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6 x 4cm thick Sirloins Sous Viding before they hit the BBQ for searing later on today.......

Meringues - off to the oven....

Looked at the vid yesterday - will make soon

@ShopatIronHeart

(Would a Type I do)?

Independent

@Brock said in What's your favorite Beer?:

When in Iceland…

Wear an epic sweater….

And if you look in the Japan visits thread in Trips and Travel, there will plenty of photos of visits to mills….

You can plan for the things you can plan for, but you cant plan for stuff you cant imagine happening. A whole batch of jeans gets ruined in the OD process, the wrong patch gets sewn onto a production run of jeans (lost in translation moment), the stitching on a quilted jacket needs to be completely redone, we try and set up a shirt production factory to get more control, and the first 2 shirts we make are so bad we have to do a recall and give up getting into production, a whole production run of jeans shrinks way more that we predicted, so they look nothing like the model they should have.....It's the gotchas that get you.......

Perhaps the thing that winds me up the most running this business (when I did, but it still winds me up now), is that we do our utmost to keep our customer base informed, we are extremely transparent and honest, and when we fuck up, we don't hide, we publicly admit it. But it still is not enough for some people.

Kuroki makes the 21oz. We have 6 dedicated looms, but getting more (and we desperately need more) has been comprehensively buggered by Levis realising that Japanese denim is actually rather good, so they are monopolising the Kuroki looms, oh and by the way, offshoring to Turkey, Mexico etc etc a few decades ago meant that Cone went tits up, so they cant buy decent denim in the US now. The sense of irony can not be over emphasised, and it is really hurting us.

The UHR was made in a mom and pop house factory, but the mom died earlier this year, so the future of UHR may be no future.

Various other mills make the other denims, but I tend not to be that bothered where the stuff is made as long as Haraki likes it, that's good enough for me

U Turn.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/czekr6kn58po

What are these?

@fatmike71 said in IHSH-227-IND - 12oz Wabash CPO Shirt - Indigo:

Is this one going to be August for sure ?

Nothing is for sure. We publish our best guesstimates. A million unknowns challenge surety.....

"Infantino probably now plotting a ‘FIFA Piece of the Action Prize’ for Trump" . - Random guy on FB

Worth listening to......

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dfg2tx/episodes/player

Brown bag obviously not large enough......

Blimey.....

Gary in 2016......

@goosehd said in WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY - WAYDT (PICS):

No luck…flying

So must be one of your newer vessels.....