Leave a comment

Comments 19

(The comment has been removed)

sandor_baci July 5 2012, 14:41:38 UTC
Year by year they do better; taller, more stalks from the crown.

Reply


adaon July 5 2012, 16:35:26 UTC
I have never seen delphinium like that! Beautiful. You should take more pictures of your gardens. I was almost a botany major in college, and I've always regretted that I live in the Land of No Natural Shade.

6 feet 5 inches? Holy crap!

Reply

sandor_baci July 5 2012, 19:48:28 UTC
That's me, not the delphiniums.

Erm, do you like tall guys? **hopes**

Reply

adaon July 9 2012, 00:32:28 UTC
Actually I like tiny men I can toss around easily. ;-P

Reply

sandor_baci July 9 2012, 04:09:54 UTC
Ah! Suppressed paedophilia finds its outlet. Send me a picture of yourself in scoutmaster uniform.

Reply


aofe July 5 2012, 19:34:49 UTC
Tall! Nice pic. ;)

Reply

sandor_baci July 5 2012, 19:47:11 UTC
And if I were gardening in Hawaii? You probably have TREE DELPHINIUMS that bloom year-round. **jealous jealous jealous**

Which is by way of, "Thank you. I like you too."

Reply


purejuice July 6 2012, 02:46:34 UTC
oh, they're gorgeous.
is everyone in your fam tall?

Reply

sandor_baci July 6 2012, 05:11:26 UTC
Two brothers made it to 6'1, two sisters to 5'10". I just kept going, like a delphinium, till I was sure I couldn't buy clothes off the rack any more. Bad decision.

Yesterday two young 'uns from the Alleyn School, very posh!, showed up in the laboratory for teenage "work experience". She kohlenraabenpechschwarz and barely over five feet, he 6'9", white, hands latex-ungloveable, Shrek with better ears. I was cutting in a pancreaticoduodenectomy specimen when one of the histotechnologists ushered them in, asking if the kids might watch the process of examination, description, sampling for later microscopic study. My God, I said, looking at the two of them, it's the Lord of the Rings tour, they've sent us a hobbit and an ent. Dylan the Ent and I bonded quickly. Having to purchase shoes on-line, or on shopping trips to Amsterdam, as a shared experience -- powerful. Turns out, though, he has a hotmail.co.uk e-address. Learning something like that about a new acquaintance...

Reply

purejuice July 6 2012, 16:35:07 UTC
i picture hungarians as small, wiry and impeccably tailored/shod. one out of three, not bad.

and, hurray for the alleyn school. there really isn't anything like showing kids what grownups do at the office, and the office itself. you could drone on and on about what a -- forensic liver guy, is that what you are? -- does, and yet one encounter with somebody at work making slides will stay with those kids the rest of their lives. good on you.

finally, how you say in english kohlenraabenpechschwarz? kohlrabi shaped child with black pecs? and, how does one glove those of you with ham hock for paws?

Reply

purejuice July 6 2012, 16:38:00 UTC
and, does amsterdam have plus shoe sizes for the same libertarian reasons it used to have marijuana cafes and hoes?

Reply


steven July 6 2012, 04:29:03 UTC
A 6'5" redhead. Lordy, Lordy, Lordy.

*fans self*

Reply

sandor_baci July 6 2012, 04:54:59 UTC
I could tell from all the way over here that you had too many clothes on. We'll have to do something about that.

Reply

steven July 6 2012, 11:30:49 UTC
With temps around 100 here, believe me -- that's done already.

BTW, you have made me feel less woe-is-me about shoe-buying. If it's tough for me to find anything nice (I wear a U.S. 13), it must be a bitch for you!

Reply

sandor_baci July 6 2012, 14:29:09 UTC
10 1/2 D, European 45.

With feet that size I have an excuse for falling on my back when a good-looking man so much as glances at me.

Reply


Leave a comment

Up