Anatomy of a fridge door

What’s in my fridge is perhaps a post for another day. A day after I’ve been to the Londis. But what is on the door? … ah, that I’m about to (real) reveal. In principal I don’t really like things on fridges. But in reality I have no office, no pin board, and I work at the little yellow Formica table in the kitchen. So the fridge is what I glance up at, and it’s a place of inspiration, reminders and, er, stuff I don’t want to lose. You ready?

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It started just with the lady in the middle…

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She’s my inspiration for practical Spring 2013 daywear. I’m typing this in a knitted fruit turban, so that one paid off…

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More inspiration. A postcard that just fell out of a book. It’s of The Minack Theatre, west Cornwall, a place where I watched many plays and was in some too, as a child. The most beautiful theatre in the world. And look at the colours of the sea, and the pink thrift.

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A cutting from the Cornishman, illustrious paper of my home town. It’s all about a dispute over whether St Ives town council should put up a plaque commemorating the hippies that they tried to run out of town in the 60s.

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An image entitled “The Madame Hadley School of Dance’s at Streatham Baths, 1935.” Food for thought…

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And lastly a quote from an article about some lab where they store washed up whales. They weighed the dust! So that, and a flyer for a local sash window company, is what lives on my fridge. Possibly more revealing than the contents of my handbag. What’s on yours?

5 Responses to “Anatomy of a fridge door”

  1. Maria
    June 7, 2013 at 2:28 pm #

    One day I might have a sleek plain fridge but for the time being it is the family pin board (appointments, Cy Twombley postcard, family photos, magnetic letters & words, connect 4 game, etc!) Have a photo but cant figure out how to attach it : (

    • myfriendshouse
      June 8, 2013 at 11:49 am #

      Ah Maria, when you do we’ll be delighted to get it – we were thinking of staring a fridge door gallery x

  2. Anna
    June 8, 2013 at 12:49 pm #

    Great post – my fridge has all the party invitations (kids not mine sadly), appointment letters etc and a few inspiring postcards. We use magnets to attach and they regularly baulk under the weight of party invitations, sending everything flying to the floor (and under the fridge).

    I am assuming you are recommending split to the navel, no knicker wearing dresses for this season – hmmm may need to make some adjustments to my spring wardrobe!

    • myfriendshouse
      June 9, 2013 at 9:29 am #

      Yes I am! Got mine on now. Funny, my fridge door for a while had only pictures of looks I was planning to adopt. There’s a lovely Prada dress hidden under one of the postcards. Thanks for the comment x

  3. seotania
    June 11, 2013 at 8:33 am #

    Fantastic post

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