Some like it hot

[drdoug]

It's fab weather! I love it. I really like it when it's warm and sunny

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[blue_condition]

I'm off to Croft for the BTCC round this weekend, will have to get the Factor 60 out for that ;)

[drdoug]

*grin* Have a good time. Do you have a good sun hat? I've been looking but failing to find one. The only ones with a good design (nice wide brim that'll stay sticking out, some ventilation around the top of the head) I don't seem to be able to find big enough to fit. (I have an outsize head.)

I make do with an increasingly battered old straw job.

[blue_condition]

I have a splendid roll-up lightweight waterproof bush hat sort of affair that's fantastic in sun and rain. Got it in M&S of all places a couple of years ago and it's paid for itself several times over.

[drdoug]

Sounds just the job. I've gone right off M&S in the last few years. Not that I was ever a huge fan, but they used to be good for basics and a nice price/quality tradeoff. IMO their whole 'label' crap-design thing (Blue Harbour etc) is doomed to dismal failure. People who don't like labels on their clothes - whom I suspect make up a large proportion of M&S's obvious clientele - don't like it. And people who do like labels on their clothes are certainly not going to be keen to broadcast to all and sundry that they shop in M&S.

[booklectic]

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You're so meta!

He's quite small, likes the outdoors, wears brightly coloured clothes, is very relaxed, and is very affectionate with the right person.

I'm now picturing you containing one of the Seven Dwarfs. Happy, probably. (Or Doc, I suppose.)

[drdoug]

You're so meta!

I've done some serious work on workable metadata systems for work, so here I'm aiming for the Jorge Luis Borges style of taxonomy - you know, the one that divides animals in to:

• (i) those that belong to the Emperor
  
• (ii) embalmed ones
  
• (iii) those that are trained
  
• (iv) suckling pigs
  
• (v) mermaids
  
• (vi) fabulous ones
  
• (vii) stray dogs
  
• (viii) those included in the present classification
  
• (ix) those that tremble as if they were mad
  
• (x) innumerable ones
  
• (xi) those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush
  
• (xii) others
  
• (xiii) those that have just broken a flower vase
  
• (xiv) those that from a long way off look like flies

I'm now picturing you containing one of the Seven Dwarfs. Happy, probably. (Or Doc, I suppose.)

Urgh - not a fan of that idea. Probably because my instant view of the Seven Dwarfs is the Disney version, and I suspect having one of those inside would disagree with me quite strongly.

[sushidog]

What if you embalm a trained suckling dog and then throw it at a vase?

[drdoug]

The taxonomist's head explodes.

[valkyriekaren]

Your inner hippy sounds very like an inner five-year-old.

[drdoug]

I can see that from the description ... but I can assure you that my inner hippy is actually quite adult in ways I hesitate to describe on a family journal.

[ant_girl]

I love it too! I'm not sure I have an inner hippy though. Maybe it's more of an outer hippy that just looks like a goth -- one of my ex's favourite put downs was "Don't be such a fucking hippy".

[drdoug]

*grin*

Presumably the fact that they had more than one favourite put down is part of the reason they're an ex?

Actually I do look like a hippy on the outside at least some of the time - but at work I tend to play things down a bit, tie my hair back, and go easy on the tie-die.

[kissmeforlonger]

No I agree with you. I can't cope with direct sunlight because I burn so easily but the heat and warmth is absolutely gorgeous!

[drdoug]

*grin* I think it must be good for the bones or something. It's very good anyway.