Fun article. Thanks for posting.

He's not the bricklayer Churchill was, but bully to him for trying.  There's a real danger that this article will start an iGent craze for needlessly applied little oval patches on their shoes.

Pretty much the same suit he wore during the war.

According to the William Manchester biography of Churchill, the local bricklayers' union made him an honorary member.  The national organization, however, kaiboshed it in a fit of pique.

Good to see that Charlie had scraped his knuckles.

Last edited by The_Shooman (2009-05-20 21:34:07)

The late Queen Mum would have finished the job, given tea to all the workers she out-performed, and have smiled the whole way through.

The Queen knows this.

That's why he's not King.

Last edited by The_Shooman (2009-05-21 09:20:00)

You know, if I went by my own family history the royals would be treated like my crazy aunt Dorothy did japanese.
She bought astrology magazines to judge when her big break would come. She was a remarkably talented whistler, could do entire Beethoven works. But lets face it, not much call for whistlers in action movies these days. Anyway, Aunt Dorothy would HISS, and I mean a rattlesnake in the grass HELLO! deep, spittled hiss if you mentioned anything japanese in public or private. She scared me shitless until I got half used to it by 13. She was taught this by some civic affairs teacher at Van Nuys High school in 1942 and still did it on cue until her death in the mid 1980s from throat cancer ( I don't whistle.)
But back to the Royals. I figure it's a proprietory british affair for that race to  love or hate them.
All I know, is the world has a rogue's gallery of really nasty people we do business with a smile and a handshake everyday overlooking the political prisoners and slave labour that makes those business deals possible.
So here's a toast to Charles with my last 2 fingers of laphraiog-' Your a interesting and  inspiring dresser.'

Last edited by Chris Kavanaugh (2009-05-21 13:48:15)