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goldfinches said:

@Miró - Jess Cartner-Morley has spoken on the subject of trainers and midi length dresses etc. and I only noticed because of reading your earlier post!

Hmmm.... not sure I'm going to be wearing ankle socks with my trainers!

Miró

goldfinches said:

@Miró - Jess Cartner-Morley has spoken on the subject of trainers and midi length dresses etc. and I only noticed because of reading your earlier post!

Ooooooh!!!!!!!

"Five years ago, white trainers and bare ankles, with either a midi-dress or an ankle-length jean, was a great look. But now, it makes you look dated. Next time you are out, look around you, and you will notice that no one under 30 wears this any more. It has become a very middle-aged look. The 21st-century equivalent of going out in a house coat."

Silly moo   

 Well I shall continue wearing my 'no socks look-trainer socks' and ya boo sucks to you Ms Jess Cartner-Morley!  And I may go in search of a 'going out' housecoat now too!   

Miró

florianatwobob said:

Would cleaning the pearls with milk work @goldfinches? I’ve successfully taken biro out if leather and fabric that way. It needs to be full fat milk as I think as it’s an enzyme in the fat that dies the magic. 

I have successfully used hairspray to remove biro from leather in the past....but only try that if you get desperate!

dND

Miró said:

goldfinches said:

@Miró - Jess Cartner-Morley has spoken on the subject of trainers and midi length dresses etc. and I only noticed because of reading your earlier post!

Ooooooh!!!!!!!

"Five years ago, white trainers and bare ankles, with either a midi-dress or an ankle-length jean, was a great look. But now, it makes you look dated. Next time you are out, look around you, and you will notice that no one under 30 wears this any more. It has become a very middle-aged look. The 21st-century equivalent of going out in a house coat."

Silly moo   

 Well I shall continue wearing my 'no socks look-trainer socks' and ya boo sucks to you Ms Jess Cartner-Morley!  And I may go in search of a 'going out' housecoat now too!   

Considering the 'fashionable' look for today includes going out in what is either your PJ's or something that looks like your PJ's, I think I'd rather follow the 'middle aged' look - especially as I'm an OAP. 🤣🤣🤣

Wednesday2000

I saw something about middle-aged women wearing white trainers and dresses on Instagram. I still wear it as I am middle-aged!

C_J

goldfinches said:

 a friends dvd player has just died, of overuse I suspect, so I'm going to be searching for a replacement for her starting tomorrow, fingers crossed.

Hi goldfinches - I have just returned from an expedition to Templar's Square (Cowley Centre) where I spotted four dvd players for sale in Orinoco. They ranged in price from £20 for a pretty tatty looking one to £50 for a Panasonic in excellent condition complete with cables and remote control. Don't know if that is of any use to your friend.

They very often have dvd players in the Sobell House Warehouse in Bicester, I'll have a look when I am next there.

As well as Cowley Centre (where I bought a large framed print for £2, I only want it for the frame, and a lovely bright coral coloured hooded rain jacket for £5) I wandered around the Helen & Douglas House hospice shop in Rose Hill (bought nothing) and the Oxfam Superstore on the ring road where I bought a jute shopping bag filled with giant balls of red tartan yarn (looks like 1-inch-wide fleece material rather than wool) and two massive bamboo knitting needles about the size of rolling pins for £5. I have no idea what I am going to knit with this but it just looked like a lot of fun!  Maybe not rolling pins, maybe curtain poles.

Rosa_Damascena

Wednesday2000 said:

I saw something about middle-aged women wearing white trainers and dresses on Instagram. I still wear it as I am middle-aged!

I have found one of the great blessings of getting older is not giving a flying fig about what anyone thinks of you.

MrsCatz

Oh yes, as long as I like what I wear and I feel good in it, that is all that counts.
White trainers and tights with dresses has been my weekend clothes since childhood.

goldfinches

C_J said:

goldfinches said:

 a friends dvd player has just died, of overuse I suspect, so I'm going to be searching for a replacement for her starting tomorrow, fingers crossed.

Hi goldfinches - I have just returned from an expedition to Templar's Square (Cowley Centre) where I spotted four dvd players for sale in Orinoco. They ranged in price from £20 for a pretty tatty looking one to £50 for a Panasonic in excellent condition complete with cables and remote control. Don't know if that is of any use to your friend.

They very often have dvd players in the Sobell House Warehouse in Bicester, I'll have a look when I am next there.

As well as Cowley Centre (where I bought a large framed print for £2, I only want it for the frame, and a lovely bright coral coloured hooded rain jacket for £5) I wandered around the Helen & Douglas House hospice shop in Rose Hill (bought nothing) and the Oxfam Superstore on the ring road where I bought a jute shopping bag filled with giant balls of red tartan yarn (looks like 1-inch-wide fleece material rather than wool) and two massive bamboo knitting needles about the size of rolling pins for £5. I have no idea what I am going to knit with this but it just looked like a lot of fun!  Maybe not rolling pins, maybe curtain poles.

Oh, thankyou for spotting the dvd players. I'll get onto my friend asap. I'd love to see the jacket and the knitting wool too, sounds intriguing.

DigForVictory

Sorry for the delay, @goldfinches - back home after a frankly daft week at work (I must get better at saying "No") and it is Mackerel - under Sea fish just before kippers "I sailed into port ... with 260 fat mackerel. I telephoned to Sally, she came over with the horseless carriage & the mackerel were in salt 'ere midnight."
I do wonder about their children (3 daughters per obituary, so I have to presume son Dai died). Did they utterly rebel against this living a strange life or accept the migration from Suffolk to Wales to Ireland etc with a benign equanimity?  (Dear gods, Another Edition in 2019 with a foreword by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, all the more remarkable given J Seymour died in 2004. Wikipedia: "For the last years of his life, he lived back on his old Pembrokeshire farm with his daughter's family." Clearly some child is maintaining his written legacy, just not, I think the matriarch Sally Seymour | pantryfields.com.)
Having a vintage copy in my hands, I now yearn to acquire several more of this vintage & spread them amongst the holier-than-thou vegans, about whom he is robust, logical & merciless. I may have to borrow a newer edition to see if that has been toned down at all... (2/3rds in on Land, were you wondering.)