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Couldn’t or wouldn’t
Linda Hall
THERE were things that ‘nice’ girls and women didn’t do more than half a century ago.
But men encountered restrictions too, although these centred on etiquette rather than morals.
Things like never carrying any kind of package, parcel, luggage or heaven forbid! a shopping bag in the street. Like only wearing navy blue or black socks. Always walking on a woman’s outside on a pavement and never letting her pay for anything in public, in case he looked like a gigolo.
Of course, men were also burdened with the millstone of being his family’s sole provider although this automatically allowed them to avoid all involvement in domestic affairs.
That included pushing a baby’s pram as well as holding an infant anywhere except in the home, as I discovered when our daughter was a couple of months old.
We were shopping in Alicante and had left our 600 in a back street. Baby slings didn’t exist and by the time we’d shopped, lunched and were returning to the car, she had become a heavyweight.
“I can’t carry her anymore,” I said.
“You’ll have to take her.”
My husband looked reluctant, but as the street where we’d parked appeared to be deserted, he reluctantly took the leaden little bundle from me but began to look panicky as we saw an elderly woman approaching.
Dressed in black from head to toe, although she was probably younger than I am now, she looked at us in amazement.
She continued to stare at us both, but concentrated mainly on my husband and child as we drew level with her. After we’d passed her, I glanced over my shoulder and saw that she’d turned, too, and was still looking at us.
“You see!” the child’s father hissed.
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But that was a long time ago in what seems like another country. Especially when I see unashamed young men who are proud to hold babies in public.
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David Worboys Thinking Aloud
MUSIC is the art of sound that expresses ideas and emotions through elements of rhythm, melody, harmony and colour. Yehudi Menuhin said: “I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.” According to Anton Bruckner: “it is better to listen to music and not understand it than to understand it and not listen to it.”
Like many people I was first exposed to music through nursery rhyme jingles sung by my parents or played on the radio. At school I was a fan of Doris Day and Bing Crosby before becoming aware of some of my father’s classical music.
From the mid 50s for me it was all New Orleans and traditional jazz, from the records of Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong to Chris Barber and Humphrey Lyttleton, and jiving
