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mattgooch — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:49:55 +0000

Maybe one day…

mattgooch — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:43:29 +0000

“Prince Charles employs 133 staff to look after him and Camilla, more than 60 of them domestics: chefs, cooks, footmen, housemaids, gardeners, chauffeurs, cleaners, and his three personal valets—gentleman’s gentlemen—whose sole responsibility is the care of their royal master’s extensive wardrobe and choosing what he is to wear on any particular day. A serving soldier polishes the prince’s boots and shoes every day—he has 50 handmade pairs each costing over £800 by Lobb of St James’s—and a housemaid washes his underwear as soon as it is discarded. Nothing Charles or Camilla wears is ever allowed near a washing machine. Particular attention is paid to handkerchiefs, which are monogrammed and again all hand-washed, as it was found that when they were sent to a laundry, some would go missing—as souvenirs. HRH’s suits, of which he has 60, cost more than £3,000 each, and his shirts, all handmade, cost £350 a time (he has more than 200), while his collar stiffeners are solid gold or silver. Charles’s valets also iron the laces of his shoes whenever they are taken off.”

mattgooch — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:03:55 +0000

mattgooch — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:02:44 +0000

I love a well ironed shirt.

mattgooch — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:57:59 +0000

mattgooch — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:32:58 +0000

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.”

Ernest Hemingway

Bedbugs

mattgooch — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:42:49 +0000

I hate bedbugs…But when you work in Pest Control and you need bedbugs for a project you naturally ask around for some live bedbugs and feed them right?

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mattgooch — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:27:14 +0000

1 of 2

mattgooch — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:18:28 +0000

Looking forward to reading this badboy. Another on the way thats also field sports related.

Moo!

mattgooch — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:08:47 +0000

Spent the day with @missbreeze, taught her air rifles, got licked by a cow and toasted bread on an open fire.