1. The Balaclava seems to
be making a comeback. I saw two in different shops today, a standard woolly one
and a fabric one with ‘thermal’ lining. (Don’t you just hate how manufacturers
continue to strut that meaningless term ‘thermal’ in an attempt to hoodwink
people into thinking they’re getting the benefits of space age technology?)
The home knitted variety
The posh variety
The ‘what the hell are they
doing to my image?’ variety
When I was a kid, every kid had one. Mothers who didn’t know
how to knit one even ran the risk of having their children taken away and
placed in care. But then they fell out of fashion and took brief refuge in the
nerd realm before disappearing altogether, and I haven’t seen one in many years.
2. I was in a shop and noticed a sign advertising vynle records.
‘You’ve spelt vinyl wrong,’ I said to the man behind the
counter.
‘How should you spell it?’ he asked. I told him. ‘Oh, right.
I’ll pass it on.’
‘Don’t worry about it,’ I added hurriedly, partly to make
him feel better and partly out of a sudden horrified realisation that I was doing a Thorndyke.
So what’s the connection between these two seemingly unrelated
facts? Thorndyke is. If you can be bothered to watch this short clip you’ll see what I mean.
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