It's interesting for *me* to see the pictures, because, due to the poses, most of the time I couldn't see a thing and had no idea what was going on in the rest of the shot, what pose the subject was doing, what her expression was and so on.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 4 December 2006 09:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Monday, 4 December 2006 10:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 4 December 2006 10:22 (seventeen years ago) link
Three weeks until Christmas! Hurrah! I seem to have spent most of the weekend on a bus, going to and from London on Saturday/Sunday morning to see Johnny Boy at the Stay Beautiful Christmas party. Which was fun, although being by yourself at one of those things is a rather soul-crushing experience.
And now to Monday. Bah. I think I may have got up on the 'can't be bothered side of the bed' today...
― carson dial (carson dial), Monday, 4 December 2006 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Monday, 4 December 2006 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Monday, 4 December 2006 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 4 December 2006 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link
I'll close early when the parcels have been collected most likely.
― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Have I mentioned this before? - here that kind of thing gets attributed to cosmic rays. They even mention it in the weather forecast!
― substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Can I add to the chorus of "bah, humbug, morning" around here?
Actually, I'm in a pretty good mood, I'm just tired.
Had a great time last night, mulling and then barn dancing, but even though I left at a decent hour, the OMIGOD I'VE GOT TO HAVE CHIPS IN PITA NOW NOW NOW urge struck me as I was walking down the hill home so I didn't sleep very well.
I'm looking forward to seeing the skullington pictures, CJ! Poor dog. But the last time I found a skull in the woods, it was a deer skull and I had to fight my dog to get it off him!
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link
Something else has just pissed me off today but I can't talk about that. Grrrrrrrr. :-(
But then I got a nice email from PBW, which kinda made up for it. Just when I decide I'm totally not bothered by him, he decides he wants to be friends. OK. Whatevs. ::shrugs::
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyway, as I said last night, I am officially Over Boys. Square Dancing is the new sex. For the first time, ever I stripped the willow* without managing to take out an entire row of dancers.
*this is actually a folk dancing move, not something FP is into.
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Folk dancing is also full of cute girls.
― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link
http://home.maine.rr.com/abajoran/img2/abrick8a.jpg
― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Which one is Yanqui? I can't tell GSYBE records apart, though I think my favourite is A#F#∞ but that could just be the name. (the one with that gruff voice talking about "the driver is dead at the wheel" or whatever he says. Cannot quite remember, will have to dig it out when I get home.)
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link
I haven't been anywhere folky (for want of a better phrase) for a while, but there was no cuteness where I was. It might be different in the Big City, where folk dances are gonna be populated by horsey types (a good thing, btw).
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link
JB, this folk dancing was in Bethnal Green so it was full of cute hipster girls and young nu folk types. I danced with a floppy-haired pointy-nosed friend of Ed's and he didn't even complain when I stepped on his toes!
(I am the world's worst dancer, but my god, I don't let that spoil my enjoyment of it.)
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link
nah, it just reminds me that it's Monday morning ;)
― Ste (fuzzy), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link
problem w/ilm for me is that I've said it all by now, and anything I post is just re-re-re-re-repeating myself.
― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link
My brother just asked me what I want for Xmas. I feel like writing back and saying I don't do Winter Consumerfest. Or asking for something that will really wind him up, since he was so rude about my mum's Xmas present.
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link
You danced with Henry is lovely, if bumbling, and has really hot sisters. I think Canadian lodge is becoming one of my favourite dances a proper mixup dance.
― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Damn my country pumpkin roots! Why can't I got to folk dances with cuteness, instead of folk dances with beardy old men covered in last year's cider and inbred country types that look like extras in an english remake of Oh Brother where art thou?
Xmas presents - Ug! I've never been good at presents. As a child we didn't really DO presents in our house, so I haven't got in ingrained that I have to buy people things (I'm the same at b'days). As such, the whole thing seems like such a chore - I'd rather just go round and see people that I want to see and bake them cakes.
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Problem is, I never remember the *names* of the dances I like! That over-and-under one is great! Everyone gets tied in knots.
I think the other one I really like is called Riverside - is that the one where the top two couples run down the room yelling "Charge!" and you have to duck before they take your heads off?
Plus, it's got doe-si-doeing in it.
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Riverside is the decapitation dance, I've done that one with 120 people in a field
Canadian Lodge is the go fast bum bumping dance
― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link
There were lots of men last night - just none of them would get on the dancefloor - they hung back behind us, looking at the girls.
x-post - Waves of Tory? Ah, so that's why they were talking about Ireland!
Is Canadian Lodge the one that goes round in a big circle? I've yet to dance that one, I always end up deciding to sit out a round before it comes up.
I can't imagine we'd have the energy to go dancing after a rolling London walk.
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link
they had real hay, too, not that rubbish fiberglass stuff.
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link