Oh. My. Gosh. My Nan used to read these books. I think she got a lot out of them. I used to like the covers and the colours, and do you know what? I still DO! I bought some of these today. We had to go to Moorabbin to pick up a fairy floss machine for my friend’s party. We went through Oakleigh and went to St Vinnies. And there they were. I could not resist ’em. I am going to frame them en masse. Maybe just the covers, maybe the whole books (in grid formation) I’m not really sure which yet.
Do you like the colours? Do you know anyone who reads these books? Do you love Palace Of The Pomegranate?! Or Petal’s Drifting? Or maybe Jonty In Love? I quite like the idea of Jonty In Love. Maybe I will read one?!
In blanket land, I’ve run out of grey yarn, so I haven’t QUITE finished Baby Spike’s blanket yet. And then I need to get a wriggle on and finish the blanket I’m making for my sister’s baby to be. And then I need to make Bec and Kit a blankie for their just hatched baby too! It is baby fever around here. It’s attack of the babies. It’s babes galore!
Do you know what else? I got a new computer. My old one is about to take off and then burst in to flames, it is so noisy and hot and grumpy. So it was time for an upgrade (coinciding with the twice annual royalty cheque for my book sales!) I GOT A MAC. I am a PC girl, so I’m riding the learning curve/rollercoaster that is converting my brain over to Mac-speak. It’s quite EXCITING.
In other news, we went to a pizza place for lunch today. The owner was in the kitchen screaming F words at his staff. The whole place could hear. OMG. When I left, I said ‘It’s a bit like Kitchen Nightmares here, but the food was good’ and the boy on the till said ‘I KNOW! At least it was worth it, food wise!’ I was really BUSTING for Gordon Ramsay to come in and scoff at the flower arrangement and turn things over in the cool room and furrow his brow and put his hands on his hips, but alas it wasn’t to be. I think they need him. Someone call Gordon. Tell him to go to L@ Po$ch&tt@ near North Road and talk to the man about his swearing and ranty pantsness. Hurry Gordon. Hurry!
xx Pip
Hells yeah, my nan reads those. She may have switched to Harlequin though.
hmmm You might be going from the pot to the fire there I think. Have you heard the crud that comes from Mr Ramsays mouth? The pizza man may have already watched his show.
Such great stories! The train one especially… I too read them as a teen… scary really! Just recently I found this link via Miss Moss – http://www.oliandalex.com/mills-boon/
I think you would LOVE those photos… Me? I'd like to be in one!! xo
I love those old Mills and Boons. I mean to read, as well as look at. They are really funny and engrossing (some of them) in a weird kind of way. Boy meets girl, she dislikes him, he is masterful and overpowering (in ways we don't stand for any more), girl gets seduced by mans charm and masculinity and falls in love. If they are old enough books, they won't put the sex in (there's oodles of it in the new one's) just lots and lots of insinuation at regular intervals. You have made me wonder where I could get one from! There used to show up in piles in the charity shops. Not anymore though. Last one I read was a couple of years ago, it was good fun.
I can remember being on a broken down train in the late 70s/early 80s somewhere in rural Victoria with my dad, mum and her sister (my aunt). We had run out out of things to do and my aunt brought out the Mills and Boon she had in her bag and read it aloud. It was one of those weird evenings that just sticks with you forever. Strangely inappropriate-for-a-small-child literature that was punctuated with mockery from my parents, self-conscious perseverance from my aunt and random updates from the train conductor. That will forever be my memory of Mills and Boon.
My guilty secret…..I used to deVOUR those books when I was a teenager. I must have read thousands. And then, at 15, I discovered Wilbur Smith books. The Mills and Boon were dropped!!
I was watching Bridesmaids the other day and I really thought … "this is a lot like the Mills & Boons I read in my youth …"!
i like the idea of framing the whole book… maybe you could do a break glass sign on the front for emergency. a mills & boon book could be just the thing to have in an emergency. about 10 years ago i met an elderly lady. she was so cute. very conservatively dressed but sparkly, mischievous eyes. she confided to me that she was a mills & boon writer, not under her real name of course, and she said none of her family or friends knew and would be shocked if they did.
good luck with the mac. i have always been a mac girl and i love my macbook. i find pcs scary. but it's just what you know isn't it? you will get the hang of it in no time. i think they are very user friendly.
have a great easter x
THis absolutely cracked me up! Can just imagine Mr Ramsay furrowing his brow.
I grew up with Mills and Boon all around me, but I never read them! I read A LOT as a kid, but never these! Now I really want to. Palace of the Pomegranate.
My best friend read thousands of them – there must be thousands because it took her an entire summer and then some. I was powering through her brothers james Bond's… in between bowls of ice-cream with chocolate sprinkles. Otherwise I thought I was a pc gal until I got a mac… so never looked back, ever!!! Good luck and have fun!!!
Ooh, my nanna still reads them. She works at Vinnies so has good access to a range of titles. She buys them and after she's read them donates them back. Once while visiting Nanna when I was tiny, my dad wouldn't leave until he'd finished one. He sat there on the couch all that beautiful afternoon while we played on the beach!
There is a piece in the Art Gallery of WA that looks just like your top pic, except the book covers at the gallery are quite risque, compared to your M&B's. Aren't they just lovely.
My mum used to read those! Love the colours of the covers, though I am totally itching to put them in rainbow order. Also, I went to a posh hairdressers once where the owner was so dreadful to her staff that I never went back. I hope all those girls have much nicer jobs now!
gosh those covers and titles bring back memories! Loving the rainbow colouredness of the spines! Like the idea of framing them in a deep frame! Or you could rip one apart, frame the cover and use the pages with plastic over them for something else… might be quite funny and incongrous to read about heaving bosoms when you open your coin purse. You might of course have to choose your pages carefully!!
Hehe, my Nan has always, and still does read and subscribe to mills and boons. My pop even built custom bookshelves for them. I must have a look to see if she still has the older ones, I know she cleans out occasionally!
You are such a busy little crochet blankety person! Amazing 🙂
Hmm, pizza place sounds awful, poor staff 🙁