Denim Blunders, Reflections and General Nonsense.

[ATWM]

^ yep, Shein tax, Temu tax, hell, make it higher. We lose the de minimis in large part due the fault of these malignant, metastasizing companies that have an outsized role in killing everything that is good. I guess I’m lucky enough to not have it be a real hardship, but they are exhibit A of the actual high cost of cheap crap. 
as has been pointed out before, I just wish the taxes went to a better cause. 

[julian-wolf]

As long as we can find a way to tax Amazon purchases higher, too, I’m happy

[Double 0 Soul]

Woohoo! .. My kid has a casting for a lead role in upcoming feature film 'The Wrong People' which has been adapted from the novel of the same name.. it tells the story of an English boarding school teacher who is blackmailed into trafficking one of his students to an eccentric gay millionaire in Morocco.. half of the filming is in London the other half in Morocco.

Fingers crossed!! .. i wouldn't mind a holiday in Morocco

 

[Geeman]

Sufu slow?

[Double 0 Soul]

Yep! .. all day long, it's unusable, it won't load up at all on my phone.. then after 6pm GMT it works perfectly.

[Double 0 Soul]

[Dr_Heech]

52 minutes ago, Double 0 Soul said:

Same. Worse today, but has been happening on/off for a few days now. Thought it was my new phone but feel better now knowing it's not my technofear. 

[ATWM]

Same…

[MJF9]

@superfuture the site's running really slow again mate

[Dr_Heech]

Hi all, as l'm having problems posting too atm, just thought l'd let you know my email is down and won't be sorted till Xmas. Because of this, l cannot reset my password on lg (l know, what a shame) so please don't message me there (thinking of @MJF9 and @beautiful_FrEaK in particular). May not even bother going back on it at all, ever again.  There's just nothing there 😁

[Dr_Heech]

1 hour ago, MJF9 said:

@superfuture the site's running really slow again mate

Wow that's did it!

[ATWM]

^ditching IG entirely is a good move for anyone. 

[superfuture]

15 hours ago, MJF9 said:

@superfuture the site's running really slow again mate

Yep. Noticed this on Saturday. No idea at this point.
How is it today? Seems ok here.

[Dr_Heech]

8 hours ago, superfuture said:

Yep. Noticed this on Saturday. No idea at this point.
How is it today? Seems ok here.

The site has been unreachable for the last 2 hours here in the UK but seems fine now

[MJF9]

Ok this morning. Seems intermittent.

[Double 0 Soul]

£30 plastic bag?

Oh wait a minute.. this'un is reusable? .. unlike those reusable plastic bags you get from the supermarket for 30p 

https://goodhoodstore.com/products/b-eautiful-plastic-reusable-bag-white-green

[Double 0 Soul]

While looking at all the tat in the End Cyber Monday sale.. At the top of the page in the lifestyle section there is a book titled 'A Simpler Life' 

The book references simplicity, rejection of material belongings and being content with what we already have.

 

 

..below this book is a list of 792 other items including a half raccoon half dog piggy bank, a selotape dispenser, £25 eco hand balm, a down sleeping bag for your phone, a £20 rubber duck, a £150 noughts and crosses board, £49 eye cream and a £100 elephant made from paper? 

Edited December 2, 2025 by Double 0 Soul

[JDelage]

Necessary culling in progress. Those are (some of) the survivors of the ‘wabash & adjacent’ sub-culling…

 

[JDelage]

Current survivors of the ‘indigo but neither denim nor chambray’ sub-culling… There will have to be a round 2.

 

[JDelage]

This new-to-me brand and store in France might be of interest here. Reminiscent of Fleur de Bagne, with plenty of cool designs inspired by the 30's, etc.

https://www.a-piece-of-chic.com

Edit: Never mind, they're at least 10 years old. Maybe already mentioned here...

Edited December 2, 2025 by JDelage

[CSL]

Don't think I'd heard of them before. They have some cool stuff.

[indigoeagle]

16 hours ago, JDelage said:

 

https://www.a-piece-of-chic.com

I hadn't heard of it either. 
Some very nice items. It seems, that a lot is made in France.

[tg76]

Nice boots

[Double 0 Soul]

Wtf! I didn't even know Doctor Who was a drug dealer.. i'm so out of touch!

So that's why the Tardis was outside Park Hill flats a couple of years ago...

[Maynard Friedman]

Time Lord or Drug Lord?

You decide!

[Alec Leamas]

9 hours ago, tg76 said:

Nice boots

That’s cool, is it a sculpture? Do you have any more context of what era the worker would be from? 

[tg76]

Yeah. 1970’s sculpture by Duane Hanson (currently on show at Auckland Art Gallery) 

[Double 0 Soul]

39 minutes ago, Maynard Friedman said:

Time Lord or Drug Lord?

You decide!

The latter makes more sense.. he/she is constantly pursued by authoritarian regimes along with a group of often disadvantaged youngsters who’ve been isolated from their friends and family 🤷‍♂️ 

[Dr_Heech]

Last winter at work l did my first bit of serious drystone wall rebuilding in maybe 6 years. This was not down to me but management at the time and club priorities. All l did was do some dodgy repairs with salvaged stone. Not the sort of thing l would want to put my name to 🤐 but anyways..

This winter were starting to get back on track with rebuilding starting with a large section of field wall that is as far away from people as you can get, apart from golfers and the occasional dog walker, so here's some snaps. I should say that the newer, nicer looking stone we used/are using to help rebuild these first smaller sections belonged to rebuilt course walls from elsewhere which l have had to dismantle, say where a fairway has been widened. These were rebuilt by me +1 in 2010 and 2013 so alot of the stone is tooled ready to throw up (build) so to speak. Got my new trainee on board, he's learnin' fast.

 

Unsurprisingly the wall took nearly a day to dismantle but only a day to throw up due to the ready to use stone available, but the decorative top, or toppers took almost as long as their stone height is specific. 

^it's not the best wall in the world as we didn't use any frames, lines or pins, just walling blind (ie - just building from our side of the wall) not checking the aesthetics of the neighbours side, just making sure it's solid and in a roughly straight line. It's what l call a bit of a botched job but it ties in with the existing wall either side, which was built by another Greenkeeper some 25 years ago apparently.

On Thursday, started taking down this next, slightly longer section of wall..

Should have put this in the neighbourhood thread as it's the other golf course, the One with the dilapidated drystone walls 🙄

 

Edited December 10, 2025 by Dr_Heech

[Flash]

@Dr_Heech Still building that wall ??? Stealing a wage you are 

Edited December 7, 2025 by Flash