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  1. zebedee

    Solitude Times

    I think about it from time to time- 'Literature and Charming Dissolution - Ten Years in Shanghai' or somesuch. I knew a guy in Hong Kong - I also worked with him in Shanghai - who finally went home for his own health. Some people go to parties and get drunk, but he got drunk and went to parties.
  2. zebedee

    Solitude Times

    On Alpha Centauri there is one mystery that remains unsolved despite advances in infinite energy, telepathy, immortality and phase-shifting. It's why anyone would need more than one high-end leather jacket and a decent pair of boots. Information can only be gleaned by way of a rectal probe and...
  3. zebedee

    Solitude Times

    I worked the majority of my adult life in Asia; post-divorce I repatriated to the UK and was not in a good way for the best part of a year and then was back in Asia for two years before family concerns again brought me back to the UK- I lost contact with most of the people I knew, companies in...
  4. zebedee

    Solitude Times

    A gift in dark times:
  5. zebedee

    Solitude Times

    I was waiting for my next job in Asia to materialise and was staying with folks in the UK when lockdown happened, so now we are all in the same house. There is much talk of how this will alter life forever, but I can equally see things getting back to irresponsible normal within a year of this...
  7. zebedee

    My leather jacket database.

    My rule is that if I haven't worn it for longer than six months and I've owned it for more than three years, it can go to charity. I understand that some people are collectors of things like pairs of jeans, but I'm not a collector- I just had too many items of clothing that never got worn or...
  8. zebedee

    My leather jacket database.

    After a while I got tired of owning too much clothing, and the leather jackets were getting particularly annoying. Ideally, I'd just own two, but it's more likely to be four. I sold or gave away the other four and it was great to see three of them on buddies who otherwise would never have...
  9. zebedee

    Torn zipper tapes

    My next project will be rebuilding a frayed bit of zip fabric and seeing if the tape/polystyrene cement/acrylic thing works. I'm certain that sail taping the fabric next to the male pin isn't a bad idea at all, and it isn't noticeable in any way. When it wears through, it can be replaced (on new...
  10. zebedee

    Faded / patinated (Leather) Jackets through use...

    Oh, if only my Aero goat HB would fade like these...
  11. zebedee

    Torn zipper tapes

    I must make sure next time to get zippers this can't happen to. It should be possible: it seems a daft problem. I put a thin coat of acrylic paint over the sail tape and it isn't possible to tell much of a difference between my tinkering and a new zipper. A thin line of polystyrene cement...
  13. zebedee

    Torn zipper tapes

    I got the sail tape and cut a strip that would fold over the area where the tape used to be. The adhesive on the tape wasn't strong enough to hold it in place, so I used a small amount of polystyrene cement. This stuff 'melts' plastics together: as the tape is fabric and plastic, it's melted...
  14. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    It's a new experiment in living. All these measures are clearly necessary and we should abide by them. And yet, there must be think-tanks that are going to amass data on this: the behavioural/compliance aspects, the rates of domestic crime, media consumption (type/frequency/intensity)...
  15. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    That's a perfect fit; the jeans are too low, but even then I wouldn't say the fit is off. Hang 'round these parts and you get 'fit neurosis'. Pretty soon, you can't tell .15 of an inch from the Grand Canyon and you're standing in front of the mirror attempting to judge minutiae or soaking bits...
  16. zebedee

    question on sleeve length

    A quarter of an inch difference is not going to matter much at all. It matters more that it takes up time in your head- don't worry about it.
  17. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    That works. Excellent.
  19. zebedee

    Aero factory closure

    I never fail to be impressed by Aero. Decent people.
  20. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    Oh, be careful.
  21. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    The fringes should come off, but get it done professionally - otherwise there's a chance of real grief.
  22. zebedee

    "GRAIL" Jackets

    It was a job tamping down the possibility of a Whitefeather Canuck-type, but I got to the point where, as I own a Highwayman, a Maxwell, a Stockman (trying to sell), a Cafe Racer and a 1950s Half Belt, that the prospect of owning additional jackets just annoys me (and it annoys me that I...
  23. zebedee

    "GRAIL" Jackets

    I'd really like a brown Himel Canuck, but I'll not pay that much for a jacket. And I have a Maxwell in cordovan. For what should I need a Canuck? If it comes down to just one jacket, it's the Highwayman.
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