Rockmeister
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Who is brave enough to post a selfie?
- Thread starter Tony Lockhart
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DSC_1307 by John Dutfield, on Flickr
Tony Lockhart
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That’s great! Backstory?
eternumviti
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Brilliant!
Rockmeister
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Being an ugly bas*****d?
Nah I've been doing a lot of drawing and painting again, bought some canvas boards, hated them but thought I'd use them as sketchpads, drew the best looking thing IN SCOTLAND obvs, and a month later it's me (crossed with a sulky turtle).
Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
Love it. Cheers 
George J
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Not exactly a selfie. The technology did not exist when this photo was taken by my Norwegian grandmother [Mormor] in the late eighties or early nineties so in my late twenties or early thirties:
IMG_2364 by George Johnson, on Flickr
Apart from even less hair, I am just as ugly today!
Best wishes from George
IMG_2364 by George Johnson, on FlickrApart from even less hair, I am just as ugly today!
Best wishes from George
eternumviti
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Not exactly a selfie. The technology did not exist when this photo was taken by my Norwegian grandmother [Mormor] in the late eighties or early nineties so in my late twenties or early thirties:
Apart from even less hair, I am just as ugly today!
Best wishes from George
Your trousers date this to the 1930s, George!
George J
Herefordshire member
Back in the day you could buy these trousers made of a sort cambric in M&S, and honestly I miss the cut. Enough material [with pleats] to allow plenty of ball-room, so you never sweated in the heat or froze in the cold. And the material was completely wind-proof.
No doubt that I could have such work-a-day trousers made today, but the truth is that I cannot afford tailoring, then or now!
Best wishes from George
Rockmeister
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try some ex army gear. Army surplus UK has a good range of kit which may not habe the style(??) of your old troos, but will outwear them with ease.
farfromthesun
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I'd wager that the kit at Army Surplus Norway is better!
Rockmeister
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It’s very Viking? Made to withstand a year’s pillaging?
I’ve still got my OS cami jacket from 1989. 34 years of all weather wear and still looks fine.
I’ve still got my OS cami jacket from 1989. 34 years of all weather wear and still looks fine.
Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
Failing eyesight can be a wonderful thing
eternumviti
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I've still got my Pa's 1945 WD issue leather jerkin, and very fine it is too.
I think actually that at most army surplus stores the kit comes from all over the place. I've got a pair of excellent sleeping bags, ex-Bundeswehr. And a perfectly functioning Jerry can marked Wehrmacht and dated 1943!
I'd bet that the Norwegian cold-weather kit is good though.
Rockmeister
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I admire the Norwegian kit. My camera rucksack is from there and tough as old boots.
Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
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Marchbanks
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Outside the Ballet with my cultural companion twenty minutes ago. Now awaiting the curtain with a glass of unpleasant Shiraz.
Marchbanks
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My thoughts were pretty much in line with the Grauniad review, although I didn’t get a Tony Iommi guest appearance.