I'm impressed. ;) Yes, I've Polish friends who can understand Russian very well. The impenetrable languages are Finnish, Hungarian and Basque of...
Beat me to it. I've a string bought brand new in the 90s, they're still around. I'm inclined to think those are 80s or 90s: choker length with...
I'm wonderin if it started life as part of a table centre.
I'd say you've got it with Anglo Saxon.
Rococco rather than art nouveau. I'm thinking French. The shape is right , as is all that froo froo fluffery and frills. Church looks Northern...
I'd missed the bit about my Huguenot ancestors speaking German. (!) As to weird dialects, Cajun and Appalachian can be fairly impenetrable, as...
This isn't about opinion it's about fact, be that Tudor rose or language. And insulting an entire nation is utterly unacceptable. You were...
It says AUTH not RUTH, I reckom. As in authorised. There's a full stop after the AUTH too, abbreviation.
I've a friend who collects for refugees and also sends stuff out to Syrian refugee camps, so my clothes or whatever go to her.
Absolutely a decent professional cleaner who knows sheepskin. It's not cheap - I[ve my mother's sixties coat and it's at least forty quid. But...
There's also the little matter of the sea that separates Scotland from Ireland,too. Wars have resulted.
I've got five boxes of lebkuchen, she said helpfully.
This kind of motif shows up a fair bit on Staffordshire made pottery of the early twentieth and into the 1920s.
Or have it carefully cleaned and wear it. ;)
Interesting. And not the case in the UK, charity shops are directly operated by charities. We do get those scummy fake collecting bags though.
I suspect those are hobby painted.
Oh, very true. I've had conversations with Danes which were hysterical, and totally misunderstood by non Brits listening in. They've that lovely...
Oh, don't. That and Whitefriars or Murano as terms. ARG.
Whoops, indeed Belgium. A total brain fart on my part. I've been to Mechelen/Malines, lovely city. I speak German. An entirely different...
Sorry, missed your reply. Yes, for the shine and to get the greyness gone a bit. I doubt it's fake. It's common for Ebay sellers to say that to...
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