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Submitted to Contest #322
Slimming Club.It was a thing in the 70s. All about how losing weight would make us more successful – our lives would be transformed. From fat, frumpy, friendless women [it was nearly all women although a few courageous men braved the church hall in their quest for a desirable manly physique] to sleek super-models glowing skin and hair, fabulous fashions fitting perfectly, the kind of women that turned heads in a crowded room, probably during the occasional trip to the pub on the arms of their proud husbands.It has to be said that we were all...
Submitted to Contest #274
Having a bath was a bit of a performance. There was no bathroom. The toilet was in an outside falling down shed. You wiped your bum on newspaper. This was the 50s after all. No shower of course, they weren't invented until the 80s or something, and until then you made to with a rubber hose attached to the bath taps. Anyway, enough of the history of bathrooms.....back to 'having a bath'.The kitchen contained something, which a first glance, looked like a biggish box with a worktop attached to the wall. Ingeniously, whenever a bath was called ...
Submitted to Contest #1
It wasn’t meant to be like this? How does that song go……’I hope I die before I get old’?I never really wanted to die though. Just thought I’d make the three score and ten and then just fade away until I disappeared. Nothing to be afraid of. Didn’t want pain, disease, dementia. Seen enough of that. One hundred! It’s ridiculous.Oh, I’ve seen them on the tele….. those clowns who think reaching one hundred is something to brag about, who bask in the glory of having made it, as though it’s some kind of personal achievement, like winning an Olympi...
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