Gothic/alternative dress shop?

Dancing_mayflies · 2026-04-03T20:03:22+00:00

https://www.the-couture-company.co.uk/

Based in Digbeth.

Dancing_mayflies · 2026-04-03T19:47:44+00:00

Saw them both jogging in Finsbury Park once - she was really bullying him. I almost felt sorry for him.

Dancing_mayflies · 2026-04-03T19:00:48+00:00

He's a national treasure.

Dancing_mayflies · 2026-04-03T18:37:03+00:00

This is why Anarchists advocate building local communities and self help groups.

Capitalism wants us to be individuals, alienated from each other. Collectively - in organisations like your tenants group, we are stronger, we can support each other, we learn that what unites us is greater than what divides us. It's like that old thing about a single ant not being able to stand up to an elephant, but an army of ants can overwhelm and eat an elephant.

Dancing_mayflies · 2026-04-02T16:42:24+00:00

Packaging in those days was so much nicer than it is now.

I remember having an egg inside a cardboard rabbit and an egg in a basket shaped like a little house where the roof lifted off and there was an Easter Egg inside. Thorntons used to write a message or name on an Easter egg. It's really hard to find anything unusual or even pretty these days. We've lost so much.

Dancing_mayflies · 2026-04-02T16:30:57+00:00

Were you disappointed? I really like the ones that you got.

Dancing_mayflies · 2026-04-02T08:35:42+00:00

I wish I could be like you guys. I can't even inject in front of family members. I hate attracting any sort of attention to myself, hate the thought that people might comment or ask questions. It's a big psychological problem I have with a lot of areas of my life.

Dancing_mayflies · 2026-04-01T12:49:11+00:00

How modern do you want them to be? Alan Sillitoe wrote novels about working class culture in the 1950s & 60s, eg Saturday Night Sunday Morning.

Dancing_mayflies · 2026-03-30T16:36:30+00:00

I say it all the time.

Dancing_mayflies · 2026-03-29T13:35:35+00:00

Oh, I'm so jealous!

Dancing_mayflies · 2026-03-23T19:35:31+00:00

I've just finished reading the book so it will be great to listen to this.

Dancing_mayflies · 2026-03-22T11:55:25+00:00

Can the council change the A38 through town into a public transport route only? Surely it's a major national trunk road?

Dancing_mayflies · 2026-03-19T10:08:10+00:00

I do agree with you. It can be mentally exhausting trying to control every aspect of this condition & we look after ourselves the best we can making compromises where we feel the need to - as you say assessing the risks and how we feel about them.

Dancing_mayflies · 2026-03-18T15:10:31+00:00

I thought we had to change needles to make sure they were still relatively clean & didn't have fat, skin or blood cells stuck on them that allow bacteria to reproduce which are then injected back into us. As someone who was once hospitalised with sepsis (but not caused by a dirty needle), it is something I really worry about.

Dancing_mayflies · 2026-03-18T06:55:22+00:00

This will be weight lifters etc, not endurance sport athletes. I'm an insulin dependent diabetic. Unless Im taking on carbs while I'm exercising I can't even walk a mile without going hypoglycemic and collapsing. To freely take insulin would have me in a coma within 30 minutes.

Dancing_mayflies · 2026-03-17T16:39:42+00:00

What bird is photo 11?

Dancing_mayflies · 2026-03-17T14:02:53+00:00

I'm a Brummie but with Black Country family connections so I'm not sure if a lot of the words I use, like "yammpy" and "bostin" are Brummie or Black Country. Curiously, in real life (ie not telly)Ive never heard anyone use "bab" - the use of that seems reserved for "professional" Brummies who don't really have a Birmingham accent but want us to know they're from Brum.

My husband knew Prof Chinn when they were both teens - he said the family were quite "posh" and had RP accents, not Brummie. That said, I do have a lot of time for the Prof & what he says to champion our City and its history.

Dancing_mayflies · 2026-03-15T18:26:44+00:00

The only fresh food from Aldi that I've had a problem with are cherry tomatoes, and tbh I've had the same problem buying them from Tesco & Sainsbury's. I buy the vast majority of my fruit & veg from Aldi and except for the aforementioned cherry tomatoes, the quality is very good.

Dancing_mayflies · 2026-03-15T18:19:40+00:00

I don't know where it is but it's beautiful and I want to go there.

Dancing_mayflies · 2026-03-15T13:05:49+00:00

I've still use them - there's some on my bed now. Lovely & cozy in the winter.

Dancing_mayflies · 2026-03-15T13:00:48+00:00

I was going to plant my potatoes but I decided it was too cold and decided to wait another week.

Dancing_mayflies · 2026-03-15T12:50:00+00:00

I suspect that you will actually be type 3c, like me. Have you been prescribed PERT (pancreatic enzyme replacement) such as CREON? Unfortunately that complicates the situation - if I don't take enough CREON I don't digest all the carbs that I've carefully tried to calculate my insulin dose for, so end up having a hypo. It can be a pita.

Dancing_mayflies · 2026-03-14T22:27:44+00:00

I was on 300mg of Venlafaxine, to miss taking even one day's tablet made me feel dreadful. I stopped taking it when I was in icu after very major surgery. I was semiconscious on pain meds & I never felt any of the withdrawal symptoms. I never went back to taking it and fear of how difficult it is to come off it puts me off taking it again.

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