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Post by onlyMark on Mar 19, 2018 12:37:34 GMT
It is now underneath the flat screen TV stand.
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Post by whatagain on Mar 20, 2018 6:44:32 GMT
My great aunt had Thai figurines on top of her TV set. I played hours with these ugly plastic things.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 20, 2018 11:30:46 GMT
My parents had two clowns on a bench on top of the doily, something they got at a garage sale.
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Post by bjd on Mar 20, 2018 11:38:34 GMT
When I got married, one of my mother's work colleagues made me some doilies as a gift! I thanked her politely and left them in the package for years until I gave them to a charity shop.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 20, 2018 12:47:12 GMT
My grandmother was a doily factory, so they had to be displayed.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 3, 2018 14:12:50 GMT
During the year that my brother and I spent with our grandparents, my grandmother taught us how to do needlepoint. (We also went hunting with our grandfather and that was just as cool. He did all of the shooting, though.) Back in those days (1964-1965), there was not much in the way of leisure activities in a tiny village, and the television didn't even start broadcasting until about 7:00 p.m. on weekdays. I know that my brother kept the stuff he sewed, and I think it even still hangs on the wall of his house. I admire my grandmother for not feeling bound by gender related activities at such an early time in the evolution of modern society.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 3, 2018 15:57:05 GMT
Small world K2. I also learnt it from our next door but one neighbour. I was also quite good at knitting.
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Post by mossie on Apr 3, 2018 20:19:36 GMT
I was taught how to darn the holes in my socks, I think my mother abandoned as hopeless her attempts to teach me to knit.
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Post by patricklondon on Apr 4, 2018 11:25:59 GMT
My mother was quite canny about that sort of thing, too, so I don't need help replacing buttons, taking up trouser legs and turning shirt collars; I don't see much point in darning socks, especially now mine are nearly all cheapo cotton. Mum also did a lot of knitting and crochet (also a doily demon for a while), and took to embroidery from kits later in life, and I still have a sort of little banner of flowers she made, hanging on a wall (once upon a time, I suppose that was the sort of thing that served as a bell pull, if you were the kind to have a skivvy to summon). My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 4, 2018 12:30:31 GMT
I was always amazed at how my grandmother could look at an embroidery or knitting model in one of those magazines and understand instantly what needed to be done. To me, those patterns looked so technical, like the instructions for assembling an Airbus.
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Post by mossie on Apr 4, 2018 14:47:41 GMT
All our clothes were made at home when I were a kid, and they had to be mended and mended because they had to last. When my father was in the RAF he became a camp tailor and so we had our short trousers made from the real blue serge as worn in the RAF, which he had liberated. As I outgrew things they went down the line to my brothers, at least as the eldest I normally had mine new, although when I was old enough I did get one or two of my fathers things. I really remember buying swimming trunks when I was out in Egypt, I was still using the knitted ones that my mother had made me!
I had no shame, a trait which has persisted.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 4, 2018 15:28:44 GMT
One of my earliest memories of my father was him wearing blue knitted swimming trunks. Many, many years later, when he was in his eighties I saw him in Spain after my parents drove down to see my brother. Guess what he was still wearing.
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Post by questa on Apr 5, 2018 2:18:40 GMT
And why not? they still had plenty of wear in them. Are you really going to throw out a perfectly good pair of trunks just because they are out of fashion? *tut tut*
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Post by kerouac2 on May 12, 2018 18:36:05 GMT
I am plunged into perplexity. On the news tonight, they are saying that 3 billion people are going to watch that royal wedding next week. I think they are lying and that they really mean that viewing will be available on television to 3 billion people, not that they will actually watch. I myself cannot imagine anybody being interested outside of the UK, and then only to see how their taxes are being wasted.
The Eurovision song contest in comparison will only attract about 200 million viewers and yet it is far more important. Seeing the evolution of popular culture in Europe is far more important and gives us insights regarding the state of mind of people in the various countries. If Americans had such an event, they probably would have been able to figure out the election of President Trump before it happened. As for the wedding, it is just a passive event with no input at all from those "3 billion people." It is like putting them in a coma for a few hours with absolutely nothing positive coming out of it.
Frankly, it is appalling.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 12, 2018 18:55:40 GMT
I shan’t be watching either.
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Post by mossie on May 13, 2018 16:26:02 GMT
Don't be so miserable, couple of meanies.
I shan't be watching all the same.
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Post by bjd on May 13, 2018 18:26:48 GMT
Who's mean? I read that the hundreds of "common people" invited to Windsor for the wedding have to bring their own picnic. While the royals are spending that much, they could at least supply a few sausages and some lemonade.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 14, 2018 14:16:42 GMT
It looks like the world is going to shit again.
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Post by whatagain on May 14, 2018 14:31:09 GMT
I'm pretty sure my wife will buy the 'Gala' of next week to see the dresses of the bride and invitees. Usually we buy one Gala per year when we go on holiday. www.gala.fr/They are already disclosing now that they met on internet... I guess US citizens - who are non educated people without royals - and French - - who are more educated but beheaded their royals - cannot understand the attraction of royals to the common mortal. My daughters have always been drreaming of princesses and wanted to meet our queen... Best democracies have a Queen or a King !
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Post by kerouac2 on May 14, 2018 15:40:04 GMT
You are an idiot, whatagain.
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Post by Kimby on May 14, 2018 19:57:52 GMT
Americans - educated and not - are more interested in royalty than you’d think. And more interested than we should be.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 16, 2018 5:06:15 GMT
Since most people decided to call mixed-race Barack Obama African-American, I am wondering why they are not calling Meghan Markle African-American.
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Post by questa on May 16, 2018 7:03:03 GMT
Gently there...mustn't scare the horses!
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Post by whatagain on May 19, 2018 22:08:53 GMT
Family is watching the wedding. Clooney's wife is gorgeous and victoria beckham is unsmiling. Pisse-vinaigre as we say in French.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 20, 2018 1:27:28 GMT
Yes, Amal Clooney is dazzling. I find Victoria Beckham extremely unattractive.
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Post by Kimby on May 20, 2018 2:54:47 GMT
Yes, Amal Clooney is dazzling. She has a similar exotic beauty to the new duchess, don’t you think?
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Post by bixaorellana on May 20, 2018 4:21:33 GMT
Mmmm. I dunno. Amal Clooney is way up there in the stratospheric level of classic beauty.
I don't find either or them particularly "exotic" looking.
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Post by bjd on May 20, 2018 8:36:59 GMT
I guess your definition of "exotic" depends on what you are used to. I also found Amal Clooney lovely -- her picture was on all the news sites. Had to look for pictures of Victoria Beckham since I didn't watch it -- definitely not classy and looked as though she was in a bad mood.
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Post by questa on May 20, 2018 9:12:41 GMT
Victoria Beckham looked like a sulking 3 year old the whole time. I hope someone had a firm word with her.
Almost everyone else looked gorgeous..the awareness that these are new modern times probably freed up the designers' creativity.
In spite of my republican leanings, I sat and lapped up all the sights and sounds of the Brits having a right Royal time.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 24, 2018 13:13:15 GMT
I think I'll need a holiday after this holiday.
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