Tuesday, I believe it is…
Yet it feels like Thursday, or even a day with no name at all, before anyone thought to name a day; as if any day is like any other in any way. They should have remained un-named; each unique as its own; like the passing flashes of light you see off a chromed, 50s side mirror while barrelling along a straight-as-an-arrow highway through an open plain and then winding up through the formations and mesas and rocks to climb to the pine-wooded hills and then rugged mountain side (where the dew falls from the sky like a misty cloud of nice)…
I was reading about the Burrell razor on another thread which showed a photo suggesting they were Army issue. I think they match that idea very well.
I also think today's 1940’s celluloid and brass cufflinks match the cufflinks and era. These cufflinks are odd, really. Very cheaply made, they are hollow; very light, with very thin brass. They have pictures of a beagle painted on them, or stamped. There’s whole sets of these out there; some just slightly different in design, all picturing dogs. I’ve got three or four. I think they polish up nicely, and are a little quirky and different; these I wore with a Cambridge blue 2 ply Egyptian cotton shirt made in India (the Indians make nice shirts).
I carried a Swan fountain pen that was made in England in the 50’s. It has a flexible 14ct nib that makes taking 30 seconds to scrawl one’s signature on a form a logical action.
It was threatening to rain (misty, really), which annoyed me, as I didn’t actually have the occasion to carry my black umbrella.
Coffee, being created by combining Ethiopian beans ground in a vintage grinder this morning with hot water, a plunger and a fine bone china teacup and saucer featuring bluebells, placated.
Oh, I shaved today. It was nice.
Razor: Burrell Top Flight Pre Shave: Proraso Cream: La Toja ASB: None After Shave: Dominica Bay Rum Cufflinks of the Day : 1940’s Brass and printed celluloid, Beagle portrait
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