Guessing lives of previous residents… #1 the female gin drinker

Digging up the garden has revealed some interesting hints about previous owners of this house. It will be fun to put together some character profiles; so here goes with the first one:

#1. The female gin drinker

A few weeks ago a small Gordon’s gin bottle was found under the lawn and then over the past weekend some of her bright pink Revlon nail varnish emerged from the soil.

Lilac Champagne by Revlon

It’s hard to tell how old this bottle is, but it is pre-1980s as it has no bar codes on it and there is a message on it saying not to fill beyond the dotted line… Did people used to mix this stuff themselves? Did our gin drinking Romilly Road Resident maybe put a slice of lime in there as well?

Some research on the Revlon website circa 2013 reveals colours called ‘flirt’ and ‘plum seduction’. Life was clearly much more simple back then – take a colour and add a kind-of-exclusive drink. There must have been a ‘Black Guinness’ or a ‘Blue Martini’ nail polish!

The search now starts for more clues about this woman… maybe it’s worth lifting the floorboards as there’s stacks of rubbish down there too!!