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Nope that's my memory - mid 80s. When they launched Next Direct especially that was a compulsory Yuppie catalogue to have...and up there wityh house prices in dinner party conversations....at laest one of those tedious sujects no longer features at dinner parties,,,,infact, do people do dinner parties (very 80s alongside Black Tie parties/balls)

I had a girlfriend who was on the 'next' tip


She dragged me round that shop soooo many times


Good training for learning to say "Nope, I an't doing that" no more


She set me up for life


Tho I still shudder when I see the place/catalogue

StraferJack Wrote:

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> I remember going to a house where they cooed over

> the next catalogue - seemed like an unattainable

> object to me.

>

> And that's just the object. Never mind the

> contents


I may be wrong but I *think* you had to actually pay for the catalogue?

Next was definitely quite classy when it first opened, SJ, kind of Hobbs and Jigsaw end of the market. I remember when the Knightsbridge branch opened. Great excitement. Never worked for me sadly as in those days they made for taller women.

you TRYIN to wind me up Jeremy.....HATE, HATE those as well. And while we are at, any belt that every came from Next, they can get it too. See aslo cuff-links!


Jeremy Wrote:

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> In a similar vein to the shirt-jumper... the

> t-shirt which looks like it has another t-shirt

> underneath it. But is actually a single garment.

> Stupid.

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> More egg or more heat, Loz.


Any more heat and they'll combust. I stick the pan on the gas flame for a while before throwing in the batter, just to make sure that oil is smokin'.


But it's the fact that IN THE SAME BATCH some will rise and some won't that truly annoys me. I need Heston Blumen-wotsit on the case. There's some science here I'm missing.

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