With a big grin on her face I was informed by Mrs Mervyn this morning that 'whilst your recovering after your forthcoming op I can quietly sell your labelled up bike bits on eBay .You won't feel a thing.' I have to make sure that a full description and reserve price is put on the labels to make the process easy for her. Mrs Mervyn has got a great sense of humour,I think?
I concede that during my youth, as a Mod, I wore smart ties. I was a dapper fellow. Nowadays I dont give a shit, except for leathers-must have smart leathers. But for everyday I am a t shirt and jeans type. For work i merely swap t shirt for a shirt. I wear jeans to office and with meetings with posh clients etc. The only concession I might make is to have a proper shave, rather than the scape with the beard trimmer bit. Generally i have stubble. The less I spend on clothes the more I have to spend on my bikes. I am already batting above my average to own and maintain 2 dukes. The additional expense of new clothes is an irritant to me. I would happily look dapper today had I the finances to do so. But I can go a bit extreme. I cant afford Saville Row, thus I will go without. Better to look scruffy than wear a shit suit. I have expensive taste in clothes (quality isnt cheap) that does not match my income and rather than compromise with a shit cheap suit, would rather wear shit cheap t shirts instead. I do not own a tie, but if I did it would be the best tie matched to a finely cut suit and proper brogues. I like the way Oswald Boetang cuts his suits. Anyway as long as I am clean and my shit t shirt is clean then bollox. Ive sacrificed my appearance for Ducati.
I like your style bootsam.Same here,as a Mod in the sixties I was pretty smart.When I worked in the city I was pretty well dressed.Most of the time I am jeans and T shirt now and sometimes go a few days without shaving-bending my arms can be difficult sometimes.
I do like nicely made clothes and refuse to buy cheap tat that changes shape after first wash - I just buy the odd bargain and wear till they have holes in them. Probably works out more cost efficient in the long run but I don't have much in my wardrobe
less bills more thrills. another one of my life philosophy's. but to be fair i look good in anything.
Mervyn How about taking a digital photo of each item; and as you might, or might know know, it's then possible to put a description of each item with the photo. Mrs Mervyn then wouldn't have any problems in the unlikely event of your demise! A story you can probably relate to. When I was working in Holland many years ago, one of the elderly turners got his marching orders from the Manager. His foreman, a fellow English chap, told me after he had left that he had removed his 1/2 of what was in the fridge at their digs, and had watched the chap carefully wrapping up a single egg in newspaper and pack it in his suitcase to take back home with him. I cracked up laughing when I was told this as I didn't really understand what the guy had probably gone through in the war years. I can now, after spending several years in India and witnessing the most appalling poverty understand why he took the egg home!
nearly as bad as the guy at work who would boil a kettle, fill his flask then take it home to fill his hotwater bottle :Shamefullyembarrased:
