+1 - although we have been on MWF Bath Soap since we came back from North Yorkshire at the end of November.
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- Mon Dec 09, 2019 2:48 pm
- Forum: Skin Care & Hair Care
- Topic: What bath soap are you using right now?
- Replies: 548
- Views: 112385
- Mon Dec 09, 2019 2:47 pm
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: What do you want for Christmas?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 187
Re: What do you want for Christmas?
A Terry's Chocolate Orange please ....... annual tradition since we married 37 years ago.
- Thu Dec 05, 2019 3:18 pm
- Forum: Cooking & Recipes
- Topic: Probably not the healthiest, but good
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4039
Re: Probably not the healthiest, but good
We got back a week and a half ago and true to form, I got my own personal jug of custard at family dinner --- back away from the custard and no one gets hurt ......
- Tue Oct 15, 2019 1:36 pm
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: Fountain Pens
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2055
Re: Fountain Pens
I run with both my LX (with Lamy classic Blue) and the TWSBI ECO with MOnteverde USA Napa Burgundy for all my daily use unless I am using one of my Staedtler mechanical pencils. Love both of these pens. They are a joy to write with and get better over time as the nib has formed to my writing angle a...
- Tue Oct 15, 2019 1:30 pm
- Forum: Cooking & Recipes
- Topic: Probably not the healthiest, but good
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4039
Re: Probably not the healthiest, but good
... All I ever knew for custard when young, it came from the Birds Co in a tub and required mixing with milk and careful slow warming. I was fascinated with it as the cornflour in it made it non-Newtonian as you stirred; runny if poured, but stiffened up as soon as you stirred. .... I drink this st...
- Tue Oct 01, 2019 10:54 am
- Forum: Cooking & Recipes
- Topic: What is the best meal you've had at a restaurant?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2939
- Mon Sep 30, 2019 2:46 pm
- Forum: Cooking & Recipes
- Topic: What is the best meal you've had at a restaurant?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2939
Re: What is the best meal you've had at a restaurant?
Methinks me started something of a mini-thread-within-a-thread. There is a little butcher shop just off the high street in Skipton which has emblazoned across their window "Best Pork Pies in Yorkshire" & "Best Pork Pie in England". I can attest that they certainly keep up with the reputation. They a...
- Fri Sep 27, 2019 4:09 pm
- Forum: Cooking & Recipes
- Topic: What is the best meal you've had at a restaurant?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2939
Re: What is the best meal you've had at a restaurant?
Don't laugh too hard when you read this -- best doggone meal ever was a Ploughman's at a somewhat obscure pub called The Black Dog outside of Blackburn, Lancashire. Yup it was seriously. My food pleasures are pretty simple and I don't go in for anything terribly fancy. It's all about flavour for me.
- Fri Sep 27, 2019 4:07 pm
- Forum: Skin Care & Hair Care
- Topic: What Bath soap/Body Wah do you use?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5390
Re: What Bath soap/Body Wah do you use?
We have moved to a number of triple milled french soaps as well as MWF and Swedish Dream Sea Salt.
- Mon Sep 23, 2019 12:15 pm
- Forum: ShutterBug Shaver
- Topic: Chess
- Replies: 3
- Views: 740
Re: Chess
As always, Chris -- great post and wonderful story telling with the picture. Nothing like beskpoke chess sets. I have a bespoke Isle of Lewis set I have made specifically for me from a crafter in Skye from crushed Isle of Skye stone and resin with a matching table. I got them to include a set of dra...
- Mon Sep 23, 2019 12:13 pm
- Forum: ShaveMyFace University
- Topic: Alum Blocks?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 18028
Re: Alum Blocks?
For a very long time I always used alum after a shave, but have moved away from that entirely. My post shave ritual has become very basic indeed after all my rinsing is done I splash on some Thayer's Witch Hazel and finish with some GFT skin food - either Limes in the warmer weather, or Sandlewood w...
- Thu Aug 29, 2019 2:09 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: gillette takes a hit
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1428
Re: gillette takes a hit
No sympathy here -- not so long as my supply of vintage Gillette razors are still serviceable.
- Thu Aug 29, 2019 2:08 pm
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 1170
- Views: 133721
Re: What are you reading?
I am back into some WWII history. This time it's William Craig's "Enemy at the Gate" - the story of the battle for Stalingrad. What an excellent tale. It is a bit on the gruesome side of things, but the story has to be told. Unbelievable that first off the Russians were successful in holding off the...
- Sat Aug 17, 2019 9:11 am
- Forum: Safety Razors & Blades
- Topic: Older guys and mild razors
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1246
Re: Older guys and mild razors
Been using the same setting on my Fatboy for too many years to recount here. Notwithstanding, at 60 yrs old, I don't fine my preferences any different than I did at 40. I'm a dedicated Gillette Silver Blue and Polsilver blade man and have been for at least 4 or 5 years.
- Thu Aug 08, 2019 2:56 pm
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 1170
- Views: 133721
Re: What are you reading?
Decided to take on Adam Nicolson's Sea Room for the third or perhaps even fourth time. It's a great read, and one that I always enjoy. Nicolson has an interesting writing style, all of his own, and I find myself often pulled into his narrative. I only have 20 or so pages to go to the end ... but lov...
- Thu Aug 08, 2019 2:54 pm
- Forum: Cooking & Recipes
- Topic: English Teacakes
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1981
Re: English Teacakes
Oh my giddy aunt. We are booked for November again this year. Can hardly wait for a Bettys tea --- or two --- or three ......
- Thu Jul 11, 2019 1:08 pm
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: A question for Johnny Cash
- Replies: 7
- Views: 919
Re: A question for Johnny Cash
Not a bit! One of his best. If I may share an anecdote. There was a time (how many decades ago?) when Mr. Cash was driving on old Rt. 66 that runs right through our town. It seems his driving caught the attention of the night shift local small town law enforcement and he was pulled over and arreste...
- Thu Jul 04, 2019 3:28 pm
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: Amazing NBA finals game
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2453
Re: Amazing NBA finals game
The fun part for me was explaining to all my hockey fan co-workers and acquaintances the difference between block-charge. One guy even commented that he thought basketball was a non-contact sport. He was wrong ......
- Thu Jul 04, 2019 3:26 pm
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: Endeavour
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4667
Re: Endeavour
Morse and Endeavour - by far and away the best british crime dramas going bar none --- Lewis is a close second to this pair. That from a man who has a Morse avatar ...... 

- Thu Jul 04, 2019 3:25 pm
- Forum: The Gentlemen's Parlor
- Topic: Anyone know what happened to Squire?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1148
Re: Anyone know what happened to Squire?
Hope all's well. Can't imagine something isn't wrong - he was a prolific poster indeed.