It's odd that the people of Peterborough would be happy to elect

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Originally Posted by Peter

I'm sure we've all tried a linen suit at some point in our lives. Only once though.....

I go to Peterborough fairly regularly. THe first time I went I didnt think it could get any worse but it most certainly has.

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Yes. This one was cheap, though (although it didn't seem so at the time given my age and relative impecuniousness), so I thought I looked the dog's nads for the first couple of wears, but after that - no matter how often it was pressed - I looked like I'd fashioned a suit out of potato sacking. :-(

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Originally Posted by Burney

Home of EMAP and the Posh?

No, it is pretty terrible. I once got talked into buying a very, very ill-advised baggy linen suit in Peterborough. :-(

In my defence, it was the mid-90s, but even so.

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John built me a linen suit. Linen and mohair, actually. The look I asked for was 'ageing páedophile at the bar of the FCC in Phnom Penh waiting to bugger a small child in an opium den'. He achieved this perfectly.

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Originally Posted by Peter

Not really, no. Your approach leaves you stranded in Peterborough. Why would anyone do that voluntarily....?

Particularly a gentleman of your disposition....

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To be fair, there aren't many good options on that bit of the A1. Stamford? Grantham? God help us Newark? Peterborough is very much the best of a bad bunch.

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Originally Posted by Peter

Not really, no. Your approach leaves you stranded in Peterborough. Why would anyone do that voluntarily....?

Particularly a gentleman of your disposition....

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I'm not stranded in Peterborough, am I? I'm going to eat Indian food and drink several alcoholic beverages, then sleep the sleep of the just until, awoken by the sunrise, I continue my journey refreshed and rested.

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Originally Posted by Sir C

John built me a linen suit. Linen and mohair, actually. The look I asked for was 'ageing páedophile at the bar of the FCC in Phnom Penh waiting to bugger a small child in an opium den'. He achieved this perfectly.

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To be fair, he didn't really need to make you a suit in order to achieve that look.

:cooper: :tapin:

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Originally Posted by Burney

To be fair, he didn't really need to make you a suit in order to achieve that look.

:cooper: :tapin:

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He just showed the tailor a picture of you in your linen suit and jobs a good un