Mary Xmas 2 Awl !

[hutch--]

For what has been a genuinely awful year for all, whatever your reason for seasonal celebrations, make sure you paint the town red, white and blue with polka dots and don't get caught. 

[Greger]

What color are the poke a dots to be painted? Green, orange, yellow or purple?

[Steelmillal]

Merry Christmas Y'all.
Something for your stockings, er uh, computer drives..
Make the reason for the season last all year!

https://www.paulrand.design/

http://www.keikari.com/english/l-fellows-collection/

https://apparelartsillustrations.weebly.com/leslie-saalburg.html

https://tweedlandthegentlemansclub.blogspot.com/

[TTailor]

Merry Christmas and all the best to everyone for a change for the better in 2021.
Cheers🥂

[Greger]

Merry Christmas, or,whatever you celebrate.

[pfaff260]

A merry Christmas to all of you. And happy new year.

[hutch--]

Being a new age sensitive barbarian, my solution was to eat and sleep all day, slightly too much Christmas cheer and polished off a bottle of Kahlúa and late in the day a Pure Blonde but only for medical reasons. 

[Schneiderfrei]

Goodness, now that's all over,

[Futura]

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 

[spookietoo]

Hope everyones' Christmas and New Year"s was the best possible.

Here"s hoping '21 is as fun and exciting as turning 21. Oh, to have so much promise to look forward to once again.

Instead, highlight of my holidays was finding out my parents can register for a Covid vacination this coming monday morning and as their care-giver I "might" be able to do the same.

Gonna hafta place that one in the same category as receiving a washer and dryer for Uni graduation. Where the machines were my "Welcome to Adulthood", I think looking forward to a vacination is "Welcome to Old Age".

Fortunately, though my mind realizes the truth - my brain is determined to happily hold onto age 40 ! Only wish the mirror reflected the same!

Cheers to All!

[hutch--]

There is nothing wrong with old age (as long as you are healthy enough), it just takes a lifetime of experience to get there. 

[Steelmillal]

Everyday is a gift. Don't waste a moment of it!!



C Napier Hemy Through Air and Sea



A 1910 photo found in a document on early airship clothes.

[Schneiderfrei]

Beautiful Cutter Steelmillal, love the airship clothes too.

[Steelmillal]

Here in our parts of the world its just cold!! Thick wool is the rule, and layers of it. Wish I could find a conex container full of forgotten +480gram tweeds! Mackinaw cloth comes from Michigan, or did years ago. Think melton with attitude.


As to the boat, "simply messing around in boats" is a Great Lakes way of life.


https://herreshoff.org/library/

[hutch--]

As a kid, my grandparents used to buy Scottish tweed overcoats for us in the winter and they were about a half an inch thick. We don't have extreme cold in the winters here in OZ but these overcoats did the job when the cold would go through your bones.