Are you a beige dowdy?

Would you recommend Shropshire for a small break please? If so, where is nice?

It depends what you are looking for oldbatty. Church Stretton in the south would be a good base for countryside and walking in surrounding Hills. Shrewsbury is a pleasant county town on river and within reach of NT, and English Heritage places, and Ironbridge is a large WH site for those interested in Industrial Revolution history, to name a few spots. Did you mean Wrekin Katek , which is near Wellington and a little distant from Stiperstones and the Long Mynd, but yes the Stiperstones Inn still serves good meals and ale. I'm not working for the Tourist Board btw but deserve a commission!

Yomping: march with heavy equipment over difficult terrain. Royal Marine slang, I believe, and first heard during the Falklands Conflict.

Long Mynd and Stiperstones: Hills in Shropshire - quite a strenuous walk if you yomp over both in one go.

Long Mynd and Stiperstones
“Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows
What are these blue remembered hills
What spires, what farms are those?”

A E Housman, A Shropshire Lad

Much of Housman's Shropshire was from his imagination Jalima and he wasn't a Shropshire lad, but his ashes are buried in Ludlow. Back to beige. The countryside isn't beige but plenty of the folk are........run and stand behind a hedge?

What's going on here!? "Beige" appears to have morphed into" laundry washing machine instructions" (yawn) and a travelogue! Please keep focussed!
Spoke with Michelle last evening and explained I'd suffered the slings and arrows of some outraged GNetters in response to her query, but no serious wounds have been inflicted, yet! I reported that the majority verdict was anti-beige.
She thanked me for my bravery, but then said she had forgotten to mention the profusion of "head-scarves" (beige?) amongst the beige wearers.
I'm quite sure Michelle is not setting me up, we're family after all, but I'll leave that with you and take someone's earlier advice to get the hell out of here.

I haven't seen anyone wearing a head scarf for very many years - except for HM. I expect hers have horses all over them.

HM. I expect hers have horses all over them
Possibly; I remember many, many, years ago when we lived in Windsor; we'd take our Border Collie out into Windsor Great Park for a run over to Smith's Lawn where all the princes and their Spanish and S.American mates played polo
The Queen often turned up in her LandRover, always with headscarf and Wellies. That was a real thrill.! Can't remember any horses, though! It could have been a mini Royal flag.!
At half-time, spectators were invited onto the pitch to help replace divots, kicked up by the ponies' hooves, although I can't recall if HM ever joined in.
We were proud to be British!
We're still talking "beige" aren't we?

Headscarves???

Headscarves You are definitely being set up Rufus. Haven't spotted one since Hilda Ogden's in Corrie in the 60s and they were a relic of the past even then.

My thoughts too lazigirl, Michelle must be having a

My hair is so uncontrollable I thought of buying some heated rollers. Perhaps I may need a headscarf to wear over them, a la Hilda Ogden.

Actually, I wear a headscarf over my rollers in bed, never go out in one though. And it`s not beige, it`s a very colourful Lloret de Mar one.

I have a lovely silk one sent to me by my French penfriend when I was about 14 - cream, red, green with maps, pictures and writing all over it.
Must fish it out and wear it.

For you, Jalima and Lazigirl.
Blue remembered hills.

I'm sure I remember the queen wearing headscarves. (Princess Anne, too!)

Headscarves hmm You are definitely being set up Rufus
No! I can't believe that! As I've said, Michelle is family. I can still recall, from 50 years ago, ladies in beige raincoats and headscarves yomping into the teeth of Westerly gales; the only sensible head gear.
But I can't see you being allowed into Royal Ascot with one even if it's windy; the safest bet would be HM's cloche .
Think I'm out of my comfort zone, so I'll get the hell out of here, again. Meanwhile, will check with Michelle.

Thank you janeainsworth - a lovely view

Can't think when I last saw anyone wearing a headscarf but I do think it's time to take your own advice rufus!

Thanks janeainsworth. Perhaps I could do a "visit Shropshire thread"? As to headscarves, if they are as popular as you believe Rufus, wearers could start a "beige headscarf society" similar to the red hatter one? Not my scene personally - can't get the image of Les Dawson out of my head since this discussion started.

DS2 gave me a beautiful silk square which, in times past, would have been used (tho not by me) as a headscarf. It is absolutely enormous but too slippery to be folded and used round my neck. I think it might have been intended as an Islamic scarf as it's certainly big enough! Many Muslim women are able to make their scarves look very chic.

time to take your own advice rufus!
mcem; Many thanks for that friendly "good bye". I was beginning to wonder how I could extricate myself from this thread, which seems to have lost it's way, without loss of face, but being kicked off, is, like, awesome. Michelle will be rapt.
Returning to Jokes; my comfort zone.
San Fairy Ann

Before we bid farewell to beige, I would just like to share something I have just read in today’s paper. Wish I could copy the picture accompanying it, because it looks very like, well.....beige
Dulux has named “Spiced Honey” as its Colour of the Year as well as predicting an “optimistic” 2019
The paint brand said the shade, pictured, reflected a newfound resilience following the “unsettling nature” of this year. Marianne Shillingford, Dulux’s UK creative director, said: “Spiced Honey is a warm caramel with notes of amber that perfectly reflects our new sense of optimism and resilience in 2019
Paired with off-whites and a dollop of deepest inky ‘Cobalt Night’, Spiced Honey offers … a look that is as sweet and delicious as honey on hot buttered toast.

Found it

..but Maw it's beige!

Spiced honey to the cognoscenti