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That Louise is a secret known only to the Scottish Gentleman who wears the kilt.
In the modern world it is becoming more and more difficult for men with kilts to travel by air. First there is the metal detector at the airport with metal buttons on jackets, metal on sporrans, buckles on belts and, of course, the Sgian Dubh, we find just boarding the 'plane quite an adventure.
Usually, the Sgian Dubh is placed in the hold, or surrendered to the cAbin Staff to be returned on arrival at the destination.
Dressing with any sense of style or flaire is becoming quite a trial!
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In the modern world it is becoming more and more difficult for men with kilts to travel by air. First there is the metal detector at the airport with metal buttons on jackets, metal on sporrans, buckles on belts and, of course, the Sgian Dubh, we find just boarding the 'plane quite an adventure.
Usually, the Sgian Dubh is placed in the hold, or surrendered to the cAbin Staff to be returned on arrival at the destination.
Dressing with any sense of style or flaire is becoming quite a trial!
Andrew
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My dad's knee replacements set off the alarms at the airport.
I never knew it was so difficult for men in kilts, well you're certainly dedicated Andrew.
Wearing a sari or punjabi suit has its trials also. If I tie the petticoat too tight for a sari, I end up with a painful red line around my waist which lasts a week. If I tie it too loose and step onto the front of the sari - the whole lot comes down. With punjabi suits, the cord in the drawstring waist can get 'lost' in a rush to get to the toilet. This happened once when I didn't have a safety pin on me to pull it through again, so I had to go into a meeting holding my trousers up, not very dignified. All drawstrings have been replced with elastic!
I never knew it was so difficult for men in kilts, well you're certainly dedicated Andrew.
Wearing a sari or punjabi suit has its trials also. If I tie the petticoat too tight for a sari, I end up with a painful red line around my waist which lasts a week. If I tie it too loose and step onto the front of the sari - the whole lot comes down. With punjabi suits, the cord in the drawstring waist can get 'lost' in a rush to get to the toilet. This happened once when I didn't have a safety pin on me to pull it through again, so I had to go into a meeting holding my trousers up, not very dignified. All drawstrings have been replced with elastic!
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Louise,
You amply make my point. The modern world makes it hard to dress with any sense of style! do you know how hard it is to find a decent pair of flared Levis or Wranglers these days?
People with pace makers have to tell the security folk in airports before they step into the metal detector. That way they can be ushered round by a secret route and avoid setting off every alarm in the airport.
Jayboi are you travelling by air when you go to Paris? I really like the tunnel, and once you've gone to Ringway, checked in, hung about, waited on the runway, taken off, been held in the stack over Charles de Gaul, landed, taken the train into Paris, you might as well have taken a coach to London and hopped on the Eurostar.
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You amply make my point. The modern world makes it hard to dress with any sense of style! do you know how hard it is to find a decent pair of flared Levis or Wranglers these days?
People with pace makers have to tell the security folk in airports before they step into the metal detector. That way they can be ushered round by a secret route and avoid setting off every alarm in the airport.
Jayboi are you travelling by air when you go to Paris? I really like the tunnel, and once you've gone to Ringway, checked in, hung about, waited on the runway, taken off, been held in the stack over Charles de Gaul, landed, taken the train into Paris, you might as well have taken a coach to London and hopped on the Eurostar.
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Yes, just a pity that the magnificent Eurostar dumps you at Gare du Nord. And "dump" really is the word that comes to mind.
OK, so Waterloo isn't really a Charing Cross or Victoria for being in a great Central London location, but at least it's a nice area.
Waterloo is obviously too nice for the French though
, as we're soon going to be dumping them in King's Cross (ugh!) although giving it the much nicer name of St. Pancras.
As areas of London are usually named after the local railway station these days, I wonder if that area will be named after the saint rather than the cross in a few years? Certainly an easy way to help gentrify the area!
OK, so Waterloo isn't really a Charing Cross or Victoria for being in a great Central London location, but at least it's a nice area.
Waterloo is obviously too nice for the French though
, as we're soon going to be dumping them in King's Cross (ugh!) although giving it the much nicer name of St. Pancras.
As areas of London are usually named after the local railway station these days, I wonder if that area will be named after the saint rather than the cross in a few years? Certainly an easy way to help gentrify the area!
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I agree about the terminus in Paris. Not the nicest part of one of the world's most lovely cities.
St Pancras station takes its name from the Parish Church:
Pancras was the orphaned Christian son of a Phrygian nobleman. He was brought up at the Court of the Emperor in Rome. At the age of 14, refusing to betray his Christian faith by offering incense in worship to Dioclesian, he was executed by decapitation on 12th May, 304 A.D. on the Aurelian Way, where a Basilica was later raised in his honour.
Ten years later, it is believed, the first church of this parish was built in the site of a Roman encampment over-looking the River Fleet.
The successor to this venerable shrine, rebuilt in medieval times and again in 1848, still stands in the old churchyard in Pancras Road, behind the station.
The ancient parish of St Pancras, which was not subdivided until 1868, extended from what is now Torrington Place right up to Kenwood House on Hampstead Heath. Due to its location 'in the fields', and the existence since about 1200 of a chapel-of ease at Kentish Town where most of the parishioners lived, the old church became neglected. By the end of the 18th century, it was considered unworthy of the inhabitants of the newly-built houses on the Bedford Estate to the south of the New Road (Euston Road)...London's first ring road.
I'm grateful to the St Pancras Church Website for the information!
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I agree about the terminus in Paris. Not the nicest part of one of the world's most lovely cities.
St Pancras station takes its name from the Parish Church:
Pancras was the orphaned Christian son of a Phrygian nobleman. He was brought up at the Court of the Emperor in Rome. At the age of 14, refusing to betray his Christian faith by offering incense in worship to Dioclesian, he was executed by decapitation on 12th May, 304 A.D. on the Aurelian Way, where a Basilica was later raised in his honour.
Ten years later, it is believed, the first church of this parish was built in the site of a Roman encampment over-looking the River Fleet.
The successor to this venerable shrine, rebuilt in medieval times and again in 1848, still stands in the old churchyard in Pancras Road, behind the station.
The ancient parish of St Pancras, which was not subdivided until 1868, extended from what is now Torrington Place right up to Kenwood House on Hampstead Heath. Due to its location 'in the fields', and the existence since about 1200 of a chapel-of ease at Kentish Town where most of the parishioners lived, the old church became neglected. By the end of the 18th century, it was considered unworthy of the inhabitants of the newly-built houses on the Bedford Estate to the south of the New Road (Euston Road)...London's first ring road.
I'm grateful to the St Pancras Church Website for the information!
Andrew
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I learnt German the way Andrew learnt French.
When at the Hotel I was in for a couple of months they spoke to me in English and corrected the pronounceation while I spoke Swiss German.
Two way learning worked well, still like shouting at the French while I speak English. They get wound up so easily and an angry Frenchman hurling abuse is almost musical and poetic.
When at the Hotel I was in for a couple of months they spoke to me in English and corrected the pronounceation while I spoke Swiss German.
Two way learning worked well, still like shouting at the French while I speak English. They get wound up so easily and an angry Frenchman hurling abuse is almost musical and poetic.
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Louise Pembroke wrote:I've always thought men look great in kilts, but sorry I'll have to lower the tone and ask - what do you wear underneath?!
Answer: "Nothing is worn under the kilt. It is all in perfect working order."
SOrry, I can't claim the crdit for that; only for forgetting the name of the person I heard it from.
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