Retro Writing Aficionado Gifts

Burning the midnight oil.

"Meet The Author"

Diner.

The Missing Sock Returns

"Remember that time you tried to kill me?"

"And this is our media room."

'Which one of you told Glurk to stretch before running?'

"Desmond likes to live in the moment. . . and that moment happens to be 1960."

Abandoning the computer for a typewriter.

Early Colour TV

Instructions for Bow Tie Wearers

'This is the worst film noir I've ever seen.'

"Of course, on casual Fridays I'm the fifties Elvis."

'I'll blurb you if you'll blurb me.'

"If I Can Make One Critic Smile..."

Computer Class.

'I know I complimented you on that outfit last time you wore it, but that was in 1980.'

Edison invents the personal stereo

'I can hold a match to his notebook.'

Ralph Rackstraw HMS Pinafore

T-Shirt: 'Been there done that but I'd do it again.'

The fate that awaits us all: creeping Rooneyism

'It's an antique!'

"If there's any one lesson we've learned from the eighties, it's how to shop!"

“I have to warn you - my parents are a bit old-fashioned.”

"Your appendix is fine. It's your glossary I'm worried about."

Newfangled contraceptions phobia: 'David, David, we're sinking! Our water bed has sprung a leak!'

Mark Twain and Charles Dickens make a joint appearance on the lecture circuit

1950's.

“The two spaces after a period were a dead giveaway.”

'Do I remember pre-decimal coinage?I remember pre-Tudor coinage!'

"Well..I think the old Thermograph machine I rescued from work goes a treat with our kitchen units."

Dip Pen

"This car is a retro classic. Instead of a USB outlet there's a cigarette lighter."

How Grandma Sees the Remote