Green grocer in another part of town had something exotic looking: Wild peaches. I had to ask what they were, they looked so strange. They're yellow and red like a peach, but those colors stretched over a flat, almost squashed-looking, very irregular fruit didn't ring a bell. They're so soft I keep wanting to rub them on my face ( Read more... )

The Netherlands: Three times as many wasps as usual, enough to constitute a plague, more thunderstorms in one summer than in the past five years put together and both heavy rains with flooding interspersed with periods of drought.

Friends in Florida report that no, they don't usually get this many storms.

But this, this is really freaking me out ( Read more... )

Inspired by Resonant8's 'favorite smut bits meme' post a while back here are some examples of smut that I really, really like, for one reason or another ( Read more... )

I've not been feeling well (ye general stuff, not like flu or something), so I haven't mailed out the combs yet. I'm feeling somewhat better now though, so I have high hopes that I'll get them sent out soon, so comb-people rest assured. That sounds like it should be a 1950ties horror movie, Return Of The Comb People.Okay, maybe I'm not *quite* ( Read more... )

No sooner does gjstruthseeker quote someone else's rant about drabbles or someone else goes and posts this HP drabble which pretty much redeems the whole form. Go read. It's only a 100 words. :)

marycrawford just paraphrased a well known Oscar Wilde quote so very, very brilliantly.

Cut-tagged because I babble more when I'm tired.

I suffer from salvation shopping syndrome. I'll look at something I want but can't afford and I start thinking 'But this item will solve so many problems! And I'll never have to buy X or suffer Y anymore which means I won't do money-costing-thing-Z ever again! It will save money in the long run!' ( Read more... )

Sorry people, I only remembered just now that the craft fair in Aachen is tomorrow. So, short notice, but did any of you still want me to check the discount basket of horn combs? If so leave a comment detailing what kind of comb you're interested in (or at least your hair type straight/wavy/curly thick/medium/fine) and I'll see what I can do ( Read more... )

Did I dream this story? Where Ray K. and Fraser go undercover in a gay bar (!) which is so cliche, but it's a good story. There's something plotty about rooms upstairs and patrons being video-ed without their consent and not going to the police for fear of being outed etc. and I could have sworn cesperanza wrote it, but I can't find it *anywhere*. Help?

My garden-neighbour (we're not neighbours, but our little garden plots are) gave me some French beans (climbing beans? not haricot verts --sperziebonen, if that means anything to you), saying that they were really, really good.

That was an understatement.

This is truly the first time that this particular veggie has solicited an orgasmic Mmmmmm! ( Read more... )