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Yonks ago I enjoyed a French (well, made in France) film titled 'Shokolat' starring a young Johnny Depp. about a single lady and her daughter taking up rsidence in a charming riverside rural French town and opening up a shop selling chocolate products. The lady was a chocolateer. She didn't try maki...

I'm in Gerd's and New2skirts's camp.

Tom

Great fun, of course, but my preference is for mixed a-capella, that means with alto & soprano voices too. In an earlier incarnation in Hampshire UK I ran a relatively small choir of about three dozen voices for about a dozen years. We delivered lots of short peices a-capella, but the sound of m...

Sensible of Eurostar and the tall guy in the skirt/kilt plus Doc Martins looks great, but the Telegraph can stuff their avaricious interference, cramming the screen with profit-seeking 'promotions' . As I recall, some years ago Branson allowed himself be photographed in a 'female' hostesses uniform,...

Absolutely fascinating Uncle Al.

Once one has invested so heavily in high-end power tools & lathe &c it just has to become a lifelong passion from then on. That object is seriously up there at the top of the skills scale and each would probably command a handsome price.

Tom

For men, Kilts are where it's at. Period. Any other skirt worn in public will be regarded as wierd, the wearer probably seeking comments, at least. Alas, my spouse of 57+ years is not keen that I wear even a kilt out in public, unless for a festive occasion, e.g. a wedding. I do however quite freque...

If I spotted him I wouldn't be keen to engage with him in conversation. Apart from climbing into the passable school uniform, the time spent on his hairdo and facial appearance is impressive I suppose, but the effect is anything but attractive. Also smoking, while allowed in public outdoor places, p...

....and at your height, Jeff, up on heels you could see as far as Australia !

Tom

Certainly very interesting and they can be made to sound very versatile, embracing classical with it seems all other forms of musical diciplines. The things don't look pretty, though and of course rely totally on amplification to be heard at any distance. There's the traditionalist in me ranting on....

Too right, Mouse. Deputy Sartorial Police chief here. Agreed about the excessive petticoat length at bottom. Were it the same length as the skirt, enough would show anyway. Yes, the boots & socks are dreadful. Pull the wearer in off the street, I say !

Tom

I'm impressed with your stellar nightshots, Moonshadow, especially as you took them it just a simple phone camera. A clear sky is a prerequesite of course, together with balmy nocturnal temps. Here in Ireland we only have on average 39 clear nights a year, or one in nine, making sequential celestial...

Ours is a maritime temperate climate with average Summer temps not much higher than Winter, so lots of places have both heating, used more often and air-con, used sparingly in Summer and never to excess in my experience. Most of us find 21-24 deg Centipede /70-80 F pleasant. For my sins in my Practi...

Now Stevie, Please elaborate for the uninitiated, the process involved in actually sacrificing a Virgin Haggis ? I assume you'll have to go a good way North of Aberdeen to secure the raw material for this, because I have it on good authority that because of Global Warming, not a single Haggis has be...

Too right, Mouse. Try Ireland, where everything official has gone metric, but I still think miles, MPH and feet & inches. When someone says 2m 40, I have to convert it to make any sense at all....around 8 feet ! All our signs and road distances have also gone that way and my car uses average 5 l...

Hi Pauly,
Welcome & I see you're a model rail nutter. No bad thing. My next milestone will be 84 & I'd love to have your next 20 enjoyable years ahead of me, but I don't, alas.

Tom