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  1. Edward

    Loungers' Pets

    Thanks, I appreciate it. Yes, alas - there's no shortcut through the grief. There will be fewer tears today (hopefully none of them in front of my class.... Friday was a different story, but I had to take an undergraduate tutorial two hours after Mimi died. I did explain I was not likely to be...
  2. Edward

    You know you are getting old when:

    I have a vague recollection from my school production of Calamity Jane closing in on thirty-four odd years ago.... "a buffalo on the nickel and an Indian on the cent" - wasn't that the line? Somewhere I have a pair of cufflinks with 'Indian head' cents set in them. I also have a silver pinky...
  3. Edward

    You know you are getting old when:

    You know you're old when you suddenly realise your go-to pop culture reference for being old is Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and your undergraduates look blank when you ask if they've seen it because it was in the cinema thirteen years before any of them were born. Now I feel even older...
  4. Edward

    Loungers' Pets

    Love this. After Greta Cat died, we'd intended to get some new kittens - Mimi would have adored them too, but sadly wasn't to be.
  5. Edward

    Chinese leather jackets

    Ach. Thanks - that's what I was afraid of. I can but continue to live in hope that Bronson up their game when it comes to Western sizing... It's definitely a hole in the market for those of us for whom the prices of the Japanese brands are just too high.
  7. Edward

    Chinese leather jackets

    This seems the best place to ask... Anyone know if these guys - clothesoutdoor.com - are a legitimate operation? I see they dodo leathers - at this price, I'd be wary of the quality - but there's much else that stylistically falls into the civilian end of the Bronson type lines. I particularly...
  8. Edward

    Loungers' Pets

    Thanks, everyone. We knew when we took Mimi on that she wouldn't have too many years with us, with her age and the medical complications of her epilepsy and heart murmur, but it was still a real shock. Still, she went peacefully in her sleep, in a warm bed where she was never hungry or cold and...
  9. Edward

    Loungers' Pets

    I didn't want a dog. Mrs Marlowe wanted a dog. So we compromised. We got a dog. Specifically, we got a Mimi. An excitable, eccentric little cockapoo with boundless energy and an insane amount of love. Mimi loved people - hard to fathom, given how badly she'd been treated. She didn't come to...
  10. Edward

    Is this Horse Hide from 5 *?

    I'm intrigued by their canvas USN flying jackets (the M421, if memory serves?). I've certainly encountered other makers in the past whose textile jackets were great even if I wasn't so keen on their leathers. As to OP, horse and steer can sometimes look a lot more alike than we expect, which...
  11. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yip. Similarly, "Stratoliner" turns up many more model planes than it does hats.
  13. Edward

    Avirex

    Looks a little pricey, but that said looking at Avirex's website, they're now into +/- a grand US and upwards as the new price on pretty much everything I see there, so it's possible that will push up resellers' expectations as to what they can fetch used. If you're not fixed on this specific...
  14. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I think they're trying to push buyers into more use of the filtering system. The problem being that if what you're after might be in one of two categories, that means you have to run separate searches - and you can miss a lot of stuff if sellers don't fill that info in. I also no longer much...
  15. Edward

    Is anyone else following the Six Nations Rugby?

    Bit of both, probably. Wasn't interested to begin with, the usual bullies they hired to teach games in the 80s didn't do anything to change my opinion. I was a regular in the swimming club back then. Did once or twice swim for the school, but no great shakes as I never had much of a competitive...
  16. Edward

    Is anyone else following the Six Nations Rugby?

    Not been watching it, don't follow sport, but nice to hear that Ireland are doing well. I still have a couple of fillings and a crown that Paddy Johns put in me when he was a student dentist in the practice we used around the same time as his Ireland days. Big man, very gentle and deft in the...
  17. Edward

    Engineer Boots, Harness Boots...

    nice. I have a pair of Chippewas with a similarly low shaft (I think they might even be notionally women's boots, as they are fractionally narrower in fit than my full height ones). It's a nice alternative to a full length boot sometimes. Especially in the Summer when it's wet and the leather...
  19. Edward

    Help! Quick opinion on Kreosote boots.

    I think some of them can look great when they get to the "antiqued brown" stage, but it's when they have that long stage of "black that looks badly worn off" that doesn't appeal so much. Years ago, I had an old black crosszip that clearly had a warm, brown undertone to the black which I liked...
  20. Edward

    Double rider for non-motorcyclists - yay or nay? Which is your favorite?

    As memory serves, this one was called the Raadjacke. Based on a vintage German jacket that belonged to John Lever, though it altered a few details (dispensed with the second row of buttons for one). This wasn't in the line-up long: it was first produced towards the tail end of the Will Lauder...
  21. Edward

    Help! Quick opinion on Kreosote boots.

    Even in these parts, fashions exist. Close to twenty years ago, it was all 'heavy horse and once-piece back or GTFO' in these parts. Personally, I always found teacore to be popular with folks who wanted a vintage jacket rather than the vintage look. By which I mean if what you want is one of...
  22. Edward

    Finally picked up Schott Cafecto 603! Do I cut off the epaulets?

    I prefer it over the 'exposed' nubs of the studs, though I would have thought the more 'authentic' approach would be to cut the top button out of the removed epaulette (it's not as if they can be used for anything else, right?) and then stick that on. This one looks like a better job of removal...
  23. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Oh, I have less than zero faith in Facebook that way. Last week, I reported about eight different posts that were undeniably, openly and clearly racist, Islamophobic, and promoting the erasure of certain people's gender identity. Not a one of them troubled FB's "community standards". Today, I...
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