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Nico ([personal profile] vilakins) wrote2005-09-24 10:34 pm
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Slip the surly bonds of earth

I took my friend Nancie to the market today (the only kind of shopping I like) and I bought a leather flat cap (I love flat caps and my sister borrowed my last one and lost it at a rock concert) -- and a pilot's hat! Soft leather lined with sheepskin! I've always wanted one and as soon as I put it on, Nancie said, "It's you! It matches your personality." And when I got it home and showed Greg, he totally agreed. Best buy in ages. :-D

Just need a flight jacket to go with it.

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[personal profile] trixieleitz 2005-09-24 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
It's great when that turns up - the perfect find, the item you know you were just meant to have :)

And I love that poem, too. "...the tumbling mirth/Of sun-split clouds..."

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2005-09-24 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I was going to post that in the poem meme but I thought it might be too well-known. I love it.

[identity profile] snowgrouse.livejournal.com 2005-09-24 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Biggles!Nico!:) Yay!

There was a gorgeous pilot's hat in the antiques shop downstairs but IT DIDN'T FIT ME. Neither did the flat cap next to it and I nearly cried. Perhaps having a big head prevents me from doing stupid impulse shopping, hm...:P

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2005-09-24 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I bought a large in the flat cap; luckily the only pilot's one there fit me. They went up to XL and XXL though. They're both beautiful soft leather--the cap is deerskin (venison is popular here) and I'm not sure about the pilot's one, but it's darker and more mottled.

If we go to Germany this year (and it looks like next month and again before Christmas) then I'm taking it in case it's really cold. I can wear it round the Christkindmaerkte! [bounce]

[identity profile] snowgrouse.livejournal.com 2005-09-25 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
Next month? Eeep! I should really make a route through Germany then before I leave back for Finland:D....

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2005-09-25 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know any dates but I hope Greg gets enough notice for me to get out of my contract and also let people know we're coming. Because we're going to the UK too. Portmeirion, Manchester, York, maybe Edinburgh...

[identity profile] snowgrouse.livejournal.com 2005-09-25 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
EEEEEEEEEEE! Will DEFINITELY have to meet up with you two then:). Maybe I could even drag Frank along, seeing as he's a huge Prisoner and B7 fan....

[identity profile] jhall1.livejournal.com 2005-09-24 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Just need a flight jacket to go with it.

And an aeroplane. :)

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2005-09-24 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I've always wanted one of those. I've settled for models.

They called me Spitfire at primary school because of my favourite one, and it was years before I found out there was another meaning.
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[personal profile] kerravonsen 2005-09-24 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yes, markets are fun!

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2005-09-25 09:06 am (UTC)(link)
I love markets. Shops: [shrug] eh, I'd rather buy mail order.
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[identity profile] lizamanynames.livejournal.com 2005-09-25 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
See, and now I have the Firefly theme going through my head: "Take me out, to the black, tell them I ain't comin back..."

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2005-09-25 09:04 am (UTC)(link)
I'll just wait for the mother ship to come and take me home. :-P
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[identity profile] lizamanynames.livejournal.com 2005-09-25 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, that works too. :D
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[identity profile] kalypso-v.livejournal.com 2005-09-26 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hopefully] Pic of pilot hat?

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2005-09-26 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe tonight when I get home. It's very plain: no goggles or anything. :-P

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2005-09-27 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
OK, here you are. :-)

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[identity profile] kalypso-v.livejournal.com 2005-09-27 10:11 am (UTC)(link)
Hurrah!
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