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Yes, I regularly drive past a mint-green and white two-door Plymouth (I keep on meaning to stop and find out what model). It’s been in someone’s driveway for at least five years, with another car at the back of it covered in a tarp. The owner’s recently put it up on axle stands and removed the back wheels. The houses in the area were built in the 1960s, when British cars were about 5 feet wide, so an American car stuck in a 6-foot driveway looks like a beached whale.
Someone in the area did manage to hoard five cars; three in the 20 foot wide front garden and two on the road. As far as I remember it was two Range Rovers and three Reliant Scimitars. He died after hitting a lamp post in a Scimitar. Neighbours said six German shepherd dogs were found (in good health) in his house.
Lot of work to strip a car, and then you have to have plenty of shelf space and an inventory system. Also model-specific parts are easier to locate if they’re left in situ.
This junkyard, Vic Berry’s, managed to cover Leicester in asbestos when it caught fire.
Signature may be ‘Moyes’. The fiddler looks to me more like Zero Mostel than Topol.
If you like rabbit holes, try searching “Whitcombe and Tombs “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”” 🙂
It appears that the bulbs are flickering at 120 Hertz (i.e. 120 times a second, or twice the US mains frequency), which flickering usually can’t be discerned by people. Presumably all the bulbs flicker at the same rate and time, so a shutter speed of 1/240 of a second or faster will sometimes produce a dark photo.
The overpainting’s “clobbering” (explanatory page). For example, Mason ironstone was often clobbered in Indian red and blue. I suppose it’s a way of adding colour using unskilled labour.
I was sitting in the kitchen of a friend’s house when I heard someone say “Erhh!” quite loudly. Assuming it was my friend (who was elderly and disabled) I rushed into the living room. My friend looked at me and said “Where is she?”, meaning her daughter. She’d heard “Hello”, and assumed it was her.
Stupid ghost. Can’t even speak clearly.
Just checked a kilim (or kelim) I bought yesterday- doesn’t have the threads crossing from area to area, and the pile is rougher (more like hessian). The design isn’t aligned with the long side which kind of makes me think it’s not a prayer mat. Might be an American rug of some type.
Just “checked” (cough) the label on mine- “made in England, 100% cotton”. Don’t know about the quality issue, but Burberry became very popular with chavs some years ago…
Retailers who stock Burberry products say there is a growing negative association with the brand as the national obsession with chav culture …”Daily Telegraph, 2004″
I was never a chav, guv, I picked up my bomber jacket for 40 nicker in a seedy charity shop sarf of the river down near Twickenham. Combined with a (borrowed) miniature Schnauzer it “attracts attention” better than any spray Lynx can come up with.
So, to answer your question, for the US market I don’t know. For the UK market the brand apparently has turned the corner and shaken off its negative associations, but I don’t know whether it has regained its cachet as clothing for the upper middle classes. I can imagine that in Scotland a “Union made in US” tag would be more acceptable than a “Made In England” tag!
I “left” them. I was young and feckless, and Al Gore hadn’t yet invented the internet, eBay and cat memes. There was only “Exchange and Mart” to put ads in.
That “left shoe” story reminded me of the aftermath of The Great Flood of Uphill in 1981. Found some brand-new Clarks’ Polyveldts under a hedge, several miles from the nearest shoe shop. All left foot.
The UK system can be done online. For some reason this year’s form was substantially easier (usually there’s some question that stumps me, or I try to enter a zero in something and find that it won’t accept a null). Took 5 minutes.
Yes, thanks! I’ve seen about the castors from Howard armchairs fetching quite a bit- the Howard armchairs and sofas themselves are saleable in virtually any condition. The castors are marked.
I’ve been told that it’s worth checking out the weight of any mahogany furniture- the rare and virtually unobtainable wood type (might be Cuban) is substantially heavier.
