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Have you ever felt miserable because of cold numb hands when working outside gardening skiing shooting cycling etc? Gloves are frequently impractical for such activities. Cosy Cuffs are sheepskin wristbands which really keep your hands warm and are of special benefit to those who suffer from poor circulation or chilblains. Once you have a pair you will never want to take them off - even in the house! How do they work? There is nothing new about them - country people have known about sheepskin wristbands...

Ok - you're having an imaginary barbecue and you can invite your favourite fictional bear. Which one would you choose? Paddington? Rupert? Baloo? A quick survey at Balcony Towers reveals that we'd be sharing our sausages with Nookie, Fozzie, Yogi and The WereBears, although it seems a shame not to invite Bungle, Biffo and The Hair Bair Bunch doesn't it? And Yogi would be lonely without Boo Boo, and how can we not ask Sooty along? It's a big bear barbecue! Wouldn't it be funny if they all turned up...

The Riding Sock Co. have developed a range a hugely fashionable socks perfect for the Equestrian industry. Great quality products.

'Dave' is the name of a 1993 comedy-drama film starring Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver. the 18th episode of the second season of the television series 'Lost', a song on the 1984 album 'In The Long Grass' by The Boomtown Rats, a digital television channel, a comedy routine by Cheech And Chong on their 1971 self-titled debut album, a performance artist from Switzerland, two North American radio stations and a lot of people who are actually called David but who are known to the World as Dave.

Follwing on from the success of our ever-popular Everyone Knows A Dave T-shirt comes this little fellow. Currently available in two colours, navy blue tee with sky blue print or a zinc grey tee with burgundy print. Once again we are celebrating the magic of Daves everywhere with the simple but poignant statement: "What A Difference A Dave Makes".

X Ray Spex, The Germs, Blind Faith, The La's, Operation Ivy, The Postal Service, T.V. Smith's Explorers, The Good The Bad And The Queen, Johnny Thunders And The Heartbreakers, The Avalanches, Death From Above, The Monks, Derek And The Dominos, Josef K, Minor Threat and The Sex Pistols are all bands that only released one official album (as opposed to compilations and live recordings) during their lifetimes. There's something rather cool about that isn't there?

You've got to love geology. It's the ancient and prehistoric study of grapes and onions. I've made a concerted effort to study grapes myself for the last ten years or so, and can confirm that my favourite ones are the red ones that go in wine. Italian wine is a particular favourite but I'm ultimately not that fussy. Errr ... I've just been informed by my colleague that geology is actually the study of rocks. I guess that makes this T-shirt make a bit more sense. Wicked. Available in khaki...

The best thing about football is that you can go down the park with your mates, make a couple of posts out of jumpers, cricket stumps or even your bike and have yourself a good old kick about. Anyone can do it and it doesn't cost a thing. And then there's tennis. You can't just pop down the park for a game of tennis. You need a proper tennis court. And those cost money my good friends, lots and lots of money. Posh people either have them in their garden or have membership at their local tennis club...

The Ford Escort was launched in 1967 as a replacement for the Anglia. Back then, Ford were a big name in motor sport and the Escort proved to be a successful rally car. It was used in the 1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally – a marathon race that started at Wembley Stadium and finished in Mexico City, covering around 16,000 miles in the process. Out of the Top 10 finishers, 5 of them were driving Ford Escorts, including the winner. To celebrate, Ford launched a special edition of their top car...

The South Pole (more properly known as The Geographic or Terrestrial South Pole) is the most Southern point on Earth and is directly opposite The North Pole. The South Magnetic Pole is nearby, as is The Ceremonial South Pole which is often used for photo opportunities. The highest temperature ever recorded at The Geographic South Pole was -12.3 degrees C (9.9 degrees F) on December 25, 2011, while the lowest was -82.8 degrees C (-117.0 degrees F) on June 23, 1982. Unsurprisingly no native plants...

Theres' always one is'nt there? Picking through the post's on an internet forum with a fine-tooth comb looking for grammatical error's and mistakes. Well, this T-shirt is for them, a homage to the Apostophe Police of the internet, saving the English language from "lol", "rotfl" and "C 2 L8R". Where would we be without them?

The Periodic Table of chemical elements was first published in 1869 by Dmitri Mendeleev. It's arranged according to atomic number (you know, the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom) and chemical properties, with the elements being represented by symbols of one or two letters. Such is the way of things in the retro t-shirt world we wondered if we could use them to spell out Balcony Shirts. Well - Boron, Aluminium, Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen and Yttrium give you BAlCONY and you can replace Carbon...

Mmmmm, Bacon, who on Earth doesn't love that stuff. Porcine goodness. Streaky, smoked, unsmoked, back - it's all good. And this here T shirt is a little fantasy of ours - the bacon dispenser. The beauty of that particular dispenser is that it's got exactly the same instructions as a hand blower in a public toilet - handy eh? It's easy, you just push the button, then you receive the bacon, then you enjoy the bacon. As the late, great Eddie Cochran once put it, it's "Three Steps To Heaven".

Strange but true - the bow tie originated in the 17th Century among Croatian mercenaries in The Prussian War. Notable bow tie wearers include Humphrey Bogart, Donald Duck, Charlie Chaplin, Huckleberry Hound, Stan Laurel, Mickey Mouse, Aleister Crowley, Fred Astaire, Karl Marx, Billy Bunter, Frank Sinatra, Hercule Poirot and The Penguin; Dr. Who can currently be seen sporting one (although you never know with him do you?) and let's face it, anything that's good enough for an imaginary 6 foot tall...

Ah yes, British Bulldog, that most violent of playground games. All the tough lads at school used to love it, although we wonder if they would have been quite so keen on it if it had still been known by it's original name of Pom Pom Pull Away? Mind you in Australia it used to be called Cocky Laura, which is an even more bafflingly inappropriate name for a game that the British Medical Journal tried to get banned because of the number of injuries it's caused.

So - the country to the North of The United States of America is called Canada, and it's people are called Canadians. Shouldn't the people actually be called Canadans? Or should the country be called Canadia? And does all this mean that The Niagara Falls should really be The Niagaria Falls, and that Ottawa is really Ottawia? We think that we should be told... in the meantime here's a retro-styled t-shirt that celebrates Canadian (and indeed Canadan) cool in all it's forms, however you'd like to spell...

The Caravan Club of Great Britain and Ireland was formed in 1907, it's intention being 'to bring together those interested in van life as a pastime' - which I guess to you and me are people who want to spend their holiday dragging a blooming great mobile home up and down the country. But the Ford Model T (the world's first affordable and therefore popular motor car) didn't come into production until 1908 - so what happened for the first year of the club? Was it all horse powered? Did the members...

The first electrically amplified guitar was invented by George Beauchamp in 1931 to cater for jazz guitarists who were having to compete in volume with orchestras and horn sections. This involved converting an acoustic guitar by adding a pick-up - it wasn't until nine years later that North Carolina State University physics professor Sidney Wilson reasoned that an electric instrument could have a solid rather than hollow body. His electric guitar won first prize at the North Carolina State Engineering...

Celebrating the glory of the Cornish pasty. What a wonderous invention. It's got meat, it's got veg, it's got gravy, it's got pastry. My God, that's everything covered isn't it? How long could you live for by solely eating Cornish pasties? My guess is a very long time indeed.

When we were young all of this was fields, as far as the eye could see. And you could leave your back door open without worrying about being burgled, not least because there were no people in the fields. Nowadays it's all different- the fields have gone and our back door stays locked nearly all the time. Other things have changed too; in the old days if someone tagged you they probably worked in a supermarket and had got a bit confused with their pricing gun, whereas nowadays you can find yourself...

Between the 9th and 14th of March 2009 at the Sacramento Guitar Centre in Sacramento U.S.A. Russ Prager drummed for an incredible 120 hours, beating (if you pardon the expression) the previous drumming marathon World Record by 36 hours. Very cool - but am I the only person that thinks it's funny that it was held in a guitar centre? Does this mean that down at the nearest drum centre people were trying to beat the guitar marathon World Record?

It's not all T shirts and fun at Balcony HQ, we like to get out on the streets of West London and conduct social experiments. After nearly three years of intense research, we can categorically confirm ... everyone knows a Dave. Wear this t-shirt and celebrate Daves everywhere. We love you, Dave. Available in all sizes and a whole host of colours, we like the chocolate brown fellow.

I went fishing once, and it was the best day out ... until I actually caught a fish. I was fishing for Pike and being a novice I didn't "strike" fast enough when the blighter took the bait. This meant that the fish actually swallowed the hook and by the time I got the savage beast out of the water it was pissing blood out of its gills. Nice eh? I didn't go again. Anyway, here's a T-shirt to celebrate the most popular sport in Britain. Fishing, yeah!

This t shirt is a tribute to one of the funniest moments of one of the funniest films ever made. Spinal Tap were a fictional rock band that were the subject of the 1984 mockumentary This is Spinal Tap. Well, we say mockumentary. They managed to fool the public by taking it so seriously as to release albums and play live. Maybe they even fooled themselves into thinking they were a real band. Regardless of all that, it's a great film and this t shirt refers to the moment where Nigel Tufnel explains...

You've washed the Merc, taken the kids to the stables, the wife's taken the Beemer down to Bond Street to pick up her new shoes and you've got 5 hours to kill before Tarquin and Jeremy pop over for the dinner party ... what shall one do? I know, get out the whacking sticks and thump a ball around a vast open space. Sorted.

Who wants tickets to the Gun Show? We've never been big fans of guns over here in the UK. Not like our friends across the Atlantic, they love a gun or two. Or 223 million if you like. Apparently that's how many there are in the USA. No wonder they have their fair share of shootings over there, it's nearly one per person! We're slowly starting to catch up over here but in Britain we like to use what God has given us - pure brutal strength. And there's nothing quite like a bulging bicep to impress...

Staying in one place is overrated. Admittedly, not having a home could be a bit of a downer but there's got to be something to be said for waking up in a different place everyday. We don't mean in a drunken where am I kind of way, although that can be fun too. Balcony Shirts would like to make it clear at this point that it doesn't advocate the excessive consumption of alcohol, or indeed endorse the concept of waking up drunk in a different place every morning. Despite how much fun it really, really...

Now here's a funny thing. We all know that Mount Everest is the World's highest mountain at 8,848 M / 29,029 feet. However because the Earth is an oblate spheroid (meaning that it's wider at the Equator than at the North and South Poles) the summit of the Chimborazo Volcano in Ecuador is actually further away from the centre of The Earth than the summit of Everest is. Strange but true.

Bikes - you've got to love 'em haven't you? From the tandem to the unicycle, from the hobby horse to the dwarf ordinary (which of course became the dwarf safety) and from the boneshaker to the rod-driven velocipede, bikes are cool whichever way you look at it, especially the ones with the funny names. Here's a retro t-shirt that celebrates the power of the pedal, the glory of the gears and the wonder of the wheels. Something like that anyway. And let's face it, who hasn't fancied a go on a penny...

Bass players are always cool aren't they? And they always seem to have such great names - back in the '50's there was Monk Montgomery, Shifty Henry, Bill Black and our very own Jet Harris; then in the 1960's John Entwistle turned the bass into a weapon of mass destruction and Paul McCartney and James Jamerson extended it's musical boundaries alongside Jack Bruce, Noel Redding and Bill Wyman, before Larry Graham came up with 'slap bass' in the early '70's. Bruce Foxton was great in The Jam (not sure...

The first person to swim The English Channel was Captain Matthew Webb on 25 - 26th August 1875 when it took him 21 hours and 45 minutes. The current World record for the fastest swim is 6 hours and 55 minutes by Trent Grimsey on September 8th 2012, while the slowest crossing took 28 hours and 44 minutes when strong currents made Jackie Cobell swim for 65 instead of 21 miles in July 2010. Well we've never swam the channel but if we did we'd definitely get the boat back. And we'd wear this retro...

Big up yourself! There's nothing like giving yourself a bit of credit - you deserve it. This t shirt is especially for all of you out there who want to scream and shout about how great you are but are just a little too shy to do it. It's the subtle mans way of saying look at me, I'm alright . Also suitable for all aspiring pop stars, actors, television presenters and ex-Big Brother housemates. Wear the shirt and see if anybody actually cares. Available in black, chocolate brown or red with a white...

Behold this splendid retro-styled t-shirt featuring the cutest of all mammals the meerkat, alongside the (hopefully) amusing slogan 'Livin' On A Prairie'. Pretty cool huh? Except, er, they don't. Live on a prairie that is. They live in the Kalahari Desert. Prairie dogs, as their name suggests, live on a prairie. Funny that. Except, er, they're not dogs, they're ground squirrels. Strange but true. Anyway, where were we? Ah yes - the name 'meerkat' means 'lake cat'. Except, er, they're not cats. And...

Aaaaaahhhaaaaaaaaaa! There are few things that all the staff at Balcony Towers agree with, but our love of radio presenters is one of them. Especially talk radio. Christ, even the talk radio presenters that we hate (Steve Allen, Jon Gaunt,

Cockney rhyming slang replaces a common word with a phrase of two or three words, and then generally omits the original rhyming word - so 'Bread' is the Cockney rhyming slang term for money, where bread and honey = money. Other commonly used rhyming slang terms include 'dog' (as in 'dog and bone') for telephone, 'trouble' ('trouble and strife') for wife and 'apples' ('apples and pears') for stairs. You can go to the rub-a-dub in your whistle and titfer for a few Britneys then if you've got any bread...