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Some Things
I really like this "ten things wot people have done" meme. Mainly because, unlike quite a lot of these things, it's interesting to write and read. I'm thrilled and enthralled and enchanted by all the exciting things I've learnt about you people. So here's mine:
In no particular order, some things I've done that I flatter myself are, while nowhere near unique, at least approaching the unusual.
1. Seriously pissed off a priest during Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
2. Crocheted out of a upstairs window until it reached the pavement below.
3. Accidentally swallowed some home-made honey-flavoured chewing gum at the home of a Greek family who lived across the street.
4. Watched my two-year-old brother get hit by a car, and as a result had to borrow huge flowery knickers from 'Auntie' Eileen next door.
5. Had a serious conversation with workmates concerning whether our emplowers were smuggling diamonds from Benin.
6. Got hit over the head by a nightclub bouncer.
7. Rubbed some baby clothes around in the dust of a decaying church.
8. Er.. ate chalk?
9. Realised had run out of interesting things to put in list.
10. Just one more ... um ... spent much of childhood in approximation of Edwardian dress. [note to self: poss. why had no friends?]
If you haven't yet Gizzoogled your journal yet, THEN FOR GOD'S SAKE DO IT NOW!
Later, congregizzles!
In no particular order, some things I've done that I flatter myself are, while nowhere near unique, at least approaching the unusual.
1. Seriously pissed off a priest during Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
2. Crocheted out of a upstairs window until it reached the pavement below.
3. Accidentally swallowed some home-made honey-flavoured chewing gum at the home of a Greek family who lived across the street.
4. Watched my two-year-old brother get hit by a car, and as a result had to borrow huge flowery knickers from 'Auntie' Eileen next door.
5. Had a serious conversation with workmates concerning whether our emplowers were smuggling diamonds from Benin.
6. Got hit over the head by a nightclub bouncer.
7. Rubbed some baby clothes around in the dust of a decaying church.
8. Er.. ate chalk?
9. Realised had run out of interesting things to put in list.
10. Just one more ... um ... spent much of childhood in approximation of Edwardian dress. [note to self: poss. why had no friends?]
If you haven't yet Gizzoogled your journal yet, THEN FOR GOD'S SAKE DO IT NOW!
Later, congregizzles!
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I would have been your friend. I would have been your over-enthusiastic, worshipping, envious, absolutely besotted friend who always wanted Edwardian dress but never had the elan for it til she was twenty. One of my heroines is Lisa St Aubin de Teran (author of 'Slow Train to Milan' and many other novels and travel memoirs), who always wore Edwardian bustles, and even when travelling took with her several hat boxes and several crates of books, or so she says.
Could I be any more fond out you?
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By the time I was twenty, I'd worked out that it's easier if you try to fit in, so I was wearing things full of holes in an attempt to be Kurt Cobain.
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By the time I was twenty, I'd worked out that it's easier if you try to fit in, so I was wearing things full of holes in an attempt to be Kurt Cobain. Kurt Cobain was the man who made me cool, because finally, with grunge, you really couldn't get it wrong. They were heady days. Even I looked fucking good. I love our generation.
*continues to adore you*