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[Hypoxia]

*cough*

https://twitter.com/ElmbridgeComet/status/702110394597265409

The hottest address in Manhattan has been here for a long time.

 

[NaokoSmith]

Wow! you guys have had a time. All of these chickens! and what's this bean curd over here? Seagulls, cormorants ... ducks, my word, a veritable conference of the birds. (I love the hoopoe's words to the peacock in that epic poem: The secrets of the sun are yours, but you / Content yourself with motes trapped in its beams.)

Was there any plum sauce around while your wife was admiring the ducks in the distance, Michael?

Jane! so pleased you had a good time and did so well. There will be no stopping you now. Maybe Piglet and I can come up and learn from you too? I actually do want to learn sailing; I mean properly. I learnt it once a long time ago but from a very grumpy old naval boy who used to hit us on the head with his pipe while adjuring us to check the wind direction. I'm sure you didn't rely on that kind of pedagogic method.

LOL@ all the links, Toria. As for flirting, you should just assume that everybody is flirting with you as you are drop dead gorgeous. Anyone who turns out not to be flirting with you, is just in denial about it. (Have confidence in your manifest charms, don't be like the peacock who doesn't realise that the secrets of the sun are his.)

I have managed to finish the very last piece of editing in my in-box! Plus I topped off all my marking last night, which I was worried I would have to keep doing all week So I tootled down to the gym today with a clear conscience. I was pretty tired and thought I would only float about doing a little gentle breast stroking ... breaststroke, but I surprised myself by doing more lengths of butterfly and Australian crawl than I had ever done before.

It's a good job I never expected to lose weight swimming as I seem to have actually put more on OK, maybe my habit of trotting along to nearby cafes for full fat lattes and teacakes with jam and cream is not helping there, but I am having far too good a time to stop now

I bought this beautiful piece of cod at the fab fresh fish stall in the market (to get us away from the bean curd and fowl), and just grilled it with butter on it for tea. Piglet was very unappreciative and said it was "slimy" because it hadn't had the texture frozen out of it I scolded her for being such a prole. God, it was really perfect! just cooked, firm flakes of white flesh and such a delicate flavour.

BTW here the model Mount Fuji which Piglet and I made over half term in corrugated cardboard - to show the contour lines. You didn't have to do a real mountain, so hopefully she will get extra swot points for our culturally appropriate one.

 

[curl4ever]

Yay Piglet!

And I'm happy you had a nice swim!

 

[MichaelinChina]

no, no plum sauce now that you mention it Naoko...


I have volunteered to cook salmon steaks tonight. In the oven under foil in a milky, peppercorn bath. Might try and make a béarnaise sauce (picked up some nice Irish butter the other day). With peas and mashed potato. Should be fun trying to pick up the peas with chop sticks!

Starting work soon...going to the campus this afternoon. Maybe Monday. It might take them that long to work out a schedule.

 

[MichaelinChina]

Wow! you guys have had a time.

hmmm looks like the rubber surround of a gear stick shift.

 

[TxRad]

hmmm looks like the rubber surround of a gear stick shift.

White chocolate stacked on dark chocolate. Would there be extra points if everyone ate your art project. Recycling at its best.

Or wishful thinking on my part. I'm out of dark chocolate.

 

[NotWise]

Tofu is a destination now?

The birds are a destination in the expression "going to the birds" and the dogs are a destination in the expression "going to the dogs," so why can't tofu be a destination too?

I liked the Fiji -- especially the snow cap. I had my two younger daughters in an architecture summer workshop when the older of the two was about Piglet's age. They did something similar, but with professional tools and architecture students to guide them.

An organization I worked with for several years had regular meetings in an architect's office where the lobby was decorated with glass-covered scenes of landscapes constructed layer-by-layer that same way. They were beautifully detailed.

In Piglet's case I would guess that the point is to show how a two-dimensional contour map translates to a three dimensional land form -- a fairly complex concept. Also a concept fairly important in mathematics.

 

[Hypoxia]

I have volunteered to cook salmon steaks tonight. In the oven under foil in a milky, peppercorn bath. Might try and make a béarnaise sauce (picked up some nice Irish butter the other day). With peas and mashed potato. Should be fun trying to pick up the peas with chop sticks!

My partner seared the salmon steaks tonight in a garlic-sesame oil sauté. Brown-rice pilaf with cherry tomatoes and scallions, dashes of lemon juice and tartar sauce; a cheap bottle of French white (La Vieille Ferme de Famille Perrin); and face-sucking before and after. Well, other bodily parts may also have been tasted. It's like that around here.

 

[NaokoSmith]

Yo, curl!


Some delicious sounding fish dishes, Michael and Hypoxia . Plus TX's chocolate mountain! Good job I've got a bit of the cod left which I intend to bake today, or I'd have to run back out to get some. I will have to get some chocolate now ...

I meant to ask about the balcony garden, Michael. Hope you get round to posting some pictures? maybe in The Garden Shed thread. Would love to see it.

The birds are a destination in the expression "going to the birds" and the dogs are a destination in the expression "going to the dogs," so why can't tofu be a destination too?

...In Piglet's case I would guess that the point is to show how a two-dimensional contour map translates to a three dimensional land form -- a fairly complex concept. Also a concept fairly important in mathematics.

Yeah, "going to the tofu", I'm not sure where we would be headed for but it sounds good to me!

I think Piglet's class are being asked to develop their understanding of contours in three dimensions - they didn't have to do a real mountain, but in fact it turned out to be easier to find a map of Mount Fuji's contours, and cut them out and paste the cardboard together than to do a papier-mâché mountain and draw lines all over it

Well, I better get the sandwiches cut and breakfast on the go. Today I think I will poach eggs and put them on slices of ham and toast. I will do some baked beans but the spoilt brat will not eat hers, anyway looking at them will be good for her, LOL.

 

[NaokoSmith]

It's a beautiful day here! but I've been obliged to get the car out, as I had to pick up a big sack of washing powder - too big to fit in my cycle paniers. Never mind, I made it work for me. I dropped Piglet off (would've taken her two friends too but one of the Dads who has a way cooler car was also dropping off so I just left her in a suitable location for him to collect), I took my Party leaflets and delivered those (they were an unusually large heavy bunch too), and I went to the butchers who does super sausages and got some venison and apple ones; I went to the cobblers to drop off Piglet's trainer as the sole has started peeling off it, and the cycle shop to get a front lamp for my bike.

Now I am just enjoying a well-earned slice of panettone in the Deli Cafe - where thank God, they have got in a new supply of NomNom chocolate

 

[MichaelinChina]

My partner seared the salmon steaks tonight in a garlic-sesame oil sauté. Brown-rice pilaf with cherry tomatoes and scallions, dashes of lemon juice and tartar sauce; a cheap bottle of French white (La Vieille Ferme de Famille Perrin); and face-sucking before and after. Well, other bodily parts may also have been tasted. It's like that around here.

I gotta note that recipe down. The salmon tonight (just now) was delicious. The canned green peas I may have overboiled - all the goddamn shells came off. I started separating them by floating them out, but Li Yan suggested I bin them. We ate the rest of the uncooked ones. Seems they didn't need cooking at all.

Béarnaise sauce was good too!

Met the other UN of teachers this afternoon for a guided tour of the campus. 3 Sth Africans, a Welshman, an Aussie girl, an American woman, 1/2 dozen poms. and a partridge in a pear tree.

 

[glynndah]

Wow! you guys have had a time. All of these chickens! and what's this bean curd over here? Seagulls, cormorants ... ducks, my word, a veritable conference of the birds. (I love the hoopoe's words to the peacock in that epic poem: The secrets of the sun are yours, but you / Content yourself with motes trapped in its beams.)

Was there any plum sauce around while your wife was admiring the ducks in the distance, Michael?

Jane! so pleased you had a good time and did so well. There will be no stopping you now. Maybe Piglet and I can come up and learn from you too? I actually do want to learn sailing; I mean properly. I learnt it once a long time ago but from a very grumpy old naval boy who used to hit us on the head with his pipe while adjuring us to check the wind direction. I'm sure you didn't rely on that kind of pedagogic method.

LOL@ all the links, Toria. As for flirting, you should just assume that everybody is flirting with you as you are drop dead gorgeous. Anyone who turns out not to be flirting with you, is just in denial about it. (Have confidence in your manifest charms, don't be like the peacock who doesn't realise that the secrets of the sun are his.)

I have managed to finish the very last piece of editing in my in-box! Plus I topped off all my marking last night, which I was worried I would have to keep doing all week So I tootled down to the gym today with a clear conscience. I was pretty tired and thought I would only float about doing a little gentle breast stroking ... breaststroke, but I surprised myself by doing more lengths of butterfly and Australian crawl than I had ever done before.

It's a good job I never expected to lose weight swimming as I seem to have actually put more on OK, maybe my habit of trotting along to nearby cafes for full fat lattes and teacakes with jam and cream is not helping there, but I am having far too good a time to stop now

I bought this beautiful piece of cod at the fab fresh fish stall in the market (to get us away from the bean curd and fowl), and just grilled it with butter on it for tea. Piglet was very unappreciative and said it was "slimy" because it hadn't had the texture frozen out of it I scolded her for being such a prole. God, it was really perfect! just cooked, firm flakes of white flesh and such a delicate flavour.

BTW here the model Mount Fuji which Piglet and I made over half term in corrugated cardboard - to show the contour lines. You didn't have to do a real mountain, so hopefully she will get extra swot points for our culturally appropriate one.

I was really hoping that was NOT the picture of the fish you cooked.

 

[NotWise]

I was really hoping that was NOT the picture of the fish you cooked.

And I'm glad that I didn't have to guess at what it was. I might have been wrong.

 

[NaokoSmith]

Met the other UN of teachers this afternoon for a guided tour of the campus. 3 Sth Africans, a Welshman, an Aussie girl, an American woman, 1/2 dozen poms. and a partridge in a pear tree.

Good job the rugby world cup is over! LOL

I was really hoping that was NOT the picture of the fish you cooked.

And a kiss for the lovely witch.

And I'm glad that I didn't have to guess at what it was. I might have been wrong.

I don't know what you mean; I think it's obviously Mount Fuji - if you know the contour lines at all. I mean, here's the double Mount Fuji as depicted by Hokusai, as Michael explained, and surely you can see the resemblence? (LOL) Or maybe we should've put in some fishing boats ...

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.artcyclopedia.com%2Fimages%2FHokusai.jpg&f=1

 

[MichaelinChina]

lol..when someone above referred to Mt Fuji as Mt Fiji.

I should be glad the rugby world cup is over...might have had to listen to conversations about it.

 

[Handley_Page]

lol..when someone above referred to Mt Fuji as Mt Fiji.

I should be glad the rugby world cup is over...might have had to listen to conversations about it.

It can get a bit 'technical' . . .

 

[MichaelinChina]

It can get a bit 'technical' . . .

Is the other Free Association Thread?

 

[Handley_Page]

Is the other Free Association Thread?

Doubt it!

 

[NaokoSmith]

lol..when someone above referred to Mt Fuji as Mt Fiji.

I should be glad the rugby world cup is over...might have had to listen to conversations about it.

If Notwise weren't American, we might suspect him of being obsessed with the rugby world cup too, LOL.

It can get a bit 'technical' . . .

*Hugs*
I'm working through my finances and sorting out filing my paperwork - ugh. I will probably be on and off here all day - like Greg Laidlaw nipping around the rucks - to try to allay my boredom.

Decaff latte? I have got this cute new mug with a hen pheasant in among alot of male pheasants strutting their stuff. I think the writing inside the mug says 'Amongst Wales!'

 

[Handley_Page]

Decaff latte? I have got this cute new mug with a hen pheasant in among alot of male pheasants strutting their stuff. I think the writing inside the mug says 'Amongst Wales!'

Now why a hen pheasant would be in deep water with the whales is a mystery.
I mean, can you really imagine THIS while the pheasants strut their stuff ?
It seems a bit - 'risky', don't you think ?

<Damn this bloody dictionary. . . .>

 

[NaokoSmith]

Now why a hen pheasant would be in deep water with the whales is a mystery.
I mean, can you really imagine THIS while the pheasants strut their stuff ?
It seems a bit - 'risky', don't you think ?

I feel we are straying perilously close to a non-consensual bestial tale here! (Or should that be 'tail' Wet tail at that <snerk>.)

 

[oggbashan]

I feel we are straying perilously close to a non-consensual bestial tale here! (Or should that be 'tail' Wet tail at that <snerk>.)

Bestial tales are OK on Literotica as long as there are no humans involved in the sexual activities.

 

[NotWise]

lol..when someone above referred to Mt Fuji as Mt Fiji

Ooops. That was me. And I know better.

 

[JackLuis]

Condoms for porn stars initiative qualifies for 2016 ballot

Naoko, California is with you. Even if pilot is opposed to the idea.

Cumming soon to an Erotic production in your town!

 

[MichaelinChina]

This thread needs more shoes...and Naoko's news.