Naoko's news, views and shoes thread

[Handley_Page]

Mr HP
I happened to see here you name came from today! I'm sorry if this is old news, but I was impressed by the dihedrals

Naoko
interior decs. I'm not the best person to ask but since you asked, I'd be thinking throws, gold splattered paint, funky cushion covers. Plain background colours with some splashes of colour would be my thunk - and cushion covers are cheap to make with those fab offcuts of exotic material I'm sure you have put by for no good reason - haven't we all got those?!

xx

No Darling,
The very latest Whims have an Anhedral Angle.

 

[stickygirl]

No Darling,
The very latest Whims have an Anhedral Angle.

Gah! Excuse my crap typing.
Handley Page made the Halifax bomber distinctive by, amongst other things, its dihedral wing shape.
So now I see ( maybe ) where HP originated. Or is that just a coincidence?

 

[NaokoSmith]

Naoko, I caught you on the net!

Whims are no longer made in the old-fashioned manner and are thus unsafe.

Was that, you caught me in your net? And what do you plan to do with me now, big boy

LOL, I feel like whims have become old-fashioned! When I say to guys: "shall we go to the flicks[sub-message - sitting in the back row and snogging], or the beach, or for afternoon tea", they have a terrible tendency to say: "Let's just go for coffee, and see if we get on."

Jane, I have of course got a ton of offcuts and bits of material I was once going to make up into a smart little tailored suit until I realised I couldn't handle a sewing machine to save my life

Well, dahlinks, I have survived the vegan wedding. There was beef curry! it wasn't that nice but I pretended it was. The marriage looks like it will be everything I feared , however I had a much better time than I thought I would. My friend used to be a radical baby feminist involved with a ground-breaking young women's magazine and a couple of her friends from those days were there.

It was so enjoyable chatting to intelligent women. I must turn over if there is any way to make some new friends here who are intellectual and political like them. I've tried the Labour Party women's group and they are very political but all the women who go are quite a bit older than me and they keep trying to rope me into running it. I tried going to some local concerts but again, everyone was about twenty years older than me, and obviously knew each other. I felt like I was the only person who had gone along for the music. Of course, I have got my pal the artist in the cafe - he is very intellectual and also loves fine wine and nice food, so we get on very well. However I am always a bit worried he will try to nibble my nipple again, which puts a damper on your social intercourse

 

[Handley_Page]

It was so enjoyable chatting to intelligent women. I must turn over if there is any way to make some new friends here who are intellectual and political like them. I've tried the Labour Party women's group and they are very political but all the women who go are quite a bit older than me and they keep trying to rope me into running it. I tried going to some local concerts but again, everyone was about twenty years older than me, and obviously knew each other. I felt like I was the only person who had gone along for the music.

Kinda reminds me of this.

 

[NaokoSmith]

Kinda reminds me of this.

LOL, I do sometimes feel like that! and then I come on here and chat with all of you lovely people.

Cup of coffee, dear?

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/25000000/i-LOVE-coffee-coffee-25055460-500-313.jpg

 

[Handley_Page]

LOL, I do sometimes feel like that! and then I come on here and chat with all of you lovely people.

Cup of coffee, dear?

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/25000000/i-LOVE-coffee-coffee-25055460-500-313.jpg

Oh yes, please, me dear.

 

[oggbashan]

Kinda reminds me of this.

When I looked at HP's youtube, this came up:

Walt Disney from 1946:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjIJZyoKRlg

The Story of Menstruation...

and 1968 - Family Planning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2DkiceqmzU

 

[NaokoSmith]

When I looked at HP's youtube, this came up:

Walt Disney from 1946:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjIJZyoKRlg

The Story of Menstruation...

and 1968 - Family Planning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2DkiceqmzU

Hahaha, I love the soothing background music! 'Now, this isn't going to hurt a bit ...'

If only sexual health education had improved since then! although I suppose that now they do have the 'putting-a-condom-on-a-banana' game in schools In fifty years it's great that they have been able to advance so far.

 

[Handley_Page]

Given that Disney made that film in the 60s, I' surprised it's not mandatory viewing even now!

 

[NaokoSmith]

Given that Disney made that film in the 60s, I' surprised it's not mandatory viewing even now!

It probably is

I am up to my eyes in marking. I was going to take four days off next week but one of my colleagues had a bereavement and had to drop his teaching and I rushed in and picked up his marking (get paid a bit extra for that). Plus of course there is the evil Line Manager's hide to keep an eye on, so I better hang around keeping one hand on my hammer and rusty nails.

I had an email from a high up manager to say he will be looking into it, but it might not be sorted til start of Sept as he has to go and find out what all the other line managers are doing before he can say whether ours is a total lunatic or not. If he really does get back start of Sept it will be a World Record as far as looking into management is concerned!

Which reminds me to turn on the telly and see how Jessica Ennis and Johnson-Thompson and Mo Farrar did.



Breakfast, anyone?

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/romantic-breakfast-d-rendering-heart-shaped-coffee-cup-croissant-pancakes-fruits-orange-juice-35381312.jpg

 

[beachbum1958]

I'd love to join you for some brekkie, but as my idea of breakfast makes Lori go red in the face and loud in the mouth I'll have to decline - coffee and a croissant is not my idea of a good way to start the day; if you could deep-fry them, now then you'd be talking...

We're back down to Cannes today, I came back to England on Wednesday because a cousin and dear friend passed away suddenly on Tuesday, so it kind of fell to me to help with the arrangements. The funeral was on Friday, and we headed back down to Oxfordshire yesterday morning so Lori could cuddle her horses and check on the house, and our flights back are this afternoon from Stanstead. It's nice to be home, but England seems a bit gloomy for August, although it may be my altered perceptions after living and working for the last 5 weeks in the heat and glare of the Côte d'Azure.

 

[Handley_Page]

I'd love to join you for some brekkie, but as my idea of breakfast makes Lori go red in the face and loud in the mouth I'll have to decline - coffee and a croissant is not my idea of a good way to start the day; if you could deep-fry them, now then you'd be talking...

We're back down to Cannes today, I came back to England on Wednesday because a cousin and dear friend passed away suddenly on Tuesday, so it kind of fell to me to help with the arrangements. The funeral was on Friday, and we headed back down to Oxfordshire yesterday morning so Lori could cuddle her horses and check on the house, and our flights back are this afternoon from Stanstead. It's nice to be home, but England seems a bit gloomy for August, although it may be my altered perceptions after living and working for the last 5 weeks in the heat and glare of the Côte d'Azure.

Especially the Sunday Breakfast; A right good fry-up; lovely.
All this nut cutlet and pulses junk is terrible; a croissant is ok for a brief snack, but not for a proper breakfast.
Have a good trip, both of you.
Come back soon.

 

[Handley_Page]

Gah! Excuse my crap typing.
Handley Page made the Halifax bomber distinctive by, amongst other things, its dihedral wing shape.
So now I see ( maybe ) where HP originated. Or is that just a coincidence?

Not a coincidence, young lady.
Although I prefer THIS example of Handley-Page production.

 

[Handley_Page]

Gah! Excuse my crap typing.
Handley Page made the Halifax bomber distinctive by, amongst other things, its dihedral wing shape.
So now I see ( maybe ) where HP originated. Or is that just a coincidence?

Not a coincidence, young lady.
Although I prefer THIS example of Handley-Page production.

 

[beachbum1958]

Especially the Sunday Breakfast; A right good fry-up; lovely.
All this nut cutlet and pulses junk is terrible; a croissant is ok for a brief snack, but not for a proper breakfast.
Have a good trip, both of you.
Come back soon.

I've always maintained the continental breakfast is the reason the French are so unstable, but Lori happens to disagree, and as I'm allowed to be right approximately 0% of the time, I bow to superior forces and that pointed look she does so well whenever she sees me even thinking about the fried option. My attempts at frying porridge and trying to pass it off as Bannocks didn't go down well, she can see right into my head, to the place where the lies live, which is a terrible skill for a wife to have...

We'd like to come back soon, Lori's missing her horses and the dogs terribly, but now she has a new set of worries, the flooding in Louisiana's giving her cause; a lot of her aunts and kin are quite elderly, living way out in the back country and bayous, and she's worried about them, so I think she might go home just as soon as she can, just for her own peace of mind.

 

[TxRad]

For those that don't know, parts of southern Louisiana has had anywhere from 20 to 30 inches of rain over the past few days.

 

[stickygirl]

Let us know her family is ok. Flooding is awful

 

[Handley_Page]

Let us know her family is ok. Flooding is awful

Agreed; Thoughts & Prayers, people

 

[stickygirl]

I'm having a small celebration on my thread - bring cake and sparkles

 

[beachbum1958]

Agreed; Thoughts & Prayers, people

Thank you one and all; we've just arrived home, there's still no word from Lori's family living south of Lafayette, and those in the south of the Atchafalaya and bayou Chene but then most of them don't have phones or reliable cell coverage out where they live, that's what she's most concerned about. She's heard from her family in Thibodaux and Houma, they're all OK, just waterlogged, and ditto Dulac, they're not too affected, but no word or news yet of the families south and east of the Dauterive lake and along the Atchfalaya River. I think she's going home, some of her aunts are in their late 90's, and they live in low-lying swampy areas, she really worried about them.

 

[Handley_Page]

Thank you one and all; we've just arrived home, there's still no word from Lori's family living south of Lafayette, and those in the south of the Atchafalaya and bayou Chene but then most of them don't have phones or reliable cell coverage out where they live, that's what she's most concerned about. She's heard from her family in Thibodaux and Houma, they're all OK, just waterlogged, and ditto Dulac, they're not too affected, but no word or news yet of the families south and east of the Dauterive lake and along the Atchfalaya River. I think she's going home, some of her aunts are in their late 90's, and they live in low-lying swampy areas, she really worried about them.

Let us all wish them the best of luck.
What surprises me is that in the 21st century we still have sizeable chunk of the "civilised" world that are not served well by technology.
Especially in times of Emergency.

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

Let us all wish them the best of luck.
What surprises me is that in the 21st century we still have sizeable chunk of the "civilised" world that are not served well by technology.
Especially in times of Emergency.

Hi HP, I just heard from family that Lafayette's wet but accessible, they're telling me Hwy 90 all the way to Thibodaux's wide open, so I should be able to get home. Baton Rouge, where I really wanted to be, is currently inaccessible, the flooding's really bad over that way, they're saying they've heard sections of I-10 between Baton Rouge and Lafayette are gone, so far it's all hearsay, but it's heavily flooded all along that route

Will's got me a flight Tuesday to Lafayette on several dog-legs: Cannes to Paris, Paris to London, London to Dallas (Fort Worth), Fort Worth to Lafayette, including an estimated 4-hour layover in Dallas (19 hours, I couldn't believe it, but the quickest there is right now)

 

[curl4ever]

Hi HP, I just heard from family that Lafayette's wet but accessible, they're telling me Hwy 90 all the way to Thibodaux's wide open, so I should be able to get home. Baton Rouge, where I really wanted to be, is currently inaccessible, the flooding's really bad over that way, they're saying they've heard sections of I-10 between Baton Rouge and Lafayette are gone, so far it's all hearsay, but it's heavily flooded all along that route

Will's got me a flight Tuesday to Lafayette on several dog-legs: Cannes to Paris, Paris to London, London to Dallas (Fort Worth), Fort Worth to Lafayette, including an estimated 4-hour layover in Dallas (19 hours, I couldn't believe it, but the quickest there is right now)

Our thoughts go with you, wishing you safe travels.

 

[beachbum1958]

Our thoughts go with you, wishing you safe travels.

Thank you so much, we both appreciate your concern very much indeed.

 

[Handley_Page]

Thank you so much, we both appreciate your concern very much indeed.

Safe Journey. . . .