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Thanks Triton :) ..good to hear..I'll visit the GalGael.org Your twitter and facebook links are both to places I don't go. ( like Instagram ) Opened accounts at both right back years ago when they began, they both then told me "I had followers" ( I hadn't posed anything at either, so could not...

Hi Adam..you posted while I was typing ( getting dinner ready here at the same time ) ..Yes I know they sponsored you..but is that situation widespread ? Do other guilds ( if they exist ) do the same ? When I read the lists on the Heritage Crafts site of what has been lost ( no practitioners )...

Andy Nope ..I don't have anything to do with anything that belongs to Mark Z. I meant in my original remarks, does the UK not have anything by way of encouragement ( spaces, grants, fairs etc , course, apprenticeships ) at local , or county or regional, national level in the UK. Rather than...

The fact that various skills are no longer taught and or passed on in the UK ( and elsewhere ) comes up from time to time here. I noticed this article today https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/may/11/hedging-boat-building-brexit-covid-british-crafts-at-risk Decided to follow the links to...

Whose dad is bigger ?

The french favorite is "scenarios"...as used by every TV newsreader..along with "reduce to the maximum" . "Expresso coffee" is also very frequent, to the point where one manufacturer now sells an "Expresso machine" and "Expresso coffee pods" to go in it..

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I hope so too, for you. Even if the factory had run out of stickers, they have the printing system in place, the computer graphics files in place, etc. Even if they changed who they used to print the stickers, the new printers would have all the graphic files on computer passed to them from the...

Washing machines with mangles were wonderfull, as long as Granny was careful .

Bingymans's sticker doesn't have the "Chinglish" errors, normally those kind of errors are a sign of "knock offs".

Just found this, Happy Birthday Stig ..next one is the answer. :)

Something to keep around the house and that you'll touch, ( small sculpture(s) ) fig wood smells gorgeous. I've kept some that we had when we lived in the south, still has the smell, but haven't got around to using it yet, "the cobbler's kids" syndrome. If you don't feel up to carving it, just...

The nice thing with this chair is the "waterfall" front, most chairs are too abrupt at the front and are really bad for the circulation, the curve on this one is perfect :love:

Some light on the "obscure" https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-mail-weekend-magazine/20140301/281479274333321 You don't have to sign up etc etc ..to read the article about Spitting Image.

Nope, not here, earth ( thin bit of 2.5mm copper wire ) just to our gas pipe behind the stove.Both water and gas mains are big bore heavy duty plastic pipes , only the last bit from the property boundary to the house and onwards inside is metal.Meters are at the junctions between plastic and...

re royalty and sausages Try googling Prince Andrew Spitting Image Sausages. ( pic from the Spitting Image album centre fold , I have it ). Prescient IMO :)

Maybe it has something to do with prior to WW2 the UK had invaded all of those people's countries and plundered them, treating their peoples like dirt ,except the Ukraine, or traded the ancestors of those who now live in those countries as slaves. Your king just got crowned wearing jewels...

look for "german braces" example https://www.for-sale.co.uk/german-braces ps ..anything at £15.00 for "leather" means PU Leather..or in truth plastic / vynil.

Is the sculpture in the middle part of it ? I like it too :)

Question is "do you have enough clamps? "..answer "one can never have enough" :)