Oh Shite

[liadnan]

I had reached my grand old age with nary a one Comedy Non-Fast Coloured Thing In The Whites Washing Mishap. No longer. I wonder if the judge will be amused when I stand up wearing vaguely baby-blue collar and bands tomorrow.

It wasn't even something that gets washed, it was the rag my fountain pen has been wiped on after re-filling for several years...

Arse.

Comments

[deililly.livejournal.com]

S'ok. If you think you can't get away with it just nip down the supermarket for one of these puppies http://www.dylon.co.uk/household/FabrCare/Colorun.htm to make things all better.

[liadnan]

I may well give it a go ta.

[lizw.livejournal.com]

I was going to recommend the same thing - I've got ink out with that stuff before. Meanwhile, if you haven't already dried the collar and bands, don't. If the run remover doesn't work, you could also risk old-fashioned bleach, since the items are (originally) white.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

You could tell him you were demostrating lukewarm support for the Govan Gobshites, AKA Rangers FC.

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

Or, indeed, Man City.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I sense a sponsorship deal in the offing.

[cybik.livejournal.com]

I've managed, for most of my life, to avoid doing that by not owning any white clothes and therefore never needing to do a white wash. Unfortunately I now have a white shirt (for the odd day at work when I'm told to look "neat") so I suspect comedy colour changing may happen.

[liadnan]

Apart from a couple of spare sheets, about which I don't really care, all my white stuff is office wear: for various reasons if I'm wearing a suit at all I only wear white shirts.

[ksta.livejournal.com]

I used a dyson colour run remover the one time that happened, it worked a treat.
It's a powder sachet., not a hoover, clearly.

[liadnan]

Do you think hoovering might help too?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I want to see you in court the day after you wash your wig with the new red bath towels.

[liadnan]

Tempting. But wigs are supposed to get yellower and smellier as you get more senior,

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Which presumably is why the Lord Chancellor has a nest of badgers in his

[liadnan]

Oh no, that's Charlie's own hair...

Actually, those things weigh a ton. And my short wig is bad enough for giving me a headache, so Lord alone knows what wearing a full-bottomed jobbie for hours on end must do (presumably why the judges don't use them in court except for full formal occasions).

For the record I'd happily lose the wig, though I have a mild fondness for gown and bands. But if this new idea of putting us all in velcro fastened capes comes in all bets are off.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I do find it a bit odd that wigs persist. Our judges and barristers got rid of them ages ago though they still keep the robes and bands and stuff.

[liadnan]

I seem to remember that counsel who first wore them in court was considered extremely daring, and reprimanded.

We should bring back the coif. And come out of mourning for Queen Anne.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

and reinstitute "the fraunch of Stratford atte Bow"?

[liadnan]

Yep. Might as well have some fun in all the drearyness.
Mind you, try litigating in Jersey. Norman French is still where it's at there. Well, sometimes. I think it was while I was there they decided that the registration of every conveyance on the island (which is still required to be completed in open court) would henceforth be in English. (Even the Jerrais speakers don't understand it, as that has diverged so much)
A silk of my acquaintance has been known to moan that all the fun has gone out of litigation these days.

bleach

[(Anonymous)]

I'd laugh but that would be dangerous. However, try a bleach solution.