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Things to do before you die/before 2011 (whichever comes first)… the Smoking Monkey’s list

Monday, January 4th, 2010
Thanks for all the fish!

This is a lazy topic, but as you don’t pay anything to read this I don’t think you have too much of a right to complain.

Anyway, in light of my earlier post about fulfilling my wish of getting a bespoke suit online (for about the price of a 2 piece glued together combo from TopMan), I thought I would share other deep-seated ambitions with you. Because that’s the caring sharing guy I am. I am going to bore the living snot out of you by imparting little snippets of aspiration. I should start charging for this you know.

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Suits You Sir: The Preliminary Verdict!

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Squirrels and Badgers… Gather round one and all while I end the suspense.

For it has arrived!

Yes, Father Christmas has delivered my present one day early thanks to the Teutonic efficiency of DHL, and I have my suit.

I will update this post more at a later date, but as I’ve left ebay feedback referring people to this site for a full review I though I should at least give a preliminary assessment. In due course, there will be photos and more info. You’ll have to wait though, as I have a few more pressing things to sort out.

But I digress. The jury is back, and the foreman is asked for the virdict:

The suit is an absolute winner.

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Suits You Sir: Drawing to a thrilling climax!

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

Dear all,

For a little while now, I have been awaiting delivery of my bespoke suit from those lovely people at bespokeway. Indeed one of you charming individuals has found the site presumably by doing a google search for that company, to see if they are actually any good.

I feel like I’m on Watchdog or something, giving consumer advice about dodgy kettles.

Anyway, the latest info I have is that my suit is in the country. More accurately, it’s at a DHL depot near Manchester and would be with me now had Jack Frost not monumentally spaffed over the road network.

I got a nice-ish email updating me about this on Monday (when the shipping log actually shows it arrived at UK customs):

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Suits You Sir! An Update

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
SmokingMonkeys.co.uk

Time for a quik suit update. I’m sure you’re dying to know the latest, and it’s a quick way of doing a post to remind you all I’m not dead.

So after the lengthy ordering process, and the even more lengthy measurement debacle, I sent a stack of messages to the lovely people at bespokeway asking them to provide an updated ebay invoice for my optional extras.

And I waited.

And I sent 3 messages on ebay and another 2 emails.

Anyway, baring in mind that there’s a 4-5 week delivery time, and this is my Christmas present, I was obviously keen to get the ball rolling and the cloth a cutting! 5 days later though, I got a lovely email as follows:

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Oh! Suits You Sir: Genesis

Sunday, November 15th, 2009
SmokingMonkeys.co.uk

Much grovelling and apologies for the delay in writing anything for almost a month. Due to assorted issues, problems, and pains in the arse, I’ve been unable to get my brain into blogging mode. As always I beg your forgiveness, and hope not to leave you bereft of my thoughts for so long again.

The good news is that I have a few embryonic post ideas, so when things are a little more settled I’ll be bombarding you with tirades of random crap like a chimp flinging shit in the zoo.

For today though, I thought I would set out the grounding for a future post. I have found, courtesy of ebay, what claims to be a ridiculously cheap website for the sale of besoke suits. I make it clear, this is not an endorsement or a criticism yet. Only time will tell which way the wind will blow, and I am hoping that given the high turnover of readers of this site I could be the making or breaking of this particular site.

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