The queen's favourite grocer.
Also provides groceries for Her Majesty.
High tea at Fortnum's is an essential rite of passage.
For years starving ex-pats and reluctant ŽmigrŽs have relied on Fortnum's to send life saving supplies.
http://www.fortnumandmason.com
August 20th 1940 House of Commons
Never in the field of human conflict
Has so much been owed
By so many
To so few.
Our 'friends' around the world, particularly in those countries that forgot to rush in at the kick-off (you know who you are), would do well to remember this from time to time.
[Don't see: Special Relationship. Because there isn't one]
Galloping over fields, hedges and bracken, or indeed when desiring to appear as if one has, a chap needs to look his best.
Not only that but it's never a bad thing in such circ.'s to be protected from scratchy thorns. Or indeed ladies' nails. Hence the thornproof, where the wool used to make the jacket is of such a tight and heavy construction that the jacket could conceivably be stood in a corner unaided.
That it bears a windowpane check is evidence of its being intended for the countryside where the rules on colour are more relaxed.
And if it wasn't fetching then a chap would hardly wear it would he?
A bar found in the basement of a once trendy furniture shop in London. Articles from the furniture shop were used to decorate what was otherwise a blank concrete space.
There was a brief period during the early nineties when Freuds was thought trendy and at least one of the Two Chaps could regularly be found drunk there.
The two things were not related.
It may still be open for all we know. But most certainly isn't still trendy.
Creator of James Bond
Said to have experienced many of the adventures upon which the Bond novels were based.
Anyone who hasn't read the novels and has only seen the films has not lived and should take hourly cold baths until this sad state of affairs is corrected.
Someone once said 'Fashion is like a fickle mistress; if you do not devote yourself exclusively to her she will leave you and you will be doomed to failure'
Pretentious twaddle certainly, but has been known to work as a chat-up line in the long distant past. Apparently.
An Idler.
One who walks the city streets doing nothing but luxuriate in his idleness.
A highly desirable state to be striven for, idly.
Not to be confused with a flannel.
Perhaps the most accomplished Flaneur was Gerard De Nerval who minced the streets of C19th Paris with a live lobster on a ribbon.
When asked why he did this he replied...
"Because it does not bark and it knows the secrets of the sea".
A man after our own hearts.
Supposedly a web site known for putting old friends back in touch with each other
Otherwise known as Friends Reunited
In fact a depository for old lags and mingers who you're relieved to have left in your home town many years ago
Useful for those who like to feel superior on gloomy days