So, who wants to help... to perpetuate the cellar?

Not The Archers
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< sigh >

< sighs again >
< begins whistling Abide With Me, off key >

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5790

Sighing is not an explanation!

Please explain!

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5791

It will come as no surprise to you that ‘our’ nuns down the road wear veils when out.
The habits are shorter these days, so there’s an interesting selection of ’ comfortable’ footwear


Mr C never really recovered from seeing a nun ‘manning’ the Tombola at a Christmas Fair


Twellsy, be prepared for things to be very different, & have at least an idea of what you are looking for.
Browsing in shops will not be easy, if indeed possible, & picking things up & putting them down again actively discouraged.
Trying things on is another problem


Carinthia.xx

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5792

Oh well, if you insist.

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It’s shite

Embarrassingly bad. Gives clichĂ© a bad name. And it’s based on drag, which is almost never funny, however some people might feel about Some Like It Hot
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5793

Personally Gus, I think you’re holding back there !

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 & Nuns, & I’ve known a few not to mention, perhaps oddly unsurprisingly, Mrs. Armrest being teached by 'em for 7 years and having few excellent things to say, but in veils ?. Never seen that. Not ever,

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That comes as a great surprise to me; really veils? As in, hiding their faces completely with slits for their eyes? Not just wimples?

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5796

The older ones did, Fishy, but that has just made me think. I am remembering from 30 years ago, so that generation has gone

Carinthia.xx

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I have heard of nuns covering their faces but never seen it. Ours had veils in the sense of covering their hair and forehead. They went to a more modern version of the veil in my day which was simpler and covered the hair but not the forehead (showed a little bit of hair at the front).

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I have been going to the same Church for 51 years .The Convent, attached, but down the road, IYSWIM is the Daughters of Divine Charity, an order associated with teaching.

The Habit /Veil/Wimple have been much simplified & modernised over the years, & as I say only a few of the really old ones, over 30 years ago , wore the full ‘veiled penguin’ .

Not sure about CofE nuns, except that they can’t half eat


Carinthia.xx

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That’s my position: I remember them from some time ago (and the shock, in Assisi in 1976, of seeing nuns in skirts just below the knee, nylon stockings and shoes with heels, waiting to go and visit the tomb of St Clare) but haven’t seen any for many years.

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‘A farewell sniff of benzedrine to the convent budgerigar’ is definitely one of my favourite lyric lines ever

https://m.youtube.com/watchv=fe-bkraazgc

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When Mr C & I went 20 years later, they had gone back to the floor-sweeping versions with long pockets

There’s got to be a book in there, somewhere


Carinthia.xx

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It says page not available Gus

Carinthia.xx

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5803

That has to be Jake Thackray: Sister Josephine.

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My experience of nuns is that they drive in one of two ways: either God will protect them from all harm, or the Devil is lurking round every corner.

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Sorry, Carinthia. And thank you, Fishy.

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That version has ‘a goodbye whiff’; I know I have heard the other too, though.

Strewth, unbenzedrined budgies are bad enough


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Lamb’s liver with mushrooms, bacon & eggs here this evening.

Bluddy Lovely

Carinthia.xx

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5808

Ooh, yum!

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