04-05-2019, 08:51 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Spitty’s thread about enhancement reminded me of my dear Aunt Julia.
As a boy I was always amused watching my 30 something Aunt Julia sitting in front of the mirror preparing to go dancing every Saturday night. To give her her due she always put in a big effort to enhance her modest looks, not to mention spending a small fortune on cosmetics. she was ever so serious looking doing the job in hand, some job I can tell you.
Beside her on the dressing table were jars. bottles, small round boxes, and tubes of all sorts of concoctions, brushes, combs, and tweezers, magical potions which promised love and romance if applied carefully on parts of the face, under the arms, over the eyes, and behind the ears.
Then came the tan stuff for her legs, nylons in a bottle, she spread the gooey brown liquid all over her legs and up to her thighs, then stuck her two feet up on a small stool, lit a woodbine and waited until her legs dried. when she finished her smoke she got a ball of cotton wool and gently rubbed it along one leg to check to was dry. Alas it was all in vain, she died an old maid.
Although I faintly remember her bringing home an older that herself chap to meet the granny, but he was more interested in the granny than her daughter, I never saw him again.
I think the moral there is, there are things one just cannot enhance in this world no matter how hard one tries, so be grateful for what you have and make the best of it while you still can, good old Julia, God knows she tried her best.