Stormie, I don't know what that is around your neck...but, it's working.

:love:

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I'm not in it, but it's the view from where I'm sitting.
Finally got my stereo and turntable set up. The record visible in the photo is Emerson, Lake, and Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery, but right now I'm listening to Axis: Bold as Love.
One of my favorite facts about this album is that Hendrix, very proud of his native american ancestry, told the designer of the cover to do something indian.
The British label's designer took rather the wrong idea from that.
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vinyl rules !!!

Okay, not RFN, but yesterday evening, when it was too late for me to post.
Me being an Easter Bunny.

What about a pic of that cute bunny tail???

Referring you to previous photos; I don't have a cute bunny tail.

awww...... :(

How 'bout lettin' us see the rest of the costume, then?

Okay, not completely RFN.
But you can appreciate that there was no prep or primping involved.

This is me stripped bare.
Youtube clip for Tiger.
I've been off a full week now and I hate it, even though it's Doctor's orders.

You are such a good aide, Sundae. I would kill for aides like you in our school.

Seconding Clod, and also... christ I am in love with your accent. Well, with you, but also with your accent. You have such a beautifully soft voice, that goes so well with your accent to a foreigner like me.
How would you describe your accent in a more local context? Like, even to an anglophile like me, it's hard to know the sort of local context of accents (except really obvious ones like, I can tell a chavvy accent from a posh one).

Thank you, that's very kind.

My voice in that clip is a little softer and huskier than usual because I'm still fighting this infection. Better than this time last week when I could barely speak and certainly coudn't have said all that without coughing :yeldead:

My accent is pretty typical Southern/ London accent.
My London family transplanted to Bucks in the 60s, so I had no chance of a Bucks accent despite being born and bred here. I'm not well spoken because I flatten my vowels and swallow my consonants, but people do comment that I have a good speaking/ telephone voice, because I do at least make some effort at "correct" pronunciation.

I've noticed my speech changing since moving back home. For a long while I lived in places where I had a noticeable accent, so I was free to speak in any way I wanted. Now I'm back home I fall into my parents' patterns of speech. I heard myself say, "yerr-ight?" the other day (are you alright?) and cringed.

Sundae speaks beautifully, even in a local context. A southern/London accent, but not a strong eastend/cockney accent.

It's the accent we (the rest f the country :P) generally associate with the well-to-do, regardless of actual income, because the south is where the money tends to be. There's a harsher version of Sundae's accent, that sounds less monied, and sits alongside the northern accents as typically workingclass, but i hear none of that when I listen to her.

Sundae that is lovely. I can see your sweet demeanor being a really positive thing for the kids. I also love your voice. And I like the hair!

Biscuit coloured hair.
Styling & make-up for Dad's birthday lunch.

Trouble is, the roots are bright blonde, so I either have to go full on blonde again or darken it all to red. Haven't yet decided.

Ohhhh I love that colour!!


Y'know, much as I liked the dark hair, I think you suit brighter shades more.

I like it too and i love the curls!

Best one yet! It really complements your natural beauty.

Why am I awake?

Because you lost your glasses?

BTW, they are on top of your head!

Glasses warp your face, thats why I'm not wearing them.

Me and Max. RFN

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:thumb2: It's nice to start seeing ppl's faces again.

He's grown up so much, Ali!

Awww. Ali and Max you guys look adorable.

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Took this to illustrate how small a patch of beard was generating the snowdrifts on my black shirt, but you can't see it in the pic.... oh well.. it's me RFN.

He's 97 cm tall now. That's 3 feet for you lot of imperialists. :)

Thanks Dana. We try. ;)

Jim...you always look so stern in your pictures. Where's one with a smile??? :)

:eyebrow:

MTP - gorgeous-er and gorgeous-er as you grow up.
Don't ever leave us.

Oh Ali - I know it's been a tough time for you, but it doesn't show on your face. I suggested Max to Abs as a name. As in The night Max wore his wolf-suit... didn't fly. But your Max is such a cutie. There's another Max in Peerless Flats by Esther Freud. I adore her writing - this was the first I read. If you ever have time...

Ah LJ. I don't let myself lust after you any more. Since you were single and you didn't immediately hop on a flight to Blighty. And now you have a cat-wrangling GF. But if I could, I would. Hit that I mean. You Viking throwback, you.

he does look like a viking!

Thank you Sundae

Sundae, you'll notice that pic was taken from dead in front and hardly a bit of neck fat to be seen. ;)

I guess there's a silver lining to ever dark cloud. :)

We all have to take pictures from our best side(s). :D

I love viking looking guy!

Just had my hair permed!
 

First time in 15 yrs.

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Hi Ali, lookin good.

I recently changed my hairstyle too, but I doubt it's permanent.

What did you do V?

hm
looking for befores and afters now

Purple Mow hawk there V ??

I'm gonna guess he shaved a giant balding pattern over the top so he can cosplay as Jet in Cowboy Bebop. Certainly it's for cosplay of some kind, on that I am sure.

I've started tonging mine when I go out.
Which means about three times a year.
I'd love to have a perm but my hair is pretty much straw at the ends.

Nasty hairdresser (as in she works in a nasty cheap place) rattled on about me having to put product on my hair three times a week. For five minutes a time. I could easily fit it into my "beauty routine" she sez.

Beauty routine? I pretended to have Asbergers. Said nuffink. I've learned polite anti-social.
My first thought was to tell her I only washed my hair once a week anyway, so she lucked out. I'm not fussed about the condition of my hair - it's a renewable resource. I'd have had it cut much shorter if that chain wouldn't have called it a restyle and charged more for it.
She also suggested I had my eyebrows tinted to go with my hi-fashion cut. I think that was just her revenge because I wanted a short fringe (bangs). And I only get that so I don't have to go back too soon.

TBF she gave me the best cut I've had from there.

BigV: Waiting to see your hair...:D

Ali: Why did you decide to perm your hair?

Jim: He probably usually keep a stern face pose because he knows that he looks so damn sexy like that. :p:

Sundae: Your hair salon charges more for a shorter hairstyle? Geez....

You go to a cheapo hairdresser you get sliced.
Last time I went there they refused to give me the rate shown on the window (£13.50) because I had "product" in my hair. Hairspray. So I had to pay for a wash and cut. A single brush would have sorted it - I didn't have a bloody beehive!

This time they refused to cut my hair dry [for £13.50] because... actually I don't remember the stupid excuse this time. I went in at approx 10.00 after washing and drying my hair sans products at 09.00.

So I had a shampoo and cut which came out at £22.50.
£3.50 of that was "protein treatment" apparently. Not discussed.

I need to learn to plan ahead better.
I only go to that dreadful place when I want my hair cut right here right now.
My Mum's bad hairdresser only charges me £15. And she's really not all that bad. At least she doesn't try to scam me.

This is the only time London is cheaper.
Ridiculous. There's none of this lying about the price either.

This was Saturday. Before and after for glatt. Bedhead and long hair, then post shower and cut hair.
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You even LOOK like a nice fella, glatt.

:)

Both are adorable glatt!

Cute with bed-head. ;)

The one sock in your garage is cracking me up.


The shower curtain, on the other hand... I'm sorry, but... I'm just sorry. ;)

Mainly because it's been straight for 15 years and I'm getting bored. There isn't really any other reason. :)

Yeah. Me too. But it serves a function.

It's a sock that one of the kids outgrew and it's the perfect size to cover the base of one of the wooden posts in the roof top rack I built for our car. Keeps the oak post from scratching the paint on the roof. The foam I used to have on there fell off and got lost.

The rack is pretty ugly, so having a random sock flapping around underneath it as I drive around town is really just the perfect touch.

My wife doesn't like to be seen in the car while the rack is on the roof, so the rack (and the sock) spend virtually all their time in my shop.

That's a more interesting story than I was envisioning. I thought you were just going to say you use old socks as cleanup rags. Of course, the counterpoint to that is you need to have power tools hanging off your unused treadmill inside the house. (I'm embarrassed to say we do own a treadmill, and of course it never gets used. But there are never clothes hanging off it!)

Glatt has republican hair.

reminds me of the story about a guy that pulled into the gas station in this awesome tricked out jeep. monster tires, lift kit, winch, P-51 shark mouth paint job, a kabillion candlepower mounted on the roof (including pointing backwards for the highbeam tailgater), shovel/hi-lift jack, brush bar, roll cage, custom exhaust, custom everything. The license plate read FAT PAT. The station attendant was admiring his rig and noticed the license plate. He said, "Hey, you must be Pat." The guy responded, "Nope, Pat's my wife. The plate just makes sharing my jeep easier... for me."

Someone asked anonymously on Tumblr for me to post a pic, so I'm crossposting here.

I love the top ibz, looking really cute.
Wish you'd do somethin different with your hair tho, it looks a tad stringy.
<3

I would make out with those lips though.

I need a trim, big-time, but i'm putting it off til i have more length to work with. I dont have a clue what to do with it. I think i'm going to find a good salon and just walk in and say "surprise me, just do something feminizing with it"

I think you'd look good with a something like i used to have, I wish I could find it for you but it was kinda a bob with side swept bangs. Not super long.

Still wanna make out with you.

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This is it!