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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 30, 2019 19:56:48 GMT
Great story. Only way it could be been better was if he’d ended up MARRYING the girl with the peanut butter sandwiches! At the time of the incident my Dad was already married to my Mum. They got married by special licence when he was home on a four day pass prior to posting. They didn't know where he was going (by ship to Gibraltar and then on to Malta) or if they'd ever see each other again. Mum was 18 and Dad 20...babies. Talking of babies...congratulations lugg...exciting news!
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Post by whatagain on Oct 3, 2019 18:27:48 GMT
Got a dilemma here. Am in Milano eating Japan food with waiters looking Chinese. How should i say thank You ? Arigato grazie or xiexie
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 3, 2019 18:29:55 GMT
Just leave a 20% tip.
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Post by casimira on Oct 3, 2019 20:42:54 GMT
Oh, the loveliest of congratulations to you Lugg!!!! Oh happy days to you and yours!!!!
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Post by lugg on Oct 4, 2019 18:23:43 GMT
Hi Casimira - thank you so much. Hope all good with you x
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 5, 2019 19:32:35 GMT
The bangle
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Post by questa on Oct 6, 2019 3:14:37 GMT
OOOOH, How classically elegant! This will go from ballroom to jeans and a nice T-shirt. Tell us about it, please.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 6, 2019 4:01:12 GMT
Just gorgeous, Cheery ~ it is the classic bangle. Love it!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 6, 2019 5:12:47 GMT
It's 9ct gold. Hand made by a local goldsmith who makes them out of a strip of solid gold wire (rather than in a mould) he manages to get an invisible join...apparently he's highly rated in the jewellery community (but the jeweller would say that wouldn't he?). I've gone for a slightly heavier bangle than the one I originally chose...the goldsmith sent 2 weights for me to try when he heard I wanted to wear it all the time. OH thinks that I could have got one cheaper on Leicester's 'Golden Mile' Loads of gold shops there but they tend to sell 14, 18 & 22 carat gold which I didn't want...and Indian wrists tend to be graceful, delicate and slim....not like my...ahem... big boned big girl ones. I have pointed out to my OH that the goldsmith now knows my required size...and that I have a birthday every year walking back to the car he did just mention that he wanted a new gadget for his guitar....
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 6, 2019 5:49:24 GMT
Oh you absolutely did the right thing getting not only a heavier bangle, but also the 9ct won't bend like those other ct weights.
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Post by whatagain on Oct 6, 2019 9:08:22 GMT
Looks beautiful. Is it a bracelet or a necklace ?
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Post by whatagain on Oct 6, 2019 9:10:42 GMT
We had an awful foul smell in the sleeping room. After moving all the furniture (some cleaning there ...) we found a dead mouse. So tiny. Such a smell. It seems open season for the mice. Our cats bring them in daily.
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 6, 2019 15:02:30 GMT
Daughter on her way to Osaka for a British Trade Fair.
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Post by whatagain on Oct 6, 2019 20:23:52 GMT
Spent a busy day. Repaired a lamp then installed a new neon in the basement. Then spent half a day installing racks to put books (étagères in french). Then put the books. Rearranged the furniture and hanged some drawings. Beautiful ones. Made by my daughters.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 6, 2019 21:46:39 GMT
I love rearranging furniture! I re-did my living room the other day and now it makes me so happy that sometimes I just wander in there in order to admire it yet again.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 6, 2019 22:44:11 GMT
Nice bangle, cheery!
After 34 years in this house, I think we’ve perfected the furniture arrangement.
But my two favorite upholstered swivel chairs were looking kinda faded and sad. Meanwhile we have been storing two extra sofa cushions that came with the lake cottage sofa. I brought them home and tried them out.
Though the chairs are a solid slaty blue twill, and the cushions are a red woven tribal-looking pattern, the rug we brought home from Morocco has a lot of both red and blue in it and the cushions tie it all together nicely.
I’m pleased.
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Post by bjd on Oct 7, 2019 6:18:13 GMT
Some years ago a Dutch friend gave us an armchair her husband had bought in the Netherlands in the 1970s. It's a fancy thing, still being made. We had intended to re-upholster it, finally did so, then decided to redo another little armchair we had, and now the same woman is redoing the cushions of two vintage chairs we had bought for a holiday apartment. This all costs a lot more than the originals did but they look really great.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 7, 2019 14:03:57 GMT
They do look great!
Because reupholstering is so spendy, we haven’t done it for these chairs.
Hopefully the new pillows will extend their life a few years, because the shape and size of the chairs are perfect and upholstered chairs that swivel are so hard to find.
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Post by bjd on Oct 7, 2019 15:15:47 GMT
There is only one like that -- it takes quite a lot of room. But it does swivel.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 7, 2019 15:20:55 GMT
Love your chair bjd...it's what I would call....groovy.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 7, 2019 15:44:40 GMT
On the daily television auction show on France 2, they sell chairs like that for more than 2000 euros almost every day.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 7, 2019 15:52:38 GMT
Re: your chair, Bjd ~ helpless, total desire and envy!
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Post by whatagain on Oct 7, 2019 17:53:46 GMT
My wife came back with a rocking chair yesterday.
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Post by bjd on Oct 7, 2019 18:54:57 GMT
On the daily television auction show on France 2, they sell chairs like that for more than 2000 euros almost every day. That's about what they cost new. The original design was from 1965 by an English designer called Geoffrey Harcourt. After I sent a picture of the newly upholstered chair to my friend, I think she regretted giving it away. And the woman who did the upholstery offered to buy it since it attracted everyone who came into her workshop.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 7, 2019 19:00:06 GMT
Usually those things are of Italian design but, yes, always from the 1960's. Easy to imagine a James Bond girl sitting in one with her legs crossed in her mini skirt while talking with Sean Connery.
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 8, 2019 20:30:42 GMT
Daughter on her way to Osaka for a British Trade Fair. Struggling to get good food. She is a vegetarian and at the welcome tonight they had fermented boiled cabbage. Ended up at Wendy Burger for a fish burger. Otherwise all going well and her stand looks brilliant!
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 8, 2019 20:45:48 GMT
Oh, so she is actually a pescatarian and not a vegetarian at all.
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Post by questa on Oct 9, 2019 3:23:03 GMT
Is this a "R M Williams" Stand? Should look marvelous with such great product.
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Post by bjd on Oct 9, 2019 5:15:53 GMT
My husband once spent two weeks in Japan and his big problem was they didn't have desserts.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 9, 2019 5:32:51 GMT
I found it briefly disconcerting when I stayed with friends in Singapore once and there was nothing sweet to eat for breakfast, just bread dipped in cold curry sauce. Now I have adapated to being able to eat anything for breakfast.
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