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  1. Shangas

    Pocketwatches

    Very pretty, H'lander.
  2. Shangas

    Pocketwatches

    Hair-weaving was a common Victorian hobby. Lots of people did it. Some people probably made a modest living out of it. As in "You give me your wife's hair, and I'll weave it and put it into a locket for you". These days, I think some people find it creepy, but back in Victorian times, it was...
  3. Shangas

    Pocketwatches

    Hair-woven watch-chains were common lover's tokens. A wife or a girlfriend/sweetheart/fiancee, would save her hair and then weave it into a rope or cord to give to her husband/boyfriend, as a cute little momento. But also, it was common to cut hair off of a dead body, weave it into a rope and...
  4. Shangas

    Pocketwatches

    Oooh, very nice. Is that a masonic fob that I see there? Very pretty.
  5. Shangas

    Pocketwatches

    Gin&Tonics, I noticed the Chinese coin fob on your watch-chain. Were you also a ship's carpenter as a lad, and spend your time doing a lot of handwriting, copying out the Encyclopedia Britannica?
  7. Shangas

    Titanic Centennial

    I apologise. I meant the animation was cool. A full explanation at last, after so long, about how the ship acted back in 1912. Not the event itself.
  8. Shangas

    The Good News Thread

    Thanks, Feraud, and Rue. The job is nearly done. I have a copy of the original manual now (printed off teh intranetz). I still need to clean off some gummy old glue residue (it's being stubborn, but it's coming off slowly!) After that, the big thing - The slide plate. A lengthy discussion...
  9. Shangas

    Enough to make a grown FLer cry. Tell us your worst finds or ruined clothing stories

    I also hate moths. The damn things ate a hole in one of my waistcoats! Fortunately, it wasn't one that I prize, so its loss is no great issue...but still. It's frustrating.
  10. Shangas

    Pocketwatches

    That's a very pretty watch, of good quality, Highlander. Hunter-case watches never had the same appeal to me, but they do have a way of growing on you. Maybe...one day...I'll buy one. EDIT - Highlander - Perhaps you could post photos of the front, and back of the watch-case? Hunter-cases...
  11. Shangas

    Old Man Reacts to Music

    Music has big therapeutic properties. When my grandmother was still alive, after she moved to the nursing home, I would visit her every now and then (every week, every fortnight, etc). And I would play music for the people who lived there. I would play jazz standards on the piano. And the...
  13. Shangas

    The Good News Thread

    Don't forget to swing by the Sherlock Holmes Museum in Baker Street. The video of gran's Singer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDTe2omq5J8
  14. Shangas

    The Good News Thread

    Last year, my grandmother died at the age of 97. She left this world with her 1951 Singer 99k sewing-machine in the hands of her family... In honour of her memory, I decided to try and restore this machine to health and functionality. It took about a month of work, but it's done! I had...
  15. Shangas

    Titanic Centennial

    I think I've heard that interview before, Liz. There are other interviews floating around, from other officers who survived the sinking as well. They're all very interesting.
  16. Shangas

    Titanic Centennial

    That Was COOL!!!
  17. Shangas

    What do you use to shave?

    If my experience of Chinese history, culture and customs is anything to go by, I don't think there's a big retro community there. At least, not amongst the native inhabitants. In my experience, native-born Chinese have a phobia of old things (particularly, things that have been passed down...
  19. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    That cabinet is divine!! What a lucky and beautiful find, just on the roadside!
  20. Shangas

    Gentlemen, show us what you've made!

    Despite a lack of skills and experience, I have finished the backing! Now, to attach the two front halves of the waistcoat to it. I'm doing this one half at a time, to make things easier. Starting with the sides, then the shoulders, last. Left underarm seam is complete!
  21. Shangas

    Music suggestions 20's 30's big band & jazz?

    All this beautiful continental jazz. Was jazz/big-band/swing really banned during the Nazi era in Europe? How heavily did the Nazis crack down on that kind of stuff?
  22. Shangas

    What's for Dinner?

    Last night - Sushi. Homemade. Tonight - Sausages, tomatoes and cucumber.
  23. Shangas

    Young loungers

    *Ahem* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D7AebhY4qg Or perhaps... http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=SmRsIp3XB1Q

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