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To the driver and passenger

a_llusive Aug 19, 2010 10:33

of the black car (identifiable from details to follow ( Read more... )

cycling

Memo to self: foods which are not my friend

a_llusive Aug 16, 2010 10:19

are not my friend. So don't eat them idiot!

Thanks for all the tent offers. A little more help with the camping plan needed.

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A tent will be sorted imminently (it seemed best to pick the one I could most easily pick up and return)- many thanks for all the offers ( Read more... )

help!

For those who were interested - DarnIt&Stitch, Oxford, opening info

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The stall is sadly going now there's a shop ( Read more... )

Billing boycotters?

a_llusive Jun 11, 2010 14:36

It's a good thing South Africa's Apartheid government never came up with this plan now mooted in Israel

A discussion of the arguments in Israel surrounding the blockade in the New York Times..

freedom-law-democracy

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in Snowdonia, 3,500 acres of forest has been earmarked for felling to make way for wind turbines,: UK deforestation and shifting wildlife baselines

An unnamed entity (probably US right-wing thinktank) is funding a mail-out of the controversial anti-climate change propganda film to UK schools
Lord Monckton accepted yesterday that the original ( Read more... )

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New Oxford Habadashery, Blue Boar St

a_llusive Jun 10, 2010 14:10

The loss of King's Fabrics and other haberdashers in Oxford city centre has annoyed me for ages, so when visiting Thursday market today I was delighted to find the vintage & new haberdashery stallholder is opening a shop in Oxford shortly.

Darn It and Stitch
Supplier of buttons, trimmings and needlework paraphernalia is opening on Saturday 19th ( Read more... )

Corsetry I can't afford

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Corsetry: the makers
(the first six I heard of independently, the rest all via FairyGothMother or the webvine):

I'm impressed by the often-flamboyant but always meticulously finished work of
Maya Hansen corsetry

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Little things

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For want of a ha'porth of nails
Thanks for all the suggestions and offers of glue but my new(ish) boots have gone to the boot doctor after the (many-inch) heel fell off last night. It turns out that (as suspected) the original construction was rather sloppy - there were insufficient staples holding the heel to the body of the shoe and the few used ( Read more... )