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  1. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    I also like the expression 'cheap as chips', which has almost fallen out of use here. Another woolly pully day today.
  2. Ticklishchap

    Experience of service in the Armed Forces

    I did find this as a young man with Corps. It did certainly give me focus and was quite demanding.
  3. Ticklishchap

    Experience of service in the Armed Forces

    Did you ever come across Huna in Hawaii? There are a lot of mainly new age books about it, claiming that it is the traditional Hawaiian spirituality, but most indigenous Hawaiians deny this. Off-topic, but just occurred to me.
  4. Ticklishchap

    Guernsey jumper

    The FL site has changed several times over the past few weeks but seems to have settled down now? I have found the mild weather very disappointing and hate the continuous south-west winds, but I hope that there will be a change in the New Year. It's been cool enough for woolly pullies...
  5. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    And I too am in a Navy WP just now. 1972 is even more of an achievement but then you're a bit older than me! ...
  7. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    It's one of those expressions that takes us back to a time when we had manufacturing industry. It's worrying how much vocabulary from the recent past we seem to be losing.
  8. Ticklishchap

    School and college sports

    Wise advice warmly received. Thank you.
  9. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    Richard That's a good photo and I hope you'll get a lot of wear out of the WP. Thanks. There'll doubtless be another OKW sale soon. Re. American English, could you translate 'swinging the lead'? I remember Brigade Quartermaster.
  10. Ticklishchap

    School and college sports

    Very nice post. Thank you. This thread has made me want to go back to playing regular sport in the New Year.
  11. Ticklishchap

    Sweater sizes - baggy versus tight-fitting

    Agreed and share your taste.
  13. Ticklishchap

    School and college sports

    And equally, if you had military interests at school, there was an expectation that you would be a keen sportsman, whether or not that was so in practice.
  14. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    I have realised that I wore my first woolly pully in 1977, aged 11 - it was olive, and Navy soon followed. This means that I have been wearing these sweaters for over 38 years!
  15. Ticklishchap

    Best Manly Sweater

    Hear, hear to all the above. He is a lovely chap and I look forward to buying another sweater from him.
  16. Ticklishchap

    Best Manly Sweater

    Interestingly I discovered this thread just after writing in another thread 'you can't go wrong with a Commando sweater'! As a seasoned wearer of said garment, I would say that it was the apogee of 'manliness' in the best sense, i.e. gentlemanliness not machismo. It used to be widely known as...
  17. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    As one of our radio announcers says in his Lancashire accent: 'call me if it's safe and legal'.
  19. Ticklishchap

    Ĉu vi parolas Esperanton?

    How easy is this language to learn? I have asked this question before and received many contradictory replies.
  20. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    That's good. I still have silver knife inscribed Roma for opening letters - brought back from Italy by my grandfather in the early 1950s.
  21. Ticklishchap

    School and college sports

    ... Or I might even (dare I say it) consider taking up Rugger again, if there's a club for early middle-aged men who don't take it too seriously.
  22. Ticklishchap

    Guernsey jumper

    In the early 1990s a friend gave me a copy of a book called ‘The Young Fogey’ handbook. He was referring ironically to my penchant for Guernseys, ribbed military sweaters, tweed jackets and corduroy trousers that I had as a young man – and retain to an even greater extent. The Guernsey, in...
  23. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    What is the legal position in Illinois re. that sort of weapon?

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