Just got an email from freecycle:

on offer is a childs car seat and a wood gay box collection asap thanks

??

childs car seat…QED wood gay box = wood toy box??

Gay box is a small set of shelves, that interlock similar to a crossword puzzle grid if that makes sence,can be disassembled, made one once in school before gay was an accepted word for something else,oh how thing change.

is it anything like a lemon party?
sounds innocent enough but google shows otherwise.

Just Google'd 'lemon party'. Urban dictionary gives an interesting definition, haha.

Hi there,

My mother had a Gay Box in the early 1960’s. It was as “Project” describes, a small compartmentalised, slatted, wooden shelf unit which hung on a wall in our house onto which she placed miniature ceramic figures as manufactured by Disney, Wade etc. This was long before gay became to mean anything other than happy or brightly coloured, and I remember them as being relatively common then.

I just bought one second-hand recently for old times sake.

Regards,

Thankyou for the timely response 😀

wow, registered today, first post, to answer a year old question!

Citroen 2CV?

Well I learned what a lemon party is too, if invited to one will stay well away! 🙂