May is nearly out and so is May

[cloughie]

It bucketted down here, just now, sending the neighbour's tabby cat rushing in here nearly drownded. I hope the woman on the checkout this afternoon thought I was just predicting a couple of hours ahead when I told her it would remain dry!

I hope she didn’t have a late shift and her washing still out! You may have to change your store loyalty!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Both my loo and handbasin were manufactured in honour of John Coltrane

A Lav Supreme?

[Serial_Apologist]

A Lav Supreme?

(Why didn't I think of that?)

[gradus]

....well I think you should set up a shrine to Thomas Crapper and give darshan seva to Twyford Trent [plenty of incense (if you haven't got any heat up some shoe polish)]....a good weekend of meditating on the toilet should see you fine until these drugs have worn offf.....only for you to wake up and find out that the Zombie Govt and PM have risen again and are....blaa blaa....

Lavatory -wise, why doesn't Bramah get his due recognition these days, surely the equal of Crapper?

[french frank]

Lavatory -wise, why doesn't Bramah get his due recognition these days, surely the equal of Crapper?

Had to look that one up - for me, Joseph Bramah was an inventive locksmith. I bought a 'junkshop' table which turned out to have a Bramah lock - and proved that bit of junk to be Georgian (still junk and not worth much!). Bramah still have a shop in London where I took the lock to confirm what it was.

[burning dog]

(Why didn't I think of that?)

....http://www.artceram.it/en/products/c...ons_6/jazz_20/

[vinteuil]

Had to look that one up - for me, Joseph Bramah was an inventive locksmith.

... "Did you know Ernest Bramah's real name was Smith ? I guarantee this as a perfect conversation stopper."

Nancy Banks Smith, The Guardian 29 September 1971


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[french frank]

... "Did you know Ernest Bramah's real name was Smith ? I guarantee this as a perfect conversation stopper."

Nancy Banks Smith, The Guardian 29 September 1971


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Well, after you've said, Yes, what is there to say? I think BBC children's television dramatised some of his Kai Lung stories. Was there one which explained how the 'Willow Pattern' became popular by someone inadvertently sitting down on a newly painted plate, and then subsequently sitting on a blank plate? Was that Kai Lung? I can still remember the actor's face. I think he was Huw or Hugh Someone.

[eighthobstruction]

....http://www.artceram.it/en/products/c...ons_6/jazz_20/

yes that's a very sophisticated ceramic method of dealing with a touch of the Brancuzzis'....

[vinteuil]

... Was there one which explained how the 'Willow Pattern' became popular by someone inadvertently sitting down on a newly painted plate, and then subsequently sitting on a blank plate? Was that Kai Lung?

... yes : 'The Story of Wong Ts'in and the Willow Plate Embellishment' in chapter two of Kai Lung's Golden Hours .

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Kai_Lung%27s_Golden_Hours/Chapter_2

[Padraig]

Was there one which explained how the 'Willow Pattern' became popular by someone inadvertently sitting down on a newly painted plate, and then subsequently sitting on a blank plate? Was that Kai Lung?

Indeed it was, f f. It's The Story of Wong Ts'in and the Willow Plate Embellishment, from Kai Lung's Golden Hours.

I still have my orange Penguin, though I have not read it in a long time.

You wait for a bus and then two...

[french frank]

Thank you, vinteuil and Padraig. I think it was probably at that point that my big brother bought three orange Penguins, one of which was Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, another was probably Kai Lung's Golden Hours and I'm sure there was a third. I inherited all three at one point, but later on I had to give them back because he wanted them again . So they are no longer on my bookshelves .

Just Googled: The Wallet of Kai Lung

[jayne lee wilson]

So there I was all innocence, hoping for views on the most politically momentous events of our times....

Too much to hope for, as the usual suspects hijack it into quips puns and irrelevance....

Level of thread: somewhere below twitter and Facebook...

Be a long time before I start one of these again...

[french frank]

Sorry sorry sorry - but when I'm on the scent of something - this must have been the play (called the Dragon Embellishement) from Children's Television 1956:

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/dc0345a5d97d4f97aebbcf019a7b7790

In glorious black and white:

Wong T'sin, a potter: Philip Ray

Wei Chang a young workman: Hugh David - that was the hapless Hugh who sat on the plate!

Blimey - 63 years ago? Seems like yesterday

[vinteuil]

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jayne : it may be that others here are just as alert to the 'politically momentous events' as you are, but choose not to share their despair and sense of impotent rage on these boards. I have found this thread entertaining...

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