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Although last time I went to Malvern, all the locals seemed to be wearing supermarket jeans and hooded tops, and seemed quite taken aback by my mint-crisp tweed two-piece, flat hat and sturdy brown brogues.


They all seemed to know I was from London though, despite my efforts to blend in, and were keen to advise me that I should not delay in returning to the Great Wen.

It was some old grandee's autobiography, Louisiana - something along the lines of 'people who have to buy their own silver'. Can't remember the name, but what a twonk.


Tedling, the depths of fashion depravity in fading market towns of the south of England have yet to be plumbed - every time I revisit Fordingbridge I come over all townie and on more than one occasion have come close to having to clutch a passing donkey for support.

Ted Max Wrote:

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> Somewhere to stock up before weekend trips to the

> country would be nice. Shooting sticks and

> waistcoats, tweeds, Coats Viyella shirts - that

> kind of thing.



Head to Brockley. Very near the station there's an ace shop that sells tweeds, hunting hats, plus fours, sticks, vintage dress shirts, the lot.


Nothing has a price and you have to barter with an eccentric lady to purchase anything.


One of my favourite shops in South London.

(it was Alan Clark about Hezza, saying he was the sort of man who had to buy his own furniture. This betrayed only Clark's own insecurity, of course.)


Moos, I have worked hard on my vowels, and remember to say What and not Pardon, and have, through years of painstaking private tuition, become a passable shot. Yet my monogrammed Links of London hip flask never fails to provoke a sneer, despite the Countryside Alliance sticker in the back of the X5.

Jeremy Wrote:

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> I would like somewhere where I could purchase a

> piece of chicken, fried in a batter coating.

> Perhaps to be served with a portion of fried

> potato pieces.



That sounds fantastic.


But what to call it?


Perhaps they could incorporate a US state, picked seemingly at random into their signage?

Moos Wrote:

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> It was some old grandee's autobiography, Louisiana

> - something along the lines of 'people who have to

> buy their own silver'. Can't remember the name,

> but what a twonk.


Here we go:


'Michael Jopling, a gentleman farmer who was Minister of Agriculture in Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet, is now remembered for a classic remark that spoke volumes about the upper end of the British class system.


He described the ambitious Michael Heseltine as a man who "bought his own furniture".'


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/to-pay-or-not-to-pay-its-a-question-of-class-1687204.html

  • 2 weeks later...
A rehearsal space would be most welcome! Does that count as a shop? In the sense that you'd be purchasing use of space (and hopefully hiring equipment) I suppose it could be considered as such. Apart from the odd pint of ale and the occasional frivolous purchase of Mix-Maxs (10 for ?1!) in Iceland, I can't be bothered to spend my money on anything round here, nor have a wealth of income with which to do so.

Ging Wrote:

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> A rehearsal space would be most welcome!


Totally agree, I really think there's a lack of rehearsal spaces in London, anywhere half decent tends to get pretty booked up. Although I'm not sure how viable it would be, the public transport is not great here (trains are infrequent in the evenings).

  • 2 months later...

louisiana Wrote:

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> An ice cream parlour. Though I noticed this week

> that Jacks does have a few proper ice creams. Um,

> I'm feeling the urge to go out and vote...



Looks like your wish has been granted. I walked past "Scoop" this morning, it's next door to Il Mirto. Opening just as the weather gets bad again.

Has anyone been to the 'little' cinema in Bermondsey Square? It's a bar, tiny new cinema, quite plush, very cute. And I have no connections to it, been once and because I was in the loo, they held the film for me!! Called 'Shortwaves'



HonaloochieB Wrote:



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> Moos Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > A little cinema would be fun

> >

> > Although Peckham is just round the corner...

>

> And Brixton's Ritzy is almost as convenient and

> considerably less crap, and the Clapham Picture

> House is actually a little cinema, though of

> course a little further and in that Ham.

> The one that sounds like it's a village with the

> sort of malady that 60s and 70s musicians got

> sorted out out with a course of penicillin.

>

> Bloody hell Moos, sorry for rambling on like that,

>

> I'll only get back on the good foot if I get the

> crispest possible reply from you.

> It can be terse even, I shan't mind that.

> Frankly a bit of terseness would probably work

> wonders as far as...Oh, Bugs Bunny just stuck his

> head up and said 'This ain't Pismo Beach'.

> Classic.

>

> Sorry, got a bit distracted at the end there,

> jiggered if I can remember what I was going to

> suggest "would probably work wonders as far as".

> Honestly I've a mind like a Prime Minister these

> days.

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