Thread: Sun August 5th - Sat August 11th

Prep: Hot shower
Brush: Martinez' custom: Chess King brush w/ 26mm silver tip badger
Soap: Truefitt & Hill: Luxury Shaving Soap
Strop: Tony Miller Heirloom tri-strop (3x25)
Razor: Otto Busch razor
ASB: Caswell-Massey Number Six

Comfortable and smooth. Too bad that the Number Six Aftershave Balm is discontinued from production.

Originally Posted by Mikael

...and this is where we've been the last couple of weeks...

Looks lovely. I love the fence, is that an apple tree just beyond it? That's how I've pruned my four apple trees, in a chalice shape. It lets the air and light in. I've used no chemicals at all on my garden for over fourteen years, NO chemicals at all, and only cow manure gathered from the paddock over the back fence for manure, and manure from my own chickens. Organic manure is best. Have I said the word 'manure' too much? Why am I telling you this?

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Looks lovely. I love the fence, is that an apple tree just beyond it? That's how I've pruned my four apple trees, in a chalice shape. It lets the air and light in. I've used no chemicals at all on my garden for over fourteen years, NO chemicals at all, and only cow manure gathered from the paddock over the back fence for manure, and manure from my own chickens. Organic manure is best. Have I said the word 'manure' too much? Why am I telling you this?

Sounds like a bunch of Crap to me....

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Looks lovely. I love the fence, is that an apple tree just beyond it? That's how I've pruned my four apple trees, in a chalice shape. It lets the air and light in. I've used no chemicals at all on my garden for over fourteen years, NO chemicals at all, and only cow manure gathered from the paddock over the back fence for manure, and manure from my own chickens. Organic manure is best. Have I said the word 'manure' too much? Why am I telling you this?

Cheers! It's a blast (if it wasn't for our lost cat right now, I'm staying behnd for a day or two more - putting up posters today). No, it's a small pear tree (I _think_)... You Amish people have the best crops, man, I wish I could eat only Amish food. But you guys are alowd to use 386 XD computers nowadays, right!?

A thoroughly French Affair


TI | Chubby 2 | Cade Über | Sabon | D'Orsay Arome 3

Thursday

I think yesterday I said yesterday was Thursday, which it wasn’t. At least not the Thursday that today is. It may have been AN Thursday, but not THIS Thursday. Just thought I’d clear that up…

The shave on THIS Thursday was with the DE. I gave a razor away to my brother last week and so now have two ‘gap days’. I COULD have used the Klas Törnblom , or indeed any of my other three that have been used recently, but went with this. I’m glad I did, it was a nice shave, but the Dorko blade (that had been used once months ago) was a little harsher than the Astra blades I favour. I also like Gillette 7 o’clock.

The Faulding ‘Shave’ cream (I think it goes for about two bucks) lathered really well and is excellent, I believe, for a DE shave. I believe a DE shave requires lather with different attributes compared to a straight shave. I believe the lather should be weighted towards slickness and less towards glide. But that’s just my opinion, of course.

Cufflinks of the day were my father's (50's), metal, spring loaded. I chose these for a quick change time in the changing room at work at lunch time, for the gym. 8 exercises, supersetted with legs, a minute between sets (timed), 40 minutes and I'm out of there, a (literally) < a minute shower, deodorant, Pinaud Clubman, back to work all in 59 minutes today. Gets the blood pumping.

Razor: Mühle R 89 | Cream: Faulding ‘Shave’ | After Shave: Floïd

Originally Posted by LegalBeagle

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Oh that's cool.

Originally Posted by Mikael

Cheers! It's a blast (if it wasn't for our lost cat right now, I'm staying behnd for a day or two more - putting up posters today). No, it's a small pear tree (I _think_)... You Amish people have the best crops, man, I wish I could eat only Amish food. But you guys are alowd to use 386 XD computers nowadays, right!?

Yeah, probably. My second computer was a 486DX66, 4 MB of RAM I think. DOS and Windows 3.1. How I loved to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat files...

I've just got to go and weave some trousers out of hemp and dye them with nettles, be right back. Seriously, though, I could very much 'go Amish' right now...

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Oh that's cool.

Thanks, Carl. Your B&W image today is great!

Thursday
Proraso pre/ AOS Badger/ G5/ Nancy Boy Signature/ #18 Brummel/ Clubman AS/ Nivea

Have a Great Thursday Gents!

Stunning pics, all I can say is WOW!