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@thebuni
truly few things instantly put me in a bad mood more than humidity
WHY is the fucking AIR out here TOUCHING ME
get OFF
Air that is MOVING is allowed to touch me, that's like someone accidentally brushing past me on the street nbd. Air that is heavy and NOT moving is like the drunk guy who fell asleep on me on the bus.
Five Albums To Know Me
tagged by the ever-joyous @bethanyactually , with apologies for the delay caused by me waiting for the temp to go back under 90 80 otherwise all my posts would just look like fives pages of redrumredrumredrumredrum...
ANYHOO. When I was a kid we had two boxes of music cassettes in the house, both my Father's. One we were allowed to dive into at will, the other we had to ask permission before touching. The tapes in the Permitted box (plus a few honourable mentions) made my childhood, so I thought I'd focus on them to begin with:
1. Storm Force 10, Steeleye Span - Because of this I have a lifelong love of Folk music, and Folk Rock in particular. It introduced me to Maddy Prior, which lead to the whole British Folk scene, which gave me John Tams, etc. etc. forever ad infinitum all the way up to the modern scene, an unbroken chain of 300 years or more.
2. Best of the Beach Boys (it might have been vol. II...) - from this, a love of complex arrangements, of close harmony singing, of the sheer exuberant joy of group singing, a vision of sunny California utterly foreign to my 70s/80s British childhood. SO sing-along-able, so good for car journeys, so timeless.
3. Best of Queen, defo vol. II - I really don't know what I can add to this. It's Queen. If you don't like at least the majority of Queen songs I don't know what's wrong with you. Another one for car journeys and impromptu karaoke in pubs and togetherness.
4. East of the Sun, West of the Moon, A-Ha - (not one of my Father's). God did I angst over which A-Ha album to name. I can't believe I said this and not Hunting High & Low. I can't believe I said that and not Minor Earth Major Sky. They were my childhood and my student-hood and the band I've seen the most times live and their songs have a permanent home in a corner of my soul.
5. Slippery When Wet, Bon Jovi - oh, judge all you like! We were small-town Rockers when none of our peers thought it cool, just me & three other friends playing songs in a corner of the school playing field, sharing headphones on the bus, hair-banging against the odds. The day you can't Raise Your Hands you may as well just give up, because sometimes raising our hands and singing along to the world is all you can do.
Me: We shall be making a new quilt.
My Brain: \o/
Me: It's nothing but squares. Just lots of little squares.
My Brain: Oh squares are so easy!
Me: Squares ARE so easy!
My Brain: We can do squares in front of the telly!
Me: We CAN do squares in front of the telly!
My Brain: How many little squares?
Me: ....squares are so easy!
My Brain: How...how many little squares?
Me: ...we can do them in front of the telly!
My Brain: bitch istg
Me: ....
Me: ...
Me: 4,050.
My Brain: I'm ending it and I'm taking you with me.
One of these pots holds lovely tumbled stones used in a beautiful craft.
One of these pots holds decorative chocolate.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to PAY ATTENTION while working ffs woman...
My Brain: okay so it's hard to keep track of time during the school holidays; what day is it today?.
Me: bestie. my child. My Beloved. It is 17:00 and you've already been to 3 church services today. Your throat hurts from reading - in the past six days you've been St Matthew, Pilate and assorted Servant Girls. You literally stabbed yourself on a literal crown of thorns this very afternoon. I'm just going to say: take a frickin' GUESS what day it is today....
My Brain: I didn't have a bath last night. Last night was bath night. I didn't have a bath even though it was bath night so now I don't know what day it is.
Me: You didn't have a bath last night because you were in church for 4.5 hours.
Me: We should go and put a potato in the oven.
My Brain: But we don't want a potato now.
Me: But will we want a potato in an hour?
My Brain: We very much will want a potato in an hour.
Me: Okay well if we want a potato in an hour we need to go put a potato in the oven now.
My Brain: ...
Me: ...
My Brain: But we don't want a potato now.
My Vicar: I know we've had a few extra services in the run-up to Christmas but MAN are those kids going through the biscuits, I swear we had a whole new packet in there just this week...
Me: 👀
The suspiciously fat Murder outside the church door: 👀 👀 👀👀👀
I need that poppy seed cake recipe
Pretty please♥️
4oz Blue poppy seeds 8fl oz Milk (full fat / 3-4%) 8oz Butter 8oz Brown sugar 3 Eggs - separated 8oz Plain flour 1.25 tsp Baking powder
Put the seeds and milk in a pan, bring to the boil, turn off and allow to soak for 25 mins (almost all the milk should be soaked up); Cream butter & sugar then beat in the egg yolks; Fold in the flour / baking powder; Beat the egg whites to standing and fold in. 350° for 1 hour (loaf tin) or ~45 mins in a flatter tray.
h'enjoy
ETA: love of god I forgot to actually add the soaked poppy seeds. Bung them in before the flour...
Seen some big skies recently:
Whitstable -
I'm guessing somewhere in Essex...? -
A portal opens somewhere up the M2 -
Someone not us getting wet out there... -
Okay this is definitely Essex -
a detailed list of things i hate
hot weather
high temperatures
heat
warmer than average conditions
It will get cold again eventually. The summer will not last forever. I’m not doomed to live in this unbearable heat for all eternity. <- said while gripping the countertop so hard that the tile is starting to crack
One of those days.
Hang on a sec I've been curating a collection:
Crow: I am stealth. I move like night. I steal from you and leave no trace. Was I even here? Who can tell....
Me: Look, I...I love you, you know that, but I opened the window, I put the food out, I made direct eye contact with you, I whistled the whistle that we both know means Grub's Up, and then I stepped back so you wouldn't pretend to be spooked. Also you sound like a herd of elephants landing on that pipe. Also you shouted at the magpies who were, and I cannot stress this enough, up until then not even aware of the food. You are as subtle as a tank. I love you. Now eat your chicken fat before the magpies muscle in.
Crow:....I am the Night.
Me: It's 3:00 in the afternoon.
August Strindberg - The Town (1903)
Me: I have agreed to meet my friend tomorrow at a mutually central station at 16:30.
My Brain: Check.
Me: I've done the journey in 20 minutes before but you never know, if I miss one train it's 5-6 minutes wait, plus switching platforms, so l reckon give it half an hour?
My Brain: Check.
Me: So I should really leave the house at.....
My Brain: Yesterday. 2:00pm.
Me: I....I don't think that's....
My Brain: 11:00pm. Now. Thursday at 6:00. You should definitely leave by 10:30 that morning.
Me: ...that doesn't sound right but I don't have enough time-awareness to dispute it.
