1) I'll be allowed to wear my contact lenses again (off them for another month, stay with serious eyedrops for another week, eyes not weeping now but still don't want to look back into the sunn, now they know that the time has etc)..
2) The return to actually writing and recording songs! my god it's actually going on! I got up the courage to listen to the very WIP version of the first song (blocking guitar, bass, drum track) and it's not as bad as I remembered, the news that the 'producer' has been working on it adding atmos and sdrawcabs drums etc, and I sent back a short list w/ precis of other songs existing only in my febrile.
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.bakelitemuseum.co.uk/
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost, yes, that's the place! I think they might have opened especially for us as they are supposed to be closed in December.
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link
I find nearby Taughton much more hilarious, as a placename.
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I know someone who went to the Spam Museum. Info here : http://www.spam.com/
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost, I too really want an electric fire in the shape of a scotty dog. It was brilliant.
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Sorry, misread you there, Ailsa. Williton? It just sounds like a stutter to me.
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link
((And I can't even FIND my boss to ask for a half day today, because I wanted to go ice skating with my sisX0r. Bah!))
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link
And didn't Bakelite first start out as a type of lacquer or varnish or something? I vaguely remember reading (in The New Science Of Strong Materials, a very entertaining book despite the title) that the first major Bakelite product was the gear stick knobs on Rolls Royce cars.
A torture dungeon with gimp masks for horses (yes, yes, pfunkboy, you may make another "woo, FP to thread!" joke now)!
Hurrah!
I am annoyed today because I wanted to buy the mother a Nintendo DS for Christmas but absolutely bloody everywhere has sold out. Serves me right for leaving my Christmas shopping until a fortnight before, I guess.
On the other hand, I have salmon and cream cheese sandwiches for lunch. Hurrah! And I am having fun distracting the goth, too.
xpost: no, I've never been *down there* in my life!
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link
This is just too good. Can make FP Knob jokes now too.
― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link
http://static.flickr.com/131/320446889_05a045270c.jpg
― tissp! (tissp!), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Blimey! Really? Bet he's frittered it all away by now though.
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Grrrr!
(I've been going "grrrr" so much in the past hour, it's left me trying to remember which Welsh myth had a character called Gwawl in it. Because that's a good "grrr"-type noise, too.)
xpost: badoom-tish!
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Maybe if she's been drinking, she'll be a bit more amenable to my request.
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Like: Ailsa's last post = 1482 on the thread = the Hull telephone dialling code.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link
You haven't got her remote controlled up, have you?
My boss is not out all afternoon. I've just eaten a massive sausage sandwich and feel like my tummy is about to explode. I will get NOTHING done this afternoon.
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Sorry. I'll try and stop now.
Er, no. Although I do want to get one of those at some point. But not for use at work.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link
I have the afternoon off now.
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link
Boo to indigestion :(
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link
ashley cole to thread.
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link
However, I'm off to hang out with sisX0r and St00ges, hurrah, ice skating and Brick Lane, here we come!
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link
No offence intended, as always, FP.
― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― emsk ( emsk ), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link
FP, you had some Frosties?
― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link
(I hate shopping)
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― g000blar (g00blar), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link
I like the charity idea, except I'd want to apply it to everyone i.e don't buy any presents for anyone. Some are bought though - so it would seem odd. Maybe next year. Normally I do a blitz of shopping with the missus but it's not gonna happen this year, she's too busy for even a mini-blitz, so has delegated a load of it to me. I'm going to have to take a day off and just...DO IT.
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
(However, I did let my husband help with the cost of my ATP ticket this year, but that's only because I couldn't afford it myself due to jacking in of job, and I'm pretty sure he'd have bailed me out anyway and it's just a "do something nice for me that I'll appreciate" rather than buying something just because it's Christmas)
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link
It probably is - it was just that some animal rights campaign group called Animal Aid had put out a press release saying it isn't. Because, presumably, they think all goats should be free to roam in the wild blue yonder.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Incidentally, and in less soul-crushing news, I got a slightly odd offer from a firm the other day. They are a general computer supply company, but in the sales pitch phone call, they said that they had plenty of special offers on Xboxes, PS2s, iPods, and the like, which could be added to an order by the company, but wouldn't show up on the invoice, and could be delivered to a different address. I was quite impressed by the brazenness of the 'buy from us! steal from your employer!' angle...
― carson dial (carson dial), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― carson dial (carson dial), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link