@simonharley a whole carriageful of people draw up at your door and leap out grinning, the house all ahoo, carpets taken up, a great washing going on, the children bawling, yourself confined to the head, having taken physic, and your wife gone to Pompey in hopes of a new cook
@OmarWaraich@DAaronovitch As a relatively young-ish walking stick user, I am normally offered a seat. Order of offers from most common to least is minority ethnic women, white women / minority ethnic men (roughly equal), white men (rare).
@TheSimonEvans Patrick Campbell once wrote about commissioning a pair of corduroy writing trousers from his tailor. Didn’t work, for some reason - can’t remember why. But he did get a column out of the process.
@Zego67@dieworkwear If 3 if Simon Crompton’s Ciardi British Warm Ulster, then the starting price is £4800
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@SleepstoHRR "Now, it is a law in Lloyd’s that the Jane repaired all out of the old until she is entirely new is still the Jane…the Spray changed her being so gradually that it was hard to say at what point the old died or the new took birth, and it was no matter." - Joshua Slocum.