Love the shirt, love the trousers, what could possibly go wrong?

21 oz 777s that I bought at Brund. My first IH purchase in the fall of 2020. They are great, but I wear them way too rarely. I've come to realize, that I find the tightness of the legs too restrictive. When I bought them I really liked that they stayed in place without being tight at the waist. Now I prefer pants that are loose throughout, but held up at the waist. I guess we all get older.

The shirt may be unique, but it is unlikely to be a sought after item: It is a 228 BLK, bought from the outlet at IHUK. It was my second IH item. I had the original diamond shaped snaps swapped for round ones, to make it look less like I was on my way to the rodeo. Great shirt, I probably should have bought a size smaller.

The combination is really as unflattering as possible given my body shape. I'm top heavy, and wearing tight jeans and a loose shirt really underlines that

Oh, and the photo is obviously horrible. Nothing to do about that

IH 726 (olive). Best shorts ever made. I need to have them repaired for the third time, and I fear they may not survive another season.

So if anyone has enough dirt on Alex or Haraki to make them put them back in production I’m buying.

The shirt is the Brund one. Nice shirt, but to be honest I prefer the 9 oz flannels.

I’m very happy with it. Sorry about the picture, I don’t do that many selfies.

I had to do the minutes from a meeting at my daughter's school. But I found a decent place to do it.

Some heavy gardening done (laying stones for a place to have fire, cutting down trees) - so now it’s a race: Will I finish that beer before the rain starts?

My first car was one of those:

Fiat 127, 1980 model.

It was an absolutely wonderful car, and it had quite a funny story:

My grandfather bought it new I 1980 - the first brand new car he ever bought.

Later the same year he suffered a stroke, which left him unable to drive. My grandmother kept the car, but she basically hated driving, so she never drove it in winther. Yet she was also keen on maintenance, so she dutifully had it serviced yearly, and rust protected every second year. She also kept it in an open but completely dry carport.

So in January 1998 I got a job where I needed a car for the commute - I was living with my parents (having returned from London, and waiting to start university in the summer). My father had become convinced that it was better for road safety that his mother stopped driving, so he asked her if he could borrow the car, and let me use it, until spring. She never drove during winter, so he was sure she'd accept.

I started driving it, and as my father har foreseen his mother didn't really want the car back. So after a couple of months I bought it of her for 1 Danish kroner. At that time its condition was pristine, and it had run a grand 36 K kilometers.

I owned it all though university, watched it crumble with rust, had the battery die, laughed when my girlfriend called her dad to come rescue her when she drowned it, and learned that it could hold 4 people and 16 crates of beer, if packed correctly. I also learned that leather is a lot better than nylon when you need to tie the exhaust pipe to the bumper, that it gets really fucking cold in a car when the heater dosen't work and its freezing outside, and that you will fill the carburetor with debris when you run out of fuel due to the fuel gauge being broken.

I also learned that when you own a car like that you can get away with murder if you smile and wave at people - I rarely drove an hour on the motorway without someone overtaking me and just breaking out in a huge smile.

In 2006 I moved to Copenhagen, and didn't have a place to park it. Apart from all the broken stuff it was rusted through, and would need serious plate work - which would be way too expensive. So it went to the scrapyard - after a long life in the service of our family. Would love to get my hands on one someday again.

Major disclaimer- I work in Copenhagen, and in a completely different field, but that said I agree with goosehd and Tago-Mago on the definition. And leather shoes, chinos (including IH), dress shirt (tucked in) and a sports coat has been my work uniform since 2020.

I’ve also done a fair bit of recruiting , and based on that I have som observations. They’re completely subjective though:

• It’s better to be slightly overdressed for an interview than slightly underdressed.
• don’t dress like you’re going to a party - or a funeral.
• wear something that you’re comfortable enough to actually work in - if your best shirt I too tight, wear your second best.
• if you’re wearing something that you’re not familiar with make sure you know how it works. It sounds basic, but it’s not: if you never wear a sports coat, you may forget that it should always be unbuttoned when you sit down, and generally buttoned when you stand (but always leave the lowest button open). Practice before the interview.
• get a haircut, trim the beard etc., but stick to your normal routines as much as possible. Don’t put extra gel in your hair, overspray with cologne or something like that. You’re not going clubbing.
• decide what your bringing and putting on the table (a print of your application, a sheet of notes, two pens) and keep organized - get your stuff out of your bag, put it in the table and put the bag away. You can carry all sorts of extra material in the bag, but don’t get it out unless it makes sense during the interview.
• try to remember people’s names, but don’t go out of your way to show that you do - focus on convincing the interviewers of your skills.

So I managed to restrain myself. The Moki is great, but I don’t spend enough time camping or hiking to justify getting it. My trusty Fällkniven will have to do:

So instead of buying a knife I’ll end up regretting not using enough I’ll be looking for a slicer/sujihiki to supplement these:

My moules frites station for tonight. The weather wasn’t great so we ate inside, but it’s always nice to use the fryer outdoors.

Tanks a lot - I really appreciate it!

I think I’d prefer wearing it like that - which again might mean that I should be looking at shoulder bags instead.

At the very least I think I’ll need to try before buying.

Once again, thanks for taking the picture.

@Oaktavia

I’ve never felt that way with my clothes - I’m in the goose camp, and just really enjoy well made clothing. I’m also really happy with clothes that can be repaired, and I’m really glad that I’ve gotten rid of the notion that “presentable” clothes were also clothes showing very little sign of wear. Which was pretty much the way of the eighties and early nineties, when I grew up.

But I can relate to your stress - I have a decent wine collection. And though I’ve pretty much stopped adding to it (apart from one yearly addition of Falkenstein), there was a point when my search for the right bottles at the right price, combined with my focus on cooking food that would pair well with what I had in the cellar, became a straight jacket, rather than a joy.

I still enjoy wine, but I’m telling myself that whenever I take a nice mature bottle out of the cellar I’m enjoying the fruit of my labor - instead of fretting about how to replace it.

Thanks a lot - especially since I hadn’t realized how old your post were

@Cole Looks great! I especially like seeing you wearing it on your back (I personally wouldn’t wear it on the front, so good to see it looking good on the back).

One question though: can it be worn lower? I realize that these bags are generally worn high, but I think I’d prefer it riding lower.

Smoking cheese is great - I’ve done that a lot.

I think my absolute favorite is havarti - a full fat, very mild danish cheese. If taken straight from the oven is very soft on the inside, and the fat really retains the smoke flavor.

Cheddar is another favorite, though it can go a bit dry.

And another benefit of smoking cheese is that it “kills” them, and stop them from maturing further. So if you have a Brie or similar that’s is on the verge of getting too intense it can be “stabilized“ by smoking.

Oh, nothing went wrong with the cauliflower, it came out just fine. I was following a recipe from Genevieve Taylor, and it was pretty great.

My complaint about the process being labor intensive is basically about me not using the right tools for the job:

I have a dedicated smoke oven:

An oven like that uses sawdust rather than wood chips, so that’s what I have a hand.

But whereas wood chips can just be thrown on the coals in the Weber that doesn’t work with the sawdust. Now I believe Weber sells something called a “smoke box” that could be used, but I don’t have one of those either.

So I used an old Weber device for cold smoking in a kettle grill:

It’s the spiral thing in the middle. It worked, but at first didn’t burn quickly enough (it is supposed to burn slow) so I had to fiddle with putting coal on it to increase the smoke output.

So basically - it works, but if you’re cooking something in a kettle grill and want smoke flavor, consider using wood chips

Smoking vegetables - in general my experience is limited, and the challenge is go get smoke flavor in them while avoiding drying them out. With the cauliflower blanching it (or steaming) for a few minutes and then putting olive oil on it before smoking it worked terrifically. Other good vegetable candidates for smoking is aubergines (for baba ganoush) and my favorite, potatoes, which hold the smoke taste very well.

Aubergines I would cook in a kettle grill, while I would put cooked potatoes in the smoke oven (hot or cold).

@Rustygate37: Yes, it’s an old school Weber. It’s a 47cm gold or something, we got it as a wedding present in 2008.

It sees too little use. I have a dedicated smoke oven, that can cold and hot smoke, and a 12 year old Weber 3200, that is a really good grill. Between those the charcoal one doesn’t get much use, but it excels when I want both smoke and heat. As with the cauliflower.

@EdH: I don’t know if it could work for you, but back in 18 there was a heat wave in Denmark. My wife bought a small air condition unit - really simple, about the size of a big suitcase. You need to put a wide hose from it out of the window, and it’s far from silent, but it can get one room down to tolerable temperatures. It’s been a blessing these last days (though we haven’t been hit as hard as the Germans and the French, but our houses are like yours, built to retain heat).

Cauliflower being grilled/smoked. Ended up tasting good, but I think I can make the process less labor intensive.