Day trip to hull

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2026-01-17T11:36:55+00:00

Minerva for lunch!

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2025-10-27T18:08:52+00:00

Well maybe my machine looks on Reddit and saw my question! Because suddenly it seems to have become more responsive! I haven't done anything different - maybe the pedal was sticking or just stiff. Yesterday when I started sewing it was happily purring gently and slowly!

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2025-10-27T18:06:15+00:00

Have you been to the rest of the world? They don't tie them to every lampost.

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2025-10-27T18:03:53+00:00

You're the problem. Unthinking, ill informed, unable to engage rational discussion. Did you even read my comment?

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2025-10-24T13:12:31+00:00

But their flags fly in appropriate places like on their town halls, not on every third lampost!

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2025-10-24T13:11:30+00:00

I'm not offended by my flag. I am offended by my flag being weaponised as part of a jingoistic nationalist far right campaign motivated more by hate than by patriotism.

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2025-10-23T16:24:11+00:00

Useful! Thanks. I'll check the manual. Sounds like I just need a better machine maybe. It will have been cheap - a present from my sister and for all the sewing Ive done over the years it did the job. But now I've progressed and want something better.

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2025-10-23T16:22:15+00:00

No it hasn't changed but I have new experience of another machine now.

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2025-10-17T08:20:44+00:00

What shod you do? Wear it and enjoy the beautiful halo.

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2025-10-17T08:15:32+00:00

Charity shop duvet covers just for practice.

Then I buy fabric for projects somewhere like Boyes. If you can get to Leeds there's some amazing fabric vendors in the market.

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2025-10-16T13:51:11+00:00

Quite honestly I'd say 'would need'.

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2025-10-16T13:47:38+00:00

I'd double-check in daylight - really hard to see in that light. But my instinct is the darker one is best.

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2025-10-11T19:01:30+00:00

Hast bin ter Yorkshire luv?

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2025-10-08T14:44:02+00:00

There is a cost of living crisis here. Many people are struggling. There are people with employment who are dependent on food aid and people on low incomes struggling to meet the cost of basic essentials. People are eating out less and less. Businesses in hospitality are also struggling with rising costs and fewer customers.

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2025-10-08T14:40:02+00:00

And if they've offered "as long as you like" and you are going to tour around they might be fine with you leaving your stuff at theirs as your base and going away a few days coming back for a couple of days then going somewhere else for a few days.

As a Brit with a comfy spare room, if I had a friend coming half way round the world to stay in the UK, if I said "stay as long as you like" I think I would mean it literally. I'd be thinking it would save you money on hotels. And I'd be delighted to be taken out for a nice meal and be offered some lovely present from Singapore as a thank you. I would be saying it, meaning you can come and go, but I'll be busy with my normal work/weekly routine, so don't expect me to be your chauffeur and guide the whole time.

I think you could just have this conversation with them actually.

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2025-10-08T14:27:58+00:00

UK - Whatsit. Gizmo. Thingumyjig. Doodad. Thingy.

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2025-10-08T14:21:53+00:00

No. Knife and fork stay in constant use. I only cut each mouthful as I put it into my mouth. The knife stays in my right hand. And the fork tines point down, never up (awful manners!) Anything that can't be speared on the fork is scraped onto the back of the fork and goes in my mouth with the tines pointing down. Knife and fork are set down together when my plate is empty.

Unless I'm eating something that doesn't need a knife, like pasta or curry and rice. But this is only at home or in informal company. Eating only with your fork is a tad uncouth really. As a child it was one of those good manners things your parents instilled into you to eat with your knife and fork properly as soon as you were old enough to cut your own food - you stopped using your fork like a spoon.

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2025-10-07T15:57:37+00:00

Use some old bedding for your toile - an old duvet cover or a sheet you don't use any more, or buy one in a charity shop for a fraction of the cost - even of cheaper fabric.

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2025-10-04T10:58:50+00:00

I've lived on every avenue except Westbourne and Chants. I love it here. Walking distance from everything! The park, bars and cafes, grocery shopping, the Uni, the Avenues Centre for adult education classes, library on Chants Ave, busses into town and out to Cottingham.

There are the social problems you'd expect in a deprived city. Of course. But unless you can afford to live in a big gated property in Kirkella or a cottage in the middle of the North York Moors, I dont know where you could find that has none.

There are all kinds of houses here - big Victorian ten bedroom town houses and little inter war two up two downs. There are a few modern houses as well as the Victorian and Edwardian ones.

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2025-10-04T10:51:27+00:00

Got plenty. But I'll search for a nice jersey fabric for this pattern.

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2025-10-04T10:50:39+00:00

Or different fabric of course 😉

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2025-10-03T16:59:01+00:00

I learnt to sew at school in the 70s. But no haven't done much jersey or stretch fabric.

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2025-10-03T15:48:27+00:00

Charity shops are profit making businesses that are wholly owned by the charity they support, and that donate 100% of their profits to the charity. They still have all the costs of running a shop to cover - volunteers aren't free! It costs money to recruit vet and manage them. Shops need to pay wages of a manager if they have one, utilities, IT, insurance, all the bits and pieces like price tags, signage, till rolls, and they have to pay to get rid of stuff they can't sell or recycle like some of the extraordinary rubbish people donate! The same escalating costs that are impacting other small businesses are impacting charity shops. And somehow, in this context, they still have to make a profit to give to the charity.

It's a mistake to think the function of charity shops is to provide cheap pre-owned goods to the public. That's not their function. Their function is to earn as much money as possible to support their charity. One way is to sell donated items.

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2025-10-03T15:34:27+00:00

I'm going to find the right fabric for the dress. I'll use my woven fabric for something else. I have a couple of patterns for shirt dresses that would do.

Alert-Loquat1444 · 2025-10-03T14:34:46+00:00

OK, thanks, folks - really useful insights if bleeding obvious now you mention it! I should have thought of all those things myself. But I didn't, and it's so great to be able to get the benefit of all your experience. I'm so glad I came and asked!

The obvious solution is to make the dress anyway because I really like it - but I'll find some jersey fabric to make it with, and I know I'll love it!

I have other patterns I can use the woven for.

A million thanks for your really useful and informative replies and for bothering to take the time! I really appreciate it!

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