Originally posted by Serial_Apologist
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K shoes, made in Kendal, were the most comfortable shoes that I have ever worn. -
My goodness, yes!!! There was one in the shoe shop my mother used to take me to in High Street Ken. When we were there one day, a small boy of about my age, maybe six, came over to me and said, "Do you know that if you put your hand down where you look at your feet, you get a funny feeling?" Naturally I had to find out for myself, and on lowering most of my arm, I received the very first electric shock of my life! Presumably the charge passed across the void, and I imagine would have been a powerful one, though I was quite nonchalant about the experience afterwards, suffered no apparent after-effects, and didn't say a thing to my mother!Originally posted by Flay View PostComment
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Nice big Magnums, apparently...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/35383842
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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And those classic 'school sandals' with a flower-petal pattern of holes in the front part... Clark's stopped making them in 1972 apparently...Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Oh yes. I had several pairs of these, though not all at once. And "Start-Rite" shoes, after my feet had been x-rayed, obviously.Originally posted by Caliban View PostComment
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looks like it won't be " Just one Cornetto" any more...Originally posted by Caliban View PostNice big Magnums, apparently... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/35383842
anyway...
Doversoul's PC.
apparently.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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Originally posted by mangerton View Post
just
and on the subject, that lethal fluoride treatment . Bright green fluid in a jaw shaped clamp.
I think it actually caused tooth decay.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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Originally posted by Tevot View PostJackanory
Play Away
The Adventure Game
Play For Today
The Long Chase with
Jan Francis and Simon Turner (the latter now a big noise in the music world with a recent Novello 'original soundtrack' award) - a series which enthralled me but has never been on video, alas.
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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That Leslie Nielsen was already dead!Comment
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Many things mentioned here are familiar, but bells were jingled most poignantly by the above, and by reminder of lidded desks with embedded inkwells in Primary School. Round our way a writing test had to be passed before possession of the scratchy nibs was granted.Originally posted by Roslynmuse View Post
Has anybody mentioned Etch a Sketch? Its exasperating limitations were a useful introduction to existential despair I found.Comment
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Ostrich quills are the best.Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
- the inkwells were mainly to supply the "fuel" for these - yellow wooded bodies with a steel stylus.
As SIBELIUS progressively deteriorates in its ability to provide scores for the music I write, I'm increasingly using pens: the idea of using "dippers" appeals more and more (I have a lovely desk set, which positively invites such an option) - I might even see if I can find any quills, in honour of Ronald Stevenson! (But probably not.)
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Yeah - but they don't 'arf struggle!Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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And why write in the sand when the sea will wash it away and when there's perfectly decent paper to use instead?!Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostComment
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Have you always been completely devoid of the excitement and thrill of doing something utterly pointless and useless, ahinton ... ?Originally posted by ahinton View PostComment
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