zips 9 June 2011
I am back to a life temporarily without acting, and therefore full of shirking writing, BUT which includes a determination to blog more regularly – I have been most tardy, uneven and plain BAD in that department recently. NO MORE! Today’s adventures (while avoiding writing) included many trips on public transport involving double decker buses and the memory of when I was a student and being left to my door by the last night bus of the service, though it was a detour and after the last stop because the lads onboard didn’t want me walking home alone – I wonder what the chances are of that happening now, some 27 years later?
Also I noticed the proud sign over a shop doorway declaring the emporium a major distributor of zips. It’s only a shame it didn’t say for how long – I rather hope it’s since the zip was invented, which was in 1851 (since you were wondering) though that’s most unlikely as it was 80 more years after that before it became popular – so perhaps the early 20th century, then, and it’s on a street where buildings might date to that time and beyond so it is a possibility. I may have to go in and ask, on our behalf to sate our hungry curiosity. We may also have to discuss its impression on the button trade tomorrow – wars and bad feeling in the world of haberdashery can be potent subjects.
I’m BACK!
