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Post by WDB on Nov 11, 2020 18:21:37 GMT
You wandered into the thread about ageing to ask about something you couldn’t remember...?
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Post by Humph on Nov 11, 2020 18:23:03 GMT
I wondered if anyone would make the connection. Gold star !
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Post by Alanović on Nov 12, 2020 9:06:58 GMT
Fear not, it arrived, it is of decent quality, fits well and is used most days walking the dog now. Goes well with my wide brim Australian bush hat when it's raining.
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Post by tyrednexited on Nov 12, 2020 9:13:44 GMT
....well; at least the evenings are now dark enough.....
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Post by Alanović on Nov 12, 2020 9:20:59 GMT
Good point, I'll stick my hi viz vest over it.
3...2...1...thud. *Smelling salts for Humph*
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Post by Humph on Nov 12, 2020 10:33:16 GMT
One of my Barbour jackets is at least 30 years old and still going strong. It has long since lost any wax dressing and is now just tatty brown canvas with a faded leather collar. My wife loathes it and has often threatened to throw it out, but I think she realises that would be a seriously bad move. It's my go to jacket for most non work purposes and while it has the patina of many years use, and, frankly, whiffs a bit, it will probably outlast me. It has always been a bit too big for me, but I like that because I can get a thick jumper under it in the winter. It could get it cleaned or re-proofed I suppose, but I kind of like it as it is. It has the useful effect of causing strangers, or most people actually, to keep their distance, so that works very well for me !
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Post by bromptonaut on Nov 12, 2020 11:54:42 GMT
One of my Barbour jackets is at least 30 years old and still going strong. Rohan sent me a new catalogue last week. One page is a spoof recall for 1980s Bags in which the washcare label has faded.....
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Post by tyrednexited on Nov 12, 2020 14:30:34 GMT
Good point, I'll stick my hi viz vest over it. 3...2...1...thud. *Smelling salts for Humph* If you don't want to shock him, do what he would and get the dog one of these instead: www.swillingtonshootingsupplies.co.uk/store/product/20200/Barbour-Hi-Vis-Dog-Jacket/(You can afford it on what you've saved on yours) It would compliment the bush hat, though why the dog "goes well" whilst wearing one defeats me (though it looks happy enough!).
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Post by Alanović on Nov 12, 2020 14:50:49 GMT
The dog's already got a comedy hi viz jacket, which I don't usually put on the poor thing. I might though now for walks in the dark, there's no pavement in my road and it's jolly dark because we've now got stupid LED street lights and lots of trees, which hide them even when bare.
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Post by Humph on Nov 12, 2020 15:30:52 GMT
I'd never put a coat on a dog. Totally unnecessary. Ever seen a wolf with a coat on?
Re street lights, yes, we had our nice old yellow tinted ones changed for white LEDs a few years back. I do get it, saving polar bears and so on, but the light is so dim and cold looking now.
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Post by Alanović on Nov 12, 2020 15:54:32 GMT
Unnecessary, apart from the trying-not-to-be-run-over-by-traffic bit when it's dark in my case, perhaps.
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Post by tyrednexited on Nov 12, 2020 16:01:32 GMT
I'd never put a coat on a dog. ....but but but, it's a Barbour. Doesn't your mutt feel stylistically challenged when it's out with you? Those little pleading eyes saying "my life will only be complete if I too have a 30 yr old Barbour to wear!". (Though come to think of it, unless you've got one for it to inherit, its life will be complete before.........)
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Post by Alanović on Nov 12, 2020 16:06:06 GMT
My dog's hi viz jacket is not a Barbour. I'm not that daft.
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Post by WDB on Nov 12, 2020 16:16:48 GMT
A wolf is much bigger than a Jack Russell, so although the small dog has similar physiology, its surface area — and hence its rate of heat loss — is much greater relative to its volume. (Extreme example is the pygmy shrew, a 5-gram insectivore that, in winter, requires more than its own weight in food every day just to stay alive.)
So, while a coat may look silly on a dog, I can see how it might be of value in very low temperatures.
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Post by Humph on Nov 12, 2020 16:46:44 GMT
Never seen a Pygmy Shrew in a wax jacket either. Or a baby wolf. And what about Huskies eh eh? Don't see them with coats on do you? 😉
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