Naoko's news, views and shoes thread

[NaokoSmith]

The microsoft Lumia originated in Finland; it was designed by Nokia.

Is that good, or not good? It sounds fine - it's a bit big so it won't fit in my purse like my old one did (that's a money purse not a handbag, American chums). However I am of an age where a larger screen to look at is a big bonus.

Beachbum! big *hugs* I promise to clean out my box soon. By which I mean my mailbox

BTW, guys, this is my profile pic on the dating site.

"Where is my cup of tea and toasted mouse? And please can you remove the pea that's under all these mattresses."

 

[TxRad]

The main problem with a microshaft phone is... well, microshaft. You end up with the virus and holey security that all Microshaft operating systems have. I'd stick with an android phone. Much safer in the long run.

Nice pussy by the way.

 

[NaokoSmith]

Nice pussy by the way.

Awww, thanks

Oh are there security issues with the Microsoft phone? I'm not going to access my bank account on it or do financial things. I might access my work email and this forum and stuff - would that be a problem?

 

[TxRad]

Awww, thanks

Oh are there security issues with the Microsoft phone? I'm not going to access my bank account on it or do financial things. I might access my work email and this forum and stuff - would that be a problem?

As long as you run anti-virus and a firewall you shouldn't have any major problems. Then there is the problem of all the information Microshaft wants you to share with them.

 

[curl4ever]

 

[stickygirl]

Hi hone
nice to see you back and thanks for filling in on your ... filling in
Yup Mr TX's advice is good. I have an Android and made sure I bought an independent security software as soon as I bought it https://www.lookout.com/uk/. It cost me about £15 as a one-off payment but since then, I don't have to think about security so long as I stay up to date, which is it's default setting.
I collect notifications about email but seldom bother to read them on the phone cos it's a pain. Browsing web is also a pain - maybe because I'm flinty and have a very basic service=cheap.
Defo avoid banking online although... someone in the know told me mobiles are supposed to be more secure that desktops.... meh... really?

ETA I just checked my app and it came up with little green ticks and a status "Everything is OK" I mean, what else do you need to know?!

 

[NaokoSmith]

... one lady said she had to come in because a hot flush had made her feel queasy. I felt somewhat put on the back foot on thin ice, so just offered my poker face with a nod of acknowledgement. I think it worked. What is the etiquette regarding hot flushes? It's all a bit new to me.

I think the best thing is to hand the lady a glass of iced water. That's what I find helps most.

Hi Naoko
I’m guilty of adding to your intray, but don’t worry it can keep.
Just to explain L&Gs, I’ve just consumed another book and now that Nao has fanned the flames of my book reviewing cells, I feel duty bound. I’ve just finished Golden Boy, by Abigail Tarttelin and recommend it highly.
...

Please keep thinking of reviews for me. I am going back to my review blog and refreshing it, so not posting anything new yet but soon will be.

With Hypoxia out on the road I thought I might provide some entertainment.
https://scontent.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/s526x395/13173685_10153673447202945_2039474931013631632_n.jpg?oh=6f08540adf913041aee7a8be51e2f66f&oe=57D32A36

Awww, Hypoxia! I hope he's having lots of fun. And you too, JackLuis, hope you're having fun.

TX and Jane, thank you for the helpful advice about phone security.

 

[NaokoSmith]

Just raising a hand in here to say 'Hullo'!


Miss you all very much, I really do. It is pretty hectic just now because:
a) my paid work is starting to go much better, so I am inclined to do more of it (some of which I even earn money for!). (I'm feeling so encouraged by how much better my working life is in the wake of that grievance I took out - which you all supported me through so kindly - that I'm thinking about doing a M.Ed. in online and distance learning.)

b) it's nearly the end of school term, so there is a fair bit of Piglet maintenance at the moment. Soon she will be flying off to holiday with my family! (whom I refuse to holiday with myself because they are weird, although they are kind to Piglet). I wasn't very amused when I asked the airline she's flying with for their Unaccompanied Minor paperwork to fill out and they sent me the form for Excess Baggage instead

c) I am actually editing my old novel again! so if I get free time, I am doing some smut writing!!!

d) I am flirting with guys on the online dating sites.

I joined this free site and I had a date with a guy who would make curl really jealous! not because he was able to take me out to a dodgy Italian restaurant in the Valleys (they actually had Lambrusco on their wine list! ), but because he owned his own gym. That's his job - he runs his own gym so he of course gets to go there all the time and work out. He had a fantastic body but unfortunately the magic just wasn't there, I am at a loss to explain why. Anyway, we have stayed good friends and are continuing to chat. I want to take some better photos of him so he gets more chance of better quality dates. I told him not to say on his profile that he is a qualified counsellor! You can imagine the fruitbat ladies who rush to have coffee with him.

Then I had a lunch date with a very promising guy. Piglet approved because he owns a Mercedes-Benz softtop . My main reason for liking him was that he was very keen on nice food and wine, and promised to take me down the coast to some speciality restaurant he knows about which has fantastic cake (in his Merc). However when I phoned him to set up the details, he was curiously distant about it all, which was strange because he was really enthusiastic when we met and pressed me to agree to a second date. At least I found out what a time-waster he is before he wasted too much of my time, and after all I can always go and find the super cake shop on my own so not much to regret there.

Now I am chatting with a couple of guys, one of whom says that his dog used to be a dominatrix in a previous life . I'm perfectly willing to believe that dogs have previous lives, but really. Is it likely that a cocker spaniel would be anything other than a submissive? So I probably won't go on a date with him, I just don't think he's very serious. Although he does have a boat, and I did want to learn to sail ...

Anyway, there are a lot more men on this site than women, so I'm having a whale of a time on there. I have to fend off a lot of young striplings of 45 or so, who eagerly assure me they like a more mature woman. Yes, lads! but I also like more mature men! and now I am older myself, this is no longer inappropriate so I mean to indulge myself

 

[MrBennet]

I presume the ice cold water is for drinking rather than throwing?

Jealous? No, I rise above that kind of melarky. I've been blessed with some wonderful relationships over the years and stayed friends with most. These days I value friendship first and if anything follows then it simply becomes part of the friendship. Sorry if that sounds old fashioned on a sex site.
A perfect day for sailing today, so I took full advantage though I did end up with a cold water enema ... well wet shorts but who cares? I wonder if your other sailing friend managed to get out on the water this weekend? The sticky one I mean!
I spent the day tidying the garden yesterday and I'm looking out on weed free borders. Has anyone else had trouble with bedding plants this summer?
Best wishes to all. Nice to see our lady boss back again. Most welcome.

 

[curl4ever]

Just raising a hand in here to say 'Hullo'!


...

I joined this free site and I had a date with a guy who would make curl really jealous! not because he was able to take me out to a dodgy Italian restaurant in the Valleys (they actually had Lambrusco on their wine list! ), but because he owned his own gym. That's his job - he runs his own gym so he of course gets to go there all the time and work out. He had a fantastic body but unfortunately the magic just wasn't there, I am at a loss to explain why. Anyway, we have stayed good friends and are continuing to chat. I want to take some better photos of him so he gets more chance of better quality dates. I told him not to say on his profile that he is a qualified counsellor! You can imagine the fruitbat ladies who rush to have coffee with him.

...

Why, yes, I am jealous.

I would like to own my own gym so I could work out all the time.

But way more than that, I'm jealous because I'd like to be the one taking you on a date.

(And even a photo session with you!!! The lucky bastard!)

I'm so so so happy for you, Sweetie!

 

[glynndah]

We once owned a cocker spaniel that was rather possessive and bite-y so I have no difficulties in believing his tale. They look all cute and cuddly but watch out.

 

[NaokoSmith]

I presume the ice cold water is for drinking rather than throwing?

- yes! I imagine your mature lady students might not come back to your classes if you throw iced water over them.
Jane might be quite busy too, as we come up to the end of term?

I'm jealous because I'd like to be the one taking you on a date.

Awww, you are so sweet to me!
Or would be if you lived on the same continent, I know!

We once owned a cocker spaniel that was rather possessive and bite-y so I have no difficulties in believing his tale. They look all cute and cuddly but watch out.

Maybe I will be a bit less wary of this particular bloke, then. I thought he looked like a good thing at first, as he is into sailing and fishing and I want to learn both. However his conversation has been a bit odd. I don't want to take an unnecessary risk. I'll make sure I meet him in daylight at a crowded venue if he gets round to asking me out on a date.

 

[NaokoSmith]

Nobody hold their breath, but I might finally have been able to get through to Idiot Basturd Line Manager that the whole stupid and problematic way he has organised our teaching for the last three years is completely wrong and not what the university intended at all!

And tactfully pretend I know he did it all in our best interests, not because he is an Idiot.


If I pull this one off, I will give myself the title Manager of Managers Supremo Prima Donna and take myself out for cocktails at the weekend! (Unless I can find a nice man to take me <snerk>. I mean for cocktails )

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Nobody hold their breath, but I might finally have been able to get through to Idiot Basturd Line Manager that the whole stupid and problematic way he has organised our teaching for the last three years is completely wrong and not what the university intended at all!

And tactfully pretend I know he did it all in our best interests, not because he is an Idiot.


If I pull this one off, I will give myself the title Manager of Managers Supremo Prima Donna and take myself out for cocktails at the weekend! (Unless I can find a nice man to take me <snerk>. I mean for cocktails )

If you do manage this one, Naoko, I'll use my Professional Development funding to come over and take you. For cocktails, of course. And a workshop in how to best the idiot bastards - at my school, micromanagement is all the rage, complete with glass-walled offices that would bring a smile to Jeremy's formaldehyded lips.

 

[stickygirl]

I'm always busy but as it happens, stinky students have all gone and only grumpy bearded post-grads are left.
I spoke to a good friend at the weekend because I heard she got made redundant. She's a happily married mum with ten yr old, and her boss ( who I always thought was an asshole ) had asked her to sleep with him She refused and then two months later *poof* redundant. I thought that kind of crap was so last century?!

 

[NaokoSmith]

If you do manage this one, Naoko, I'll use my Professional Development funding to come over and take you. For cocktails, of course. And a workshop in how to best the idiot bastards - at my school, micromanagement is all the rage, complete with glass-walled offices that would bring a smile to Jeremy's formaldehyded lips.

Fab! I'm lining them up

I'm always busy but as it happens, stinky students have all gone and only grumpy bearded post-grads are left.
I spoke to a good friend at the weekend because I heard she got made redundant. She's a happily married mum with ten yr old, and her boss ( who I always thought was an asshole ) had asked her to sleep with him She refused and then two months later *poof* redundant. I thought that kind of crap was so last century?!

Jane, that is APPALLING!!! Is she a union member? She should join pronto, and talk to HR - with union support. That's just too awful for words.

Guys, I forgot one other thing that happened during my absinthe (*hips*!). I made friends with a lovely guy - an artist, in the deli cafe. He always goes there on a Monday for a cup of tea and I always go because Piglet and her piglet friend like to spend half an hour there stuffing their faces with chocolate brownies before the other piglet goes to ballet next door. I go along to pay and also because the cafe has a sign in it saying that unattended children will be sold as slaves

Anyway, I flirted dreadfully with my artist friend, of course, mainly because he's quite a bit older than me. We got on very well as well as flirting and then he said he would like to paint me. Well, I thought that was a delightful idea so I went to his house for tea, admired his etching (no seriously! and there was a Frank Dobson sculpture too), and posed a bit. But then I'm afraid he fell a bit in love with me! and made me an offer. Well, that's OK, I was very tactful about it and we are still friends and have tea and flirt. But I was very sorry that it meant I never got sketched after all.

 

[TxRad]

Somebody ate my first post.

Lets see if I can remember what i wrote.

Ya have to watch those artist types, they're worse than us porn... uh, I mean erotic writers.

Etchings? I thought everyone had etchings. I even have one. Of course, it's an acid spill on the garage floor.

Hang in there, a lot of people would love to draw you and some can even make stick figures.

 

[NaokoSmith]

Somebody ate my first post.

Was it made of wood

Perhaps I can set up an amateur sketching group in here - you can see that my avatar is all ready, as she is wearing no clothes - apart from her fetching collar. Please do feel free to sketch my pussy! anyone who is inclined.

 

[TxRad]

Was it made of wood

Perhaps I can set up an amateur sketching group in here - you can see that my avatar is all ready, as she is wearing no clothes - apart from her fetching collar. Please do feel free to sketch my pussy! anyone who is inclined.

My post is usually wood.

You're in the wrong forum to find the artist types. Try one floor down.

 

[stickygirl]

Jane, that is APPALLING!!! Is she a union member? She should join pronto, and talk to HR - with union support. That's just too awful for words.

Hah - she was HR!! I've not spoken to her face to face yet, but she sounded fairly resigned/calm and got a decent sized redundancy. I'd been telling her for ages she was working too hard for them. She have listened to me, shouldn't she?!

I once asked Sam Scribble to use his felt tip on me. He was quite keen

 

[NaokoSmith]

You're in the wrong forum to find the artist types. Try one floor down.

I should start posing in there instead of being a poseur in here

Jane, gorgeous nails by the way!

 

[TxRad]

I should start posing in there instead of being a poseur in here

Jane, gorgeous nails by the way!

I'll get out my pad and pencil for the former and give you a raspberry on the latter. You are many things but no where near a poseur.

Jane does go all out. Beautiful job.

 

[Handley_Page]

And Pussy's a switched-on Cat

 

[SilenceDances]

Your blog is a really thoughtful thing for you to do. I too am interested in sexuality education (though other than one college class, and growing up in a feminist/open environment, and being a voracious reader, I do not have much experience in it). Do you have a Tumblr? That is a great way to get your content out to a younger crowd.

I noticed you don't have anything about Oh Joy Sex Toy. It's a wonderful sex toy review comic, with occasional educational and occasional guest smut artist posts. Really worth reading and worth sharing.

If you need any help, I would love to be a part of your blog.

 

[SilenceDances]

Also, it sounds like you're having better luck on dating sites than I am. It can be hard. What do you count as a successful date? What do you look for? For me, it's finding someone I click with, and that has been hard since moving to a small town... I look for someone who is into the same things I am, and who has a solid head on their shoulders.