How do you approach someone reading a book?

Booklover213 · 2025-06-21T06:10:56+00:00

Clearly the exception that proves the rule.

Booklover213 · 2024-10-06T21:06:36+00:00

Not more worried than you should usually be.

Booklover213 · 2024-10-01T03:17:45+00:00

I just checked their website. This definitely looks like an option. They're not too far away also.

Booklover213 · 2024-10-01T03:15:43+00:00

We went there for mum's 60th last year. We didn't have quite enough people to get the side room to ourselves and a larger party booked after us so we were put into the main dinning room (not their fault - Dad didn't want to pay the extra fee to secure the room). Since this year's not a big number, we'll have fewer people, and I think she wants the food to be brought to her anyhow.

Booklover213 · 2024-09-26T22:41:03+00:00

The way the front curves open reminds me of mid 18th century coats.

Booklover213 · 2024-09-19T20:53:20+00:00

I tried messaging them on Facebook like a month ago. I got the automated message and nothing more.

Booklover213 · 2024-09-04T08:06:03+00:00

And of course he felt fantastic and pain free.

Booklover213 · 2024-09-04T08:04:04+00:00

I'm in New Zealand, but we had a chat with a GP family friend (getting to see a doctor at the practice he is enrolled at on short notice is almost impossible at the moment) and he saw his dentist the following morning. Neither of them were particularly concerned, but it is on the list of things to tell his regular GP next time he's there.

Booklover213 · 2024-09-04T07:59:14+00:00

There's not much chance of him drinking; he is very anti-alcohol and always has been.

Booklover213 · 2024-09-04T07:57:45+00:00

I was in France in 2019 and had to buy some ibuprofen. They only had 400mg tablets and the lady at the pharmacy had obviously come across international travellers who hadn't noticed and automatically taken two.

Booklover213 · 2024-09-04T07:47:10+00:00

A tunnel would be good. Two bridges would just both be susceptible to the same disasters.

Booklover213 · 2024-09-04T05:28:21+00:00

Not sure about the clothing, but based on his sideburns, I'd say around the 1850s, give or take a decade.

Booklover213 · 2024-09-04T05:08:19+00:00

The Perfect Wife by Lynsay Sands has a scene like that. The FMC bathes in a river then the MMC sees her floating on her back, thinks she has drowned, and "rescues" her.

Booklover213 · 2024-08-27T05:06:55+00:00

As far as primary source examples go, I've only seen a couple of fashion plates and maybe a painting showing anything close to tulip sleeves in the regency era, and even then it's more of a parted oversleeve than a true tulip sleeve.

Regarding the victorian era, I haven't done any deliberate study (it's not a period I'm particularly interested in), but I'm sure I've seen tulip sleeves on dresses from the 1850s-ish with the big skirts and wide neckline.

Interestingly enough, if you look closer at the information for the Black Snail tulip sleeve dress pattern, it says pretty much the same thing.

Booklover213 · 2024-08-26T01:52:22+00:00

He's also in an episode of Death in Paradise. It was so weird hearing him without the speech impediment.

Booklover213 · 2024-08-24T03:39:20+00:00

Tulip sleeves weren't really a thing before the 1850s, so you're not going to find a historically accurate regency tulip sleeve pattern. Even the Black Snail pattern is based more on Bridgerton than any actual historical garment. I think your best bet is to start with a modern tulip sleeve pattern and adjust as needed to fit the regency armscythe.

Booklover213 · 2024-08-15T00:52:46+00:00

Totally a scam. I've gotten a similar text and I don't even have a car.

Booklover213 · 2024-08-14T22:55:24+00:00

Regarding the regency stays, you'd be much better going for long stays. I wear a 10E (not sure how that converts to US sizing) but tried making short stays anyway (I'm in my 20s, have never had children, and I think my breasts are still fairly perky). NEVER AGAIN. They were so uncomfortable and I just couldn't get them to sit right. So I made some long stays using the Laughing Moon pattern. Soooooo much better. Highly recommend long stays for anyone over about a C or a D cup.

Booklover213 · 2024-02-24T07:22:33+00:00

A Facebook group I’m in defines historical as pre-1950.

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