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This may well not be a new idea (or a good one), but is "the membership" interested in arranging a time and date when as many of us as possible could be logged at the same time, to break that "45" record?

A weekend morning or afternoon would suit me best.

(I have little interest in records, but I'm desperately trying to think of a way to get Angela's mind off stockings...)
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I'll stop! I promise! I'll mend my ways. Really.
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Angela Woodford wrote:I'll stop! I promise! I'll mend my ways. Really.
WHY?
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I think we shoulkd keep going. I hear sales are down over 50% in the last 2 years and if we don't do SOMETHING we won't be able to get them at all.
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englishangel wrote:I think we shoulkd keep going. I hear sales are down over 50% in the last 2 years and if we don't do SOMETHING we won't be able to get them at all.
Horrified to read this Mary! I have had great trouble getting traditional black seamed stockings with the woven heel, it's true. When I investigated this, I was told that the machines that create them are now wearing out and going out of action! I've found some sometimes at John Lewis, and aren't you near one?

We'll soon be begging Philip to send us supplies from Bangkok!

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We have one in Watford, it is my bro-in-law who lives within walking distance (in Solihull)
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Isn`t there a J.L. just off the M40?
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englishangel wrote:We have one in Watford, it is my bro-in-law who lives within walking distance (in Solihull)
Oh, he's just gonna love getting a mass order for black seamed stockings with a woven heel!
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There's that word again !!!!
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Try your local charity shop--we usually have stockings (admittedly frequently of the support variety) but hey1 with 13 charity shops in the town, someone is bound to have them!

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Mrs C. wrote:Isn`t there a J.L. just off the M40?
Home and leisure only. I know black seamed st*ckings could fall into the latter category but not at J.L.
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Angela Woodford wrote:
englishangel wrote:I think we shoulkd keep going. I hear sales are down over 50% in the last 2 years and if we don't do SOMETHING we won't be able to get them at all.
Horrified to read this Mary! I have had great trouble getting traditional black seamed stockings with the woven heel, it's true. When I investigated this, I was told that the machines that create them are now wearing out and going out of action! I've found some sometimes at John Lewis, and aren't you near one?

We'll soon be begging Philip to send us supplies from Bangkok!

Love, Munch
It's getting serious. They have dumped black silk stockings from the inflation index because allegedly there was only one remaining UK manufacturer. Worse was that there was only one remaining group of customers - judges.

So, why not deck a copper in order to confront the judge and ask him where he gets his silk stockings from. Hilarity in court!!!
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I thought about David's plan to "deck a copper" which did seem in some ways an appealing idea.

But before venturing out in the rain to select a constable I just thought I would try googling "Seamed Stockings" and kapow!

The Stockings HQ website seems particularly exciting, and there's even a Stockings Chat Room! (Might meet Philip there?)

So I shan't worry about consulting judges, or even the JL Dept. I might even branch out into satin topped, or sequinned seams.

Arrow straight, of course!

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It SEAMS this thread is going from bad to worse !
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Is that possible?
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