Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "V. Birchwood" channel.

  1.  @SlavaUkraini2025-n3n  I replied in full but it was deleted - Ill reply in parts see which bits you get
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  2.  @SlavaUkraini2025-n3n  wool fabric is. вълнен плат Linen fabric is ленен плат Cotton fabric is памучен плат Old fabric is стар плат this will usually take you to the fabric made in the communist period. Hand woven ръчно тъкан плат Bulgarians are GREAT hoarders - so when they are clearing out grannies house there is always a cupboard full of fabric
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  3.  @SlavaUkraini2025-n3n  - OK almost all of it - you need to search for the phrase in the next message
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  4.  @SlavaUkraini2025-n3n  "Старинен вълнен плат,платно"
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  5.  @SlavaUkraini2025-n3n  you will get to the Bulgarian v of 4m4z0n / 3b4y. There are 2.3 Bg to the £
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  6.  @SlavaUkraini2025-n3n  *******"Старинен вълнен плат,платно"******
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  7. ****"Старинен вълнен плат,платно"*****
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  8.  @SlavaUkraini2025-n3n  YEP - thats what you need to do - put that into the g00gl3 machine
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  9.  @VBirchwood  QUOTE "was socially acceptable and now it is the opposite" & " employers potentially would look down " I think you may be jumping to conclusions. Naturally, I can not speak for all employers, but I think many employers would appreciate your individualism and creativity.
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  10.  @VBirchwood  - You said you were doing an MA - so I was kinda thinking more of a professional setting. And re "many office and corporate jobs, anything deemed “distracting” is often not allowed" - it entirely depends if the company wants individuals with talent and creativity or just robots fulfilling a task. My point is, there are companies that would immediately White you if you turned up to an interview in a historical outfit cos they are looking for that type of person, someone who "thinks outside the box" and all the other cliches... I think there would be many companies where it would be welcomed. I have certainly worked for several.
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  11.  @VBirchwood  - I am impressed that you worked while studying, this does not appear to be the norm in the UK any longer. May I ask what the subject of your MA is? What career you are hoping for?
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  12.  @VBirchwood  WOW - you look about 21..!!! and an MA in Creative Writing, I'm an author now, after a lifetime in business. So I strongly approve. It does you good [even though you don't think so at the time] to come from a modest family and to have to struggle. Nothing is gained from an easy life, nothing worth having anyway. I grew up with actual holes in my shoes, going to school in a black bin liner with holes for the arms and head, we were too poor to afford coats...
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  13.  @VBirchwood  - I have been a millionaire and I have been homeless. I would argue that you can not grow in character from an easy life, I certainly learned nothing from being rich except that it's not like the movies... Anyway, I just found your channel and I have subscribed, you are charming and I am sure your outfits bring great joy to many people every day. I will say good night as It is late here in Bulgaria. Maybe talk again one day... :-D
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  14. I AM NEVER MORE relaxed than when I am pad stitching a lapel - felling down a seam... I have just finished a 3 piece men's suit [1920 pattern] and I have a kind of grief now, I'm very happy with how it turned out, but its over and my purpose is gone till I find the next inspiration.
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  15.  @VBirchwood  - OH thank you - 120 hours... I'm just piecing the last bits of fabric together to make a different style of waistcoat, which is mostly cos I am at a loss what to do with my hands LOL I know you live in the Uk - Im British so I know people are pretty reserved [grumpy] there but do you get a lot of compliments and comments when you are in public. You look FANTASTIC but I wonder how people in the UK react. I live in Bulgaria where people are way freer with their complements. I wear 1900 - 1930's every day and people tell me that I look good a lot, its just to culture here to compliment strangers.
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  16.  @VBirchwood  -OH that's nice. As I don't live there anymore my view of the Uk gets distorted by the hideous people commenting on the news feeds - I have little idea of what the UK is REALLY LIKE. Its hard to believe there are any nice people left living there if you just read the comments and watch the news...
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  17. I SLEEP DIURNALLY I wake up 10 minutes before sunrise every morning using a sunrise alarm so I watch the sun come up over the horizon every single day as I do Tai Chi on the balcony Obviously, this is a different time every day. I go to bed when I am tired, no set time. I CAN do this cos I an self-employed. What was surprising was how quickly it became totally normal - like a week. I have been living like this for about 2 years, my summer days are very long and nights short and opposite in winter - but it just seems FINE. Its almost like evolution made us to be OK with this... So my day is timed + X hours after waking up, like the old Japanese clocks. 1st dog walk +1 hour. 2nd dog walk +3 hours. Food +5 hours. Etc. Instead of at a given time. The crazy thing is - my dog KNOWS when its time for its walk, even though its walk is at a different time every day, the dog has adjusted to this as well...
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  18.  @Morphis  I dont understand your point...???
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  19.  @jujubesification  1998 - 1998 Before we discovered that the cl!t0r!s5 is a giant internal organ - 1998...!!! It was not scanned and recreated in 3D until 2005. had to code as the AI censor thinks its unacceptable - who trained the AI...??? Men. Lets be clear - Im a man, but I can see the problem.
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  20.  @Riley._.Pierce1  Im sorry my bigoted little friend - If rich white men decided that women were all people under 5 feet 7 inches then THAT is what women would be. Im deeply sorry for your ignorance and lack of education. Also what a woman is has nothing to do with biology "Woman" is a social construct.
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  21.  @36424567254  YEP - agree with every word of that. I have a thick pair of wool work trousers, they are not good quality fabric. I made them before I really knew much about fabric, but I have worn them and worn them and worn them and they are JUST marketing to wear through after 5 years. My last pair of 501's were for "best" and they lasted less than a year.
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  22. I JUST FINISHED A 3 PIECE SUIT on Friday - 120 hours, and I feel just like you - empty and almost grief-stricken LOL Every spare moment for 5 weeks and now its over.
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  23. THIS MADE ME THINK I have long covid and it sucks, but the thought of having it AND being uncomfortable all day in modern clothes OMG
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  24.  @VBirchwood  😀
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  25.  @VBirchwood  -I was meaning in the civilian population. If you look back at China in the 1970's everyone wore the same blue clothes.
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  26. I could not do that even for a week. But its not the style, its that modern clothes are SO uncomfortable
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  27.  @VBirchwood  - Im not good at it LOL. But It stops you from having to throw away good socks.
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  28.  @VBirchwood  - Yeah - mine is always post hole formation LOL
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  29.  @emilysmith2784  "Just asked my office" that was my exact point. If you work in an office your shoes will seem dirty. If you work down a mine or in an iron foundry then you are likely to see shoes as clean by comparison. But I think the "social circle's" point is a red herring as one half of my family are very wealthy farmers who own 22,000 acres of the vale of York and the other are penniless ex-miners and neither take their shoes off in the house. The only thing that unites these two halves of the family except manage is they work in dirty environments in their working day...
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  30.  @emilysmith2784  - AH sorry - I was taking a more generational view and trying to work out why some families / groups of people do this and others don't. I have actually Googled this to find an answer and I cant. Apparently in the Netherlands, they don't take their shoes off; in Australia, the kids don't wear shoes in school. And I can remember that up until my high school at 13 WE did not wear shoes in school.
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  31.  @katherinemorelle7115  - I think this is fascinating. I would LOVE to get to the bottom of why in some places its a horrific NO NO and in others its entirely normal. Certainly here in Bulgaria the norm is shoes off BEFORE you step foot in the house. In my apartment block everyone has a chair outside the door to sit on and take shoes off. Among the group of people, I knew in the UK they never took their shoes off. But they would not poot outdoor shed ON on a morning if they were not going out. It would be slippers...
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  32. I LOVE HAND SEWING I find it helps my mental health greatly, it helps my ADHD. Its too hot to be sewing where I live at the moment and I miss it greatly, I'm genuinely NOT as happy and I am more stressed...
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  33.  @VBirchwood  - I absolutely agree. Cheap prices actually help no one. They trap people in poverty, endlessly rebuying the same item over and over again. You are Russian so you will know the communist era steam irons - I have two of them. I have lived in Bulgaria 12 years and I had thrown 5 modern irons in the bin, broken and unrepairable so I bought two USSR ones - 1977 and 1983 they were made and they STILL WORK. But the expectation now is that everything is for pennies, and people expect creators and artists to somehow compete with throw away fast fashion??? I ONLY do tailoring as a hobby, I dont take paid work. I do get a LOT of requests but telling them the true price it would be usually cures the nagging LOL.
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  34. 8:12 - the spider / bug - my ex girlfriend had exactly that broach - she lost the pearl and we had to replace it...
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  35. IM GOING TO SAVE THIS for later with a cup of tea
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  36. WHAT RUSSIAN WORDS do you find so evocative you use them in English...? Here in Bulgaria, they use шматка, SHMATKA as slang for idiot and I use that. Also I like ужас UZJHAS for horrible, especially when applied to leopard print athleisure suits
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  37.  @raraavis7782  -7 outside now and there are kittns playing like its.a summers day
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  38.  @emapelikanova478  Actually now you come to mention it I want - It was my first time there and I was going on business - I was at the Skoda Hevey Engineering plant at Temelín and some other places. We had sold them video conferencing equipment and I flew out to set it up for them. I think one site was a nuclear power plant or they were building a nuclear plant? and the other I think it made engines for ships..??? I flew into Prague and they picked us up the next day and drove us to what seemed like a completely deserted office building made of concrete rooms about 3m square and 5m tall. God Id completely forgotten. It was after that I started going each year for Christmas - that was my first visit. Ive just looked it up - The Temelín nuclear power plant was constructed in 1991-2003. At two units, fitted with VVER 1000-type reactors produced by ŠKODA Yeah so we supplied the video conferencing - Zoom as we would call it today LOL - for Skoda who were building the nuclear plant.
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  39.  @Ruth-xd2xo  Yeah I agree wiht that
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  40.  @VBirchwood  - I'm sure they do. I'm sure you bring some joy into everyone's life.
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