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Hi Beth it's great to hear from you yes please we would all love to Hear all your comments about macs regardless of who is wearing them any doubts or queries please email me I don't bjte G

Hi G when we saw your last comment I also saw that a few weeks ago you asked about our next holiday but we haven't booked anything at the moment. I don't want you to think that it rains every time we go on holiday but it does rain quite a lot. We are not really fans but they are very good raincoats and it is amazing how many nice comments we get from other people so we could write more about that. Rob was going to add another comment about us going out in the rain but we thought perhaps you have enough about our holidays! If it doesn't have to be just about us he thinks that the lady who owned one of the cottages we stayed in had a mac like mine and we went out in the rain together so we could possibly add a comment about that. B

Hi happy Easter to all Mac fans new and old let's hear from you all

Hi a shop in a town near me has a cafe above a ladies fashion shop after having a coffee went through the shop there was a rack full of brilliant red pvc macs about eight full length and five 3/4lenth what beautiful macs I will be going back for another coffee very soon

Hi Frank, glad to have been able to help. I agree, the scene was too short. However, sightings of see-through plastic macs are very rare these days so we have to be grateful for anything we get.

Hi Jeff I saw that episode the mac scene was very brief still enjoyed the programme thanks

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Hi Jeff good to know that there are still a few gentlemen out there thanks

Hello Frank, the scene with the woman in the red plastic mac is from the series "Moving On" which is shown each afternoon on BBC. The episode with the mac is 7.3 in the series entitled "Picture of Innocence". The episode is available on BBC iPlayer and the mac scene starts about 30 minutes into the program. By the way, I thinks it is a Primark mac. Hope that helps.

Hi Beth I just seen a chap with one of them clear brollys strange as its a dry day here where is your next trip have you got anything booked remember to pack your mac

Hi does anybody know what new program on the BBC a woman in a red plastic mac

It is kind of you to say so G but I just think these raincoats are ideal for our weather and I think a lot of other people would probably agree. It is just a shame you can't buy them now. If you want a see through brolly you can buy them in most big shops. I think they are called dome umbrellas and they are made from clear plastic with different coloured edges so I am sure you will find a red one. We have had quite a lot of rain recently but I seem to wear my mac more in the summer because it folds up so easily and is ideal for showers! If you are thinking of going to Ireland please don't be put off by all the rain we had one year because it is a lovely country whatever the weather.B

Hi Beth it's good to hear from you again I been around the world but never to Ireland I might try it this year it's great to hear that you are wearing your Mac in all this rain don't think I have seen a red brolly they sound brilliant said it before but Rob is a very lucky man

Hi I would get a big shock if I saw a woman wearing a nylon or any mac

I think you must have had a lot of rain and flooding in Yorkshire G. I think you are right see through umbrellas are usually ladies umbrellas although we both use mine but it is black which is quite a unisex colour. The one I took to Ireland was red and this is probably more of a ladies colour and yes they are ideal with a mac because they protect you from the rain very well but you can still see where you are going. When we had a few wet holidays one after the other we actually called them our summer brollydays. B

Hi bj you have a better memory than me I think you are correct there was a static problem and the b probably was British and maybe the r was rayon just not sure

Hi R and B also Jane thank you yes Rob great comments keep them coming I was in a hotel in Yorkshire just before Christmas it was raining hard the staff give me one of those plastic brolly to run to the car to feminine for me but sure for Beth and other ladies they are ideal with a plastic mac of course and to any other ladies lets hear from you all

Now that the word has come up I have very vague early-60s in UK memories of 'bri-nylon' I think it was used for clothes of various kinds. My first guess would be that the 'bri' was short for 'British'. I just Googled it and it seems to have been a specific type of nylon with a specific formulation. (If that sounds vague, I did fail Form 4 chemistry so I'm no expert). One other thing that came out of the Google stuff is that it generated a lot of static electricity and that was a problem.

Hi G we said we would add another comment about us going out in the rain when we were on holiday and I hope this is the type of thing you wanted to hear. We think it rained almost every day when we went to Killarney but I wondered whether it was quite as bad as we remembered so I searched on google for the weather in August 1997 and someone has saved some old BBC weather forecasts. Although they don't show Ireland very well you can see how much rain we had! Despite the atrocious weather we still had a lovely time and I think Robin is right because sometimes you can still have a nice time even when it is raining especially when other people are so pleased to see you like the lady at Muckross farm. She was really kind and she said she thought our macs were really good and because we also had wellingtons and a brolly I remember her saying look at you, you look like you are prepared for the weather did someone tell you it rains a lot in Ireland! We had so much rain that I think we could add a few more comments if this is the type of thing you would like to hear more about.

Hi G sorry it has taken a long time to add another comment but I wasn't sure whether you wanted to hear more about our macs or more about us going out in the rain so we have added both and I hope they are OK. I think you probably have a good idea what our macs are like now anyway because you are right they are the type of nearly transparent clear and black plastic macs that you could buy in lots of shops. I think they are probably the most popular colours for ladies and gents macs and we are so pleased we bought them when we did because it is quite hard to find them now. We like them because they are completely waterproof and not just showerproof and they are quite long so we don't need waterproof trousers on so they are much better than cagoules. And because they fold up so easily we can take them with us if we are not sure whether it is going to rain or not so they are really good for days out. Beth added a comment about our umbrella and the one we took to Ireland was one of the see through plastic ones because they are really good for sight seeing and we don't really worry about rain dripping off it because we usually have our macs on anyway and I don't think we would notice the difference between this and the rain outside.

Hi G we think Bri nylon was a make they came about or after Polin macs but do not quote me prefer plastic macs myself

Hi when nylon macs first came out they were called bri nylon does anybody know if this was a make or were they different.

Hi its great to have ladies writing comments I did try a few days ago to persuade a lady who used to write before to start again but sadly failed but I live in hope

Hi Colin, that is exactly why I never waste my money buying cheap umbrellas these days, that are undersized, feeble, and you see them flapping in the wind and popping inside out, they last five minutes if you're lucky. Besides the Fulton 'bubbles' I was talking with Beth about, I also have a few of the near-original Knirps telescopics from the 70s and 80s, bought from Salvos or Vinnies, which have lasted me 10 years plus as the second owner. They're just better designed and better made, and I've never ever had one buckle in the wind.

Frank, often-times your brother's right, it does get stinking hot at various times in most parts of Australia,but it also be downright miserable here, even during the summer. Melbourne gets exactly the same rubbish from the rest of the country about its crappy weather that Manchester does. Last Friday my daughter and I went into the Aust Open tennis, and it rained right up to mid-afternoon.

Melbourne gets about 600m of rain each year (no idea how that converts to inches), most during the spring but the spread month-to-month is more even than you'd think. In summer (usually) there tends to be heavier rain events with more time between, while in winter it can drizzle for days at a time. (Sydney gets more rain overall but has less wet days.)

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Elizabeth Anne how much rain do you get down under my brother said that you could fry eggs on the payment
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Hi Elizabeth Anne.

I live in Blackpool, England, which can be wet and windy at times (it's having a spell of them now) and abandoned umbrellas which have been blown inside is a common sight. They can also drag people off balance at times, so be wary of what kind of umbrella you choose.

Hi Beth, it's nice watching the raindrops slide down the front when I'm under a clear brolly - and of course you can see where you're going, and the tips are pointing downwards, which makes us all safer from those morons who forget they don't own the street.

But I wonder, if I'm doing a lot of walking whether I'm better off with a proper full-size nylon umbrella, because the flatter shape and extra size means I'm not stepping out into the drops falling off the front edge all the time.

I absolutely draw the line at cheap Reject Shop umbrellas.

Hi Elizabeth yes we have had a few of those Fulton umbrellas. They are good for holidays because you can see everything and we definitely had one when we went to Ireland. I stopped buying them for a while because they were a bit fragile but when I last bought one it seemed stronger.B

Hi Frank them MS nylon macs that was a very long time ago must be over fifty years ago and Woolworths were selling long plastic macs nothing like that now