Peoples moods and attitudes..

Austin_Allegro

TJ27 wrote: »

I've got some lenses in my cycling glasses that somehow enhance the light and make everything look brighter,

I think a lot of people on here have got those as well, mostly wearing them when looking at the property market!

fc123

GDB2222 wrote: »

http://www.ferretcouture.co.uk/clothing.asp

I just assumed that this was a joke site, but it seems too elaborate for that. Tell me it's not for real?

I didn't quite get it either until I saw the production in action STS.
Sounds a good business as, if they wear out so quickly as Dave says, got to keep replacing them.....and stockists are scarce.

Next time someone moans about 'UK doesn't make anything anymore' one can reply that we are the World leaders in manufacturing Ferret Wear.

The factory owner got to hold one for the first time recently as the designer brought one up for a fitting session. When you spec a garment, you put it on a real life model (in my case, a female human of average size) to check the patterns prior to production.... you pin and fiddle with garment until it is correct.

I don't need to elaborate on that .

Still, good for me that this factory is still in business after 36 years.
He used to supply thousands of garments, weekly, to The High St. and emply 70 F/T staff.
When the work shifted offshore, his business just shrank year on year...surviving with school wear and kit for sports teams.

I counted 6 employees when I went.

Then the supermarkets went for the £5 school uniform battle, and that part of the business was wiped out too...though the same supermarkets employ skilled textile workers to sit on their checkouts instead.

But the ferretwear is keeping the business alive, meaning I have 'local' production too. So, behind everything, there is a bigger story.

PS; Enjoy Cornwall NDG...hope it doesn't get cut short like the last holiday.

mr.broderick

geoffky wrote: »

i suffer from sad. i have to spend a lot of the winter in the canery islands as i just cannot hack being in this country all winter..

Where do you stay geoff?

geoffky

i have friends in corralejo fuerteventura and we stay in one of their villas..we go out in oct and spend as much time over the winter as possible until march..i was talking to my freind who is from the islands and has a restraunt he was saying this is the worst year he has ever had and the numbers of people has fell of a cliff.. my wife is in toronto at the moment (had to pay twice because of zoom) so as soon as she is back we are off out there..