perhaps i should have called this post ever decreasing circles. or circular(ish) shapes, look you see. it would be reasonably, by my standards, more ("less fewer") accurate. however, to do so would simply serve to attract he rather fanatical Richard Briers fan base to this blog. i have no quarrel with them and very much wish to retain that status. quite demented and brutal, they can get. the title chosen just kind of popped in there, and stuck.
maintaining my apparent determination to place here the mundane and bland, then, is the news that i have purchased a couple of new belts. two, to be precise. so not just one, and not as many as three (3). appreciating that my current plight is an issue or problem is one many would wish to have i do seem to have a need for new belts more frequently than i ever dared dream possible. this comes from my reasonably well documented (across this blog) heath issues; a consequence of which has been rather rapid and certainly dramatic weight loss.
despite such being an aspect of the English way of doing things i am bereft of any desire to wander around this world with a significant amount of my posterior, or backside (basically my @r$e) exposed to all and sundry. for some reason exposing such a (relatively) private part of the body is the done thing, with trousers being tailored with a precise "dip" at the back to enable such. maybe due to the somewhat international nature of my existence i really don't like doing this, so prefer a sturdy belt so as to avoid such displays.
up to now, with a sense of economy and a proclivity to avoid waste, i have been getting a good friend who(m) is good at such things to drill holes (so to speak) in my existing belt collection. also William, one of my (known) children, added some to one. this tends to weaken the integrity of them, though, so every now and then i will purchase new, ever smaller ("fewer") size ones, so as to maintain a fairly consistent level of not revealing aspects of my anatomy which most would (surely) agree are best kept private.
that said, no, on the instance of procuring (buying) these two (2) new belts it wasn't that i specifically set out to make such an acquisition. i was wandering around, mindful of how frequently i needed to pull up my trousers with the incumbent belt being a little loose, when i saw these on sale in the one shop. the pattern on one of them looked kind of cool, and so i went and gone done a transaction.
what, exactly, can i write about belts? assuming (of course) that the primary purpose of this post is to do so, and not merely (or consequentially) brag about of flash and vogue i am buying things? not a lot, really. for the benefit of anyone who(m) has not heard it there is, of course, the "classic" belt joke. i am not sure it shall work in a written form, for it is best done verbally, but here goes - what did the 0 (zero, or nought) say to the 8 (eight)? nice belt.
one fond (and on topic) memory i hope to forever retain comes from a family shopping trip. we were all at one of them department store things. i think i was looking at jeans or similar, when i was vaguely made aware of a shop assistant approaching someone behind me, speaking the words "can i help you sir". not long after this i heard Dad, in his distinctive voice, responding with the words "what can you tell me that i don't know about a belt". the shop assistant departed.
for clarification, no, i am (certainly) not on them yuppie "weight loss" jabs. the weight is going away via a mixture of a (radically) changed diet and the medication i am on. at times this does get scary, especially when i look at pictures (selfies) from just a couple of years ago. really does feel like i am in danger of fading away, which (i appreciate) some out in the world would not consider bad.
i am going to skip the usual linking to tales of my medical plight, for i would assume (or take as a given) that you are capable of searching this blog for such if interested. that said, for the more sartorial elements of this, here you go with a link to my sensational cowboy look, and an incident with another belt that did not go well.
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