just like the girl modelling that jumper!! I think I may also have sported one like the white and orange one at some stage.
ReplyDeleteAnd I remember being very excited when a friend got a VCR with a remote control (on a cable, still physcially attached to the VCR)!!
Ye Gods, I remember all of them.
ReplyDeleteOh we had the cassette player that sat next to the B/W Pye television that taped children's kids programmes like Puff n Stuff.
ReplyDeleteI think my Mum made at least one of these jumpers.
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ReplyDeleteOh all of the above! Technology was so fun back then, if a bit cumbersome. It actually required a bit of elbow grease. And what a novelty it was to sit with giant headphones on, attached to the record player.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE this! Those pictures are fantastic! When I was about 10 I got a cassette player that had a microphone. I thought it was pretty much the fanciest thing EVER. We used to fill whole tapes with "radio shows". Ah, it was grand...
ReplyDeleteKatie x
i so hope you knit up some of those patterns - they're gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI still have one of those radios from the last pic somewhere in the house. How sad is that!
ReplyDeleteI miss that fuzz fuzz fuzz...
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