To expect Boden to do a decent bindle?

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I want one like this, or even better, like this, but they seem to be out of stock entirely. It would look darling with my Fly London boots as I go for a tramp in the woods. Can anybody help?

This kid on the Tulip And Nettle site has the right jaunty I-could-carry-a-bindle-off look. Although she does looka little uncomfortable on the tricycle for midgets and/or two yr olds they are making her play with. Still, one must economise somewhere when one has paid for the clothes...

I pour scorn on your walking stick suggestion. Surely the point of one's bindle is to achieve that rustic simplicity you only get from naturally-sourced wood? You up the ante with a quality fabric. And never mind your Cath Kidston, I've heard she does things for Tesco, FGS. I made mine from some remnant Vanessa Arbuthnott linen union. Sturdy, yet very very beautiful. The juxtaposition of texture/design is what's required.

Grindle, love it

That site on making them is brilliant...do you think the Au Pair would run one up for me, or is stick-gathering an out-of-hours service?

Tulip and Nettle do a yodelling shirt. That would look perfect with a bindle.

Ah, Vanessa Arbuthnott, of course- she has some dear little designs based around cocks, I believe...I found this on her website:

"I believe the developing fashion for simpler interior design stems from a yearning for a more basic, honest way of life. My Cockerel Collection developed directly from this ethos, and was the first Collection I designed 12 years ago. It was initially hand printed on an old ping pong table whilst my four children played beneath! They collected the feathers from guinea fowl, pheasants and hens outside our kitchen door, which were the inspiration for these designs."

Just the vibe I am going for...

Told ya. Rustic simplicity.

All four children underneath a ping pong table. I'm impressed. Mine would have eaten each other if confined to the area below a ping pong table.

And I never knew I could get a special shirt to wear when I go yodelling.

You can get a gorgeous Equestrian t-shirt thigummie too, at Joules, I noticed...

"as I go for a tramp in the woods"

You dress up to attack people?! Fucking middle classes never fail to amaze me.

apologises for non-pc reference to involuntarily homeless male.

I was a bit disappointed nobody had noticed that actually...nicer than a hoodie, surely?

And, of course, if you can get your bindle to multitask...

Hassled...perhaps the prchase of one of these would bring shabby sticks up to scratch?

Surely the stick will break if you have to carry that on the end of it though?

Round these parts we do wear our Bindles on our heads when we gather for community stick polishing gatherings.

That last cup of Earl Grey has rushed straight to my head - I'm finding it very hard to say Slick Stick Polishing Tool. But you're right, it would be just the job. And when I go for a tramp, it might prove useful there as well.

It is considered a mark of honour if someone asks you to polish their stick for them.

Poor effort by this guy. Must try harder.