The pattern of my days

[menthe_reglisse]

I have a new camera. A Sony A380, for those who are interested in such things. It's not, perhaps, what I'd have chosen if I was starting from scratch but it takes all my old film SLR lenses, and that pleases my frugal soul. And it's very good anyway. I'm having lots of fun using it.

When I went on the photography workshop, they asked us what we most

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[artremis]

thankyou for sharing thease

[steer]

Lovely. I like the little block spelling "joy". Without scale I did not guess those were apples. I guess I am so used to supermarket apples being specially selected for "appleshapedness". Some of your apples are pear shaped. (Observation not criticism honest -- no reason for them to be any shape really).

[menthe_reglisse]

Well, being pear-shaped is supposed to be better for your health, so perhaps these will be particularly long-living apples. Or perhaps they would have been if I hadn't murdered them by boiling them in a vat of water and sugar.

I've just noticed that another one of the wooden blocks spells 'fop'. Am waiting for an occasion to employ it.

[steer]

So why don't we say "It's all gone apple-shaped" when things go wrong? I am actually genuinely puzzled as to what shape apple-shaped is meant to be. I presume pear-shaped is just a euphemism for "quite large bum" but apple-shaped people? Is it a beer-belly kind of look?

[menthe_reglisse]

Origins of 'pear-shaped' in dispute, according to Wikipedia. Some entertaining theories, though I'm deeply unconvinced by the supposed link with 'tits-up'.

I believe technically 'apple-shaped' for people is to do with the ratio of waist measurement to hip measurement: http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/loseweight/Pages/Appleorpear.aspx
It's an alternative or addition to looking at BMI, by saying that it's the sort of fat and where it is that matters. Not sure it's much more useful though...

[parallelgirl]

I included them to increase the amount of teal in the picture, so as to amuse parallelgirl
*grins broadly and affectionately*

I loved this post :)

[menthe_reglisse]

It was, of course, partly inspired by your photo-study. Although this is all discourses, of course. No extra-discursive realities on show here. Move along please, nothing to see.

[custancia]

I am now filled with envy - not good!
1) I want to be able to take lovely pictures
2) I want my wardrobe to be organised with all similar things together...

[menthe_reglisse]

I used to get very annoyed when Anonymised Person used to regularly say, on seeing my photos, 'you obviously have a good camera' but I have to admit, it does help.

The winter trousers section is the most organised bit, the rest is a bit more random. Such that I entirely forgot I had any summer trousers this year, because they were hiding muddled up in other things.

[custancia]

Knowing that you also lost summer trousers makes me feel better!