Swipe me it's Spring!


Cornwall may be the arse-end of the civilised world but living here does have it's compensations...!

I'm tired today so wouldn't normally have got on my bike... but this winter it seems nice days have been rarer than rocking horse... well, you know! So, this morning with the sun gracing the mostly clear skies, and rain in the forecast for later, it would have been criminal not to venture out at all... So, in the interests of keeping it easy with a high satisfaction factor my retro Merckx fixie was dragged out of it's winter sleep, the cool (tho some would call it 'pretentious'...!) retro jersey was donned and off I went for the few miles down to my favourite beach cafe. Lovely. Cornwall may be the arse-end of the civilised world but living here does have it's compensations...!


It's not all rosy though, I have to have a bit of a rant here.... I've been looking for some new trousers for the office (or 'pants' if you're from 'over there'...). You wouldn't have thought a 30" waist with a 32" or 33" inseam would be too demanding a spec.... it never used to be.... but it seems as though, by stealth, most high street retailers of half-decent (and crap stuff) kit are catering for the new-average man in the Uk... i.e, portly... oh sod the politeness, plain fat. Apparently on planet-retail the only folk with inseams as long as mine (and it isn't 'long' per se) have waists of 32" and bigger. I tried to order something in Next... "oh, sorry Sir, the computer says the warehouse doesn't even have anything like that"... M&S (I know, I'm getting old...) the response was "Oh, well, we might be able to order something in for you but it's a very unusual size"... bollocks is it unusual! Our continental cousins don't appear to have this problem, hence my current 'smart' wardrobe being populated by Zara, Mexx etc. I refuse to eat more donuts just so I can buy clothes that fit. Folk go on about fat-people prejudices... 'fattism'... what about 'thin-ism'? Except it's not really 'thinnism', it's a bloody conspiracy I reckon against vaguely in-shape and normal people by all the {literal} fat-cats running our industry. There's only one thing for it, I'll have to wear my suit trousers cut-off at the knee... it'll look better than 'above the ankle'...... :o)

Posted: Thu - March 8, 2007 at 03:24 PM          

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