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[essayel]

Recently I have:

Spent 15 hours painting slightly different shades of grey then 12 painting slightly different shades of brown.

Had my knee popped out of joint [and back in again thank god] by an over excited dog.

[immediately following the above]Been told to get up of the floor and stop messing about by an exasperated husband.

Seen two white lambs, lit pale gold by dawn sun, nuzzling, puzzled, at their dead mother.

Had the following exchange by IM:

Daughter[with one of those insanely long MsnMessenger screen names]: i no wat i want for my burfday
me: Oh? what's that?
Daughter: Cn i get a flesh hole
me: no

Had a customer in the museum tell me, quite earnestly, that there's no 'history' in the Valleys prior to the industrial revolution.

Wondered if Archbp. Rowan Williams is going to take out a fatwah[sp???] on Dan Brown, then decided that, really, it's not worth the bother.

Heard the following exchange between husband and daughter:
H: the dog needs a walk.
D: so?
H: Can you take him?
D: No
H: I beg your pardon - WHY not?
D: Because you grounded me yesterday. Confined to barracks! Nyaah nyaah.

Had a four year old challenge my right not to let him in to look round the museum alone.

Heard the cat whinging about being shut in the garage and let him out to find him COVERED in chips of cedar wood. He's the nicest smelling cat evah!

Watched a mistle thrush singing like crazy at the top of a lilac tree as the storm clouds massed behind him a similar colour to the flowers.

Wondered what happened to some of the LJ people I used to natter to and decided to bother them again from time to time.

So be warned

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[ciderandrum.livejournal.com]

You should bother me you should bother me!

[innerslytherin]

H: Can you take him?
D: No
H: I beg your pardon - WHY not?
D: Because you grounded me yesterday. Confined to barracks! Nyaah nyaah.

*giggles* Now how old is your daughter again? This is quite amusing. Though I'm certain your husband didn't think so.

Have you forgiven me for transferring my Sirius!love to Snape? *G*

[metallumai.livejournal.com]

Points for Jen, cat, and Sally! Not a bad score. Better luck next time for Paul....

Four-year-olds should be outlawed.

the greys and browns-- not enough info. Reminds me of helping boss, when I was painting murals, searching for the ideal shade of grey-- we had INNUMERABLE little numbered pots of subtly differing purplish grey paint all over the shop, and I couldn't tell the difference between any of them after the first day.

Yay for clouds at your house! I love the way you people do clouds....

[gonzothegreat.livejournal.com]

Eh, let Brown off the hook. His wife did all the research anyway. He just wrote the thing in the laundry room. ;)

Y'know, she had the upper hand until the "Nyaah nyaah." Suggest debate classes. In ten years. ;)

[essayel.livejournal.com]

http://pics.livejournal.com/essayel/pic/000010ya - that's the grey/brown thing. Though it's a good bit darker now. And yeah, grey gets a tad boring after a bit.

The best clouds are in places like Norfolk or the Fens or the Essex Marshes where it's really flat and nothing gets in their way. We've got too many hills here to see really spectacular cloud formations.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Then Brown's missus must've read The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail and The priest, The Painter and The Devil, two books which came out in the seventies with alllllll the info he uses in the books, except it was Poussin[of whom most people won't have heard I suppose]rather than Da Vinci. Brown even conflated the names to the co-authors of the above into the name of his villain.

All of which has been proven in a court of law NOT to be a case of the p-word and just a huuuuuge coincidence, so Brown's off the hook for that. Pity it's the sort of story that had me going 'oh for pity's sake' regularly throughout.

[gonzothegreat.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes. There's a great word for that, although I am not sure it was ever used in the trial, "Cryptomnesia." Technicaly, it is the retention of information w/o the retention of source. Most of the time this falls under the bleesed aegis of "common knowledge" which can be explained away with a, "I remember it from a class I took" or such like.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Of course I can. I can't see the attraction myself, of course, but then I'm not RPing a character with a good Snape to strike sparks off. You need a good Snape - one who can be sparing with the sarcasm, only using it when necessary, so it stays fresh.

Jen's 13 and may make it to 14 if she's veeery careful.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Cryptomnesia!!! Brilliant. Now I've got a name for it. Thanks pal!

hmm, what's Gonzo got on his head?

[gonzothegreat.livejournal.com]

Tin foil. :P Pic comes from Muppetts From Space.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Well of course, tin foil is essential to stop them tapping into our brain waves!